Christian coalition blasts Freedom's Watch

[brooklynite]

Looks like the kiddies can't play well in the sandbox...

They might ordinarily find themselves rooting for the same candidates, but the Christian Coalition is no fan of Freedom's Watch and its major funder, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

Last week, Freedom's Watch launched a new ad campaign slamming Montgomery Mayor Bobby Bright for what it said was a record of raising taxes. Bright fired back with his own ad citing his "conservative Christian values," implicitly in contrast with those of Freedom's Watch and Adelson, who is Jewish.

The Christian Coalition takes issue with Adelson, who made billions -- he's the country's fifteenth-richest man, according to this year's Forbes 400 list -- in the casino business, with properties in Las Vegas and Macau. The Venetian Macau is what sticks in the craw of social conservatives. "Where Adelson has placed his treasure makes it quite clear where his heart is: in gambling and in backing the regime in China that persecutes Christians," Alabama Christian Coalition president Randy Brinson said in a statement.

The coalition also invokes disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who helped Native American tribes get approval for new casinos, often aiding his clients by funneling money to Christian organizations that would then rally in opposition to other tribes' efforts. "We're tired of the Abramoffs and Adelsons of this world using their ill-gotten gains to try to buy elections and influence," Brinson said.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Am i being overly sensitive, or does this smack of anti-semitism?

[provis99]

3. of course it does; the Christian coalition is anti-semitic in all but name

Why do you think they want the Apocalypse to happen? So that all the Jews who don't immediately convert to Christianity will be killed by god (or god's followers). Faith in the complete destruction of Judaism is usually termed anti-semitic.

[and-justice-for-all]

2. Pot to kettle...

"We're tired of the Abramoffs and Adelsons of this world using their ill-gotten gains to try to buy elections and influence," Brinson said."

[Tutonic]

4. Yeah, Ralphie Reed didn't care that Jack A was a Jew when he

was fleecing the Indian tribes. The Christian Coalition is a group of hateful hypocrites.

[spag68]

5. Repub groups

Why should we care if they are fighting? Anything that divides them into smaller and smaller groups hurts them and aids us.