Does Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) know about this??

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One of the contributors to Dump Michele Bachmann, Ken Avidor, has been putting together quite an expose on Minnesota Teen Challenge, a ministry of the Assemblies of God that has been tapped to receive a $500K earmark of your tax dollars thanks to Minnesota U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. The bible-beating folks at Teen Challenge shares its belief with enrollees that Halloween, Harry Potter and Pokemon are gateways to drug addiction; it also promotes pray-away-the-gay "therapy" of Exodus International. In his latest installment, he packs so much heinous information in his diary that I asked permission to publish it since I'd have to excerpt way too much of it to do it justice in a post of my own. Reading how your hard earned money that goes to Uncle Sam and gets handed over to organizations like this should make steam come out of your ears.

Will $500,000 Earmark for Controversial Ministry be Used to Fight Voodoo and Satan in Haiti?
By Ken Avidor

Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN-D) has sponsored an earmark for the Halloween-hating Minnesota Teen Challenge Ministry. According to the website on another ministry, Minnesota Teen Challenge are about to embark on a mission to reverse what they describe as 200 years of Satanic rule in Haiti.

According the Adoration Church (Savage, Minnesota) website, the Halloween-hating Minnesota Teen Challenge Ministry is considering opening a "leadership training center" in Haiti:

Some key leaders from MN Teen Challenge traveled to Haiti in early 2008. After seeing the incredible poverty and desperate living conditions that are all too common throughout Haiti, visiting the prison systems and having an audience with the President of Haiti and other government, business and church leaders a dream was born...
The Dream...Haitian Leadership Training Center

A transformational program which breaks the downward cycle of poverty, failure, and sin, and which expands the Kingdom of God by equipping male young adults to become godly leaders in Haiti. Minnesota Teen Challenge seeks to be an organizing catalyst that develops alliances with other Christian organizations in order to fully train and mentor students in discipleship, social justice, morality, economic development and servant leadership skills.
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As further proof of the right-wing bent of the Adoration Church, the churches web site links to the ex-gay ministry Exodus and right-wing, anti-gay Focus on the Family:

Exodus - A worldwide Christian organization called to encourage, stengthen, unify and equip Christians to minister the transforming power of the Lord Jesus Christ to those affected by homosexuality. They are the largest Christian referral and information ministry dealing with homosexual issues in the world today. They offer monthly newsletters, annual conferences, speaking engagements and online services.
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http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9027

This was on her website:
Know the Truth- Prevention Education Project Minnesota Teen Challenge
For the Minnesota Teen Challenge to expand their drug prevention education efforts for teenagers $ 500,000

There is a lot more to the article.
I hope Sen. Klobuchar doesn't know about these entangling alliances. If she does, that is scarey.
What will the money be used for??

[peacetalksforall]

1. Truly scary. She is becoming scary and I don't understand why I voice this. I

can't figure out what drives her votes and positions.

[KamaAina]

2. What a bunch of morans

there's plenty of voodoo for them to fight right here in the good old U.S. of A., centered in New Orleans, of course. And the voodoo shops in the French Quarter are mere steps away from the Lower Quarter and Faubourg Marigny areas, which are chock-a-block with homosexuals!

:sarcasm:

those affected by homosexuality (sic)

I watch "Will & Grace" reruns fairly regularly. Does that mean I'm "affected by homosexuality"? :eyes:

edit: caps

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. I was just wondering because someone from MN would have a better idea that I do.

It didn't sound like her, but who knows anymore.