Kansas Gov. Brownback To Rally Christian 'Freedom Fighters' To 'Cause A Revolution' And Take Back

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America

I try not to be too dramatic, but Kansas has become a pretty revolting place with the Right Wing Tea Bagger and Koch Brother take over of the state.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/brownback-rally-christian-freedom-fighters-cause-revolution-and-take-back-america

Back when he served in Congress, Sam Brownback had close ties to a variety of fringe Religious Right activists, even living with prayer warrior Lou Engle for several months at one point.

Since becoming Governor of Kansas, Brownback has continued this practice, declaring statewide Days of Restoration and showing up at prayer rallies that were overflowing with modern day prophets and apostles. And the trend continues, as next month Brownback will speak at an Awakening Freedom Tour in Lenexa, Kansas that is designed to encourage right-wing Christians to get involved in the culture wars and "cause a revolution" by mobilizing "freedom fighters" who will "take this country back":

A Kansas-based ministry is hosting a series of events across the state focused on equipping Christian to get involved in a cultural battle.

Entitled the Awakening Freedom Tour, the first gathering will be held on Saturday, February 8, at Lenexa Baptist Church.

Donna Lippoldt, founder and director of Culture Shield Network – which is hosting the event – says the focus is to address the moral decline in the U.S. and confront the effort to remove God from the public dialogue.

Lippoldt, Donna “We need revival, we need a Great Awakening, but it is time to cause a revolution,” she says. “We need to get some freedom fighters up and going to take this country back.”

[Fred Sanders]

1. Bonus! All this political activity by religious zealots is tax exempt!

[notemason]

3. Lol

Because to tax them would be mixing religion and politics. God forbid.

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5. Invoke the god word, and some people stop and give one a free pass. The fascination of some

with religion is this country is revolting. I certainly have no problem with people and their religion, the problem is they want to push it onto everyone, want the laws to enforce their brand of thought, and want persecutory action against those that do not adhere to their religion. IMO, it is revolting, disgusting, and has no place in a democracy.

[tazkcmo]

2. Sorry

Not trying to disparage our Kansan DUers but Kansas has always and will continue to suck. In fact, even after the US is a distant memory and the boundaries that mark Kansas are gone, the patch of land that is currently Kansas will mostly be unfit for intelligent and compassionate and life. Admittedly, I'm biased having lived there for 12 years and getting into a fight at least once a week with some snobby little Kansan because we were poor and I didn't have a Levi's tag on my jeans or too few stripes on my sneakers.

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4. Yep, well said! It is truly a fucked up place There are certainly pockets of good people, but

in general it is a really strange place. I would NEVER move there for a job or anything. But, if one wants teabagger nation and all that goes with it, it's the place for them. And, it seems there is a church on almost every corner. I found the people seem nice and smile at you, but then stab you in the back with their politics and religion.

[jmowreader]

6. The thing people like Brownback will never tell you

The Christian extremists who want to "take back" America never had it in the first place.

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7. +++ 1,000 +++ n/t

[longship]

8. For the thread win!!!

Brownback is insane.

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9. I often wonder how many of the good republican voters in Kansas know all about him, I

doubt it, they just vote on command with a knee jerk.

[longship]

10. You are mistaken. In KS, they know.

Trust me, they know. When I was a Democratic Party county officer in the 90's in Sedgwick county (the most populist county), the GOP monthly newsletter read like a Jack Chick religious tract. It was Jesus this and Jesus that in every single article. That was 20 years ago! They were operating out of all the fundy churches then, and they are still doing so now.

Make no mistake the KS GOP knows exactly what they are doing. And the GOP voters there do too.

So I must take exception to your claim.

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12. Yes, I stand to be corrected! I also just posted this on KS ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024422584

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11. Indeed