Christian Group ‘Investigating’ Family & Staff Of 2016 Candidates To Expose 'Gay Sympathizers'
Source: The Raw Story 20 APR 2015 AT 11:11 ET
An evangelical Christian organization has called on right-leaning pastors to investigate the family and staff of U.S. presidential candidates in order to expose anyone who is secretly gay or who supports LGBT rights. The Washington Examiners Paul Bedard reported on Monday that David Lanes American Renewal Project had asked 100,000 pastors that it was working with to mobilize Christian voters to also dig up dirt on people connected to presidential candidates.
As the race begins in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary, Evangelicals have no choice but to investigate which consultants and operatives are behind each of the candidates; decisions about personnel provide evidences about policy, Lane wrote in a column for Western Journalism last week.Lane pointed out that evangelicals had been disappointed when Ken Mehlman revealed he was gay after stepping down as the chairman of the Republican National Committee. And he suggested that George W. Bush would have been disqualified if Christian voters had known that his wife, Laura Bush, would hint at support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights after the president left office.
A former White House political director, who also served as a Presidential campaign manager and Republican Party Chairman, announced (after he left Washington) that he is a homosexual and an advocate for homosexual marriage. Why didnt he say that when he depicted himself as a family values conservative to win an election? Lane wanted to know. According to the Christian activist, GOP attempts to appeal to independent voters had been disastrous for the Republican Party-and America.
Moderates flushed the legacy-and branding-of limited government, lower taxes, deregulation of business, and the attitude of the-one-thing-that-government-can-do-for-me-is-leave-me-alone bequeathed to the Grand Old Party by President Reagan, he wrote. Moderates have sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind for Republicans, winning the presidency only 8 of the last 24 years. For the last quarter century, Evangelicals have been discipled by the likes of Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt, Ken Mehlman, and Meghan McCain. Havent they done enough damage? Lane asked.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/christian-group-investigating-family-and-staff-of-2016-candidates-to-expose-gay-sympathizers/
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)lolz
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)big_dog
(4,144 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)You thought we would forget the past, Ricky?.....
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)RKP5637
(67,108 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Warpy
(111,256 posts)Good luck with that one, guys, I'm guessing their gay staffers are all OUT and everybody on their teams is gay friendly.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Warpy
(111,256 posts)Jeez, get stuck in the hospital a few days and the whole world goes crazy.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)So...the AWOL, drunk driving, alleged cocaine use and signing the death warrant on Cameron Todd Willingham was okay with them?
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)All that other stuff occurred outside the family, so to speak...at least that is the excuse I was told.
ck4829
(35,076 posts)"Have you ever been homosexual?! Do you have any homosexual family members?! Have you ever associated with a known or suspected homosexual?!"
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)A Member ... of The Homosexual Party (throbbing, or otherwise)?
Oh, you have? Well, we're going to need the details! Lots, and lots ... of the details involved!
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)How do we prove that she's a witch?
Do witches burn? What else burns? What else floats?
If only we had a domestic Monty Python to skewer today's GOP.
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Both 'homosexual' (egads!) ... AAAAAND ... ALSO be a 'conservative-values family-man' ... just makes this pastor's f***ing head explode.
Error ... does not compute ...not possible ... does not compute ... error ... error ...
Oh, and by the way ... any bets on how long it will be before Lane is caught in flagrante delicto with a transvestite prostitute?
Guess these Christians have all forgotten that Jesus apparently said: Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and, judge not lest ye be judged.
Hypocrites one and all.
barbtries
(28,794 posts)they are way out of touch.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)huge winner in a national election
matt819
(10,749 posts)Then they'll do the same investigation to determine if there are any Jews. Or any mixed race individuals.
tanyev
(42,556 posts)sdfernando
(4,935 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)You notice they didn't do this when Bush was running because they didn't want to make it any plainer to the Repug racist homophobic base that Cheney's daughter is a lesbian and he and his wife openly support her choices. Yeah, they only care about "sinning" when their caring won't hurt one of their "own's" chances at winning.
Is there a single non-hypocritical Repug in existence?
dembotoz
(16,804 posts)after all the repubs are just misguided it is the dems who are guided by satan
better ad this
The Stranger
(11,297 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)douggg
(239 posts)They did not have to wait that long.
They could have noticed Bush kissing his special friend, gay prostitute Jeff Gannon.