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HillWilliam

(3,310 posts)
Tue May 28, 2013, 01:09 PM May 2013

A Gay Dad Sounds Off About Fundamentalists Who Target My Kids

As a parent, my job one is the protection and care of my children. It is my job to be vigilant over their self-worth, to keep them physically safe, to show them how to be moral and productive citizens, and to empower their spiritual growth. It is a duty that I take very seriously.

It is distressing when total strangers launch an attack against all those things specifically targeting my kids. That is exactly what author Amber Lee Parker and illustrator Hannah Segura have done with the release of their children’s book “God Made Dad & Mom.”


It's a short article. Read to the end.

http://evolequals.com/2013/05/28/a-gay-dad-sounds-off-about-fundamentalists-who-target-my-kids/
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A Gay Dad Sounds Off About Fundamentalists Who Target My Kids (Original Post) HillWilliam May 2013 OP
It's a strange idea that in this country, shenmue May 2013 #1
the fellowship, "The family" deceided as far back as the 30's, I think it is. Kurovski May 2013 #2

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
1. It's a strange idea that in this country,
Tue May 28, 2013, 01:40 PM
May 2013

it seems everything has to be 'run by' the fundamentalists to see if they think it's okay. Who put them in charge of the whole country, or even all the Christians?

Kurovski

(34,655 posts)
2. the fellowship, "The family" deceided as far back as the 30's, I think it is.
Wed May 29, 2013, 07:54 PM
May 2013
http://www.examiner.com/article/christian-mafia-the-family-at-c-street

http://www.amazon.com/The-Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-American/dp/0060560053

They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply believers.

Behind the scenes at every National Prayer Breakfast since 1953 has been the Family, an elite network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. Their goal is "Jesus plus nothing." Their method is backroom diplomacy. The Family is the startling story of how their faith—part free-market fundamentalism, part imperial ambition—has come to be interwoven with the affairs of nations around the world.



(I guess they aren't so secret after all.)
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