Group Apologizes:Comments Comparing Conservative Christian Group to Gestapo

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBMNVI9DAE.html

Group Apologizes for Comments Comparing Conservative Christian Group to Gestapo

DENVER (AP) - A Washington-based interfaith religious group is apologizing for comments made by some of its members that compared a conservative Christian group to the Gestapo and the Taliban.

The letter of apology released Thursday by the president of The Interfaith Alliance said the comments made in May about the group Focus on the Family were inappropriate for public dialogue.

"We regret that personal opinions expressed by individuals have been viewed as, associated with or confused with the organizational voice of The Interfaith Alliance," the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy wrote.

Clergymen representing the alliance denounced Focus on the Family for criticizing Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar's support of the Senate filibuster for federal judges.

[TankLV]

1. We will NEVER learn.

NEVER apologize - especially when it's the truth!

NEVER!
NEVER!
NEVER!

[saigon68]

29. NEVER APOLOGIZE to the EXTREMIST RIGHT WING, HATEFUL NUT CASES

They are so weird that the NAZI's would have shunned them.

GOEBBELS WOULD HAVE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

[Hobarticus]

2. Sounded appropos to me, given the context

But that's just me.

How come THEY never apologize? Why is it always up to the forces of reason to make amends?

[bunkerbuster1]

26. Agreed. I'm all about being rude for the right reason, but here?

The point of the interfaith group in question is that they're NOT scumbag "Christians" who ignore Jesus' teachings.

There's a difference between the mission of this group, and that of the DNC. Let's remember that.

[Mari333]

3. The ultra religious right in the US is very much like the Taliban

no need to apologize..Im sick of all this apologizing, where is the apology that we were led into a war based on lies that ended up murdering thousands of people?

[funflower]

4. They haven't beheaded anyone lately.

[marbuc]

9. No, but they kill abortion doctors

Sounds pretty draconian to me. This is EXACTLY what we should be saying. If they're going to attack liberals (and Dems, since all Dems are lib in their world) as they are, we should be identifying Repubs as closed minded fundies.

[Cerridwen]

28. Minor note: they kill doctors

The doctors they've killed or harmed happened to have been OB/GYNs who also provided abortions. To call them abortion doctors is, to me, the same as calling my bank a notary republic due to the fact that it is one of the services they provide.

Our opposition has framed the debate to focus on one service the doctors provide completely eclipsing the fact that they provide pap screenings, birth control advice/prescriptions, pre-natal care, peri-natal care, and deliver babies, etc.

They have successfully demonized doctors who provide women's reproductive health care.

/stepping off soap box

Thanks for reading.

[marbuc]

31. Correction noted.

This makes their behavior that much more despicable, and comparable to the Taliban.

[Cerridwen]

32. Argh! I hate when I do that! It's notary public, not republic! :( n/t

[radar]

15. Define lately....

Iraqi Police Find Eight Beheaded Bodies
12:35 PM PDT, June 24, 2005 latimes.com : World

BAQOUBA, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces discovered the bodies of eight beheaded men Friday in two villages north of Baghdad, army officers said.

Six of the bodies belonged to Shiite farmers taken from their home in Hashmiyat, 10 miles west of Baqouba, by an armed group wearing Iraqi army uniforms late Thursday, army Capt. Hashim Amer said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-beheaded-bodies,1,4316554.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[funflower]

19. I was talking about Dobson & friends, not the real Taliban.

Haven't found any bodies found in Colorado Springs, have they?

[marbuc]

35. Not CO Springs

But there was some carnage at the hands of Eric Rudolph, Tim McVeigh, the Unibomber, etc. etc. etc.

[funflower]

36. Good point. Welcome to DU, marbuc!

:hi:

Scary, but I think the Unabomber was a whacko environmentalist, not a right-winger!

[marbuc]

37. I stand corrected.

Thanks for the greetings.

[GarySeven]

25. Limbaugh calls independent women Femi-NAZIS

He does this every day and has done it for years.

By any measure of the defintition, these people and everything they believe in are fascist. There's no disguising that fact.

[Warren Stupidity]

27. Like does not mean 'exactly the same'.

Beheadings were not the defining characteristic of the Taliban rule in afghanistan. (On the other hand our friends the Saudis behead people on a regular basis.)

The Taliban established a theocratic state in Afghanistan. The religious right is attempting to establish a religious state right here at home in the good old US of A.

Taliban fundamentalism views the state and society as subservient to their interpretation of religious doctrine. Mullahs control the state, the state and its legal system are run on principals (sharia) derived from the basic text (the Koran) of their religion.

The religious right, the American Taliban, seeks to transform our secular republic into a Christian Republic run according to (their interpretation of) biblical principals.

The lack of beheadings in the repetoire of domination and control proposed by the religious right is simply a cultural difference, and not a fundamental difference that falsifies the thesis: the religious right is the American Taliban.

[Endangered Specie]

5. whats to apologise for...

its time to call out the fundamentalists, no matter what stripe.

[PsN2Wind]

6. Being a right-winger

means you never have to say you're sorry. However liberals reflexively apologize, even for telling the truth. We have to quit acting like we're always afraid of hurting someones feelings.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Piss on apologizing to the Fascists!!

[Spazito]

8. What part of, "they bring a knife, you bring a gun,,,

they put one of your guys in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue" don't the apologists understand. Yes, I know, I am quoting from a movie "The Untouchables" but the philosophy applies. It is the one the Repubs believe in and those who oppose them should use it as well. Bottom line, send the message to Rove, the faux Christians, etc, that, from this point on, nothing, repeat NOTHING, you do will pass without an equal or greater response.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Focus on the Family = Christian Taleban

I won't apologize!

[Outrider]

18. They aren't Christian n/t

[IndianaGreen]

20. Religious extremists have hijacked Christianity, Islam, and Judaism

A Shia hardliner is elected President of Iran. We have a Christian hardliner in the White House. Israel's security service has to dedicate precious resources to keep track of Jewish hardliners. All of them are hell-bent in imposing their sectarian views, by force if need be.

[mitchtv]

22. you don't have to

once again the so called good Christians, got up and sat in the back of the bus as ordered, and let the Pharisees take over their religion.

[Jersey Ginny]

11. We apologize again?

I'm really getting tired of this. My only hope is that these stupid apologies highlight the arrogance of the neoconfacists, since they are NEVER wrong about anything and certainly have nothing to apologize for.

[Outrider]

12. Shouldn't have backed down.

They should have added to the statement that Focus on the Family is not and never will be Christian. The sane Christians of this nation to cast out the radical right and ostracize them until such a time as they are willing to move their beliefs back into the Christian faith.

[cyr330]

13. Chicken Shits

[Voltaire99]

14. Democrats who apologize to right wingers: perfect fools

Can't get slapped around enough, can they?

You're in the fight of your life. Stop apologizing!

[Outrider]

16. Not democrats this time

This has more to do with the fact that the moderate and liberal factions of Christianity need to stand up and say for once and for all that the radical right no longer has any relation with Christianity. The sooner that real Christians, moderates and liberals mostly, cast out these fools the sooner Christianity can start to heal the image problems that it is developing.

[mitchtv]

23. nice idea, too bad they let it go so far

same problems as the Dems, no backbone

[QC]

17. Yep, useful idiots. n/t

[cornermouse]

21. They don't ever apologize.

Why should we?

[ixion]

24. stop apologizing to fascist groups!

All it does is discredit your original intent, which is precisely why they do it.

Stand up for yourselves!!

[Solly Mack]

30. Who do people apologize for calling the corrupt corrupt?

I know it's not polite or kind to hurt a persons feelings...however, this is our country we are talking about. This is our future. It's OK to call a theocratic thug a theocratic thug. It really is OK to do that...

[Zhade]

33. Ah, such courage under fire!

Never apologize when you're RIGHT.

[aion]

34. Aparantly Fascists aren't Fascists unless they admit to it outright?!

Look. If it honks like a goose, looks like a goose, and most importantly steps like goose, then it is a damn goose! If they can't police their own party's fascist tendencies, then let them embrase their shame openly.