Read the issues section at this site and tremble.

[madfloridian]

Watch for these things, as many are happening right now. It is as though they have speeded up the agenda.

http://www.cc.org/index.cfm
The Christian Coalition

Then keep your line of thought, and go here.
http://www.yuricareport.com/index.html

Scroll down to the Dominionists. Just read and think. I believe Atrios is linked from her site. This is scary stuff.

[madfloridian]

1. Just realized the Yurica site is posted below, but not the CC site.

So really it is not a dupe. They have many of the same goals.

[MichaelHarris]

2. click

I clicked on that first link and the picture of that lady freaked me right out. What an avatar that would make.

[madfloridian]

6. LOL , you are right about that.

:hi:

[knight_of_the_star]

3. They're trying

They know that they are VERY close to losing it all due to their hubris.

[Dying Eagle]

4. i don't have the stomach to read that shit

The Christian Coalition :puke:

[madfloridian]

5. You'd better read it. They are pushing it hard now.

Really. Look at the Issues....two of our Democratic senators are helping them achieve the goals.

I was raised Southern Baptist, and this is their platform. I am no longer Southern Baptist, and they have been taken over by this bunch.

[Lars39]

10. FAST, too!!!

I can barely keep up and I'm here way too much.

I can see the mindset that they have nurtured coming to fruit in my MIL the southern baptist. It has been very scary watching her turn from a loving christian to a vengeful fundy.

I know I gripe about the inlaws alot, but there's a reason I do: the inlaws and one of my husband's brothers and his wife are southern baptist missionaries. The inlaws are stateside missionaries, the kind that get churches started in communities near them. The BIL and his wife are high up in the food chain in Mexico. I see the latest edict and resulting attitude and action up close and personal very quickly. Not like the time it takes the edict to drift down from committee on thru a congregation.

[madfloridian]

12. Our church secretary said we were unpatriotic......

that Iraq was a just and holy war...then she said don't you want to keep our country safe? I said Iraq did not do 9/11, and she said maam, that is not being patriotic.

That church was hijacked in the early 90s.

[Lars39]

15. Hijacked and they don't even have a clue.

I think it's really a cult now. They've isolated themselves further, now that they've withdrawn from the World Alliance.
I've been going to the SBC website to kinda stay abreast of their policies, etc. :silly:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. i will never happen...even if it makes it through the houses it takes the

states 7 years to radify IF they do at all...states don't have to radify

[madfloridian]

7. What does this amendment mean? Churches can be political?

"Passing Congressman Walter Jones' 'Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act.'
Congressman Jones' bill, H.R. 235, got around 175 votes in the House last year and is expected to pass this year. It now has over 160 co-sponsors. This bill does not affect the campaign finance law passed."

[uhhuh]

8. #4?

How is the protection of holy sites in Israel a matter for U.S. congress?

[madfloridian]

9. How odd?

QUOTE:....."Passing Senator Lindsey Graham's and Congressman Joe Wilson's 'Holy Sites' resolution
Senator Graham's resolution, S.Con.Res.32 and Congressman Wilson's H.Con Res.150 addresses the protection of religious sites mainly in and near Israel and the freedom of acess and worship in these sites.."

It is none of their business.

[Must_B_Free]

11. just a team builder

a little cookie for all who have a vested interested in those sites.

But there is a big fissure and I think it was sparked by The Passion and I think Clear Channel canned Stern for a different reason than they said.

[SharonAnn]

14. And it's a badly designed site (CC). Way too much going on

there. Looks like what my husband would call "the dream of a whore with money". Keep adding stuff! Yeah, that's it!

[NJCher]

19. tell your husband that's a good one!

I laughed at the site, too. The Webmaster/designer in me nearly choked at all the flashing, running headlines, etc. The piece de resistance, of course, is the lady in the "beehive" hairdo. Oh man.



Cher

[Kimber Scott]

16. How can they "Take America Back"

when they've already hijacked it? Bastards. We're supposed to be taking it back from them!

[VOX]

21. Exactly my first reaction!

They've stolen it, what the hell are they talking about?????

[madfloridian]

17. The Despoiling of America.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

SNIP..."The First Prince of the Theocratic States of America

It happened quietly, with barely a mention in the media. Only the Washington Post dutifully reported it.<1> And only Kevin Phillips saw its significance in his new book, American Dynasty.<2> On December 24, 2001, Pat Robertson resigned his position as President of the Christian Coalition.

Behind the scenes religious conservatives were abuzz with excitement. They believed Robertson had stepped down to allow the ascendance of the President of the United States of America to take his rightful place as the head of the true American Holy Christian Church.

Robertson’s act was symbolic, but it carried a secret and solemn revelation to the faithful. It was the signal that the Bush administration was a government under God that was led by an anointed President who would be the first regent in a dynasty of regents awaiting the return of Jesus to earth....."

Whether exaggerated or not, this is creepy stuff.

Read Antonin Scalia's statement below that:
"As Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court explained a few months later, the Bible teaches and Christians believe “… that government …derives its moral authority from God. Government is the ‘minister of God’ with powers to ‘revenge,’ to ‘execute wrath,’ including even wrath by the sword…”3]...."

Notice this is a partial quote, but Yurica has done some pretty reliable work.

[madfloridian]

18. Put that together with this article from alternet.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16167

SNIP...."Last month, Harper's magazine published a rather extraordinary article by Jeffrey Sharlet, editor of the irreverent web site killingthebuddha.com and co-author of the upcoming "Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible" (Free Press). The piece chronicled Sharlet's three-week semi-undercover stay at Ivanwald, the Fellowship's mansion:



Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington, Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends of the organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer to themselves as "the Family." The Family is, in its own words, an "invisible" association, though its membership has always consisted mostly of public men. Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as "members," as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.).


Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains a closely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards and collects no official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or its activities. The organization has operated under many guises, some active, some defunct: National Committee for Christian Leadership, International Christian Leadership, the National Leadership Council, Fellowship House, the Fellowship Foundation, the National Fellowship Council, the International Foundation. These groups are intended to draw attention away from the Family, and to prevent it from becoming, in the words of one of the Family's leaders, "a target for misunderstanding." END SNIP

And your imagine can just soar.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

20. Scalia is fronting Dominionism with an air of impunity. Here's my synopsis

And since I'm proselytizing this all over du, here's my synopsis again:

Religion is the biggest arrow in the quiver of the Culture War to hijack control of the biggest weapon on the planet, the US government. Television is a close second for filling the collective American mind with manipulative fearmongering. Combined, they are a 24/7 Nuremberg rally of adrenalin and endorphins, a daily drip of red-white-and-blue indoctri-Nation-alism.

'THE CHOSEN FEW' IS BEING MORPHED INTO 'THE MASTER RACE'
THE SAME WAY 'GET OSAMA' WAS MORPHED INTO 'GET SADDAM'! GET IT?

We are living in the closing minutes of a religious culture war that the American Taliban, called Dominionists, are winning.
The US Constitution (of-by-for the people) is being gutted and replaced with the Bible (Divine Right of Kings.)

This is the basic model of this religion-fueled fascism:
Supreme Dictator Smiting Evil-doers Wrathfully Without Legal Restraints. Sound familar?
Yup. George W. Bush as the American Ayatollah.

The inflammation of the old anti-semitic, anti-homosexual, anti-abortion, and anti-porn 'passions' is cover for a very real and documented campaign to make this country into a Hitlerian theocracy fueled by fundamentalist Christian religious passions called 'Dominionism.'

It’s teachings are the opposite of those of Jesus Christ.
Wealth=virtue/Poverty=sin, Monarchy=Success/Democracy=failure. Killing=justice/Peace=danger.
It is totally Orwellian and some animals are definitely more equal than others.

'Might Makes Right' is WINNING over 'The Rule of Law.'
We are experiencing the return of Eugenics (elimination of the 'weak') in our government's policies that looks very much like the old systems of feudalism, slavery and holocaust.
Have you noticed the body-count in the last three years with no end in sight?


Georgie's brain is much worse than you think and he's being used for terrible purposes. Here's a British clinical psychologist's researched analysis of the boy king. He interviewed Georgie's family, friends and such and determined that he was abused as a child and developed an 'authoritarian personality,' the root of fascism. Read it and weep for him and us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html
(So George, how do you feel about your mom and dad?)-CLICK

And this personality is being exploited to further the creation of a Hitlerian Theocracy called ‘Dominionism’, which has been going on in this country for the last thirty years. Read it and wonder what the hell we're in for next now that Eugenics is domestic policy and Imperialism is foreign policy.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5160.shtml
(God Bless America, The Constitution is Dead)-CLICK

If you'd like to read the full speech of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia back in the dark ages of January 2002 when he said that 'democracy interferes with the Divine Right of Kings and he's doing something about it,' read this and wonder what century we're living in and just what that Constitution was for, anyway.
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/scalia.htm
(God's Justice and Ours)-CLICK

Eugenics, isn’t that a little dramatic? Social conditions have not improved in the United States since 1980.
Using data from the UN and World Bank, researcher Richard Estes created an Index of Social Progress that takes into account health, education, human rights, political participation, population growth, the status of women, cultural diversity, ‘freedom from social chaos’, military spending, and environmental protection.
In a list that included 163 countries, the United States ranked 27th. Estes, who has researched world social development for 30 years, found the pace of social development to be "on hold" since 1980, putting the U.S. on the same level as Poland and Slovenia in the current "report card.” Yet the US ‘defense’ budget is the size of the next 15 largest in the world combined.
(US Ranks 27th in World Social Progress)-CLICK.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/uop-ur2071703.php

How can they get away with it when everyone seems to be pissed off at Georgie and we're supposed to be able to vote the bastard out of our White House? By fixing the electronic voting machines for 'the House.' Read this and decide which country to escape to this fall when Georgie is reinstalled, like a 'Manchurian Candidate' to finish the job he was sent to do-eliminate democracy, create a police state, and conquer the world as Superman Jesus in a Cowboy Hat.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm
(Diebold, Electonic Voting, and the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)-CLICK

LATE BREAKING NEWS-FEB. 26 2004
Right now the Dominionists are introducing legislation to replace 'The People' as the authority in our democracy’s Constitution with ‘God’ in a bill called ‘The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004,’ exactly the opposite of what it really is, just like the Patriot Act, the Help America Vote Act, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and the Clear Skies Act. The legalities of the Christian Theocracy are being used to destroy our laws as if by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

This is not a test! It is absolutely real and happening right now while the media are busy covering gay marriage and Mel Gibson’s bloody crucifixion porn film, ‘The Passion of the Christ.’

“…on February 11 , 2004 Dominionist leaders in congress made their move; they introduced a bill in both houses called The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004. Among the sponsors of the bill are Rep. Robert Aderholt (Alabama), Rep. Michael Pence (Indiana), Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, Sen. Zell Miller (Georgia), Sen. Sam Brownback (Kansas), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (South Carolina).

The House version is H.R. 3799 and the Senate version is S. 2082. The bill limits the U.S. Supreme Court and federal courts to hear cases involving “expressions of religious faith by elected or appointed officials.”

Although the claim by its sponsors appears to be that the intention is to prevent the courts from hearing cases involving the Ten Commandments or a Nativity Scene in a public setting from being reviewed, the law is drawn broadly and expressly includes the acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law by an official in his capacity of executing his office.”

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0402/S00172.htm
(The Constitution Restoration Act of 2004)-CLICK

[madfloridian]

24. The Common Dreams article, Volusia County, Florida, sickening.

SNIP...."Harris writes that the hacked documents expose how the mainstream media reversed their call projecting Al Gore as winner of Florida after someone “subtracted 16,022 votes from Al Gore, and in still some undefined way, added 4000 erroneous votes to George W. Bush.” Hours later, the votes were returned. One memo from Lana Hires of Global Election Systems, now Diebold, reads: “I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16,022 when it was uploaded.” Another hacked internal memo, written by Talbot Iredale, Senior VP of Research and Development for Diebold Election Systems, documents “unauthorized” replacement votes in Volusia County.

Harris also uncovered a revealing 87-page CBS news report and noted, “According to CBS documents, the erroneous 20,000 votes in Volusia was directly responsible to calling the election for Bush.” The first person to call the election for Bush was Fox election analyst John Ellis, who had the advantage of conferring with his prominent cousins George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush....."

We all knew something was wrong in Volusia County, and no one cared enough to do something. I don't recall anyone really standing their ground for Gore and saying enough is enough. All we heard was let's not make waves, move along, get over it. The steamroller started then.

[ithacan]

22. another important site: www.TheocracyWatch.org

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party. Excellent site, very well documented and scary:

http://www.TheocracyWatch.org

Check out the issues area there: The GOP's agenda is 100 percent the same as the "Christian Coalition" ...

[UTUSN]

23. Literally "Taking America 'BACK' "

to a Dark Age ignorance.