Our Christian Mandate to President Bush

[StClone]

It's time to put fourth our mandate. We need to show that we're serious and state categorically that any SCOTUS openings will be filled with anti-abortion justices.

Secondly, we want a Christian liaison in the White House, who will guide and make final judgments on all decisions and executive orders ensuring that Christian values are adhered to.

Thirdly, President Bush must ensure that Hollywood and all other media accessible to our children must be held by law to a highest standard of Christian values.

Fourth, there will be a significant effort in the White House to ensure that the separation of church and state, as stated in the constitution, be remediated. After all, this country was founded by Christians. We feel that the Founding Fathers made a mistake. However, we are heartened by recent efforts by the Bush administration to fund Christian Organizations and has in effect begun to tear down this wall.

Fifth, we feel Christian faith guides us and IT should guide the country. Since this country was founded on Christian values, we must insist that Atheists, Heathens, Wiccans, and assorted non-Christian beliefs not be given equal status and justly discouraged.

We will hold this administration accountable for making earnest attempts, if not actual realization, of our demands. If our requests are ignored we will not support Republican candidates in future elections regardless their claims of morality.

Please e-mail this around.

[Gloria]

1. What is this? From whom?

eom

[StClone]

2. It is from Christians

I got it in an e-mail spam.

I think it's a great idea to hold Carl Rove and President Bush's feet to the Christian fires. Christians will not be used politically!

Please forward it to all Christian friends!

Personal message me if you would like more info.

[DireStrike]

3. Are you on crack?

That would be the final blow to separation of church and state.

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

8. please stop broad brushing "christians"

its as silly as conservatives demonizing "liberals"

[greyfox]

10. I agree 100000 percent

That is so ridiculous.

[More Than A Feeling]

4. Good lord, that would be horrific

Both Christianity and democracy would be totally ruined if this were to be enacted. Jesus was the ultimate rebel, not someone coopted by the rulers like the Pharisees were.

The good news is that if we can shine light on any attempts to do this, the mainstream will help us force Bush to back down, and maybe the religious right will be neutralized. If they are serious about not supporting Republicans.

This will work because the religious right will have "man on the moon" syndrome ("you could get us into Iraq over heavy opposition, but you couldn't get Christianity institutionalized? we are leaving...")

[demgrrrll]

5. Wow that sounds like what I heard on the radio this morning. I had

forgotten about the hold him accountable sentence but they did say they were going to "hold Bush and the Republican party accountable" I was listening to fundie radio on the way to get some comfort food.
interesting........

[nedbal]

6. Bush is "on a mission."

"All sorts of warning signals ought to go off when a sense of personal chosenness and calling gets translated into a sense of calling and mission for a nation," says Robin Lovin, a United Methodist ethicist and professor of religion and political thought at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Lovin says what the president seems to be lacking is theological humility and an awareness of moral ambiguity.

Richard Land, a top Southern Baptist leader with close ties to the White House, argues that Bush's sense of divine oversight is part of why he has become such a good wartime leader. He brings a moral clarity and self-confidence that inspires Americans and scares enemies. "We don't inhabit that relativist universe (of European leaders)," Land says. "We really believe some things are good and some things bad."

It's even possible that Bush's belief in America's moral rightness makes the country's military threats seem more genuine because the world thinks Bush is "on a mission."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/842063/posts?page=3


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[mark414]

7. bush's cousin said something about this

something along the lines of

"people accuse my cousin of pandering to the religious right. he's not pandering, he IS the religious right."

[nedbal]

11. he's not pandering, he IS the religious right

[TahitiNut]

9. "assorted non-Christian beliefs" = Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Deists

The Dark Ages have arrived again.