Don't be so happy over the demise of the Christian Coalition

[serryjw]

The two things you can say for the RW. 1) They don't give up 2) they take one step back, reorganize and take 4 HUGE leaps forward.

I saw how they did this when they opposed ROE. First they had demonstrations,they blocked abortion clinics, torched them, killed abortion doctors. They were perceived as quacks and dangerous......so they regrouped and went across the country using the legislative process and changed laws county by county.....NOW, 83% of the countries in America have no reproductive rights. Never take them for granted, they will not stop, they are dangerous to everything America SHOULD stand for..........and I'm not sure they still are not winning. Oh yeh, they have a nutcase in the WH that they need to replace with someone whom is not so OBVIOUS.
In the middle of the night I caught http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week903/feature.html on TV> This is perfect. They will open more and more Law schools so we have more and more CHRISTIAN lawyers that think like Scalia and probably Roberts
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EMILY JOY SMITH (student, Regent University School of Law): I am going to view every perspective, every situation, every client that walks in my office through kind of glasses that are Christ-colored.
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SEVERSON: The law school boasts graduates working in all levels of state and federal government, also as judges, prosecutors, state representatives, lawyers for the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is now part of the Regent faculty.
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SEVERSON: To combat the American Civil Liberties Union, Robertson founded the American Center for Law and Justice -- that's the ACLJ, not the ACLU. The ACLJ has argued and won several cases before the High Court, including the right to organize Bible clubs in public schools. Jay Sekulow, the chief counsel, has been asked by President Bush to help shepherd Judge John Roberts through the confirmation process. Sekulow considers himself a conservative Christian who thinks most law schools are too liberal
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SEVERSON: Regent was the first of the conservative Christian law schools but not the last. In Michigan, the Ave Maria Catholic Law School was recently granted accreditation. And the Reverend Jerry Falwell is awaiting accreditation for his new law school at Liberty University. Many conservative Christians see this as a way of getting their values put into law. Others say it's a troubling erosion of the separation of church and state.

[madeline_con]

1. Demise? What demise? Are they being dismantled?

Please tell me they are!

[serryjw]

2. I think you missed the point of the post

n/t

[KharmaTrain]

3. It's Morphed Into The Party Mainstream

Tell us something we don't know. In fact, many Repugnicans in my area like it that way. They feel that having the Dobsons and Robertsons and Falwells and almost every TV preacher in creation on their side means god is on their side. Rove knows he can play this vote like stealth...he's done on several occasions and to ensure this vote he needed to fold a lot of this religious "leadership" into something he and the RNC could control. To do this the Christian Coalition had to go.

Also, the Coalition served as a money pit for the Repugnicans in the 80's...passing the plate and the voter sheets and bringing in tons of small donations. Now those are done through variosu PACs and further under the radar...no need for a large organization that could easily be under the eyes of an unfriendly IRS.

This isn't the death...this is just taking this operation and sending it underground. This way scum like Ralphie Reed can go into the "private" sector and take his snake oil show from fleecing old ladies to Indian tribes.

[serryjw]

4. You too missed the point of the original post.

Why do I bother to spend 30 minutes researching something if you aren't going to read it?

[KharmaTrain]

5. Then State Your Point...

If others here aren't reading into this article what you are, make your comments and it's dicussed.

This is a "discussion" board, is it not?

[serryjw]

6. I don't give a damn about the CC

My point was they are (Christian ) grooming lawyers to change the system from the inside. Did you read any thing I posted?

[KharmaTrain]

7. And I Amplified It By Stating It's Being Absorbed By The RNC

That's the deal here. The CC was obsolete the days PACs started to become the major source of GOOP cash. This also includes an agenda to put party zealots inside major corporations. It's not just religion...it's intertwined with a bunch of right wing agendas where all have benefited.

The other day I posted twice about how Tom DeLay's chief of staff was hired by Time Warner as their head lobbyist. I got a couple of snide posts and that was it. Look at the LA weekly article it refernences and you'll see a lot bigger picture.

Cheers...

[OneBlueSky]

8. the scariest part of this becomes clear when you ask yourself . . .

"Where do our legislators come from?" . . .

generally, from the ranks of the legal profession . . . and you can be sure that the newly minted Christoid lawyers that these schools are producing will be running for every office imaginable in every town, city, county, and state in the nation . . . and, in many cases, being elected . . .

a valuable project for a group like the ACLU would be creating a data base of the graduates of these Dominionist law schools . . . just so they can be identified for the electorate when they begin their assault . . .

[ladylibertee]

9. Here is what I think.....

:puke:

[Bluebear]

10. "Christ-colored glasses"

Words just fail me.

No they don't. When I grew up, Christianity was a religion. Nowadays a number of its adherents more and more resemble a weird cult.