Religious Right tied to Jack Abramoff

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Rev. Lou Sheldon, founder of the California-based Traditional Values Coalition has long been among the most stridently anti-gay crusaders on the Christian Right.The Washington Post reveals that he and two other top Religious Right leaders are implicated in the widening Washington, DC corruption scandal centered around conservative Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff who has cut a deal with federal prosecutors in return for his testimony against Members of Congress.

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Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, and now a political consultant, had previously been shown to have received money from gambling interests tied to Abramoff -- even as he was publicly working on anti-gambling issues for another client.

And now the anti-gambling Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition has been shown to have received money from gambling interests, along with Rabbi Daniel Lapin's, Seattle based Orthodox Jewish foundation, Toward Tradition. Lapin is frequently aligned with the Christian Right.

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While it is not clear that Reed, Sheldon and Lapin did anything illegal. It is certainly clear that their organizations all received funds from eLottery and that they worked with Abramoff to defeat the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act -- a bill that was supported by the Christian Coalition, Moral Majority, and James Dobson of Focus on the Family.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/3/222850/7565

[txindy]

1. Strange bedfellows, indeed. Although they shared a worship of money.

Slime, the lot of them.

[Initech]

2. Chris Rock is right - it's the church of the ATM!

[NanceGreggs]

3. Always wondered what the 'followers' of these so-called ...

... 'religious leaders' thought about (Abramoff's partner) Scanlon's email about the 'whacko Christian right' ...

[madeline_con]

4. "... received money from gambling interests ...

... even as he was publicly working on anti-gambling issues for another client."

What's that Biblical addage?

"let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth"

:evilgrin:

[cantstandbush]

5. Have watch the 700 Club just to see how Pat handles his involvement with

Abramoff and his opertives.

[Kurt Remarque]

6. just ask bill bennet how to work it out