Have you ever protested the Religious Right

[DanCa]

The Alito confirmation hearrings today were making my skin crawl. It seems that another fundie could very well be placed on the supreme court and wind up turning the clock back on America on all sorts of cultural and scientific policies. Yet I began to wonder how many of us here have actually protested the religous right?
I for one have. In may of 2000 I was asked to leave a church when the right of christian initian for adults to leave one church when I refused to take a pictures of women entering abortion clinics. I live in a small town and this is a very cliquish community. Just yesterday I put a sign on my wheelchair that said "Ask me about stem cell research" and went into the RC church and had a confrontation with that priest and two deacons. I fight with the religious right every month when I "Dirty word Lobby" for parkinsons disease research and stem cell research.
Fighting the religious right has pretty much become a large part of existence.
Yet I hold no ill will to the good christians on this page who are with me politically on the issues. I know there not in charge of the churches policys. In fact there are alot of christians on this page, and non believers too that I consider to be good friends.
Anyhow back to the point of this post. I was wondering if you ever fought the right and if so how? The advice our parents give us about ignoring bullies wont work. The theocrats will stop at nothing untill we live by thier archiac "political" belief system. So I was wondering if you have ever protested the right wing and if so how and if not why? If we dont pull together and start protesting on the doorstep of every fundie organization thier is there wont be a constitution to stand for. And we would have no one else to blame for it but ourselves. Hey half the year I am in a wheel chair and I can fight these bozos. Its not the hard, whose with me?

[stepnw1f]

1. Interesting

I would assume most would say no. Funny thing is they always claim they are victims of presecution.

[DanCa]

4. What does Jung Say

about that which upsets us most about ourselves is a reflection about what we see in others? Not sure the exact quote college has been quite awhile ago and I am heavily medicated right now.

[Bellamia]

8. You got the Jung quote right.

Funny. I read that just today in a book on New Age Religions.

[DanCa]

10. kick

:Kick: :nuke:

[Roon]

2. Yes

I protested the neo-nazis during their rally during MLK day.

[damntexdem]

3. Ooh, first vote! Yes!

I've been active in the good-science movement for years, protecting science education against Creationist attacks.

[xchrom]

5. i haven't but i sure as hell want to.

and i'm a christian.

[KamaAina]

6. I used to defend clinics against the Talibornagain

guess where? New Orleans. Yeah you right.

Here's what the head anti had to say after the storm:

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/22005b.asp

Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, also sees God's mercy in the aftermath of Katrina -- but in a different way. Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common to the city.

The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.

“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

Oh how very Christian of him. :sarcasm: While the lives of a whole community, including his own parishioners, are being turned upside down, he's crowing about the clinics being (temporarily) closed. I should have retroactively aborted that SOB when I had the chance :grr: Oh, by the way, lard-ass, NOLA is no longer "Mardi Gras free" as of Friday night when the 2006 Carnival season officially began! :bounce:

Speaking of good, God-fearing, white Christians :sarcasm: , I just found out what happened about five years after I left town, at the clinic I used to defend against Shanks and his lackey who called us "baby bloodsucking vampire lesbian whores". (I am male.) A week before Christmas in 1996, an Eric Rudolph wannabe stabbed the clinic doctor nearly to death.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/eyeonextremism/eoe-041221-cooper.xml

That morning, around 8:30, Cooper had approached Jackson outside the Orleans Women's Clinic, a reproductive health center where abortions were performed. After muttering something about wanting to talk to his wife, Cooper began stabbing the doctor. Jackson hit Cooper in the head with a gun he carried for protection, but Cooper managed to slash Jackson in the leg. When the carnage was over, Jackson had been stabbed 15 times, lost four pints of blood, and had one of his ears nearly severed.

Wait'll you hear how they caught the perp...

Cooper escaped. But later that day, in Baton Rouge, Intelligence Division investigators happened to be at the Delta Women's Clinic, which also provided abortions, looking into a false accusation that a clinic employee had pulled a gun on a protester. While they were there, Cooper entered an area of the clinic restricted to patients and employees. The police confronted Cooper and he fled, but they caught him and found the knife in his pocket. He was arrested on a charge of aggravated burglary, although a judge later reduced the charge to unauthorized entry of a business.

So the would-be murderer gets busted by cops who were at the clinic because the anti's were trying to frame one of the clinic employees! Priceless!!

[China_cat]

7. Would running over a couple of screaming

street preachers who wouldn't get out of the only curb cut for 6 blocks (on a busy street) with my scooter count? And then loudly asking them to open their bibles to Matthew 6 verses 5 and 6. (I do that now to any I come across...the verse, not the running over unless they need it. If they won't read it, it makes the crowd they've gathered wonder why and start asking questions.)

[robbedvoter]

9. Not many opportunities in my neck of the woods (NYC)

But I share the feeling, and I'd act at the right opportunity.