Far-right fundraising tack: Obama plans to ‘impose homosexuality’

[meegbear]

Far-right Christian fundamentalist group Family Research Council has a clever idea for raising money: convince supporters that President Barack Obama will take away their Bibles and turn their kids gay.

That's essentially what the group's newest fundraising alert amounts to, with its claim that the president has a "plan" to "impose homosexuality" and "silence Christianity."

It's hard to make this stuff up.

The group's four-page letter, available here (PDF link) courtesy of Think Progress, reads like end-of-days fiction, with Godless liberals on the march and only your dollars keeping America from the fires of hell.

In truth, it's a lengthy, deceptive rant about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would ensure gay, lesbian and transgendered people have a right to work alongside other Americans without fear of reprisal by the employers due solely to their sexual orientation or appearance.

The letter, which repeatedly refers to those not aligned with Christianity as "the homosexual Left," explains:

Imagine...

*The government prosecuting a small business owner -- perhaps a Christian bookstore -- for declining to hire an open-homosexual or cross-dresser.

*Your employer telling you to remove the Bible from your desk because it is offensive to the homosexual or cross-dresser he was forced to hire.

*Your church being forced to choose between hiring a man who dresses as a woman to work in the Mother's Day Out or preschool program or facing federal investigation.

*Your teen coming home from his faith-based summer camp and telling you his councilor was an openly-practicing homosexual.

Unimaginable, you say? The government can't force churches to do that, can it?

It can -- if ENDA becomes law.

Except, all of that is completely untrue.

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http://rawstory.com/2009/12/farright-fundraising-tack-obama-plans-impose-homosexuality/

[Wapsie B]

1. Damn, they've got our agenda down perfectly!

:sarcasm:

[RKP5637]

2. Family Research Council = Slime of the universe, vile and disgusting. n/t

[donco6]

3. Man, I need to finish these Christmas cards.

Sounds like I've got a lot of other work to get started on, too.

[ima_sinnic]

13. don't you mean your War on Christmas cards?

(hmmm--I think I just gave myself a brilliant and profitable idea :think: )

[drm604]

4. Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not bear false witness"?

Seriously, these people (the FRC and similar groups, not all Christians) are being so obviously and openly dishonest that it makes one wonder how sincere they really are in their "faith", and if they're not sincere then what is their real agenda?

[lame54]

15. It's been changed to "Lie like a motherfucker"

[Deep13]

16. The Jewish blood libel pretty much cancelled that rule.

Haven't you heard? Gays are the new Jews.

[blondeatlast]

5. I tried gay and it didn't "click," but I guess you horrible gays win me over anyway!

G'bluss'merica!

:sarcasm: (that I'd like to think I don't need)

[donco6]

9. You just didn't find the right woman.

Well . . . that's what they told me anyway.

[blondeatlast]

11. LOL! nt

[Odin2005]

6. Wow, they hate Transgender folks too. YUCK!

[L0oniX]

7. So now their death panels will be composed of tea bagging homosexuals?

:sarcasm:

[Kansas Wyatt]

8. They are saying that Obama will make them open the closet?

That would put them on edge.

And Obama is going to silence the Christian Taliban, who is allied with Corporate America?
Now that is really funny.

[donco6]

10. Who knew cross-dressers could be such bogeymen?

:scared:

[Deep13]

12. Their scare-tactic would actually be the right thing to do.

We would quickly condemn a chuch or religious business that excludes Blacks (although he do tolerate one that effectively excludes women.) Why is irrational discrimination in hiring okay just because the employer is hiding behind a plainly false claim that "god told me to."

[lame54]

14. Then he wouldn't have anybody to fight his war

[bigscott]

17. FINALLY

I might get a date!!!

[Sal316]

18. Teh stupidity from FRC just keeps on coming.

This ranks up there with the AFA's proclamation that the military should disqualify Muslims from serving.

The MJ writer called that bigoted polemic from the AFA a "vast wasteland of stupid".

Whenever they or the FRC speak, they show us exactly how vast it is and how bigoted those that populate it are.

This makes me ill.

[Initech]

19. Ron White is right: you can't fix stupid. And these morans are off the charts.

[Swamp Rat]

20. I think it's a GREAT idea!

All the brazillions of extra bibles no one reads would make for great kindling to start and stoke fires.

I'm all for teaching children about homosexuality, that is is a GREAT way to live, and that we should fully accept anyone who is gay and wants to marry. Sex education should include instructions on how to have safe gay sex too. ;)

I talk about how being gay is normal, and a good thing, to other people all the time. There is nothing the Family Research Council can do to stop me. :)

Maybe I will dress in drag next Mardi Gras just to piss them off. :D