May Day on the Mall: Lifting The Curse That Obama's Election Has Brought Upon America

[Emit]

On Saturday, May 1, Religious Right leaders and public officials will gather at the steps below the Lincoln Memorial to beg God to forgive America for having elected wicked leaders like President Obama. If you can’t make it to the national mall on Saturday morning, you can watch live on God TV or via webcast thanks to the American Family Association.

The "May Day - A Cry to God for a Nation in Distress" event is the brainchild of Janet Porter, a Religious Right activist/conspiracy theory-promoting radio host, and member of presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee’s inner circle. Porter believes America is under a curse for having “made the choice of death” by electing President Obama (even though God TV warned us not to). She announced the May Day event at last fall’s How to Take Back America conference.

Since then, Porter has lined up support from a significant number of Religious Right heavy-hitters like former Focus on the Family head James Dobson, who recorded an audio message recruiting pastors to get involved, and at least five members of Congress, including Randy “Pray Against Health Care” Forbes (Virginia), Trent “Obama is an enemy of humanity” Franks (Arizona), Louie “Hate Crimes Act is a Pedophile Protection Act” Gohmert (Texas), and Steve “Know Your Enemies” King (Iowa).

May Day 2010 has been organized around the “Seven Mountains” theology (Palin has ties to this movement as reported here and here ~ Emit), which advocates the complete takeover of every aspect of contemporary culture by modern day “apostles” of Christ. The theology is rooted in the belief that Christians are meant to have dominion over literally everything and is focused on spiritually “invading” seven specific facets of modern life in order to wrest control away from Satan and his demonic spirits so that Christians can put them to use in bringing about God’s kingdom on Earth: (1) Business; (2) Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5) Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion.

As Right Wing Watch has noted, “This 7 Mountains theology was started by Bill Bright, Loren Cunningham, and Francis Schaeffer (Frank Schaeffer's father ~ Emit) back in 1975” and has seen its influence on the Religious Right grow ever since, until it has become not only the central focus of this May Day rally, but also the central mission of organizations such as the National Day of Prayer Task Force.

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At the May Day rally, Porter and others will be asking God’s forgiveness for the failures of Christians to take dominion over each of these seven mountains...

The May Day 2010 Program includes a schedule, a congressional vote chart on health care reform legislation, ads from supporters, and a copy of the “Christian Manifesto” that declares that while the U.S. is “the greatest civilization in history” it will only remain a leader in the 21st Century by returning to its “Biblical roots.”

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More at link, including A Who’s Who (and some Who’s That?) of the Religious Right: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/may-day-mall-lifting-curse-obamas-election-has-brought-upon-america

[ClarkUSA]

1. Isn't May Day a pagan holiday?

:P

[depakid]

7. Beltane

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[NYC_SKP]

2. So, I'm looking at the May Day 2010 Program (pdf file) in your post, last line...

And among all the other, crap I read this:

Abundant resources:

The God of the Bible is a God of abundance not a God of lack.

We affirm that the earth has sufficient resources to provide for tens of
billions if not hundreds of billions of people.

There are untold depths of natural resources available.

While we may not currently have
the technology to utilize them, a creative God can give them to us.

Hundreds of billions of people.

Right.

:wtf:

[pinboy3niner]

3. Oh, God--you mean they're REPRODUCING?

We're DOOMED! :rofl:

[Emit]

10. Oh yes, straight from their "Christian Manifesto"

:shakeshead:

[PerpetuallyDazed]

12. It could be possible?

An argument might be made that we, the most "powerful," use up more resources than we actually need to live. Of course I don't have the numbers on this but it's an observation I've found to be true (at least in my community.)

[gravity]

4. I pray that this is just a big joke

Because these people are crazy

[Angry Dragon]

5. I fear no god

but these people scare the hell out of me

[FarLeftFist]

6. Religion is a strange strange delusion.

[WolverineDG]

8. So they're meeting at the Lincoln Memorial to pray for forgiveness for electing a black president

I think I'm praying for God to animate the statue of Lincoln so he can stand up & drop kick these assholes into the Atlantic.

dg

[Lifelong Protester]

9. Great response!

:rofl:

[spanone]

11. sick motherfuckers.....god is too distracted with the destruction of his/her gulf