UPDATE!!  BAILIN’ PALIN BAILS AGAIN! THIS WOMAN IS UNBELIEVABLE…

Link here to Lisa Derrick’s article that was JUST posted to LaFiga Firedoglake.com.

She can’t even commit to something she is committed to!

Below is the article I put together last night before the news that she now claims to have never been invited to this shin-dig.  There ya go Sarah! Step on your own!  Let us know how that will keep working for you…what a piece of work…

She has picked another spotlight to hover under. Parental consent. It is essentially – “Fox joins Change Point and promoted by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council”.  When I say Fox, it is the combination of her appeal to have all her “friends” tune in and act out by being loyal and faithful watchers of Glenn Beck, and her own questionable mental state that urges her to support this very unstable man.

Her appearance at this ‘event’ will get coverage. Adding to the media attraction is that another very active dominionist extremist, Star Parker, will be there sharing the spotlight with her.  Parker is also scheduled to speak at the Family Research Council’s “Value Voters Council Summit in Washington, D.C. next month on September 18-20, 2009, and of course Palin simply can’t decide – although she is on the list as a “maybe”.

Oh boy…here they go!  Winding up to convey their message of take back America by mandating “Family Values” based on biblical origins and shoving them down our throats…

…while simultaneously absolving themselves from any wrongdoings in C Street fashion because they are the “chosen elite” and are therefore forgiven of past and future sins because they are “doing the Lord’s work”.

So getting back to tonight’s show, I guess this opportunity for Palin and Parker to test the mics at Governor Parnell’s church, is a great way to launch their sanctimonious partnership in the name of “pro-life” by pushing for a law that would require all minor females to notify their parents before seeking an abortion in the event a minor girl went in search of one – even when the pregnancy may be a result of rape/incest and put the girl in harm’s way by seeking permission.

P & P are using this for two main political messages: 1)  declare abortion illegal under any circumstance; and 2)  keep the fires stoked that Obama is a proponent of federal tax dollars going to pay for abortion in his health care reform bill…well, and in Parker’s world add that she claims abortion is a direct tool of genocide against African-Americans among other interesting claims.

And of course, the personal pandering and clambering for constant media attention always a primary factor.  While Parker is a regular mouthpiece on Fox news, and Palin is rallying her ‘friends’ in the Internet world to support Glenn Beck, they continue to command audiences whether through the media or congregations and rile up the paranoid extremists.

For those of you who have the interest, I am going to give you a tremendous amount of information below that you will learn so much from with regard to how these seemingly regional appearances link to the bigger picture of national Political Dominionism.  What I am inserting here is the raw research material provided by “dogemporer” on how this righteous duo fit into the puzzle.  You will also notice that the connections are like a spider web and each link reveals another and another and another.  But this is a glimpse of how we are able to bind them all together.   FotF=Focus on the Family; AFC=Alaska Family Council; NARasite=New Apostolic Reformation parasite;

It turns out Palin is connected with Alaskans for Parental Rights
(http://www.alaskansforparentalrights.org/) which is a front of a front
of a front of a front.  (Yes, it’s pretty much a classic “matroshka doll
front”; Alaskans for Parental Rights is a front of Alaska Family Action,
which in turn is a 501(c)4 lobbying front of Alaska Family Council
(http://www.alaskafamilycouncil.org/), which (along with (de facto if
not de jure) Family Research Council) is a Focus on the Family front
(http://www.alaskafamilycouncil.org/about_us/focus_family_assn.html
gives more details–pretty much it’s a FotF state affiliate (and
specifically a front of Citizenlink, itself a front of FotF Action,
itself the 501(c)4 lobbying wing of FotF that it set up after it
“officially” split off Family Research Council under threat of FotF
losing its tax-exempt status)–and http://www.citizenlink.org/fpc/ gives
more info on the networks nationwide).

This is actually pretty interesting, as AFC has apparently had some
disagreements with Palin regarding Supreme Court appointees
(http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/groups/alaska-family-council).
This proves, even more, that Sarah Palin is going into “stealth and
organise” mode–Alaskans for Parental Rights is a frontgroup set up for
the sole purpose of forcing a referendum on passing a strict “parental
notification” law regarding abortions for minors similar to that in
Missouri (http://www.alaskansforparentalrights.org/about)–Missouri’s
law, of note, has only limited judicial bypass options, and it is
legally a felony for even a relative to take a minor across state lines
for purposes of obtaining an abortion in a state with friendlier
judicial bypass options.

Interestingly, another FotF frontgroup–the Alliance Defense Fund, a
group that promotes itself as being a parallel-economy “Christian
Alternative” to legit civil rights legal groups like the ACLU or
Americans United–has been doing quite a bit of damage control and
pimping of Palin
(http://www.alaskansforparentalrights.org/aggregator/sources/4 gives a
large list, almost all links pointing to Alliance Defense Fund news briefs).

Star Parker…oh gods, Star Parker is just all kinds of friggin’
*speshul*.  Parker is an example of, shall we say, a “house slave” of the dominionist movement,
and in particular likes to promote the idea that abortion was meant as a
method of “back-door genocide of African-Americans”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Parker and yes, sadly, this exact
sort of whargarbl is heavily used now as a recruitment tool by NARasite
groups in particular to recruit African-Americans).  In fact, much of
her schtick is in fact essentially the old neopentecostal “I was a
horrid horrid sinner and druggie and I had lots of abortions and then I
found God” narrative (pretty much what one can consider the “involved in
atrocities then converted” dialogue–which has literally been used for
supposed “Satanists” in the 80s during the “Satanic Panic”, is used a
lot nowadays with “former terrorists”, and has even been promoted up to
literal Godwin’s Law-invoking claims of being former Hitler Youth who
converted; yes, it is literally an honest-to-God “conversion
trope”)–her “Saved Ex-Slut” trope-story is at
http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/1997/julaug/7w4022.html?start=2 for
your perusal.

Parker is especially appealing to neopentes and neocons, in part,
because she claims to essentially be an ex-welfare-queen and ex-Dr.
Feelgood (which plays to a *very* nasty popular myth regarding “black
welfare queens”) and promotes “abstinence only” stuff; she operates a
group called Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education
(http://www.urbancure.org/) that in essence promotes NARasite theories
about why African-Americans are being held down (tl;dr version: they
ain’t got enough God–no matter that African-Americans are in general
some of the most solidly Evangelical Christians in the US–NARasite
neopentecostalism is relatively new in the African-American church
community, however).  Among other things, she essentially claims that
LBJ’s War on Poverty destroyed African-American culture
(http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/3/9/93733/84075), even writing a
book called “Uncle Sam’s Plantation” promoting this.

Parker is rather well documented as having connections with FotF Action
(http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/9/4/05840/96219) and apparently
has stumped for Palin in past; she’s pretty much one of the “rising
stars” of the political dominionist community
(www.talk2action.org

and in particular http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/10/19/20916/994
and http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/9/13/17438/3915 or the promo
material on her own site at http://www.urbancure.org/starparker.asp).

In particular, Parker does seem to have NARasite linkage; she shared the
stage with David Barton of the NARasite historical-revisionist group
“Wallbuilders” (http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/7/18/142622/634)
along with Rick Scarborough at a “Penetrating America’s Heart
Conference” held Sept. 25-27, 2000 at Encourager Church; Encourager is a
“stealth Assemblies” NARasite church with linkages to C. Peter Wagner’s
network in particular that literally operates nowadays as a de facto
“daughter” church of the infamous NARasite Brownsville A/G in Pensacola
(http://www.encouragerchurch.org/ and in particular
http://www.encouragerchurch.org/staff1.html notes how it’s essentially a
Third Wave/Joel’s Army church DIRECTLY descended from Brownsville).
More NARasite linkage (and “Assemblies NARasite” in particular) comes
from some of her advisory board members–Kenneth Blackwell (connected
with World Harvest Church in Columbus, a NARasite “Assemblies
daughter”), John Ashcroft (yes, as in the Assemblies NARasite who was
“annointed” as Attorney-General, as in the literal son of the founder of
the Assemblies frontgroup Chi Alpha), and the head of the dominionist
“Liberty Counsel” legal-harassment group
(http://www.urbancure.org/advisors.asp).

Parker serves not only as an “Uncle Tom” (or “Auntie Thomasina”) to the
African-American community but also to women; she’s linked with the
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, a “conservative women” think-tank
(http://www.cblpi.org/index.cfm); she’s a favourite on the whargarbl
sites Townhall (http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/archive.shtml)
and WorldNetDaily (http://www.wnd.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=219).

Her present husband (she is apparently trotted out especially as an
example of “ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony”; her husband is
white) was in seminary at a steeplejacked “Charismatic Episcopalian”
church as of 1997 (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/testlsip.html notes
her husband is pastor of St. Michael’s Charismatic Episcopal Church.

So, long story short–this is pretty much *precisely* the crowd Palin
would be hanging around with.

Again, I know this is a lot of information, but when you see the linkages and how deep they go, you can see why we are concerned about these seemingly inocuous appearances.  These are planned and intentional to acheive specific outcomes, and IF we hear about them, it is easy to dismiss them as an “so what, she is speaking at a church – big surprise” kind of reaction.  Believe it or not I only provided a third of that email for you, but it gives you a significant amount of reference material to check out as time allows you.

Palin and Parker are both being used by the boys at the top, but their egos allow them to lap up the glory along the way.  And who are the boys at the top who are referenced in this outline by dogemporer?  James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Dave Barton, and C. Peter Wagner – just to name a few – who are all entertwined with each other and groups like Youth with a Mission =YAM who =Loren Cunningham who = The Fellowship who = The Family recently exposed by Jeff Sharlet.

Soooo…anyone in Anchorage going tonight?

UPDATE!!  BAILIN’ PALIN BAILS AGAIN! THIS WOMAN IS UNBELIEVABLE…

Link here to Lisa Derrick’s article that was JUST posted to LaFiga Firedoglake.com.

She can’t even commit to something she is committed to!

I had a dear friend over for dinner last night.  Time has done its typical relentless march and before we knew it, a year had passed since we last got together.  In our effort to catch up on what was happening in each others lives, as you might well imagine the topic of my research and writing came up (and stayed up) for a fair portion of the evening.

It started out with Palin and what my opinion is as to why she resigned; then on to the GOP and what does it matter seeing as how they lost by a landslide; then my friend said, “I don’t have time to follow all this, and there aren’t that many of them anyway!”  How disheartening… So where was I going to begin without turning our evening into a lecture series?  It is a tough one.  But I had no choice.

One of the biggest problems for us, and a positive for the extremists, is our disbelief and overwhelm.  They rely on us essentially ignoring the information and activities right in front of us for a variety of reasons; 1)  we really don’t want to hear about it because it is too disturbing; 2)  if we were to pay attention to it – just what are we supposed to DO with this information? 3)  our lives are so busy we don’t have time to pay attention to all this nonsense – and as she said – there aren’t that many of them anyway.

I hear her!  As I sit here writing today, it is perfect outside, 70s, sunny and I can think of a hundred other things I would rather be doing than having to write about these extremists.  And granted, my devotion to informing others about these fanatics requires considerably more time than is necessary for the rest of us to be modestly informed and stay aware.  I am really not expecting everyone to become an activist.  I am hoping that people will at minimum recognize the face of Dominionism when it is right in front of them and not dismiss it.

For example, this friend of mine has a main business partner that she works along side everyday that is a born-again, evangelical extremists and attends services faithfully at a local dominionist church.  She avoids conversations with him but doesn’t recognize that he is exactly the type of ‘c’hristian that belongs to these indoctrinated congregations.

I explained to her that he is the embodiment of what I am talking about.  I have met and spent time with her business partner so I am not making a generalized statement based on stereo-types.

She was raised catholic and remembers a conversation not long ago where he had never heard of “lent” and chalked it up to “oh, those Catholics”.  I pointed out that this is typical.  Often times these born-agains have a myopic view of the Bible as taught to them from repeated specific versus – over and over again – without understanding context, NOR having any other concept of how their beliefs fit into a world view of Christianity or (god forbid) other religious ideologies!

It is a faith of rhetoric and rote memorization.  That is an equation for dangerous blind followers and total immersion.  What does this produce?  People like her partner who can’t defend his beliefs other than pointing to the (revised Zondervan Publishing version, NIV) Bible and saying “it’s all in there”, yet lacking the knowledge of what that really even means.  In a word?  Brainwashing!

Their own movement places the numbers at approximately 30-35% of the population and growing.  They go on to proudly claim that the leadership in their movement – who are the only ones truly in “the know” – consist of about 3-5% of THAT population, but they aim to emulate the “jihadists” and grow that to 10% where they will cause a “tipping point” and create a Christian State.  Okey-dokey!

Which brought me to the next point in our conversation last night, which is that many in the congregations aren’t even aware of the fine points of the End Times/Apocalyptic agenda pursued by the leadership/salesmen…yet they are equally as responsible in their contributions and complicity.  The Sheeples…

The population of the United States currently stands at 304 million people.  So when we do the math – they claim a following of any where between 91 – 106 million.  Our numbers are far more conservative and have placed their Sheeple numbers between 50 – 80 million.  Either way, this is a substantial number of people who subscribe to this “faith”!

“There aren’t that many of them” will echo in my head for the rest of the afternoon while I mow my lawn and wonder what can I do differently?  What can WE do differently?  It is not enough to reach one person at a time…

I gave her a signed copy of “TheoPalinism – The Face of Failed Extremism” as she was leaving…and she readily accepted and looks forward to reading it.  It does carry an introductory message to this craziness and I wish I could afford to mail it out randomly and get it in as many hands as possible…but with that idea off the table I am open to others!  I am ALL ears my friends…please share your thoughts.

Yesterday’s post was extremely long, and I know it had a tremendous amount of information to take in.  I wanted to provide you with two things:  1)  information about the incoming Alaska Governer and his Dominionist affiliation; and 2)  an example of the depth of the research we do on each facet of this journey to uncover what is really going on in this movement.  I won’t do that to you again!

Today seems like a perfect time to introduce a new word into our growing lexicon.  Steeplejacking…

A reader left a comment that I thought required my answer in the form of a short post this morning and my answer will define steeplejacking. Here is her comment and question:

“Leah, this is really scary stuff! If I wanted to go to church I certainly want it to look like a church! Which leads me to ask…what is a person to do? A family moves into town and wants to attend church, how do they not get sucked into one of these Dominionist churches? Is it just not safe to go to any church nowadays?”

There are recognizable indicators that tip off what is a Dominionist evangelical church.  I started my response with, “There are a few characteristics that ‘thread’ through dominionist churches. Watch for the following: non-denominational, born-again, charismatic, emphasis on evangelizing and proselytizing, and speaking in tongues (or the bopping on the head/holy laughter weirdness). They also tend to be mega-churches (2,000 or more), unless in a small town. For example I am surrounded by 3 in a 3 mile radius from my home with names like, Dakota Christian Center, Community Baptist and Christ the King Church. They aren’t mega because the population is too small for huge, but you get the idea…

Let me now explain “steeplejacking”.  This is what happens when mainstream denominational churches lose their congregational members to a nearby evangelical church.  In very simple terms this is where members are wooed away from their churches by members of evangelical extremists, and/or their churches are literally taken over in place.  There is a great book available on Steeplejacking written by two ministers, Sheldon Culver and John C. Dorhauer of the United Church of Christ – Steeplejacking: How the Christian Right is Hijacking Mainstream Religion.

“An insider account by two ministers on the front lines of mainstream religions longtime shadow war against the religious right, Steeplejacking reveals how conservative renewal groups, backed by a right-wing organization called the Institute on Religion and Democracy, use social wedge issues like homosexuality to infiltrate mainline churches and stir up dissent among members of the congregation, with the goal of taking over the leadership of the church, and ultimately, the denomination.”

With that being said – the answer is – there are indeed many churches out there that have nothing to do with this extreme minority.  This is one of the components of this whole movement that frustrates me the most – that because they are so…well, evil really…it has cast a shadow over Christianity as a whole leaving an unsavory image.  And that is truly unfortunate…

I am not suggesting that all church services have to be drone, mundane and include rote memorization of passages, verses and hymnal preamble in order to be considered mainstream.  (Although that is the essence of the Lutheran services I had to attend as a kid).  But these dominionist churches pretty routinely are the ones that include the HUGE flat screens and an American flag draped somewhere behind their stage (I can’t bring myself to call it their pulpit), along with a live band of some sort.

Remember the saying by Sinclair Lewis,

“When fascism comes to America it will be wearing a flag [carrying a gun] and holding the bible”.

Astroturfing is a word in English describing formal political, advertising, or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous “grassroots” behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf.  Astroturfing is a form of propaganda whose techniques usually consist of a few people attempting to give the impression that mass numbers of enthusiasts advocate some specific cause.

Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt (“outreach”, “awareness”, etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual pushing a personal agenda or highly organized professional groups with financial backing from large corporations, non-profits, or activist organizations.

Astroturfing has become quite common place in its use by various organizations, in particular from extreme Political Dominionist churches.  They are orchestrated to be on the watch for internet bloggers and articles that they perceive “attack” their beliefs and/or leaders.  In my case, I draw fire on all sides due to my exposure of their militant religious twisting of the Bible, their anointed Sarah, and all the admirable deeds revealed on the GOP lists I have posted about the adulterers, pedophiles, homosexuals and violent members in their God-fearing Club.

Here are a couple examples of astroturfers who are easily identifiable by the disjointed rhetoric, spelling and grammer use.

“bushgirlsgone“

You librals spin so much you must get dizzy!

Say WHAT???

What these fine people know is when Jesus our Lord and Savvier, the only living son of the Lord returns he”ll be just like a samurai. He will lift up a mighty his sword unto the Lord ” a sword better than the ones in Kill Bill 2 , heck he”ll make the Hatrai Hanso swords look like pieces of turds. Jesus will dress like a ninja and use throwing stars to smite his enemas. He”ll jump out of the shadaws just like David Carradine, except he won”t do no preverted things like what he done — he’ll go thru a room of you librals like butter snapping your necks like toothpicks. Amen.

Posted 05:07 PM on 07/18/2009

Sometimes linking a site just doesn’t give me the same satisfaction as truly sharing with you!  Plus I can’t add my own 2 cents that way.  This is a remarkable list and not only are they disgustingly arrogant and sanctimonious in their judgement of others, but look closely at the identities of these ‘folks’…have you seen them grouped elsewhere?  Together?  On this very site – for example?

Yep!  Refer to “Grand Ol’ Party”! I Don’t Think That’s What They Meant…” that I posted in June (which by the way it is time to add the newest 10 mug shots to that post and re-post the updates already!)

It’s kinda like playing “Where’s Waldo?”, or a version of Sesame Street’s “which one of these things belongs with the other?”  See if you can identify how many of these bigoted, homophobic, anti-EVERYONE else-extremists are in the list of pedophiles, adulterers and child porn fans from my previous post!

I just can’t help but add to THIS list as well…and I will…soon.  I have to get to the other gallery and add to it first!  It may help to pour a glass of wine or other drink of your choice to read this…I did!

Quotes from the The American Taliban produced by staff/faculty/students at the University of California @ San Diego (California)

Ann Coulter

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” “Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” “Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of ‘kill everyone who doesn’t smell bad and doesn’t answer to the name Mohammed’”

Bailey Smith
“With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.”

Beverly LaHaye (Concerned Women for America)
	“Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.”

Bob Dornan (Rep. R-CA)
“Don’t use the word ‘gay’ unless it’s an acronym for ‘Got Aids Yet’”

David Barton (Wallbuilders)
	“There should be absolutely no ‘Separation of Church and State’ in America.”

David Trosch
“Sodomy is a graver sin than murder. – Unless there is life there can be no murder.”

Fob James (Governor of Alabama)
	“Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall… I say to you, my friends, let it fall!” “A good butt-whipping and then a prayer is a wonderful remedy.”

Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)

“If you got to castrate your miserable self with a piece of rusty barb wire, do it.” “Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!” “You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!” “American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!” “Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.”

Gary Bauer (American Values)
	“We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There’s a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody’s values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe.”

Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)
“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church’s public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship.” “This is God’s world, not Satan’s. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.”

Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action)
	“When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.”

George Bush Sr. (President of the United States)
“I don’t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”

George W. Bush (President of the United States)
	“I don’t think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.”* “God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.” “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.”
	*Comment about Wiccans in the military

Henry Morris (Founder, Institute for Creation Research, died 2006)
“When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.”

J. B. Stoner (White Supremacist) (1924 – 2005)

“We had lost the fight for the preservation of the white race until God himself intervened in earthly affairs with AIDS to rescue and preserve the white race that he had created…. I praise God all the time for AIDS.” “AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out.”

James Dobson (Focus on the Family)
“Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world.” “State Universities are breeding grounds, quite literally, for sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV), homosexual behavior, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, alcoholism, and drug abuse.” “Today’s children… They’re damned. They’re gone.”

James Kennedy (Center for Reclaiming America)
	“The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ.”

James Watt (Secretary of the Interior)
“We don’t have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.”*
*Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan Admin. Responsible for National Policy regarding the Environment

Jay Grimstead (Coalition on Revival)
	“We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way.”

Jerry Falwell (1933 – 2007)

“We’re fighting against humanism, we’re fighting against liberalism…we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today…our battle is with Satan himself.” “AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah’s chariotters.” “The Bible is the inerrant … word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.” “AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” “If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”

Jesse Helms (Sen. R-NC)

“The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.” “All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction.” “Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.” “Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.”

Jimmy Swaggart (Jimmy Swaggart Ministries)

“The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. Also, will they believe what the Media says, considering that its aim is to steal, kill, and destroy?” “Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest.” “Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it…Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.”

John Ashcroft (Attorney General)
	“Civilized people – Muslims, Christians, and Jews – all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator.”

John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute)
“The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion.”

Joseph McCarthy (1908 – 1957)(Sen. R-WI)
	“Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity.”

Joseph Morecraft (Chalcedon Presbyterian Church)
“Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody’s pseudo-right to worship an idol.”

Joseph Scheidler (Pro-Life Action League)
	“I would like to outlaw contraception…contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure.”*
	*I get the distinct impression that Mr. Scheidler’s poor wife isn’t guilty of feeling any pleasure…

Kay O’Connor (Kansas Senate Republican)
“I’m an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn’t have to vote.”

Keith A. Fournier (Catholic Way)
	“We need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture.”

Laura Schlessinger
“I want to coin a phrase here, and I don’t mind help. What would be the communication version of “ethnic cleansing?” Because that’s what in particular the homosexual activists try to do.”

Lester Roloff (1914 – 1982)(Texas Homes for Wayward Youth)
	“Better a pink bottom than a black soul.”*
	*Roloff opened a chain of homes for “wayward” youth in the state of Texas; he was later jailed in 1973 and again in 1975 for child abuse due to the punitive punishment techniques used in his homes. He would have been finished had he not of been specifically given permision to re-open his homes by, you guessed it, Governor George W Bush.

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin
“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”

Pat Buchanan (Presidential Candidate)

“Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.” “There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The “negroes” of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.” “Rail as they will about ‘discrimination,’ women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.”

Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition)

“The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers?” “Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different…More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.” “When lawlessness is abroad in the land, the same thing will happen here that happened in Nazi Germany. Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals – the two things seem to go together.” “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.” “You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” “I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that’s the way it is, period.” “[Homosexuals] want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers.” “[Planned Parenthood] is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.”

Patrick Mahoney (Christian Defense Coalition)
	“It is deeply troubling to have an appointed, unelected commission remove an elected official from office [Roy Moore]. The Court of Judiciary has overturned an election and crushed the democratic process through their actions.”*
	*Interesting perspective coming from someone whose President was appointed by a group of “unelected judges”, thus overturning a democratic election.

Paul Cameron
“I think that actually AIDS is a guardian. That is I think it was sent, if you would, about forty years ago, to destroy Western civilization unless we change our sexual ways. So it’s really a Godsend.” “Homosexuality is a crime against humanity.” “Causes of homosexuality include: ’sex with animals’”* “Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals.”
*Paul Cameron was discharged from the American Psychological Association, the Nebraska Psychological Association, and the American Sociological Association due to his unethical practices and biased research regarding Homosexuals. His “research” has since been discredited by the scientific community; however his work is still referenced by many fundamentalist organizations as credible.

Randall Terry (Operation Rescue)
	“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate isgood…Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want pluralism.” “Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God’s law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.” “I don’t think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like – and if you have babies, you have babies.” “When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we’ll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.”* “There is going to be war, [and Christians may be called to] take up the sword to overthrow the tyrannical regime that oppresses them.”
	*It is interesting to note that Randell Terry’s son is Gay

Jerry Vines (Southern Baptist Convention)
“They would have us believe that Islam is just as good as Christianity. Christianity was founded by the virgin-born son of God, Jesus Christ. Islam was founded by Muhammad, a demon-possessed pedophile who had 12 wives, the last one of which was a nine-year-old girl.”

Rick Santorum* (Sen. R-PA)
	“If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [Gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything!”
	*Now known as Rick “Santorum” Santorum

Robert Simonds (Citizens for Excellence in Education)

“As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.” “Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected…Government and true Christianity are inseparable.” “We’ll take away their power and their money. Money comes from students. We’ll break their backs by taking 24 million kids out of the public schools.”

Robert T. Lee (Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments)

“Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse.” “You do not have the right to be wrong, regardless of what any man-made or demonic charter says.” “Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God.” “Do you realize that the only thing that gives democracy existence is sin? The absence of democracy is perfect obedience to god.” “The best way to insure the earth is never over populated is for sensible and righteous governments to clear all forms of atheism and heresy.”

Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004)(President of the United States)
“For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.”

Roy Moore (Former Alabama Judge)
	“If they want to get the Commandments, they’re going to have to get me first.”* “Worship With Your Vote”
	*Interesting observation of the Radical Right: Judge Roy Moore commits peaceful civil disobedience by refusing to remove the Ten Commandments Monument from the Court. He is considered a Hero. Mayor Gavin Newsom commits peaceful civil disobedience by issuing same-sex marriage licenses. He is considered an Anarchist.

Rush Limbaugh
“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.” “If you commit a crime, you’re guilty.”* “There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons… use them”
*Seems logical enough, doesn’t it Rush?

Star Parker (Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education)
	“Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.”

Tony Evans (Promise Keepers)
“The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.”

William Rehnquist (1924 – 2005)(Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
	“The ‘wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”

Michael Savage (Savage Nation)
“Oh, you’re one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How’s that? Why don’t you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.”*
*Statement made on live national television

This will be updated!  I am sorry to say that there are so many to add…very sorry to say!

End Times/Armageddon zealots are on the constant look out for “SIGNS”.  In psychology this is known as ‘confirmation-bias’.  That means that a person will seek confirmation biased by their views, we all do it.  But the majority of us (thank God!) are not looking for confirmation of the End Times destruction of the earth and all its inhabitants.

But these aren’t MOST people.  And they are eerily energized by the news of disaster, personal, societal, national.  They are, unfortunately, a force to be reckoned with because though a minority, they are well-funded, highly positioned and have a following of millions that are profoundly brainwashed.

Look at this character, Thomas Manton IV of “Dominion International” (hmmm…that has a familiar ringdoesn’t it?) who dubbed himself, “God’s voice to the Nations” and is described on his website, “He travels the globe releasing God’s Prophetic Fire; and investing time developing leaders and saints into spiritual excellence through Dominion International”.

June 24 2009 at 12:26PM  African Press Release

Nairobi – Kenyan police has arrested an American preacher who faces charges of trafficking pornographic material, police said on Wednesday.

Thomas Manton IV, a self-styled prophet, was detained late on Tuesday following a complaint by a woman who said he posted pornographic pictures of her on a website.

“He will be charged for trafficking pornographic material and being in Kenya illegally,” a police officer said on condition of anonymity.

The country’s top police spokesperson, Eric Kiraithe, and the criminal investigation department chief, Festus Malinge, confirmed the preacher was in custody but refused to elaborate.

Thomas Manton IV used to hold weekly religious services in a central Nairobi hotel and describes himself on his website as “God’s voice to the nations”.

His biography boasts that he has healed the lame, the deaf and the dumb and that his countless prophecies included the September 11 terror attacks and “the Western Bank/Gaza conflicts (sic)”.

Among the best-selling DVDs listed on his online store are “Kill the Middleman”, “God’s Path to Promotion” and “How to Become Devil Proof”. – AFP

As these pious men tumble from “Mount-Holier-than-Thou”…there is going to become a point where the End TImes/Armageddon Sheeples are going to begin rejoicing this as yet another “sign”.

THE WORD OF THE LORD COMES UNTO ME SAYING UNTO THE WORLD  (for 2009 by Manton IV)

23.    2009 Will Be A Year To Gain A Dominion-Mentality.26.    2009 Will Be A Year Of ‘Dominion’ For Us; And We Will Possess Many Possessions.

29.    2009 Will Be A Year That We Will Win Souls As Jesus Christ Told Us To Do In His Great Commission.
30.    2009 Will Be A Year That We Will Understand And Take Severe Action In Our God-Given Right and Power To Transform Nations.

He sent me. He has anointed me. I am not going to apologize for it. We will just see what happens. – Thomas Manton IV

Pay particular attention to the dominionist “code phrases” used and harken back to where you have heard this same rhetoric spewed from.  That’s all I’m saying….

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Can it get any more obvious and criminal than this?  Preying on those in despair…the poor, indigent, and minimally educated.

Give, give give so you can earn admittance to the glory of heaven…it is beyond comprehension that people see this crushed velvet suited clown, emerging from his limousine and continue to turn over their last dimes!  Now if that is NOT brainwashing you tell me what is!

I know I am going to get indignant remarks from those who read this…but I truly caution you to take a hard look at this.  If you are inclined to defend any of this as a knee-jerk reaction I fear that you are being lulled in as well.

In their world, if Palin is left standing, they will be even more convinced that she truly is the “Anointed one”. Her anointing in 2008 as Rebecca from the Old Testament was the first step for these Dominionist zealots.  Remember that much seen video?  It was Pastor Thomas Mutthee of Kenya.  Remember?  He was standing in her church, Wasilla Assembly of God, with her very own Pastor and his assistant, laying hands upon her casting out demons, rebuking Satan, and anointing her as a Prophetess Warrior fit to rule.

Well…let us read another quote from Pastor Mutthee…about Manton IV.

“It is such a privilege to know a man who fearlessly declares what he hears from the Lord! During the short time Prophet Thomas Manton IV was in Kenya, we witnessed God’s amazing and mysterious power working through him. All the words God spoke through him in 2002 were fully manifested during the December 2002 elections. President Mwai Kibaki won in an unusually transparent general election, and God has worked through him to bring order in Kenya.

As the prophet declared, corrupt leaders and citizens have been brought to justice. Evil lurking behind the scenes was exposed. President Mwai Kibaki ordered stern action against anyone giving or taking bribes. The media has helped expose several matters of corruption and immorality, such as government ministers involved with prostitutes.

According to Thomas Manton IV’s January 2004 prophecy, the Lord is turning our night into morning. Within days of the prophet prophesying a political leader would die, one suddenly died in a road accident. God has greatly used Prophet Thomas Manton IV in Kenya and many other nations. Things have actually happened as he declared they would! I believe this same prophetic anointing shall flow into you as you go through these prophetic revelations word-by-word! Apostle Pastor Mutthee – Kenya

What does this say about the endorsement and anointing of Palin?  Manton IV?  Thomas Mutthee?  And anyone out there who can swallow this stuff?

These people have the ability to convince not only themselves – but millions of others – of their “prophetic” revelations that seem to oft times put themselves in positions of excessive wealth and power.  So don’t be surprised if they start seeing all these “fallen apostles” and “god-fearing politicians” to be viewed by them as an even greater ’sign’ from the Lord that Palin is truly – their anointed one!

Yeah…frightening!

I am really attempting to understand.  But what confuses me is the outrage and paranoia of those who – 1) clearly hold nothing but disdain for homosexuals; and 2) make claims that if “Hate Crime” legislation passes into law that somehow it is THEM that will subsequently be the victims.  

The never-ending “reality-twisting” of the intolerant sectors in our society never ceases to confound me!

HEY! I have some ideas!  How about -

***  they STOP making derogatory racial and bigoted slurs against minorities?!

***  they STOP attacking harmless victims for any reason other than the color        of their skin and/or their sexuality?

***  they STOP twisting scripture from the pulpit to advance their own                    personal fears and doubts, and those in their congregation, leading to              self-loathing?  Maybe then they wouldn’t feel the need to attract others            whose self-loathing allows them to get whipped up into violent states of        frenzy culminating in attacking those they fear they are most like!             (Like…well…Ted Haggard as just ONE example)

***  they STOP judging all others and focus on their own inadequacies as                God directed us to do when He commanded that “Thou shalt love thy                neighbor as thyself.”  (Matt 12:31 KJV)

Then wouldn’t this deflate the crux of their argument?  Honestly…I want to know what their chief complaint would be if these issues were no longer a part of their equation.  After all, can someone tell when the last reported incident was of a hate inspired beating against a person exiting a late night prayer group, by a band of roving liberals?  

My suspicion?  They don’t want these factors eradicated.  The most vehement opponents to Hate Crime legislation want to continue discriminating and bashing those that they fear.  Fear because they are like them.  Fear because they are unlike them.  Either way it is a horrific UNChrist-like approach to your “neighbors”.  I will close with the wisdom of Ghandi, the epitome of a pacifist…

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”.  - Ghandi

I am an Obama supporter – hands down!  But this is a stellar opportunity for our new President to say, “I YEILD to the sentiments of the people and change my choice.”  

This is one of the reasons I voted for Obama…among many others.  What I do not get is that this is not simply an offensive move against the LGBT community, it is much deeper!  Dominionism!

Definition:  Dominionists seek influence and control over secular civil government,  through political action and spiritual warfare with a theocratic mandate to forcefully impose ”biblical law” as the ONLY law of the land, and that the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Constitution should be seen as a vehicle for implementing Biblical principles.

“World conquest. That’s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less…Thus, Christian politics has as its primary intent the conquest of the land — of men, families, institutions, bureaucracies, courts, and governments for the Kingdom of Christ.” (From The Changing of the Guard: Biblical Principles for Political Action by George Grant, published in 1987 by Dominion Press)

Obama! Please…this is why I actually got to support a candidate for the first time in my life (at 51) rather than voting “against” the worst choice.  Please don’t fail us….