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[solarbird]

Bush campaign hires Christian Reconstructionist for RNC

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson urges Republican votes, says gay marriage "will destroy the Earth"

Anti-gay attack ad on Kerry - anti-marriage, implies he and Edwards are queer

Comments

Now THAT is just absurd...

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Sounds more like an "I know you are, but what am I?" type of thing that little kids on the playground would pull... Frankly, I can't wait until next tuesday is over and done with... I had some "Christian" on a mailing list I belong to call me all sorts of nasty names because I stated that I support Kerry, and didn't want her anti-"anything-but-bush" propaganda littering my email box... also tired of republicans calling and cussing me out when I can't find Nowheresville's (any town will do here) Bush-Cheney HQ... So, KErry may not be perfect- big deal, but IMHO, he's the lesser of 2 evils...

[avram]

That first article does not accurately convey just how far-out loony and dangerous the Christian Reconstructionist movement is. Y’know how you and I look at Jerry Falwell and think of him as a nutty extremist Christian? The Christian Reconstructionists are the people Falwell looks at and thinks of as nutty extremist Christians. Here’s the first paragraph of “Invitation to a Stoning” from Reason Online:

For connoisseurs of surrealism on the American right, it's hard to beat an exchange that appeared about a decade ago in the Heritage Foundation magazine Policy Review. It started when two associates of the Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote an article which criticized Christian Reconstructionism, the influential movement led by theologian Rousas John (R.J.) Rushdoony, for advocating positions that even they as committed fundamentalists found "scary." Among Reconstructionism's highlights, the article cited support for laws "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards." The Rev. Rushdoony fired off a letter to the editor complaining that the article had got his followers' views all wrong: They didn't intend to put drunkards to death.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

it's extremists like those that give Christian's a bad name by painting anything that contradicts their way of belief as evil, etc.

[saphyre-blue.livejournal.com]

That is the biggest crock of crap I have seen yet. I can not believe the garbage that has come out in this campaign. It really disgusts me.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

And the piece de resistance: wendy2032 is a Republican transsexual.

I won't be clicking those links. You've told me all I need to know.

[solarbird]

Well, the fundamentalist takeover of the Republican party has been a long-term project. It's not new; it's just now that it's gotten to the point where you're starting to get Reconstructionists directly included, rather than being intellectual mentors for people more directly involved.

Lesser of two(or more)evils-pick one.

[(Anonymous)]

For almost a decade, I worked for a Chrisitian college-and, for the most part,they cringed at the stunts pulled by fundamentalists more than anyone else.Beware the verse quoter-they haven't read their own instruction manual.(FWIW,the names I've always heard for fundamentalist were "hardshell" and "Bible-thumper").For most of the Christians I spoke with there, they chose to "show by example" rather than ranting. There were a few ranters, but they were a small(but noisy)minority-less than five percent would be my guess,from my experiences there.
Maybe the reason there seems to be so many undecideds this election is that it really is a "pick the lesser of two evils.."(I want the T-Shirt I saw on U.K.'s campus last week "Vote Cthulhu-why pick the lesser of two evils?") Scott(who promises to try and take all this political stuff more seriously in the future).