cracktastic

[solarbird]

Okay, so, I've read a lot of whacked fundamentalist bullshit, but this here is some old-skool cracktastic wankery from Focus on the Family about the upcoming election. It's called "Letter from 2012," and oh my god the lulz.

(Backup url, or an alternate if you just don't want to hit Focus on the Family's website, here.)

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[darkphoenixrisn.livejournal.com]

I love how they keep calling Obama "far Left." Well, maybe compared to them he is.

[cacopheny.livejournal.com]

That was horrible. Exaggeration much?

The sad thing is, I bet this'd work with a lot of people who just don't know any better, who're afraid of homosexuals and liberals. Stupid scare tactics :(

[wrog]

man, this is liberal p0rn. I keep wanting to say, "...and this would be bad, why?"

I particularly like how media criticism is always "muted" just like it was for GWB and just like it was for Clinton (oh wait...)

Something to keep and play back to them in 2012

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

...homosexual "marriage" was mentioned nowhere in the Constitution, nor would any of the authors have imagined that same-sex "marriage" could be derived from their words.

Funny, I don't see heterosexual "marriage" mentioned in the Constitution either, so I fail to see their point.

Through the actions of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress, Democrats were able to largely silence the largest source of conservative opposition: talk radio.

Not bloody likely; the original Federal Radio Commission was quite open about the concept that it expected radio stations to be generators of revenue. The FCC has not changed this, and so long as Limbecile is making money hand over fist for himself and those stations that carry his bombastic rantings, I don't think he's going to be removed from the air anytime soon.

BTW, I love how Dobson's name crops up in this section with other conservative talk radio hosts. Nothing like making yourself into a Mary Sue while trying to scare the crap out of your followers.

The Justice Department soon began to file criminal and civil charges against nearly every Bush administration official who had any involvement with the Iraq war...Dozens of Bush officials, from the Cabinet level on down, are in jail, and most of them are also bankrupt from legal costs.

...this is a bad thing how? ^_^

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

It's really interesting the order in which they put these things. Homosexual marriage is clearly a much bigger deal to them then, say, terrorism.

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I don't know why they didn't just title it THE HOMOSEXUAL NIGHTMARE. Sheesh.

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

I think if I was writing a letter from the future, it would probably look something like "OH MY GOD THE QUEERS ARE GETTING MARRIED and oh yeah four bombs went off in major American cities BUT HOLY CRAP THE QUEERS"

[solarbird]

That's about right. Dobson's been pushing "queer marriage destroys western civilisation" dance since 2003.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

*cough, sputter, gasp*

Okay, I understand satire and exaggeration as political tools. But this just goes SO far that it's inconceivable. And 2/3 of what they're saying wouldn't survive the lower courts, staffed by appointees of Bush 43, Bush 41, and Reagan, ANYWAY.

Not to mention some of it isn't even conceivably in the High Court's jurisdiction. (marriage is CONTRACT law....that's the state's domain. It's pretty black and white)

[foibos.livejournal.com]

"O say, does my fear make me squirm like a slave
In the land of the free and the home of the brave?"


YES.

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Loving v. Virginia?

As I read through the letter there were more than a few places where I said "yup, sounds good to me!"

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

Wow, isn't it? I kept wanting to say, "Oh, I wish."

[mathmuffin.livejournal.com]

You are quite right. The imagined future has Iran nuking Tel Aviv in 2010, but the letter writer mentions that only well after groaning about pro-homosexual adoption laws passed in 2011. As science fiction, the letter fails.

Of course, the letter was designed to list the future changes in order of plausibility. Blaming future President Obama for Iran's actions is not plausible, so the terrorist stuff was left for the end. It would have been better fiction to have shown some constraint about what agendas were passed, but as the letter itself states, they wanted to mention every single goal of any liberal activist group, even ones Barack Obama disagrees with:

But the record was all there for anyone to see. The agenda of the ACLU, the agenda of liberal activist judges in their dissenting opinions, the agenda of the homosexual activists, the agenda of the environmental activists, the agenda of the National Education Association, the agenda of the global-warming activists, the agenda of the abortion-rights activists, the agenda of the gun-control activists, the agenda of the euthanasia supporters, the agenda of the one-world government pacifists, the agenda of far-Left groups in Canada and Europe – all of these agendas
were there in plain sight, and all of these groups provided huge support for Senator Obama. The liberal agenda was all there. But too many people just didn’t want to see it.

It makes me wonder why the imaginary scenario started with the stacking of the Supreme Court with liberal judges, since Congress, the President, and all the state legislatures and governors must have gone liberal and been joined by hundreds of thousands of energetic liberal activists in order to make that many changes in a mere four years.

Does James Dobson imagine that if McCain were elected, the entire conservative agenda would be passed instead? American politics does not run on a winner-takes-all system. In fact, two U.S. Senators who have spoken heavily against such partisan heavy-handedness are Barack Obama and John McCain, before either ran for president.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

It shows their priorities, and shows how cynical they are. They know that the other wackos are on board with hating the gays and wanting to kill the abortionists, but might actually vote differently on other issues if they weren't so concerned with those two. So by leading with those and then adding on the others, they put in all in one big ugly package and discourage evangelicals from voting on other issues.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going "Wow, we have so much to look forward to!"

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

Well, they know that if THEY were ever completely in charge, they'd force everyone to immediately adopt to everything they want; they must imagine that "The Other Side" would be the same way.