The Conservatives Didn’t Loose the Election, They’ve Lost Their Minds!

According to what I heard this morning on James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio, the conservative and religious right didn’t loose the election…the Republicans simply didn’t have a conservative running. Now, I’m not to certain how anyone could say the McCain/Palin ticket with their anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-anything that doesn’t come out of a conservative church stance, anything but conservative, but…Focus on the Family seems to think they need a more conservative candidate before they can win an election.

Just about the time I was going to scan, to another station, mainly because Focus on the Family radio makes me feel ill and is not a great way to start out the day as a gay American, they brought up another subject which I just had to hear before turning the dial. The announcer stated how James Dobson, Tony Perkins, and many other of the anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-anything that doesn’t come out of a conservative church, religious Right-wing nuts are in full support of appointing Ken Blackwell as the Republican National Convention’s Chair (so much for separation of church and state). They claim their support is due to Blackwell’s strong stance against gay rights and equality, as well as his extremely conservative views on abortion.

I’m not sure, but I believe at least part of their support may come from the fact Blackwell is an African-American and they don’t want to be targeted as racist…since one of the other top contenders, Chip Saltsman, who has been rallying for the support of the Religious Right, released a CD (which debuted on Rush (convicted drug felon) Limbaugh’s show, with a song entitled, “Barack, The Magic Negro”. Other songs on the CD include, “We Hate the USA,” “John Edwards’ Poverty Tour,” “Wright place, wrong pastor,” “Love Client #9,” “Ivory and Ebony” and “The Star Spanglish banner.” (Is it just me, or do you fail to find the slightest bit of humor in this?)

Things like this bring me back to how bad I was ridiculed for claiming the right spews hate.  But anyway, even in light of this, I rest my case which I presented in an article I wrote entitled, “Examining Hate, Intolerance and Bigotry.”

Evangelicals Fire Rich Cizik for Supporting Equality

Those from the right who have been raving about the intolerance the LGBT community has shown towards the religious communities (especially after the passage of Prop 8 and Amendments 2 and 102 in California, Florida and Arizona respectively) have once again demonstrated their belief in double standards and hypocrisy.  According to a post on Religion Dispatches:

Rich Cizik has been no stranger to controversy during his long tenure at the NAE. In early 2007, a group of Christian Right leaders called for his resignation because they claimed his work to broaden the evangelical agenda to include the environment diluted an exclusive focus on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage. At that time, the NAE board responded by reaffirming its confidence in Cizik and its commitment to a broader “biblically balanced agenda.”

But this time, with Cizik publicly saying that his views had been shifting toward supporting civil unions, NAE president Leith Anderson asked for his resignation, declaring that “there was a loss of credibility for him clearly espousing our positions and values.” Other evangelical voices on the Christian Right were more forceful, asserting that Cizik himself had become un-evangelical. Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family declared, “He no longer represents the view of evangelicalism.” Charles Colson of the Prison Fellowship claimed that Cizik was “separating himself from the mainstream of evangelical belief and conviction.”

Campbell Soup is Mmm, Mmm Good!

The Campbell Soup company is now under fire from James Dobson’s anti-gay hate following, a.k.a. the Focus on the Family because they have run an ad in the December 2008 and January 2009 issues of “The Advocate” which depicts a family of two moms and a child.

According to the hate-based religious group;

“The Campbell’s Soup Company purchased a pair of two-page advertisement spreads in one of the nation’s leading pro-homosexual magazines, including an ad highlighting a lesbian couple and their son.”

Looks like the Religious Right may be eating a lot of Progresso this winter!

Focus on the Family Announces More Layoffs

James Dobson’s anti-gay group, Focus on the Family has announced that it will cut an additional 202 jobs which is about 20 percent of its workforce.

The cutbacks come just weeks after the group poured more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass Proposition 8, a gay-marriage ban in California.

Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs human rights activist stated: “If I were their membership I would be appalled.” He added, “That they would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in the courts is just sad. is guaranteed to lose, in the long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

In total, Focus on the Family contributed $539,000 in cash and another $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into Proposition 8, the measure to overturn a California Supreme Court ruling that allowed gays and lesbians to marry. The group was the seventh-largest donor to the effort in the country, and are not even based in California.

In addition Elsa Prince, the auto parts heiress who supports bigotry and hate and sits on the Focus on the Family board, contributed $450,000 to Prop. 8.

Religious Right Power In D.C. Is Greatly Diminished

From RSSL:

The Religious Right’s access to power in Washington, D.C., has been seriously diminished, but its divisive influence at the state and local level remains deeply problematic, according to an election analysis by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

“Religious Right forces did everything in their power to demonize Barack Obama and maintain their influence in the White House,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, “but it didn’t work. The majority of white evangelicals voted predictably Republican, but most other Americans ignored the Religious Right’s shrill and partisan message.”

Lynn noted that Religious Right groups distributed grotesquely biased voter guides, goaded evangelical pastors into issuing partisan appeals from the pulpit and made dire predictions about the consequences of an Obama victory.

“James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Richard Land and Company did everything but declare Obama the Antichrist,” said Lynn. “In the end, they kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved. On Jan. 20, the Religious Right’s eight-year run of the White House will come to a screeching halt.”

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