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.”

Religious Right Holding On for Dear Life

According to the Anti-Gay Christian right website CNSnews.com:

Social conservative leaders in Washington, D.C., say that Tuesday’s sea change election doesn’t spell the end of the conservative movement. But it will mean a thorough “shake-out” — and the Religious Right needs to re-think its relationship with the GOP.

“I don’t think the conservative brand is damaged,” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council told CNSNews.com.

“I think conservative values continue to be something that a large number – if not a majority — of Americans identify with,” he said. “I think the brand problem is a Republican problem. And I do think they are going to have to do some rebuilding. I think part of that is reaching out to young people, and part of it is a return to the conservatism of Ronald Reagan.”

There will always be a conservative movement in the United States, Perkins said.

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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Religious Right: Gay Marriage Advocates Burn in Hell & on Earth

“One of the dumbest things the devil ever did was attack the institution of marriage.”
— Dr. Jim Garlow, Skyline Church, San Diego

“We must be consumed with a holy anger…this is the time to fight… Isn’t it time that we the church come out of the closet? Everyone else has.”
— Rev. Jim Franklin, Cornerstone Church, Fresno

For two hours on Wednesday afternoon, July 30, pastors gathered at 215 sites in California, Arizona, and Florida were exhorted by national Religious Right leaders and local anti-gay pastors to spare nothing in the cultural and spiritual war against Satan and his allies who support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. National figures included Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, Maggie Gallagher, and Chuck Colson.

The primary focus of the call was Proposition 8 in California, described by Colson as “the Armageddon of the culture war.” Many speakers invoked the language of warfare, raising up an army of believers, putting soldiers in the streets, being on the front lines of a battle. Lou Engle actually described a massive rally planned in Qualcomm stadium on November 1 as a “blitzkrieg moment.”

While speaker after speaker spoke of the dire threats same-sex married couples pose to “traditional” marriage, religious freedom, and civilization itself, the overall tone of the call was confidence that victory would be won with God’s help, 40 days of prayer and fasting before the election, teams of intercessors and prayer warriors around the country, and a massive highly organized deployment of volunteers in a systematic voter identification and turnout campaign.

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