The Right Wing Label

From The Zoo:

The Right-Wing in this country uses fear and hate to win public support for their ideas. This cannot be disputed, and was even studied by Associate Professor Jonathan Haidt (“What Makes People Vote Republican?). In a nutshell, when our fears and emotions are tapped, we tend to react first and rationalize what we did later, even if our “rationale” is in conflict with the facts. Rather than appeal to our intellect and ability to reason our way to a solution, the Right-Wing stokes fear and hate and then tells you who to fear and who to hate. The reason why you should fear and hate becomes completely irrelevant once they have tapped into your emotions, for any kind of “reasoning” will make sense if it makes you feel justified in doing what you did, even if you normally would have thought that what you were doing was wrong. Without this tactic, they could not win support for their arguments on the facts alone. (And when I talk about “facts”, I’m talking about things that are actually true, not what many people might believe to be the truth.)

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Gary Baur Speaks for God Against America

Religious-right honchos are girding the troops for political apocalypse. Townhall magazine, owned by Salem Communications, one of the largest Christian broadcasters in the country, ran a September feature, “Obamageddon: Could We Survive a Barack Presidency?” This month evangelical publishing giant Stephen Strang, whose magazine Charisma endorsed McCain, predicted that “life as we know it will end if Obama is elected.” Last week, the political arm of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family sent out a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America”, a 16-page parade of horribles, and talk radio show host Janet Porter imagined that Christians will be imprisoned with Obama in the Oval Office.

Christian right activist and McCain supporter Gary Bauer openly worried to televangelist Rod Parsley that an Obama presidency could mean that “God could take his hand of protection off of America.” Further economic woes? A national security or military crisis? Don’t blame the morally bankrupt party that the religious right has enabled for the past three decades. Blame Obamageddon.

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Not in Front of the Children - We Want Them to Hate Also

Right-wing opponents of same-sex marriage, and other steps toward LGBT equality for that matter, often use their children as props–”We must protect our children” from the various sins that they perceive would be the result of legalizing these basic rights.

What are they REALLY telling their children? - Find out at Straight, Not Narrow.  A blog dedicated to Advocating for LGBT equality in the body of Christ from a Progressive Christian viewpoint. God does NOT relegate LGBT people into a sub-class in His kingdom so neither should His followers.This site has been viewed by open-minded people with open hearts in 152 nations!

Also, check out this article from the Palm Beach Post:

Failing to ban gay marriage in the state constitution could result in the indoctrination of schoolchildren into a gay lifestyle, supporters of Amendment 2 said today.

John Stemberger, the force behind the proposed anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot, cited cases in other states where similar proposals failed, resulting in teachers of students as young as 7 years old using books about same-sex marriage to promote diversity in families.

But, unlike in Connecticut, Massachusetts and California, where gay marriage was upheld by the courts, Florida has already outlawed same-sex marriages in state statutes.

That’s not enough, argued Stemberger, head of yes2marriage.org and other organizations asking voters to approve the amendment. The constitutional provision is necessary to prevent judges from permitting gays to marry, he said. The result in other states, Stemberger said, is “an affront to parents’ rights.”

A Massachusetts couple, Robb and Robin Wirthlin, appeared with Stemberger and others at a press conference this morning promoting Amendment 2.

The Wirthlins said they were dismayed to learn that their son’s second-grade teacher read from a book, King and King, in which a prince falls in love with and marries another prince after rejecting a series of princesses.

The Wirthlins lost a federal lawsuit seeking to have the school notify them before similar materials were read or discussed so they could have their son “opt out” of the instruction. They lost the suit.

The “social consequences trickle down to the lowest levels of society,” Robb Wirthlin said. “If we had $1 million to give a campaign, we’d do it.”

A Parents Guide to Preventing Homosexuality

Peter LaBarbera, the president of PFOX, the group who thinks being GLBT is a “choice”, has come out with a book with the same title as this article, and is urging (practically begging) people to; “please ask your county, school, or city library to order ex-gay books.”  He says since sexual orientation is a choice, then a choice has to be offered, so he is encouraging people to buy his book to put in public places.  Of course, I realize this has nothing to do with greed trying to sell his book to those who are not quite educated enough to not purchase it.

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