DeLay a star at 'War on Christians' conference

[BR_Parkway]

DeLay a star at 'War on Christians' conference
Participants told indicted politician is being persecuted

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/29/MNGHCHVJNE1.DTL

There are those who would say Tom DeLay lost his job as House majority leader because he was indicted by a Texas grand jury for money laundering and conspiracy, or because of his extensive ties to lawbreaking lobbyist Jack Abramoff. But they would be wrong.

In fact, the Texas Republican fell from power because he is a Christian.

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But when it came to providing evidence about this war on Christians, the examples were a bit stale. Don Irvine of the conservative media watchdog Accuracy in Media led off. He cited a "Jesus freaks" slur by former CNN boss Ted Turner (from 2001), a CBS employee's description of Bauer as a "little nut" (1999), a columnist's description of "Taliban-like" conservatives (2002) and a radio report linking conservative Christians to the anthrax attacks (2002).

Irvine's most recent example was an item Monday in USA Today taking issue with the name of the "War on Christians" conference. "I'm so relieved that USA Today has found this wonderful religion reporter," Irvine said, neglecting to mention it was an op-ed by somebody not on the paper's staff.

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Funny, they didn't use Jack Ambrohoff's emails talking about them being crazy as one of their examples...

[DUHandle]

1. We will only know the truth

if his Stigmata appears on Easter Sunday.

[kevinbgoode]

2. hahahahahahaha

That's why they call it "Accuracy in Media". . .

For godsakes. . .if there is one thing this country needs, it is to build a huge number of insane asylums. These fruitcakes should have been committed the first day they stood in front of a television camera and started trippin' about anything that could talk a hatemonger into sending them cash. . .

[windy252]

14. I kind of thing Reagan released a good portion of them.

[ecoalex]

24. For the love of jesus let the boys talk

[ecoalex]

25. For the Love of Jesus let the boy talk , he is a man of god !

[Canuckistanian]

33. Get some cameras in there!

Televise the whole ugly hatefest. Let the world know what these freaks are saying.

It just might make some Shrub voters go "uhhhh... I don't think so....".

[Beelzebud]

3. It's so hard for rich white christians to catch a break in America!

[Rambis]

5. If you are a drunk, coked out never had a job christian you can be

prez-dent! The american dream is truly alive!
It is like the guy I saw this am at the hadi mart. Got Jesus bumper sticker with a carton of GPC smokes and a case of Coors light under his arm. He should be up for a senate seat soon the way things are going.

[stepnw1f]

4. They Aren't Christians

No humble spiritual man or woman could ever support such an evil bastard.

[saigon68]

6. They are disciples of the Devil

Many of them are Thugs, Murderers and War Criminals

[stepnw1f]

8. A Cult of Greed and Power

[anotherdrew]

31. don't worry- they're going to start feeding themselves to lions next n/t

[Cha]

7. Like Gandhi said..

"I like your Christ, it's your christians I do not like, they are so unlike your Christ."

I know this doesn't apply to all Christians ..probably not most of them..just the loudest most obnoxious hypocritical ones.

[0007]

9. Another playwright! Where does Tom find these dramatist?

[Demeter]

10. One of Those Brown Dwarf Stars, Perhaps?

The kind that forms out of the debris of a supernova's explosion? He doesn't qualify as a Black Hole, to be sure. Dubya is the only current model of that. Or maybe the Dubya/Cheney binary: two Black Holes dancing around each other, each consuming the other's mass and gravitas....

Aren't metaphors FUN?!!

[ixion]

11. Good, let's give these whackos lots of air time...

the more people see how crazed these delusional paranoid whackjobs really are, the better the 'reality-based' community looks, IMO.

[VegasWolf]

12. Jeez DeLay!!! How long do you think you can milk this religious angle

before even the religious nutcases figure you out???

[saigon68]

13. For a long time

apparently

[jwirr]

15. No one was at war with "christians" until they decided to take

over the government and went to war against the middle class and the poor. We are just defending ourselves. I no longer attend my church because they no longer care about anyone but themselves. Greed and hate rule in the name of the Lord.

[rodeodance]

16. crappy headline. why give this hate notice!

[BiggJawn]

29. Because if we ignore this hate, it will destroy us.

"When they came for the Atheists..."
Remember?

[Rocknrule]

17. Next up:

High school preps, cheerleaders, and football players claim to be a persecuted oppressed minority
:eyes:

[SKKY]

18. Ok, fair enough. So Liberals may not be the most "religous"...

...individuals in the traditional sense. Fine. Guilty. But, turn on Fox News and you'll see Gretta, Sean, and the others
parading Mark Fuhrman (Remember him?) all over Hell's half-acre, saying things like, "Mark, good to see you
my friend. Come back any time." Now, if we've declared a war on Christians (and of course we haven't), what
kind of war have Conservatives started?

[Pat Speer]

21. Fuhrman new neocon hero?

Oh, my. I didn't realize that about Fuhrman. While many are aware that in one of his last books Fuhrman nailed Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, it's not widely known (yet) that in his upcoming book Fuhrman will attempt to prove that JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, blah blah blah. If he's really buddy-buddy with Fox news, and the Christian right, this may be more than a coincidence. I'm disappointed in the ole racist. With his book on Skakel, I thought maybe he'd turned over a new leaf and was just trying to get at some truth. Instead, he may have joined Team "Forget the Promise of the Sixties and Blame Everything Bad That Happened on the Left." Asssassinating the character of the Kennedy brothers and erasing any significance to their deaths could very well be part of the neocon agenda. Karl Rove, with his Nixon worship, certainly hated the Kennedys.

For an alternate look at the Kennedy assassination, go to: http://homepage.mac.com/bkohley/Menu18.html

[Dragon Turtle]

19. Can't remember the the link,

but someone has to have it. There was an article with a statement were one his followers said, something like that his corruption was okay or to be overlooked because bugman is a social conservative, just as long as he promotes their self-righteous crap, is anti-choice, descrimination against gays and lesbians, people who are not christians, those that are not their type of christian and other people they hate.

[TaleWgnDg]

20. DeLay wraps himself in God but denies his own alleged criminal behavior

DeLay says Christians are under attack

by SCOTT SHEPARD, Cox News Service, posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006

WASHINGTON - Invoking the "glory of God," former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay urged religious conservatives Tuesday to stand against an American culture he described as hostile to Christianity. "Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world," DeLay, R-Sugar Land, said in a speech at the War on Christians conference. "We are, after all, a society that provides abortion on demand, has killed millions of innocent children, degrades the institution of marriage and all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition."

The conference was sponsored by Vision America, a Houston group founded by the Rev. Rick Scarborough, a key organizer of "values voters" in the 2004 presidential election.

Quoting extensively from the Bible and religious writings, DeLay agreed with conference organizers that "of course, there is a war on Christianity" in America today. But "no matter how cowardly the evil before us may be, it is nothing compared to the power and glory of God," he said.

Scarborough, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pearland, alluded to DeLay's legal difficulties and offered encouragement as DeLay left. "God always does his best work right after a crucifixion," Scarborough said.

DeLay has been indicted on conspiracy and money laundering charges linked to fund-raising activities by his Texans for a Republican Majority political action committee. The conspiracy charge was thrown out by a state court, but prosecutors have appealed in an attempt to get it reinstated. He has denied any wrongdoing.

. . . more at . . . http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/14212423.htm

These religion-into-law neo-cons are such hypocrites! Indeed. Citing God and behaving otherwise. When will the Republican Party working class Christian rightwingers wake up? Since when did Jesus mandate such blind and hypocritical self-righteous behavior?

[Binka]

26. "God always does his best work right after a crucifixion,"

Holy Fucking Shit. Now DeLay Is JESUS!!!!!????

[Tight_rope]

22. Yes...We are at war with those bible thumpers who knowingly

keep breaking the 10 Commendments that they so profess that they live by.

[happydreams]

23. I do believe their paranoia is getting the better of them.

A war on Christian fascism (redundant?) is a war for the betterment of humankind.

[malaise]

27. Al Sharpton had a ball with this

on Tweety.

[truthisfreedom]

28. they're eating themselves. the thugs are on fire, and they can't put it

out.

[tanyev]

30. Matthew 7:21

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."

[Rex]

32. DeLay about as much a Christian as Pat Robertson.

In otherwords, he ain't and never was. Go to prison soon Tommy! I hope your future cellmate 'Butch' is a Christian like you. :eyes:

[raysr]

34. There needs to be a war on Christians

they need to be forced back under the rocks from hence they came.

[Felix Mala]

35. Real Christians are not paranoid mofo's...