White House Plot: For The Religious Right, Will 2012 Be Déjà Vu All Over Again?

[Joanne98]

Back in 1979, a group of ultra-conservative religious leaders began holding meetings to discuss the fate of President Jimmy Carter.
Many of these leaders had voted for Carter, an evangelical Christian, in 1976 but had soured on him. They were looking for a new political leader - one who would parrot their line on social issues - and found him in Ronald Reagan. Thanks in part to their support, Reagan went on to win election in 1980, and the modern Religious Right learned what it could do when it flexed some political muscle.




Is history about to repeat itself?
Ethicsdaily.com reports that a band of right-wing religious leaders met in Dallas recently to plot a way to oust President Barack Obama in 2012. (The Web site is run by the Baptist Center for Ethics in Nashville - a moderate outfit not tied to the fundamentalist-dominated Southern Baptist Convention.)

Brian Kaylor, an Ethicsdaily.com contributing editor, reports that "about 40 conservative Christian leaders" attended the confab on Sept. 8-9. The event, Kaylor wrote, was convened by James Robison, a Texas-based TV preacher who was prominent in conservative politics in the 1980s. (Robison has served as a spiritual adviser to George W. Bush.)

Several officials of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) were there, among them Richard Land, president of the SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

A number of mega-church pastors were also there, along with: Johnnie Moore, a vice president at Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Liberty University; Doug Napier, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund; Maggie Gallagher, a columnist and crusader against same-sex marriage; Jim Garlow, chairman of Newt Gingrich's Renewing American Leadership; Gene Mills, executive director of the Louisiana Family Forum; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Jay Richards, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/11/16/115023/72/Front_Page/White_House_Plot_For_The_Religious_Right_Will_2012_Be_D_j_Vu_All_Over_Again_

[xchrom]

1. Obama is a grown man - well aware of the Carter era and his own

Embracing of the religious right.

If he wants a vigorous firewall against the barbarians --

He needs to create it.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The list of "pastors" and their "friends" in attendance makes me want to vomit....

Talk about a meeting of evil spirits and grifters. I am surprised that the smell of sulphur did not asphyxiate all of them

[BolivarianHero]

3. Listen to the Anti-Nazi Song

When it comes to dealing with fascists, Chumbawamba is right on the money.