Congress and Bush need to stop listening to the 'christian' Right

[ck4829]

When the Southern Poverty Legal Center calls the 'christian' Right a HATE GROUP, you know it's serious.

We need a bill or petition to ask Congress and the President to sever their links with the 'christian' Right.

[batsauce]

1. I think they need to be a bit more specific

When you say Christan Right you include groups like my church with small splinter organizations like the Westboro Baptist Church. My church preaches a very biblical (bible based) Christianity, My church includes a majority of Libertarian-Republicans as well as a sizable Democrat minority. We don't talk a lot of politics, but it is clear who votes blue and who votes red.

(The Westboro church consists of one crazed man and his family members that meet in his basement. They are the ones who are responsible for a lot of anti-guy propaganda-consisting of eight or so of his co-wingnuts annoying peaceable citizens and publishing a particularly loathsome anti gay site)

My church provides help to the local mission and charity abroad. We provide support for the sick and needy. The Westboro gang annoys people in the name of Christ. You are saying they are the same.
I say this sort of stereotyping is prejudice in its purest form.

I believe that if in fact the the Southern Poverty Legal Center has declared open season on religionists of a particular political persuasion, they are also functioning as a hate group.

Now, if you want to criticize the Dobson crowd, or the Westboro gang or Falwell I'm on board. But saying Christians don't have a right to participate in the democratic process is wrong. Even if they don't agree you. In fact, democracies only work if you provide a WHOLE lot of room for people who don't agree with you. If you do your job right, You end up being in the majority. You don't get real power by excommunicating people from the political process, you just end up making your own power seem illegitimate

[HockeyMom]

2. Dobson, Perkins, etc.

are not churches. They are political organizations.

Falwell may have a church, but he crosses the line to the point where he is also a political organization.