ABC News to talk about "Christian Exodus" (want to sucede from US)

[Cush]

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[prodigal_green]

1. buh bye eom

[NorCalDem]

2. Oh Please, Oh Please, I hope they do so

they can move wherever else they would like, as long as it is not in this country!

[Gay Green]

63. They should move to the islands in the far north of Canada!

That way, after the Coming Global Superstorm, they'll be under a sheet of ice forty feet thick. :evilgrin: :tinfoilhat:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. The Xians want a state... Libertarians want another one. I guess

I ought to invite all the Greens in the USA to come on up here to Maine.

[matt819]

23. The Libertarians have their sites on NH

Apparently we're supposed to see an influx of 20,000 plus Libertarians over the next few years. Could be interesting. I think inviting the Greens to ME sounds like a dandy idea - or maybe VT. As long as the exodus is to some place like Utah, and they form their own country.

[insane_cratic_gal]

33. Hey hey being from NH!

Hell no!

they want exodus they can go charter or buy an island some where but I don't want them in NH or ME! I come and visit every year at least twice.

I heard they weren't welcome in NH, there was a town hall meeting that basically told them to pack up and ship out. I think it was Laconia they were eye balling?

Can you confirm that?

[Jersey Devil]

43. My best buddy doesn't like the idea

He has a house up in Lymon he plans to retire to but if the place is gonna be crawling with Libertarians he may decide to go south to Delaware.

[HockeyMom]

4. Please, please,

just GO. DO IT.

[China_cat]

14. They picked South Carolina

I live here. It's bad enough as it is but we don't have the resources to get out.

Please don't wish these assholes on us unless they're going to keep going east, as far east as they can go. And hope they don't spoil the shrimp season.

[Gay Green]

65. Better pray those oh-so-holy gasbags walk on water then...

...if they don't they'll spoil shrimping season no matter what by killing off all of the shrimp. Either by passing gas or by holding it in - then exploding. :evilgrin:

[flakey_foont]

5. Take the fundies................please!

[lala_rawraw]

6. Yep, go buh bye... take Texas and Florida with you

[Ganja Ninja]

69. Why be so generous?

American and Canada need a warm place for people to go in the winter and besides Florida is a borderline blue state. It might even be a blue state if we could restore fair elections. I say give then the west half of Texas and that's all. Even that's too good for them. Lets load it up with all our nuclear waste before they move in.

[Scairp]

7. Um...

It's "secede".

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=secede

[ironman202]

12. thank you!

[DanCa]

8. Can I help them ?

You do mean they fake christians and not the real ones right?

[Bridget Burke]

9. Is this the old, old story about South Carolina?

This plan has been around for a while--& I hasn't been much of a success, apparently.

South Carolina already tried it once--to no avail. And I'm sure there are plenty of non-insane people in the state who won't go along.

[China_cat]

18. We now have a governor who is

not just welcoming them, but encouraging them to come. The first enclave is up around Spartanburg but you can bet they'll spread, just like poison ivy...or kudzu

[Lecky]

44. That's because these freaks vote Republican

but the Republicans in power don't take them seriously so don't see them as a future threat...they just want the votes.

[FreedomAngel82]

54. Exactly

You can see that pretty clearly. They say a few things and will have Bush do something here and there (like that "anti-abortion" rally) but in the end they could really care less.

[etherealtruth]

20. At the end of the segment ...

... they interviewed a conservative radio "personality" who described this group as: just short of huddling in a basement with tin foil on their heads ... (paraphrase).

Uh yeah, I would have to agree ---- but it is fun to fantasize about a country with out right wing fundies.

[LittleClarkie]

30. I don't think you'd get that even then

These folks are even to the right of most fundies, it appears. A fringe of a fringe.

[jane_pippin]

10. "president bush is really very liberal"

says one guy.

OMG I don't know whether to :rofl: or :puke:

[me b zola]

11. Don't let the door hit ya.....

:hi: buh-bye

[RagAss]

13. Isn't this the way that Jim Jones thing started.?? nm

[nookiemonster]

17. Yea! Who's bringing the Flavor Aid?

n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. they'll call it 'new afghanistan'

and elect pat robertson as mullah

[bluestateguy]

16. I support and endorse this movement

And I encourage all white fundamentalist Christians to leave their states--especially if they are in swing states--and move to South Carolina. Every one of their ilk who leaves their respective state for South Carolina is one less vote that they can cast in light blue or light red states. And these people tend to pump out a lot of kids too.

They can have South Carolina and do whatever the hell they want to that state for all I care. We'll take good care of the other 49 states.

Onward Christian soldiers!!

[tedoll78]

24. Electoral math. That's the first thing that came to my mind too.

Let 'em go. Especially the ones in Floriduuuh.

[ironman202]

19. go already

we'll take the indutrial northeast, the whole west coast, all the ivy league schools, berkely, Microsoft, the indutrial midwest, not to mention like every corporation that's registered in delewar.

and they can have texas, mississipi, alabama and the border with mexico....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. I saw this recently, written by somebody in California:

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've decided we're leaving.

We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue. You get to make the red states pay their fair share. Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners) 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S.mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you. Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals than we lefties. By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

Author Unknown in New California.

[ironman202]

31. yeah thanks, I couldnt find it

[Bridget Burke]

35. "You get a bunch of single moms" turned up 571 times on Google.

Congratulations on awakening from your coma--otherwise, how have you avoided this piece of rancid spam? Why is this crap always so poorly formatted?

Signed: Child of a Single Mom.

www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=%22You+get+a+bunch+of+single+moms%22+fake

[bmcatt]

36. Now *that*'s comedy.

:rofl:

[Clark2008]

45. I hate that devisive letter.

It's assumes everything in the red states are bad and everything in the blue states are good, which is bullshit.

[Scout1071]

21. Who's going to give up their land for them to sucede?

If they wanna come to my neighborhood.....Bring. It. On.

[bmcatt]

22. Take up a collection?

Perhaps we could take up a collection to help all these "fine, upstanding Americans" move to another state (say, oh, I dunno... Texas or Arizona?) and then happily let the entire state secede?

Not only would (if they actually were to be successful) doing something like this *weaken* their political clout (never a bad thing, imho), but then, once they're all in there, we can just build a wall around the "country" of FundieChristiania and let them develop their own foreign policies, build an army and navy, etc.

As an added bonus, we could probably just put large signs around the wall saying, "Terrorists attack *there*... Those are the real aggressors."

1/2 :-)

[MrSlayer]

25. Good. Let them do it. We declare them rebels and wipe them out.

I think it's a great idea. We'll rescue the kids from a life of brainwashed idiocy.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

26. they forget we kicked their asses once before

we can do it again

[Obamanaut]

59. We? How old ARE you? nt

[jane_pippin]

27. I just googled them, and this is what the little google snippet says:

"Christian Exodus: Come Out Of Her, My People"


uh...PLEASE DO

(Note: It's a snippet of a Revelations quote)

[kliljedahl]

29. This from an earler post on the subject today

http://christianexodus.org


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Bumblebee]

32. You mean we will actually have Jesusland and US of Canada?

[stepnw1f]

34. Proof Fundies Hate America (nt)

[Ready2Snap]

41. What was that old slogan?? AMERICA - Love it or leave it!

They didn't say anything about getting to take a part of it with you!

[nookiemonster]

37. Would they qualify as "insurgents"?

Inquiring minds want to know.

:spank:

[Dave Reynolds]

38. I can help them move,

right after I take their children to the military recruiting office.

[wli]

39. good riddance

[Itchinjim]

40. "Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!"

[donco6]

42. Can S. Carolina GET more fundie?

:shrug:

[Lecky]

46. Actually it's not as fundy as you think

...at least not in my neck of the woods, Charleston.

[donco6]

47. In that case, make them march right off into the sea! eom

[Lecky]

49. LOL, I don't understand why not go all the way? Exodus to the Holy Land!

Now that would be making a statement.

[donco6]

50. Hey, maybe God will part the waters!

Or we could at least plant that idea in their tiny, tiny little minds.

Seriously, though, having Colorado Springs inviting in all these fundie groups like they did 15 years ago has really farked up a great state. I hope it doesn't come to pass.

[China_cat]

52. I think they got hung up by the 'Holy City'

[SammyWinstonJack]

48. Cya!

Threaten me with a good time! :party: :bounce: :beer: Do they want an engraved invitation?

[NoSheep]

51. Give 'em TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!

:kick:

[FreedomAngel82]

53. My question's are

1) Why South Carolina?

2) I guess they don't love America anymore? :eyes: Remember: these are the "love it or leave it" crowd. Remember after the election many people were saying they were leaving and a lot of rightwingers were cheering and saying things like "don't let the door hit you" etc. :eyes:

[bluestateguy]

68. reply

1) Why South Carolina?

Because they start out at an advantage in that state. Many folks there are fundamentalist wackos. The state's history as the cradle of the Confederacy and treason would seem to make it a fitting place.

2) I guess they don't love America anymore? :eyes: Remember: these are the "love it or leave it" crowd. Remember after the election many people were saying they were leaving and a lot of rightwingers were cheering and saying things like "don't let the door hit you" etc.

I don't care if they love America or not. There is no law that obligates anyone to love this country. But I do endorse this movement if it will move fundamentalistwackos--and their 6 or 7 kids per household--out of swing states and into already deep red states. Likewise I am also on record as calling for Democrats to leave hopeless states like Texas and move to swing states for the same reason.

[bklyncowgirl]

55. Bye Bye, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. nt

[sakabatou]

56. Don't let it hit you on the way out

[devilgrrl]

57. Send them to Saudi Arabia to fight their holy war with Osama

:nuke:

[kohodog]

58. Let 'em have Mars

Bush & co with all his fundie supporters can be exiled there as far as I'm concerned. Hell, he can even be dictator there.

[Bill Bored]

60. They already have: it's called FLORIDA! nt

[stepnw1f]

61. Can They Get Anymore Ridiculous?

Keep up the great PR job! Take the whole Republican Party with ya!

[CornField]

62. Looks like some Americans have forgotten that we're the UNITED States

I find all of these "don't let the door smack your ass on the way out" posts a bit unbelievable. Isn't anyone else really angry about this?

I don't care what group it is...

I don't care which piece of land they plan to control...

THESE ARE THE UNITED STATES. We should be outraged that any one group -- let alone one that has hijacked a religion of peace -- is not only considering driving a wedge in the union but actually advocating such on the evening news.

[ourbluenation]

64. These fundies give Jesus a bad name.

He would never want anyone to up and turn their backs on you if your not "one of them". It's so wholly unchristian. They should be ashamed of themselves. They're like a club (read: cult)with exclusive membership. I think they've peaked.

[radio4progressives]

66. COOL!

[demgurl]

67. Let's split it in three parts.....

Christian, Pubes and Dems. I would be happy to be rid of the lot of them. Then we do not have to contend with any of them any more.....at least not until they both invade our part and want to take us over.