Christian Coalition Toils To Stay Afloat As Money Shrinks

[Purveyor]

Once-powerful group has slashed staff and relocated out of D.C.

Associated Press


The once-influential Christian Coalition has struggled to raise money and pay its bills, shrunken its mission and moved from Washington to Charleston.

But the group's executive director says it will survive.

The group has moved its headquarters to Charleston, where national executive director Roberta Combs spends most of her time.

The group had as many as 25 paid full-time staffers at its headquarters in Washington in its heyday in 1994 but now has 10 full-time staff there.

"The coalition as we knew it doesn't exist," says Lois Eargle, former chairwoman of the Horry County (S.C.) Christian Coalition.

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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/12683303.htm

[Meldread]

1. WOOHOO!! DIE!!! DIE!!! DIE!!!!

Yes, you evil little bastards shrink and die! The Country is rejecting your evil ways!

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. I hope the equivalent of Hurricane Katrina

hits these idiots.

I won't feel one bit of guilt.
FSC

[tonkatoy57]

3. I'm heartbroken

I wonder why this is? Has the Christian right fragmented so much that the money is being diffused instead of flowing directly to the Christian Coalition? Are fundy Christians not charitable enough to fund their own political hit man?

[Sanity Claws]

6. Or are its members too poor to pay anything?

[tsuki]

18. Yes, it has. It is the market place effect. Remember the cost of

a fax machine in the early 90's? With competition, the price dropped from 1200 to under 200 in 10 years.

Every con-man, scam artist, carpet-bagger, scalawag or get rich quick schemer has opened his/her own "church" with a serious platen.

There are only so many kool-aide drinkers to go around.

Do the math.

[sepia_steel]

4. buh bye! :) eom

[jonnyblitz]

5. i believe their demise commenced when Ralph Reed left.

without reading the article yet, i bet THAT is mentioned..

[elehhhhna]

7. "The coalition as we knew it doesn't exist" Thank you sweet jesus!

[renie408]

8. What A Shame....n/t

[melody]

9. that made my day! thank you for posting it

I'm now dancing out the door to an appointment.

[TlalocW]

10. You people are so heartless

(Sally Struthers voice)
Won't you please think of the upper-class white religious bigots who need a group like the Christian Coalition?

TlalocW

[sharp_stick]

11. Well it's a start

Now if only the dirtbags at the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family and Promise Keepers would just crawl off and die somewhere I may start to feel a bit better about things.

[AX10]

12. They, like Al-Quiada must be wiped off the Earth.

Both are terrorists who threaten the American way of life!
:kick:

[gratuitous]

13. How worldy: Seduced by success

Decided that worldly success equated with divine favor, and acted as though the money and the power would flow forever. Hardly uncommon. In fact, Jeremiah had a number of things to say to Judean rulers who made the same mistake.

[DemGirl7]

14. This is like music to my ears..

now this is what I call GOOD news!!! :woohoo:

[Downtown Hound]

15. Good riddance!

[MissMarple]

16. Focus On The Family is downsizing and cutting some programs.

Just a little budget realignment. :)

[killbotfactory]

17. What? Praying for the death of people and calling for assassinations...

isn't appealing to the christian base anymore?

[Canuckistanian]

19. Hope it shrinks back into a church basement again

Biggest bunch of hypocritical homophobic psychotics I've ever seen.
Christ himself would overturn tables at their head office.