Why isn’t the Christian Right yelling to high heaven because of Afghan man

[IsItJustMe]

I’ve heard it said by the chimp that we went to Afghanistan to promote freedom. I have also heard Christian Right pro-chimp folks brag about how we have done so much good there.

Well, an Afghanistan man now faces the death penalty because he has converted to Christianity. So much for all the good we have done over there. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/19/ap/world/mainD8GEUS000.shtml

And where are voices of the religious right leadership on this issue? Could it be that their politics are more important than their god? Could it be straight up hypocrisy?

[napi21]

1. Do you KNOW they're NOT? I won't go to the freeper site, so I

don't know. I would think they would be having a FIT!!!!

[godhatesrepublicans]

2. Yes, they are hypocrites.

Anyone who's read the Bible and listened to a right wing preacher's sermon knows that these people aren't really Christians. If Christ returned today, the Neo-Cons and Fundies would be in motion to execute Him within minutes.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Maybe they'd like to join us in yelling about it

It isn't the business of the state or anybody else how Mr. Rahman chooses to worship God.

For crying out loud, why should we spread democracy? The Afghans had that kind of democracy under the Taliban.

[IsItJustMe]

5. There you go. Triangulation

[AValdoux]

4. It would show ...

...how out of control Afghanistan is. Its not like Bush can say, "Stop that!!" and they have to listen.


AValdoux

[liberal N proud]

6. Because they are getting paid off -

Grants flow to Bush allies on social issues

Federal programs direct at least $157 million to conservative groups

Battleground benefits
In Milwaukee, a 2004 presidential battleground state, Pentecostal Bishop Sedgwick Daniels's Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ was awarded $626,598 in 2003 and $824,471 in 2004 from the Compassion Capital Fund. Daniels, a Bush supporter, was a 2004 Republican National Convention delegate.

In Florida, another presidential battleground state, the National Center for Faith Based Initiatives, run by one of Bush's earliest 2000 supporters in the black community, Bishop Harold Calvin Ray, has received $1.75 million over three years from the compassion fund.

HHS is not the only department making such grants.

The Education Department awarded a $750,000 discretionary grant to the GEO Foundation, run by Kevin Teasley, a former staffer at the libertarian Reason Foundation and conservative Heritage Foundation, and conservative Center for the Study of Popular Culture, to "provide outreach and information" on public-school choice. The department also awarded $1.5 million over three years to the conservative Black Alliance for Educational Options, which was created in 2000 with support from such funders on the right as the Bradley, John M. Olin and Walton Family foundations, to provide information about the No Child Left Behind Act.

In addition to liberals, there are conservative critics of taxpayer funding of groups on the right.

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said the grant-making is "corrupting."

"The danger is that any group that gets money from the government will end up serving the interests of the state rather than the constituencies they are trying to serve," he said. "The guy who writes the check writes the rules."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11951695

[IsItJustMe]

7. I hear about this on C-Span this morning. It was also said that a portion

of the money was also going to anti-abortion groups that were actually involved in lobbying the government to abolish abortion. I guess you might call it a revolving door strategy.

[liberal N proud]

15. In the article:

Near the bottom of the 1st page:

Surge in federal funding
In Dyersburg, Tenn., the Life Choices Pregnancy Support Center, where the staff believes "without reservation or qualification that the Scriptures teach that human life begins at conception," had revenue of $81,621 and could pay Executive Director Natalie Wilson $12,247 in 2001. Two years later, the center got a $534,339 grant for abstinence education. By 2004, annual revenue totaled $617,355.

Altogether, local antiabortion and crisis pregnancy centers have received well over $60 million in grants for abstinence education and other programs, according to a Post review of federal records.

The distribution of new money to conservative organizations is a small part of an estimated flood of $2 billion a year in federal grants to religious and religiously affiliated organizations

[iamahaingttta]

8. Because...

...they're a bunch of fucking pussies and they know it's all bullshit anyway?

[xultar]

9. Brown people don't count.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

10. This is something they do not want to confront

Under Saddam, Christians had the freedom to practice their religion. Since the Bush Shock and Awe, most all Christians in Iraq have fled for their lives.
Does not the new Iraq Constitution follow Sharia Law? Just like the newly formed Afganistan Constitution? Christians in these regions will now be persecuted and put to death, THANKS to Bush.
this is hard for the bots to swallow and digest, course, more kool-aid might help.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

11. I'm abit surprised this expected result of the Iraq/Afgan unrest

doesn't get more coverage here. This problem is gonna tear the rest of the bush base to shreads.:shrug:

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

12. kick nt

[AnnInLa]

13. Well, Michelle Malkin is all over it

along with some other RW blogs. Interesting that bush holds up Afghanistan to be such a freedom-loving-democracy. Also interesting is that tonight, it was reported that the man may be suffering from mental problems, meaning that the bush admin put the word out to the A. leaders to publicize that the man is crazy, so his conversion is null and void. Viola! He won't be executed after all, crisis averted. Nothing to see here, move along.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

14. till the next christian comes along. nt

[Disturbed]

16. The so called "Christian Right" is not..

"Christian" nor are the "Right". Right Wing Fascists-Yeah.

One of their Con Artist leaders, Pat Robertson called for the killing of Hugo Chavez. Anyone that thinks Roberston is a Christian is an idiot.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

17. Hence their difficulty dealing with this

situation in reguards to their base. Interesting to watch this finally come to fruitation. It's been a long wait.