Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover

[WillParkinson]

IOWA: Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover

According to the Des Moines Register, anti-gay Christianists are getting themselves appointed to the Sioux City Human Rights Commission and then suing pro-gay advocates for religious discrimination.

Protecting rights has taken an odd turn in Sioux City, where a faction on the city's Human Rights Commission has itself been filing religious discrimination charges with the state - against its own director, a fellow commissioner and a newspaper. Critics allege an anti-gay agenda linked to members' affiliations with a particular church. By law, the commission must protect gay civil rights. Director Karen Mackey, married to her female partner, was reportedly charged and cleared in what some call a witch hunt. Efforts against her included a retention vote, though she was retained 10-0 after city attorneys warned of the potential for a costly lawsuit.

These activities, some claim, are part of a broader mission to pack city boards and elective offices with people who share a religious viewpoint that homosexuality is a sin, and are intolerant of other religions. Three of 11 commissioners and a City Council member, Aaron Rochester, reportedly belong to the Cornerstone Church, which holds that view. Rochester is also co-founder, with a Cornerstone pastor, of the PeaceMakers PAC. Calls to Rochester and two commissioners were not returned.

Cornerstone World Outreach is 120-acre church complex and teleministry on the outskirts of Sioux City.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/09/iowa-anti-gay-christianists-attempting.html

[RKP5637]

1. Yet one more reason why separation of church and state is so important, also one

more reason to stop this tax free nonsense for these political operatives cloaked in a veil of religion.

[ensho]

2. agree

the people better fight back and not let these nuts take over

[BeFree]

3. Sioux City people better wake up

There is a disease brewing in their town.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Xtianity is the greatest threat the world faces

[xchrom]

5. gotta know who those local pols and those who aspire to posts are.

conservatives love their stealth candidates.

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Uh oh. Did someone say witch hunt?" - Christine WhackDoodle (R - TeabagliCon)

"Beatniks are out to make it rich.
Oh no.
Must be the season of the witch."

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Every single right-wing piece of shit makes that face.

[EC]

7. How can they sue for religious discrimination

when no one is stopping them from believing what ever they want to believe? Was their church closed by "the gays", were they told they had to be gay, are they being stopped from protesting? No, all they are told is they have to protect civil rights...

[gratuitous]

8. They can sue because someone else will pay the legal bills

That someone else being the good people of Sioux City, Iowa. And it will be up to those same people to decide if this is how they want to spend their public resources. I would guess the answer is no, but they're going to have to do something about it themselves.