Is Hawaii About to Be Run by the Antigay Religious Right?

[Bluebear]

Hawaii is a popular state with many LGBTs - but if the Religious Right has their way - and it looks like they might, that beautiful paradise may start turning antigay. Sound unbelievable? Well, please read Bruce Wilson's important report providing evidence that the same Religious Right underground movement that has staked out Uganda has also staked out Hawaii.

Wilson has been writing about this shadowy Christian Right movement call the International Transformation Network and its leader Ed Silvoso (pictured) for quite some time now on the Talk to Action website. While ITN sounds too out there to be taken serious, be advised that Wilson was one of the first to warn about the significance of The Call's ranting Lou Engles who threw that huge antigay pro-Prop 8 rally in San Diego. In a recent post, Wilson wrote that Prop 8 was the proving ground for what he calls the New "Rainbow" Right.

Engles is now headed for Uganda and Jim Burroway from Box Turtle Bulletin reports that Ugandans LGBTs are denouncing The Call and asking for help.

But back to Hawaii - here's what ITN head Ed Silvoso says:

It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship . Either one is already in the kingdom....

In 2004 Lt. Governor James "Duke" Aiona, dedicated Hawaii and its public schools to Jesus. Aiona is the ITN's main horse in the Hawaii 2010 gubernatorial race but If Aiona doesn't win there's a backup plan.

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/04/is_hawaii_about_to_be_run_by_the_antigay_religious.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BilericoProject+%28The+Bilerico+Project%29

[icymist]

1. Interesting how ties to caribou-barbie pop up here.....

From the article:
<snip>
That blessing and anointing ceremony was remarkably similar to ceremonies held in 2005 and 2008 that blessed and anointed former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. For good reason - Sarah Palin and Duke Aiona are in the same movement.

[Bluebear]

2. Lest anyone think Palin is just a loveable kook.

She's a kook with ties to some shady organizations, you betcha!

[Shallah Kali]

3. & those same shady orgs are buddies with people like DeMint & Brownback, Forbes & Bachmann

"Prayercast" against health care reform

On December 7, 2009, TheCall founder Lou Engle led the Family Research Council's "Prayercast" against health care reform http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/19/115855/89 . Attending the event, being led in prayer by Engle, were US GOP Senators Sam Brownback and Jim DeMint, and Republican Congressional Representatives Michelle Bachmann and Randy Forbes.

Lou Engle says 'the "most dangerous" terrorist is God" and has called for acts of Christian martyrdom to stop gay marriage and legal abortion. Engle teaches that homosexuals are possessed by demons. Engle is a prophet in C. Peter Wagner's elite Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders.

Fellow Wagner prophet Bishop Harry Jackson also attended the Prayercast event. Jackson also serves on Peter Wagner's Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, which issues group prophecy.

Also attending the Prayercast was Rev. Jim Garlow, who played a major role in the 2008 fight to pass the antigay Proposition Eight in California. Cindy Jacobs introduced Garlow's speech at the 2010 Convergence conference.

snip

Peter Wagner's networks are the vanguard of a global movement within evangelical Christianity that attributes homosexuality to demon possession. in 2001 Wagner declared the advent of a second Reformation. Here's Wagner's highly lucid explanation of the movement.

Wagner's prophet Lou Engle, and Engle's organization TheCall, played a major role in the 2008 push to pass California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8. In the summer of 2009 Engle blessed and anointed Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/12/19/115855/89 . Lou Engle will stage one of his anti-gay, sexual purity obsessed TheCall rallies in Uganda's capital Kampala on May 1st, 2010.

Palin, Bachmann etc aren't laughable religious wingnuts, they are tools of political groups with religious window dressing.


While they don't have enough pull to get someone like Palin elected legitimately this and similar rw religious groups do have enough pull to get people like Ken Cuccinelli (“Gay Demon” Exorcist Cindy Jacobs To Share Stage With Virginia GOP Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli) or those religious pseudo-historians on the Texas school board elected into vital positions that foul things up bad enough.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Hawaii is an interesting place politically. Strongly Dem at just about all levels

but seems often to be more red than blue. That repuke governors get elected is always amazing. This next election is going to be interesting there at many levels.