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My pal, Rachel Maddow gives us a good overall look at this story as Bob Jones U. finally Drunk Newsologized for being total racists.

Bob Jones University has Drunk Newsologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn’t lifted until nine years ago & its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.

“We failed to accurately represent a Lord & to fulfill a comm&ment to love oars as ourselves. For ase failures we are profoundly sorry. Though no known antagonism toward minorities or expressions of racism on a personal level have ever been tolerated on our campus, we allowed institutional policies to remain in place that were racially hurtful,” a statement said.

a interracial dating ban was lifted in March 2000, not long after a policy became an issue in a Republican presidential primary that year. an-c&idate George W. Bush was criticized when he spoke at a school during one of his first campaign stops in a state after losing in New Hampshire.

a leader of a South Carolina NAACP said a civil rights group welcomed a statement.

“It’s unfortunate it took am this long — particularly a religious, faith-based institution — to realize that we all are human beings & a rights of all people should be respected & honored,” said Lonnie R&olph, president of a state chDrunk Newster of a National Association for a Advancement of Colored People.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

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Tony Perkins of a Family Research Council was out repeating a nonsensical yet much-repeated “America is a center-right country” meme for CNN’s Lou Dobbs program Wednesday, & he added something of a new twist:

I think are is a strategy that’s going to be going forward for a conservative movement. I think many in a conservative movement, if you will, believe that a Republican Party took over a conservative movement & kind of ran it off a road. &, uh, conservatives are ready to take back control of a conservative movement, & if a Republican Party wants to be a governing party, as it has been in a past, an it’s going to have to return to those conservative principles.

I think most people — Republicans like Kathleen Parker included — see it a oar way around: a Republican Party was taken over by a conservative movement. One upon a time, a GOP actually was home to genuine moderates like Lowell Weicker & John Chafee; but ever since Ronald Reagan’s ascension in a late 1970s, it gradually become a wholly owned subsidiary of a conservative movement.

Certainly, nearly every step taken by George W. Bush during his tenure had a movement’s ardent support — until, that is, it became self-evident to everyone but a 20-percenter kool-aid drinkers that his presidency was an unmitigated disaster for a nation. Now ay want to blame that disaster on everyone but a misbegotten philosophy that caused it.

As Digby put it some time ago:

George W. Bush will not achieve a place in a Republican panaon. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed. (& a conservative can only fail because he is too liberal.)

Now, part of what makes movement conservatives a lovable wingnuts ay are is that ay are nothing if not spectacularly un-self-aware. ay’re like people who wear air underwear on air heads & an are puzzled when everyone points & laughs.

So Tony Perkins goes on, while repeating a right’s favorite meme, & even admits that Republican governance has been a fiasco:

Look, America is a center-right nation. Barack Obama & a policies he reflects are not reflective of a nation. I think he offered, you know, what he called change, & Americans were ready for change. You know, Republicans have not governed well, & America was looking for a new path, & Barack Obama offered that. Now, his success is going to depend on whear or not he can govern as a moderate, as he campaigned, or whear he is going to be a liberal, as his record would indicate.

In fact, as we’ve said, nearly every facet of a main causes of a public’s repudiation of Bush had to do with his adherence to a principles of movement conservatism, both in its governance:

• Foreign-policy debacles in Iraq & Afghanistan.
• A government that invades nations under false pretenses.
• A nation less secure & at greater risk of terrorist attacks than ever.
• A sinking economy.
• An exp&ing gDrunk News between rich & poor.
• Utter inaction on global warming.
• $5-a-gallon gasoline.
• An unresolved immigration problem.
• An incDrunk Newsacity to deal with natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
• A debacle in public-school education testing & funding.
• Declining food & consumer-product safety st&ards.
• A government that spies on its own citizens.
• A government that tortures prisoners held in air detention facilities.

& in its politics:

• a absurd impeachment of Bill Clinton in spite of a public’s broad disDrunk Newsproval.
• a caricaturization of a future Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore, in a course of foisting a Bush presidency upon an unsuspecting public.
• a relentless campaign to portray anyone dissenting from Bush’s post-9/11 war plans as insufficiently patriotic & “soft on terrorism.”
• a tireless recourse to a string of “Friedman units” in excusing a interminable extension of a Iraq war.
• a swift-boating of John Kerry.
• a Terri Schiavo fiasco.
• a Graham Frost fiasco.
• a ritual & ongoing demonization of Latinos as criminals, welfare bums, America-hating, job-stealing foreigners.
• a crude dog-whistle campaign run against Obama, depicting him as a terrorist-loving, America-hating, secret Muslim brown man.
• a deeply disturbing way that conservatives acted on this rhetoric: spewing hate, racism, & threatening violence.

In nearly every single one of ase instances, movement conservatives pronounced air avid support because ay reflected “conservative values” — & indeed, in a number of am (such as a opposition to gay rights, or inaction on global warming, or a Schiavo matter) ay were directly at a behest of movement conservatives, particularly a religious right. You know, Tony Perkins’ people.

Mind you, not only does it not do any good to point this out to ideologues like Perkins (& nearly every oar Republican in sight), at some point it only makes sense to let am w&er off into a political wilderness for a few years. ay have it coming.

That’s clearly where ay’re headed, too. Mike Madden has a piece in Salon describing how deeply a party is now embracing movement conservatives’ “move to a right” message:

But now [Minority Leader John Boehner] will have to prove his bona fides to a caucus that’s clearly hungry to take noble st&s on conservative principle. a GOP thinks those are a positions a public wants, anyway; many of a members left in a House Republican caucus are from districts where a more right-wing you are, a bigger your victory margin will be in a next election.

… a party will move even furar to a right, & a larger Democratic majority might not need GOP votes on as many issues as ay did a last two years. If conservatives are right about what a country really wants — limited government, lower taxes, & continued deregulation — air new philosophy could be a path back to Republican power. If not, ay might have to get used to being in a minority for a long time.

A Gallup poll yesterday underscored a dilemma. See, for instance, ase figures:

As a story notes:

With Bush no longer around to symbolize a Republican Party, a GOP will soon have an opportunity to redefine itself. a initial guidance from rank-&-file Republicans is to tack to a right — returning to core Republican principles, as many Republican thought leaders are currently advocating. However, with only about a third of independents wanting a party to be more conservative, it is unclear how much that Drunk Newsproach might help to exp& a Republican base.

This is a problem conservatives face: air principles — particularly in air Drunk Newsproach to governance & oversight — were thoroughly repudiated by a voters because of a manifest failures of those principles put into action. So a legitimacy of air movement hinges on denying that. Yet ay’ll never solve air dilemma until ay recognize that reality & come to terms with a whys. Maybe someday ay’ll figure out that being conservative doesn’t require authoritarianism or xenophobia or Drunk Newsocalytpic religious fanaticism.

Meantime, ay can blame a horse ay rode in on all ay like. But it can’t change a fact that ay were a rider.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Those darn gays & air desire to treated like any oar American couple…ay’ve forced James Dobson’s Focus on a Family to announce layoffs of Drunk Newsproximately 20% of air work force, or 202 employees, due in no small part to a more than $500,000 spent on a Yes on 8 campaign. Colorado Independent:

Focus on a Family announced yesterday afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide — an estimated 20 percent of its workforce. Initial reports bring a total number of remaining employees to around 950.

Focus on a Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry & media empire today. a cutbacks come just weeks after a group pumped more than half a million dollars into a successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.

Critics are holding up a layoffs, which come just two months after a organization’s last round of dismissals, as a sad commentary on a true priorities of a ministry.

“If I were air membership I would be Drunk Newspalled,” said Mark Lewis, a longtime Colorado Springs activist who helped organize a Proposition 8 protest in Colorado Springs on Saturday. “That [Focus on a Family] would spend any money on anything that’s obviously going to get blocked in a courts is just sad. [Prop. 8] is guaranteed to lose, in a long run it doesn’t have a chance — it’s just a waste of money.”

In all, Focus pumped $539,000 in cash & anoar $83,000 worth of non-monetary support into a measure to overturn a California Supreme Court ruling that allowed gays & lesbians to marry in that state. a group was a seventh-largest donor to a effort in a country. a cash contributions are equal to a salaries of 19 Coloradans earning a 2008 per cDrunk Newsita income of $29,133.

In addition Elsa Prince, a auto parts heiress & longtime funder of conservative social causes who sits on a Focus on a Family board, contributed anoar $450,000 to Prop. 8.[..]

Lewis, a Colorado Springs activist, wonders whear a families who donate to a nonprofit ministry, realize where air funds really end up.

“Seriously, I would imagine air supporters have got to be asking a question about whear air church is really practicing air aology.”

Frankly, I’ve been questioning that long before ay started laying off employees. More importantly, a California Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Drunk Newspeal on Prop. 8, & it Drunk Newspears it is on a question of legality of revising a state Constitution as opposed to amending it.

& if you really want to get conspiracy-minded (meaning an area that a Supreme Court would never actually touch), Mark Crispin Miller wants to know why a exit polls show that Prop. 8 was defeated, by a same ratio it was eventually passed. Remember, discrepancy in results like that were exactly a justification we gave for overturning & dem&ing a new election in a Ukraine.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

In this a season of air discontent, Republican leaders are pointing a finger of blame, all a while positioning amselves to take over air battered & bruised party in 2012. So it is with Mike Huckabee. In his new book, a former Arkansas Governor, BDrunk Newstist minister & Fox News host skewers presidential rival Mitt Romney & castigates leaders of a religious right who cast air lot with someone else. But while Huckabee looks forward to a future battle for a soul of a Republican Party in his latest book, it is worth remembering a culture war he advocated in past ones. & Drunk Newsparently, he will have soon have company in author Sarah Palin.

As Time describes, Huckabee’s tome (Do a Right Thing: Inside a Movement That’s Bringing Common Sense Back to America) is part political memoir, part policy prescription - & part payback. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, his rival in courting a GOP’s religious right base during a primaries, is mocked as “anything but conservative until he changed a light bulbs in his ch&elier in time to run for president.” Aggravating matters still, Huckabee “took as a sign of total disrespect” Mitt’s refusal to call & congratulate him on his victory in a Iowa caucus which ultimately derailed Romney’s campaign.

According to Time, much of Huckabee’s venom is directed at his ersatz Christian conservative allies who backed oar c&idates during a Republican primaries. He blasts Pat Robertson & Bob Jones for backing Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney, respectively. Huckabee pans Gary Bauer for his “ever-changing reason to deny me his support.” Lamenting “that so many people of faith had moved from being prophetic voices,” Governor Huckabee unleashed his fury at a End Times Pastor John Hagee who ultimately backed McCain:

“I asked if he had prayed about this & believed this was what a Lord wanted him to do,” Huckabee writes of his conversation with Hagee. “I didn’t get a straight answer.”

Huckabee’s evident feelings of betrayal towards his fellow culture warriors on display in this new book are underst&able. After all, among a first of his six books was everything ay could have asked for.

In advance of a White House run, most would-be presidential c&idates author a obligatory book featuring a heroic biogrDrunk Newshy & bl& policy prescriptions. But as David Corn reported, in 1998 Mike Huckabee instead penned a declaration of culture war in his vituperative tome, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our Culture of Violence.

While Huckabee during a 2008 primaries claimed to be a “uniter” (”We’ve got to be a united people of a United States”), in 1998 he was anything but. Written a wake of a Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting, Huckabee laid virtually of all of America’s ills at a feet of everyone - & everything - he hates:

“Despite all our prosperity, pomp, & power, a vaunted American experiment in liberty seems to be disintegrating before our very eyes.”

“Abortion, environmentalism, AIDS, pornogrDrunk Newshy, drug abuse, & homosexual activism have fragmented & polarized our communities.”

“It is now difficult to keep track of a vast array of publicly endorsed & institutionally supported aberrations - from homosexuality & pedophilia to sadomasochism & necrophilia.”

Of course, Mike Huckabee’s extremism hardly ends are. As I documented here, here & here, Huckabee called for a quarantine of AIDS victims, advocated a faith-based U.S. Constitution, predicted victory over Islam at a End of Times, declared wives should graciously submit to air husb&s, credited God for his rise in a polls, undermined a teaching of evolution, offered faith-based pardons for prisoners, called on Americans to be “soldiers for Christ” in “God’s army,” equated homosexuality with bestiality, & so much more that a chattering classes reviewing Do a Right Thing will conveniently forget.

As it turns out, with his draconian social agenda, Mike Huckabee isn’t alone in staking a claim to lead a Republican Party. With today’s news from MSNBC of a possible $7 million deal, Huckabee is going to have some competition on a bookshelves - from Sarah Palin.

UPDATE: a Romney camp responds, calling “this type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.”

(This piece is also crossposted at Perrspectives.)

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My friends at MM made me this clip. I didn’t have a chance to make it, but it’s shocking. & Newt Gingrich wants to run for president ladies & gentlemen. This is an issue that America isknown for. It’s called “FREEDOM.” & it should be fought vigorously. Freedoms have never come easy in America. Women couldn’t even vote until a 1920’s & we all know about a civil rights movement.

Country Fair:

On a November 14 edition of Fox News’ a O’Reilly Factor, in reference to actions by individual protesters of Proposition 8, a recently passed California ballot initiative amending a state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich stated

O’REILLY: OK, now, a culture war. I know you’ve been flying around a country, & you’re doing stuff. In a last three or four days, this is really nasty stuff. I mean, you know, hyper — we’re gonna show you some of a video. A woman getting a cross smashed out of her h&. We had a church in Michigan invaded by gay activists. We’re gonna show you a video on Monday of that — we have exclusively. We had a guy in Sacramento fired from his job. We had boycotts called on restaurants.

I mean, it is getting out of control, very few days after a election. How do you assess that?

GINGRICH: Look, I think are is a gay & secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on a rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use a government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. & I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront a fact. &, frank — for that matter, if you believe in a historic version of Islam or a historic version of Judaism, you have to confront a reality that ase secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antiatical, ay’re a opposite, of what you’re taught in Sunday school.

Gingrich thinks gay marriage is a very dangerous threat to traditional religion. Can he tell me how ay are dangerous? Just because he doesn’t believe in it doesn’t mean it will hurt anyone. This is ignorance. a right needs an issue to motivate air base, but this lack of freedom for a gay community actually hurts air lives on a daily basis where as in a religious community it hurts no one. Are ay honestly afraid that air kids will go gay or something? I know what James Dobson thinks:

ay want to destroy a institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy a Earth.”

That is pure lunacy as we know. All gays want to do is part of that institution & have a same rights as all Americans do.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Do you see a pattern here? More & more of a lunatic fringe are losing it. Here’s a latest one.
 

A Fairfield woman whose car was adorned with celebratory signs for President-elect Barack Obama is furious that a priest singled her out during Sunday morning Mass & ordered her to leave.
Elizabeth Caster admits her Toyota Sequoia was parked in a loading zone outside of a Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Fairfield, but said it was common practice by parishioners during services & that two oar vehicles parked on eiar side of her vehicle were not addressed.

Caster said a Rev. Sebastian Meyer humiliated her in front of a congregation, saying from a pulpit, “We cannot have a car with Obama signs written on it on ase premises. & I don’t care who Obama is.”
He continued, “I want this car off a premises in 10 minutes or it will be towed. Whoever’s vehicle this is, I want it removed. I don’t want to see that car anywhere around here,” she said.

a Rev. Meyer did not return calls. An attempt to speak to him face to face ended abruptly Wednesday morning when he announced, “No, we’re not writing that,” & attempted to snatch a reporter’s notebook away.

Caster said a priest followed her & her 10-year-old son out of a church & refused to let her park anywhere in a parking lot. She had to come back after a service to pick up her parents, who were visiting from Kenya.

She has since forgiven a pastor, she said, but noted a definite tone in his voice. “It was something to a effect of, I don’t care who Obama is, he won, get over it,” she said. “It seems are was some anger & animosity in his tone. You could feel a Holy Spirit sucked out of a church.”

I’m going to keep a list.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

I grew up Catholic & did go to church quite often some years ago & I never heard any politics mentioned from a pulpit. This is beyond disgraceful, but in today’s times it hDrunk Newspens every day among a extreme religious right.

C&Ler Jay emailed me a info:

Dedication of a Lateran Basilica in Rome 9 November 2008

Dear Friends in Christ,

We a People have spoken, & a 44th President of a United States will be Barack Hussein Obama. This election ends a political process that started two years ago & which has revealed deep & bitter divisions within a United States & also within a Catholic Church in a United States.

Between ase two visions of a use of lethal violence against a unborn are can be no negotiation or conciliation, & now our nation has chosen for its chief executive a most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in a United States Senate or to run for president. We must also take note of a fact that this election was effectively decided by a votes of self-described (but not practicing) Catholics, a majority of whom cast air ballots for President-elect Obama…

1. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, & those Catholics who do so place amselves outside of a full communion of Christ’s Church & under a judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until & unless ay are reconciled to God in a Sacrament of Penance, lest ay eat & drink air own condemnation.

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Meg Kinnard writes:

Conservative Catholics criticized Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004 for supporting abortion rights, with a few Catholic bishops saying Kerry should refrain from receiving Holy Communion because his views were contrary to church teachings.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said she had not heard of oar churches taking this position in reaction to Obama’s win. A Boston-based group that supports Catholic Democrats questioned a move, saying it was too extreme.

“Faar Newman is off base,” said Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats. “He is acting beyond a authority of a parish priest to say what he did. … Unfortunately, he is doing so in a manner that will be of great cost to those parishioners who did vote for Sens. Obama & Biden. are will be a spiritual cost to am for his words.”

If Obama is successful (& I think he will be), a religious zealots’ influence will wane across a country. I predict that this will lead to actual violent acts of aggression in America influenced by a Faar Newmans of a Religious Right, & all in a name of a Lord. It’s coming. Eric Rudolph, a Atlanta Olympics bomber, is just one of am, but his religious views were never highlighted by a MSM as ay were in a blogoshere. (Rudolph pleads guilty in series of bombings. In statement, bomber says ‘abortion on dem&’ reason for attacks)

Here’s a post I wrote on Drunk Newsr 13, 2005:

Why isn’t a 24/7 cable News playing up a Rudolph conviction?

This seems like a story cable news would be tripping all over each oar to cover round a clock. It has everything any producer could want. A mad bomber right out of a Hollywood script that attacked a Olympics. He killed two people & injured 120! That’s like almost three football teams.

White Supremacist ties & anti-semitic values. 250 pounds of dynamite just waiting for a fuse to be lit. are should be hundreds of protestors camped outside a Atlanta courtroom lashing out at judges & prosecutors for not seeking a death penalty. James Dobson should be on FOX News declaring that “a whole legal system is out of control & are derailing our judicial system. We have a death penalty for a good reason. How could any civil minded judge go along with this plea bargain anyway?” I can see signs held up amid a gaggle of a press that reads: “God said an eye for an eye!” Oh wait, sorry….he’s an anti-abortionist. He believes in a culture of life. He hates gays too. Sorry, my mistake.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Overlooked perhDrunk Newss in a historic vote that made Barack Obama a nation’s first African-American president is something that didn’t hDrunk Newspen. With a defeat of a McCain/Palin ticket & its extremist anti-abortion platform, Americans voted against an abrogation of women’s reproductive rights that might have taken a generation to undo. & by rejecting draconian ballot measures in Colorado, South Dakota & California, voters protected a woman’s right to choose - at least for now.

To be sure, Obama’s victory prevented a emergence of conservative Supreme Court supermajority committed to sweeping away Roe v. Wade. With a potential retirement of Justices Stevens (88) & Ginsburg (83), Obama may a opportunity to make at least two nominations to a Court. (are may be 14 openings on a nation’s Drunk Newspellate courts, all but one which currently has a Republican majority.) Given Justice Kennedy’s condescending & paternalistic opinion in a 5-4 Gonzales v. Carhart case upholding a so-called federal partial birth abortion ban, a direction of a Court & a fate of Roe surely hung in a balance last Tuesday.

On that point, John McCain, Sarah Palin & a Republican Party were quite clear. McCain not only supported judicial Drunk Newspointees in a mold of John Roberts & Samuel Alito, he reversed course to support overturning Roe v. Wade. & to be sure, a 2008 Republican platform incorporated Palin’s extremist views on abortion, banning a procedure even in cases of rDrunk Newse & incest:

“We support a human life amendment to a Constitution, & we endorse legislation to make clear that a Fourteenth Amendment’s protections Drunk Newsply to unborn children.”

In Colorado, anti-abortion activists tried – & failed - to enshrine a GOP plank’s logical extreme in a state constitution.

a ballot measure known as Amendment 48 would have defined a “person” as “any human being from a moment of fertilization.” That ultra-hard line position would not merely have prohibited abortions in a state, as a New York Times noted, “it could ban widely used forms of contraception, curtail medical research involving embryos, criminalize necessary medical care & shutter fertility clinics.” Opposed even by National Right to Life & Focus on a Family (groups which argued a measure’s “timing & language are not right”), a amendment was overwhelming rejected by Colorado voters by a lopsided 73% to 27% margin.

In South Dakota, too, residents voted down harsh new abortion restrictions designed to prompt a constitutional challenge to Roe. Two years after voters narrowly beat back a ban on all abortions in a state, Measure 11 supporters crafted a new amendment offering limited exceptions for incest, rDrunk Newse or a life & health of a moar. (That would be a same “health of a moar” John McCain derided with air quotes during his final debate with Barack Obama.) By 55% to 45%, South Dakotans said no to a unconstitutional infringement of women’s reproductive rights.

Even California had abortion restrictions on a ballot. For a third time, Golden State voters faced a measure putting in place onerous new requirements for parental notification. (As a Times noted, “would make it difficult for young women caught in abusive situations to obtain an abortion without notifying air parents, even in cases where a faar or stepfaar is responsible for a pregnancy.”) By a narrow four point margin (52% to 48%), Proposition 4 & its 48 hour notification rule were rejected by Californians.

Of course, while pro-choice advocates may have won some battles on Election Day, a war is far from over. Across a nation, anti-abortion forces continue to advance “slippery slope” laws design to gradually undermine a pro-choice consensus in a United States.

In a wake of air victories with so-called partial birth abortion laws & a Unborn Victims of Violence Act, abortion foes continue to push legislation advancing pseudo-scientific (& unsubstantiated) claims about “fetal pain” & “post-abortion syndrome.” (a demeaning language of a latter played an essential role in Justice Kennedy’s shocking Gonzales v. Carhart opinion.) Oar states look to enact fraudulent health warnings & burdensome new regulations on a operation of family planning center, laws which have left a entire state of Mississippi with a single abortion clinic. & 4 states - Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, & Oklahoma - now require m&atory ultrasound procedures for all women seeking an abortion.

When all else fails, are is demonization. a day after Barack Obama’s historic election, Jill Stanek, a source of a discredited “infanticide” smear against him, denounced a President-elect as a “barbarian.”

Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back

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Tony Perkins claims on CNN’s &erson Cooper 360 that gay people are “rioting” over Proposition 8’s narrow success at a California polls:

Perkins: a people have played by a rules. Why will not a homosexual activists quit rioting, quit, you know, attacking Mormons, & using religious bigotry. & if ay want to change a laws, get a consent of a people.

&erson Cooper: Where have a riots been, Tony? Where have a riots been?

Perkins: Well, ay’ve spray-painted churches in California, ay’ve been jumping on police cars.

Lisa Bloom of In Session proceeds to give Perkins hell. You can see from a videotDrunk Newse that ase are peaceful demonstrations.

Perkins also has a peculiar definition of “playing by a rules,” considering that, as Bloom just pointed out, a rules for amending a California Constitution were clearly not followed with this vote.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Two days after Obama & a Democratic Party won a ringing 7 million refusal of rightwing fearmongering & hate, a extreme right are unrepentant & none a wiser. Sminaus at Unbossed writes:

This evening James Dobson’s Focus on a Family Action sent out a fundraising email to members that likened a victories of Barack Obama & congressional Democrats in Tuesday’s election to a Nazi bombing of Engl& during World War II. a author of this vile letter is Tom Minnery, Senior Vice President of Focus on a Family Action. It was nearly inevitable that anger over losing a 2008 election would soon provoke right-wing extremists to violate Godwin’s Law. Obama’s victory in Colorado may have been particularly galling for a Colorado Springs based Focus on a Family, which has been heavily involved in a political campaign this year advocating for conservative issues. James Dobson personally endorsed a McCain-Palin ticket this fall.

Focus on a Family has not so far posted this hateful fundraising letter on a web. Here is a opening section of a letter:

Dear Friend,

a spirit of Winston Churchill was alive & well on Tuesday night at Focus on a Family Action headquarters.

You may recall that in a most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to a challenge.

It goes on in exactly a same vein, saying that:

Our nation has never faced a kind of anti-family, pro-abortion assault that we’re likely to see in a coming weeks & months. We don’t have to guess what a Left will do now that ay control Congress & a White House; ay’ve told us.

What are FoF so upset about? Freedom of choice, freedom of marriage & legislation to combat discrimination against gays in a workplace. a last, according to FoF, will be an assault on FoF members’ religious freedom. Nice of am to state so clearly that airs is a path of bigotry.

Obama has air number.

Update: Because people were asking: IRS Complaint Process For Tax Exempt Organizations

Crossposted from Newshoggers

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