Comments on: The Anti-Homosexuality Bill has some American defenders

By: concerned

concerned — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:39:16 +0000

Good for the Archbishop who is standing up for the teaching of the church and for the teaching of Christ without having to distort the scriptures to do so.

By: Zoe Brain

Zoe Brain — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:53:56 +0000

Some Good News – The Catholic Archbishop of Uganda has made a statement condemning Homosexuality (of course), but also unequivocally condemning the bill as “un-Christian”.

http://www.radiosapientia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2144

By: Zoe Brain

Zoe Brain — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:11:51 +0000

You’ve been had by C4C:

If scientists actually left their basements for a moment and took a good look around, they would learn that the earth is flat, through empiricism. If scientists would try praying to Jesus Christ over their Parkison’s disease, rather than faking the symptoms, they would realize that Heliocentrism is utter nonsense. … Empiricism would also lead them to see that bats are birds, other than their reproduction mechanisms (Leviticus 11:19).

It’s becoming more and more difficult to sort the real extremists from the parodies.

This one’s more Landover than Westboro Baptist.

I think.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:21:49 +0000

The WCF especially thanked Scott Lively of Watchmen on the Walls (among others) for circulating the petition concerning the defense of marriage in Romania in their April 2008 newsletter. See:

http://www.worldcongress.org/WCF/wcf.nl/wcf.nl.0804.0204.pdf

Bottom of page 2.

By: Lynn David

Lynn David — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:15:39 +0000

American Vision is a Reconstructionist/Dominionist group a la Rushdooney. Same with the other blog. Odd that he seemed to want to own his hate, he just hated when anyone else said he hated gays. It was rather funny how he kept running around the issue, yes, but no, there's good hate, but the liberal.... and making the idea that a god should be love out to be completely worthless. Reading the comments on the second blog was certainly eye-opening. . You can probably throw in the World Congress of Families into that general umbrella and Don Schmierer and Howard Ahmanson Jr have both been signatories to some of the WCF letter/declaration. The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org). Seems there was a connection between the Watchmen on the Wall and the WCF in Riga, Latvia, along with "American activist Scott Lively, president of Defend The Family International." Both Schmierer and Lively signed the WCF letter on Defense of Marriage in Romania early in 2008. So why doesn't WCF show the love for Lively as well? ...

By: Zoe Nicholson

Zoe Nicholson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:48:43 +0000

I am an aggravated homosexual. I am interested in the Uganda Consuls here in the US. Do you know anything about Matthew Wendell Crouch – the consul in LA – whose parents own Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Secondly – do you know anything about the American Ugandan Partnership Organization. They have Christian ties to Uganda but I have not been able to get they to say what their position is.

Thank you for the work you are doing.

By: Jeff Sharlet

Jeff Sharlet — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:01:21 +0000

American Vision seems like the very definition of a fringe group, one not likely to have influence. And yet that’s not the case, at least not so far as historical revisionism goes. Along with David Barton, they’ve rewritten the past, to make the U.S. a Christian nation destined for world domination. They’ve been remarkably successful at getting this reading — complete with any number of manufactured facts — into homeschooling and Christian school curricula. They’ve also focused on political elites, with some success. The history tours typically led by politicians at every year’s National Prayer Breakfast — C Streeter Rep. Zach Wamp leads one, as has John Ashcroft in the past — rely heavily on this school of thought. The success of American Vision may be rooted in the anti-intellectualism of contemporary evangelicalism, as diagnosed by evangelical scholar and Wheaton College historian Mark Noll. With critical thought and intellectual inquiry devalued, the field of interpretation becomes wide open. Fools — or, as in the case of Demar, hatemongers — rush in, and there simply isn’t the depth of knowledge in most communities to counter their message. That’s what makes their advocacy of the bill — there and maybe here — more dangerous than the rantings of loons.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:28:20 +0000

Apparently, the church is supposed to enact biblical law (except maybe the law of love) as they understand it and rule as a theocracy

Head shaking. No kidding.