If I wanted to write a parody of an anti-gay, Mormon-baiting news release, I couldn’t do a better job than this real one from three South Carolina fundamentalists claiming to be evangelicals and to speak for evangelicals.
Some money lines:
- Days before Saturday’s GOP Presidential primary here, there are signs that South Carolina evangelical Protestant leaders are starting to follow the lead of peers in Iowa and Houston who have rejected Mitt Romney, a Mormon, in favor of Rick Santorum, a Catholic. The driving thrust of the evangelical argument: Homosexuality.
- Mills said, “The Word of Almighty God, from the Books of Moses to those of the Apostle Paul, commands faithful Jews and Christians to be homophobic. Carolinans have a God-fearing homophobia, while Mitt Romney wrongly endorses homosexuality as a good choice for our young people.
- Rev. Mills said, “Because Rick Santorum was willing to sign this wonderful Iowa vow last summer while Romney was calling for more gay hiring and other silly liberal things that Massachusetts RINOs embrace, I’d say Senator Santorum has proven himself a courageous Catholic Christian whom any Bible-believing Jew, Protestant or evangelical can support. He does not drink the anti-science Kool-Aid to the effect that homosexuality is inherited and immutable like fingerprints.
- [Endorser Molotov] Mitchell said, “Mitt Romney is kind of like the RINO country club hetero version of Dan Savage, and in his own vacuous way, far more dangerous to hetero-traditionalism. I hope Santorum makes a big splash on Romney’s empty suit this Saturday.”
- Rev. Mills said, “Romney’s liberal support for homosexuality is not only at doctrinal odds with traditional Judaism and Christianity, it’s even at odds with latter-day cults like Islam and Mormonism. As an evangelical pastor, my core problem with Romney is not necessarily with the fact that he has been an elder in the cult of Mormonism – which holds that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri, that we have a Heavenly Father and Father and that Jesus is the created brother of Satan – but rather, that Romney rejects traditionalist Mormon stands as well as basic Judeo-Christian stands against homosexuality in favor of a cluelessly-liberal, anti-family public policy.
The “wonderful” marriage vow referred to above that Santorum signed was the one that initially said, “Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.”
Those familiar with Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill might remember Molotov Mitchell. He is the friend of Martin Ssempa who misled his audiences with falsehoods about the scope of the bill and offered his support for passage of the legislation.
I wonder if Rick Santorum will tout this endorsement…
Demented evangelical ministers like Mills must really be desperate if they are willing to back a Catholic like equally demented Rick Santorum for president because like they he is a homophobe.
Demented evangelical ministers like Mills must really be desperate if they are willing to back a Catholic like equally demented Rick Santorum for president because like they he is a homophobe.
And perhaps one shade lighter but no love lost here either-
Focus on the Family updated for presumably 2012
“The articulated goal of the homosexual?bisexual?transgender advocacy movement is same?sex marriage. In the meantime, it has been clearly stated that Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships are stepping stones to that end. Given the goal of redefining marriage, Focus on the Family opposes the legal creation of Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships as counterfeit policy attempts to imitate marriage. We further do not support the creation of special categories of rights based on sexual expression or gender identity.”
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/topicinfo/Position_Statement-Civil_Unions_Domestic_Partnerships_and_Reciprocal_Beneficiary_Contracts.pdf
From http://www.GoodAsYou.org
I guess I’ve lived a sheltered life. I grew up in a really conservative holiness movement church. But this is the first I’ve heard that God commands us to be homophobic, or heard anyone juxtapose “God-fearing” with “homophobia.”
gee how nice of them to include us Jews in justification of their bigotry. Of course, they all think we’re going to hell for rejecting the pagan notion of a man becoming a god and participating in blood sacrifice for the sake of vicarious “redemption.”
If they were really so interested in our view of scripture, they’d take a day to study the Oral Torah with a rabbi. Ask them what the Talmud is and they’d probably look at you blankly.
And perhaps one shade lighter but no love lost here either-
Focus on the Family updated for presumably 2012
“The articulated goal of the homosexual?bisexual?transgender advocacy movement is same?sex marriage. In the meantime, it has been clearly stated that Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships are stepping stones to that end. Given the goal of redefining marriage, Focus on the Family opposes the legal creation of Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships as counterfeit policy attempts to imitate marriage. We further do not support the creation of special categories of rights based on sexual expression or gender identity.”
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/topicinfo/Position_Statement-Civil_Unions_Domestic_Partnerships_and_Reciprocal_Beneficiary_Contracts.pdf
From http://www.GoodAsYou.org
I guess I’ve lived a sheltered life. I grew up in a really conservative holiness movement church. But this is the first I’ve heard that God commands us to be homophobic, or heard anyone juxtapose “God-fearing” with “homophobia.”
gee how nice of them to include us Jews in justification of their bigotry. Of course, they all think we’re going to hell for rejecting the pagan notion of a man becoming a god and participating in blood sacrifice for the sake of vicarious “redemption.”
If they were really so interested in our view of scripture, they’d take a day to study the Oral Torah with a rabbi. Ask them what the Talmud is and they’d probably look at you blankly.
Maybe this WILL finally splinter the Republicans into a completely separate third party in the United States. That would be nice. There is a vocal and significant number of Republicans who literally are turning purple thinking of a “Cult” (their words not mine) Mormon President.
How mad will they get if Romney secures the nomination? Mad enough to completely break away?
Fifty-two years ago these same Protestants would have been carping on about a Catholic President and Popery. But this is obviously an attempted theocratic power grab within the Republican party, one with the most expedient candidate.
I had hoped such polarization would not happen in this election year. Obviously, such a hope is a quite naive process. But then again this might fracture the Republicans so much and create such animosity in the party that you all will go down in flames even before the convention.
Good luck!
Yes, you literally cannot make this stuff up. it is much more bizarre than any of us could ever imagine 🙂
Mills said, “The Word of Almighty God, from the Books of Moses to those of the Apostle Paul, commands faithful Jews and Christians to be homophobic. Carolinans have a God-fearing homophobia, while Mitt Romney wrongly endorses homosexuality as a good choice for our young people.
Maybe this WILL finally splinter the Republicans into a completely separate third party in the United States. That would be nice. There is a vocal and significant number of Republicans who literally are turning purple thinking of a “Cult” (their words not mine) Mormon President.
How mad will they get if Romney secures the nomination? Mad enough to completely break away?
Fifty-two years ago these same Protestants would have been carping on about a Catholic President and Popery. But this is obviously an attempted theocratic power grab within the Republican party, one with the most expedient candidate.
I had hoped such polarization would not happen in this election year. Obviously, such a hope is a quite naive process. But then again this might fracture the Republicans so much and create such animosity in the party that you all will go down in flames even before the convention.
Good luck!
Yes, you literally cannot make this stuff up. it is much more bizarre than any of us could ever imagine 🙂
Mills said, “The Word of Almighty God, from the Books of Moses to those of the Apostle Paul, commands faithful Jews and Christians to be homophobic. Carolinans have a God-fearing homophobia, while Mitt Romney wrongly endorses homosexuality as a good choice for our young people.