Long title I know but I couldn't think of a better way to phrase it. The point of this post is simple, to link to the post below. It's a few days old now and I had meant to post this a few days earlier. Unfortunately being sick keeps me away from the computer sometimes.
Anyways the far right are the loudest and bitchiest of the complainers over Reverend Wright's comments and have denounced him and his sermons as unpatriotic, treasonous or worse.
The problem these douchebags have is they are always supported by legions of worse religious nutcase zealots.
Hell John McCain was endorsed by Hagee and Parsley, two pastors who have basically said they want us to begin a new world war with Islam to kill them all and bring us to the Rapture. Yes they are certifiable.
Of course we can go back a little bit. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson tried to pin 9/11 as something America deserved because of the tolerance of homosexuals in our country.
One only needs to watch the documentary movie Jesus Camp to see that this sect of people are raising their children to be ready to fight the religious crusade against Islam.
So I find it incredibly laughable that Hannity or sex offender Bill O'Reilly or resident fat fuck Rush Limbaugh dare say anything here when they are the ones endorsed by and endorsing these far right wing extremist views.
Last week one of their own, or at least one involved in creating the insane movement that rages on the right today spoke out against the condemnation of Rev. Wright and tried to put into perspective exactly who the critics of Wright have been listening to themselves.
From The Huffington Post:
Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" but When my Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero
Frank Schaeffer
Posted March 16, 2008
When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father -- Religious Right leader Francis Schaeffer -- denounced America and even called for the violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my father's footsteps) rail against America's sins from tens of thousands of pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the unborn," has become "Sodom" by coddling gays, and that our public schools are sinful places full of evolutionists and sex educators hell-bent on corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, "under the judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction. By comparison Obama's minister's shouted "controversial" comments were mild. All he said was that God should damn America for our racism and violence and that no one had ever used the N-word about Hillary Clinton.
Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s and 1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party. (This was while I was my father's sidekick before I dropped out of the evangelical movement altogether.) We were rewarded for our "stand" by people such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The top Republican leadership depended on preachers and agitators like us to energize their rank and file. No one called us un-American.
More at the link above. The hypocrisy of these people is astounding.
-Rp
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