Posted on 09/10/2006 12:38:06 PM PDT by wagglebee
The full-page ad in the New York Times featured head shots of Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Pat Robertson. Above them, in giant type, were the words, “Meet America’s Most Influential Stem Cell Scientists.” The ad charges evangelicals with trying to turn America into a theocracy and outlaw scientific research.
This ad was one of many hysterical, vicious, and untruthful ads paid for by a group called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, or “DefCon.” But far from defending the Constitution, DefCon, which does not have to report who they are or who is paying for these ads, is an extreme left-wing group intent on demonizing religious conservatives.
Promoting embryo-destructive stem-cell research is just one of its causes. DefCon also supports abortion, special rights for homosexuals, a radical animal-rights agenda, and force-feeding school kids an uncritical view of Darwinian evolution.
Those views, of course, are standard fare for the left today. But much more disturbing is the manner in which this secretive campaign portrays people of faith. On its website, it accuses Christians of “hijacking” the federal courts and of wanting to achieve “absolute power over all branches of government . . . breaking the rules to get it.” We’re accused of trying to make medical decisions for women and turning homosexuals into second-class citizens.
In the school classroom, we zealots are scheming to replace “scientific knowledge with religious ideology.” Moreover, we are plotting to use the government to “proselytize or to infringe on the religious freedom of all Americans.” Wow.
Well, who is funding the spewing of all this hatred and deceit? It takes a lot of digging to find out.
One major source is the Tides Center, funded by the far-left Tides Foundation, which helps to fund the ACLU, PETA, pro-abortion groups [NARAL], the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Planned Parenthood, Moveon.org, and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, which has links to terrorism.
The coordinator for DefCon is David Fenton of Fenton Communications, a public relations firm with a history of creating front groups and using smear tactics and bogus science. Years ago Fenton served as a lobbyist for the Sandinistas and today helps publicize the rantings of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. And it was Fenton who launched the Evangelical Climate Initiative, an apparent attempt to split evangelicals.
Whatever its campaign may be, DefCon’s tactics are the same, says Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute: that is, accuse opponents of being reckless, far right religious theocrats, and get liberal Christians—some of them unsuspecting, others not—on their side. No one in the press has tried to expose this secretive enterprise, which is spending millions. Why not? Well, we had better start asking the hard questions ourselves and expose the backers—men like George Soros—who give money to these kinds of groups.
And tell your neighbors, who may have been taken in by this advertising, the true story behind this vicious campaign. If you will call us here at “BreakPoint” (1-877-322-5527), we will be happy to send you further information.
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They've been demonizing Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, going back to my college days. It's nothing new. The hysterical claims about a theocracy are just that.
This sort of approach wouldn't go far if the average American had the slightest idea what the Constitution actually says. (Hint: There is no authorization for Congress to fund medical research *of any kind*.)
Government schools were such a good idea.
lol. This country is far from a theocracy. Every last vestige of God in society is being eradicated in favor of secular humanism.
The Founding Fathers would revolt again if they saw how anti-Christian this green earth has become.
"Campaign to Defend the Constitution" is probably an offshot of Soros or Norman Lear.
About Tides
The Tides Family of Organizations is a group of nonprofits that brings together people, resources and an overall vision for creating a healthy and just society-a society based on principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process and sustainable environmental practices.
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Liberals. And said with so fewer words.
There's no authorization in the Constitution to fund any sort of education either.
The clean books bit makes me go, hmmm.
Sounds a lot like the communist party (which of course it is just under a more "acceptable" name).
Very true. Funny about that, isn't it?
All found here.
http://www.tides.org/index_tds.cfm
The folks at DefCon are clearly AlQaida wannabees.
The Tides Center and the Tides Foundation both make up part of what are called the "Tides Family of Organizations" (leave it to the far left to use the word family in this way), as is Groundspring.org.
CAIR is among the organizations Tides has announced it is "privileged" to support.
Founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, a California activist, the Tides Foundation was set up not as a traditional foundation, but as a public charity. This allows it to funnel money from donors to activist or radical recipients, without the donors having to be publicly associated with the groups being funded. Through this legal loophole, nonprofit entities can set up for-profit organizations and funnel money to them through Tides, since, by law, non-profits are not legally allowed to directly fund their own for-profit enterprises. An example of this is the Pew Charitable Trusts (the Tides Foundation's largest funding source), which set up three for-profit media companies and then proceeded to fund them by donating money to Tides, which in turn sent the money to the Pew media companies (for the standard 8% management fee).
Tides is funded by Theresa Heinz Kerry.
Are you certain?
From their site.
Article 1, Section 8: Congress shall have power . . . ''To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Excecution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.'' [Clause 18]
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I agree, in a lot of ways, Pat Robertson is like the Michael Moore of conservativism.
How would a Christian based theocracy be a bad thing?
How about brood, as in brood of vipers?
They should be exposed! After all they force women to wear burkas and threaten with death by the sword lest everyone convert!...OOPS wrong guys and religion! I'm waiting for THAT add against Muslim Fundamentalists...I won't hold my breath.
I think they really believe it, but if they don't they're employing the Goebbels plan: "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes 'the truth.'"
Ah yes.
The Tides Center and Fenton Communications.
Two old friends...
Not detailed enough, Chuck. Who funds the Tides foundation? just Fenton? Where did he make his money?
"and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, which has links to terrorism."
there's the link of the left and islamic fascism.
For the why, see my tagline.
I was scanning through my Webster's Crossword Dictionary yesterday and noticed that there was no mention of Jesus Christ. Mohammed got half a page!
Tides isn't a "source" of money, it's a laundering operation. The problem is that their projects confound the incoming money with the outgoing influence, or effluents, depending upon your perspective, but at least it covers the donors from RICO.
Who was it that said we Christians in the last days would suffer in his name?
There is nothing to fear, this is all according to a plan.
NASA WOULD be better as a private organization, I agree. However, the USAF does fall under the umbrella of providing protection for the nation.
If you are trying to say that it is GOOD that NASA is a government function or that FedGiv funding of medical research is good, then you are WRONG.
So, how much of Soros' money in mixed in?
Good, bad or otherwise, the citation to the constitutional provision was to point out the error in asserting that nothing is permissible unless it is specifically authorized in the text of the document.
It sounds as if the Heinz ketchup lady is also contributing.
Man do you have a screwed up view of the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers would have profoundly disagreed with you. Ted Kennedy, Chuck Shumer, and Hillary Clinton however all share your view.
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Isn't John Kerry's "sife" a member and contributor to the Tides Foundation?
That's what others on the thread have said, I haven't had time to really research it.
oops, "wife"
The one that Mama Terazzzza pumped a bundle of cash into?
That's the exact argument used for every act and agency of the Federal government. The whole POINT of the Constitution was to grant specific, limited powers to the Federal government. Therefore, the clause you cite refers to Congress's making laws to forward ONLY those activities specifically assigned to the Federal government ... not anything they can think of.
LOL! I thought you were making a pun, but I couldn't figure out why it was funny :-).
What do you think the Tenth Amendment means? Apparently you weren't paying much mind during the Constitutional Law classes, Captain.
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Has Teresa Heinz been hitting the vodka injected raisens again?
Yucky group of lefties.
Here is more on Fenton and the kind of dirty machinations they will pull to reach their goals:
FORTUNE Small Business) – WHAT DOES THE TERM 'PUBLIC RELATIONS' CONJURE UP in your mind?" asks David Fenton, the tall, gray-haired, blue-eyed, 51-year-old founder of Fenton Communications. We've only just shaken hands; I haven't even sat down. Before I can object--hey, I ask the questions!--he answers, "Something unethical. It means, 'Will lie, distort, say anything for money.'" He said it, not me.
more here:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/07/01/347318/index.htm
Well, I think as many people have probably referred to SVN as the brain child of Josh Mailman, who also started, in 1981 an organization called the Threshold Foundation. The Threshold Foundation is the membership organization of primarily young inheritors, but also other people of wealth who have come together with a similar sort of commitment to progressive purposes and values and interests in sort of personal growth and interest introspection, and the common experience of having a lot of money in a society where that can be a complicated phenomenon. And Threshold Foundation is also managed by Tides.
http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=68&CID=275&ProjCID=275&ProjID=48&TID=664&NID=32&LanguageID=0
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