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.
Colson Ping.
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.
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