Religious right (Ithaca barf alert)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 11/14/02 | Joan Bokaer

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Following media analysis of the elections, I suggest looking at fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and charismatic churches. I think you'll find their members voted en mass along a straight Republican ticket, providing as many as 25 million votes.

Why do the churches active in the religious right vote exclusively Republican? Because the religious right controls the Republican Party.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I am sorry, which part of "We hold these truths to be Self Evident, that all men are created Equal, and Endowed BY THEIR CREATOR..." Does this imbecile, not understand ?

These leftists have always felt that the Constituion is a mere "speed bump" on the road to implementing their collectivist utopia so why would they feel any different about the Declaration of Independence?

[Soaring Feather]

City of Anti-Christian Evil bump.

[jigsaw]

Perhaps we need better symantics:

How about, The Presbyterian Union (Local 255), The Catholic Union with Shop Steward John Paul II, The International Brotherhood of Methodism, etc.

Then pehaps Bokaer would be 100% supportive.

Ithaca is also the City of Nut Cases.

[MrB]

Americans should be, well...Americans

The secret to our freedom that the left just doesn't get is that it is based on, and depends on, our common set of western culture values.

A common set of values, morals, sense of right and wrong, allow us to have the freedom of being responsible for our own actions and the consequences.
When everyone and their dog has their own "belief system", you're walking down the road to tyranny. When there isn't a common understanding of what is right and wrong, there has to be an arbiter in the form of a gov't law backed by gov't force. When this failure of understanding right and wrong reaches levels of everyday life, then you have laws governing every aspect of our lives - tyranny.

[bc2]

these extreme left-wing activists that make up the core of exclusive, progressive circles in Rochester, certainly don't like us very much.

[Kenton]

Why do the churches active in the religious right vote exclusively Republican?

Because Christian churches believe in a value system based upon the bible. The beliefs espoused by the Marxists, homosexuals and lesbians and anti-American extremists that have hijacked the Democratic Party are practically the exact opposite of the "religious right".

I hope thses Democrats go right ahead and drag their party even further to the left. Go ahead, pick a Democratic Socialist as your Minority Leader. Take your direction from the most extreme laftwing radicals that you can find. "Re-energize" the winos, welfare cheats and dead guys that support you.

The Democrats are in a real deep hole already, far be it from me to suggest they should stop trying to dig their way out.

[Valin]

I suggest looking at fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and charismatic churches. I think you'll find their members voted en mass along a straight Republican ticket, providing as many as 25 million votes

You're welcome Joan.

[Auntie Mame]

Conservative Americans who go to church occasionally = "religious right."

And this author is shocked that they vote Republican?

The horror of it all.

[BibChr]

That, plus this:

Major premise: intolerance is evil
Minor premise: Christianity is intolerant
Conclusion: Christianity is evil — and must not be tolerated

You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out....

Dan

[philosofy123]

You are absolutely correct. Christians are the only group that can be openly abused without crying defamation. Having said that; I am not impressed with the religious right at all. The second coming of Christ has been mistakenly identified by idiots’ evangelist for hundreds of years. The hillbillies who follow these gold diggers TV evangelists will eventually wake up and realize the fiery sermons are just a bunch of BS to get money from tem. I still cannot understand why is it that every freeking evangelist and his wife have to dress like a pimps and hookers? They probably don’t have mirrors in Texas? To me Christianity means love, and forgiveness. Jesus was a humble and meek person, he did not have all the gold and exaggerated blond wigs! (Sorry, I love Texas, but it seems to be a breeding grounds for these crazy looking preachers).

As far as why Christians vote Republican en mass; that is simply because the other side stinks! They are godless, homosexual, money grabbing perverts, with communists added in for flavor.

[mewzilla]

Not all Christianity (ex: Christians who agree with this woman), just some some Christianity (any believer who doesn't agree with her).

[TC Rider]

Emmanual Goldstein, call your office!

[nicmarlo]

This writer's ignorance to the Christian motivation is laughable. Her inability to see her own, and her left wing intolerance, is even more transparent.

[agrace]

Oh no, our plot has been uncovered, and Jesus was SO CLOSE! Curses, foiled again.

The last chapter of Ann Coulter's Slander expounds in great detail how the so-called "religious right" as a lobby group does not really exist at all, but is simply used to demonize by the left. Excellent book all around. As a card-carrying member of the religious right, I highly recommend it. :)

[drjimmy]

I almost blew a gasket when I read this letter this morning in the Ithaca Urinal. Then I remembered that the more these people rant on--incorrectly--about why their side lost on election day, the more they will continue to marginalize themselves. Let them believe that the religious right controls the Republican Party, and that the Democratic Party needs to move more to the left in order to recapture disaffected liberals who are voting for Ralph Nader and the Green Party. We shouldn't argue with them, we should just nod our heads and go on winning the hearts and minds (and votes) of the majority of Americans.

[BibChr]

No, we must tolerate intolerating intolerance!

Wooo wooo wooo... room beginning to spin....

Dan

[poopoobutter]

Why do the churches active in the religious right vote exclusively Republican? Because the religious right controls the Republican Party.

The same could be said of the Democrats. Clinton was swept into office by the religious right in 1992 and 1996, by those who supported his pro-military, anti-gay, prohibitionist, tough-on-crime positions. Quoting from bible in his SoBap preacheresque fashion more than any other previous presidential candidate in recent history helped garner support for his agenda. Conservative Democrats have always had the full support of religious conservatives in the Southern states.