No, The Koch Brothers Aren't Socially Liberal

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No, The Koch Brothers Aren't Socially Liberal

by Josh Israel Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/02/10/3617677/koch-brothers-moderate-message/

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It also includes 81 legislators who in the last Congress co-sponsored a federal constitutional amendment to redefine marriage as only between opposite-sex couples and/or the “State Marriage Defense Act” (a bill to effectively divorce any legally married same-sex couple who move into a state that does not recognize their union) — with Koch support worth more than $4.8 million.

Socially Conservative Organization Spending

In addition to the millions spent on federal elections, two Koch-connected tax-exempt organizations have reported distributing more than $200 million to other socially conservative organizations since 2010. Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce and the American Encore (formerly the Center to Protect Patient Rights) gave more than $24 million in grants to socially conservative groups, with zero similar contributions to socially progressive organizations.

Among these grants were more than $5 million to Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink, an organization dedicated to anti-abortion and anti-LGBT and pro-Dominionism public policies. They sent north of $10 million to Concerned Women for America’s legislative action committee, another prominent socially conservative organization that works to fight against “all pornography [and] obscenity,” for “protection of all innocent human life from conception until natural death,” and for the “Biblical design of marriage.” The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List has also received seven-figure funding. Even the American Family Association, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as an anti-LGBT hate group, received a $50,000 grant in 2012.

These totals are perhaps the most overt representation of their socially conservative spending, despite their rhetoric that they are social liberals.





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[Warren DeMontague]

1. I suspect that fundamentally, they don't really give a shit either way.

But if they can use the religious right to reliably move voters to the polls who will then vote for a slate of pro-business, tax cut, right wing economic policies, they're all over it.

[RKP5637]

2. These guys are extremely dangerous to what is left of a democracy in America. They want to drive the

final nails into the coffin for the democracy that once existed in America. Americans really need to wake up to WTF is going on in this country!