GOP Requests Church Directories in NC (from yesterday's news)

[Angry Girl]

Sorry if this is a dupe. I didn't see this until today, at Buzzflash's headline (which every person interested in staying informed should be reading, at http://buzzflash.com)

The North Carolina Republican Party asked its members this week to send their church directories to the party, drawing furious protests from local and national religious leaders.

"Such a request is completely beyond the pale of what is acceptable," said the Rev. Richard Land, head of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

During the 2004 presidential race, the Bush-Cheney campaign sent a similar request to Republican activists across the country. It asked churchgoers not only to furnish church directories to the campaign, but also to use their churches as a base for political organizing.

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Yesterday, the Greensboro News & Record reported that the North Carolina Republican Party was collecting church directories, and it quoted two local pastors as objecting to the practice. The Rev. Richard Byrd Jr. of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Greensboro said anyone who sent in a directory "would be betraying the trust of the membership," and the Rev. Ken Massey of the city's First Baptist Church said the request was "encroaching on sacred territory."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021701978.html?referrer=emailarticle

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Without the Christian born-againers what would the GOP do

I don't want to sound mean, but Christian churches get none of my respect as long as they continue to vote for criminals.

[havocmom]

2. Am reading Jimmy Carter's book "Our Endangered Values"

He takes it to them pretty good. Spells out clearly where some Christian groups have gone completely off of Jesus' talking points and traded his teachings for tools of manipulation and power over the masses. Lots of reminders that Jesus taught that the priesthood should serve the people and not the other way around like so many 'xian' leaders insist today.

He takes it to them about their white male dominance.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Excellent book!!!

Jimmy Carter is an example of a real Christian. Bush's administration is an example of demons pretending to be Christian.

[babylonsister]

3. Rec'd for exposure to their scurrilous ways. And what other

churches in what other states is the GOP messing with?:grr:

[Supersedeas]

7. more than one way to stir up some religious fervor

[Festivito]

5. Remember "Promise Keepers" sudden unexplained rise?

Our church secretary was asked to send our directory to an organization. She, an old-world secretary (who should have been CEO of a large company in different times) refused to send it.

Promise Keepers to me is a RW shill game used to indoctrinate using RW code words to run politics.

There is enough money to buy things like this. US is losing billions and trillions.

[madrchsod]

6. ahh the "promise keepers"

the org that was founded by Bill McCartney whose daughter became the pin cushion for the colorado football team and is raising a child of one of his "star" players. what a fine promise keeper

[Yollam]

8. Disgusting.

Kicked.

[HeatherDawn]

9. John Paul II feared Bush was the "Anti-Christ"

"George W Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations--the anti-Christ."

The pope worked tirelessly to convince leaders of nations on the UN Security Council to oppose Bush's war resolution on Iraq. Vatican sources claim they had not seen the pope more animated and determined since he fell ill to Parkinson's Disease. In the end, the pope did convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution.


http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_9_27/ai_108881880