Christian right congressman and two anti-abortion protestors have prepared the Capitol for the Obama

[RamboLiberal]

On January 7, second-term Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia and two friends prayed over a door. It was not just any door, but the entranceway beneath the Capitol that President-elect Barack Obama will pass through as he walks onto the inaugural stage to take the oath of office. “I hope and pray that as God stirs the heart of our new president that President Obama will listen and will heed God’s direction,” Broun proclaimed.

Standing beside Broun, Rev. Patrick Mahoney launched into a prayer originally delivered by Billy Graham at Richard Nixon’s inauguration in 1969. “For too long we have neglected thy word and ignored thy laws,” Mahoney preached. “…We have sowed to the wind and are now reaping a whirlwind of crime, division, and rebellion. And now with the wages of sin staring us in the face, we remember thy words.”

While Mahoney prayed, Rev. Rob Schenck turned his palms to the sky and muttered, “Yes” and “Have mercy” over and over. Then, he dipped his fingers in a jar of oil and painted several crosses on the door’s brass framing “as they did the furnishings of the tabernacle in the temple to the use of God and his word,” he prayed.

An officer from the Capitol Police Department stood immediately on the other side of the door, keeping watch over the inaugural stage, a top security concern for both his department and the Secret Service. With his back turned to the door, the officer appeared unaware of the secret ceremony Broun, Mahoney, and Schenck were performing just feet away. Whether security officials gave authorization for the ceremony is unclear; neither the Capitol Police nor Secret Service returned my calls. Broun’s office also refused to respond to my requests for a comment about the anointing.

While the Capitol prayer partners appeared earnest in the prayers for the president elect’s success, they have each distinguished themselves from their Christian right comrades by leveling some of the most paranoid imprecations Obama has faced since he arrived in the Senate. On November 10, 2008, a week after Obama’s election victory, Broun took umbrage at the President-elect’s call for a national civilian security force, a proposal also backed by George W. Bush. According to Broun, who acknowledged the possibility that he might be “crazy,” Obama had revealed himself as a radical Marxist Nazi socialist comparable to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-14/inaugural-freak-show/full/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l0o2lV2jwo&eurl=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-14/inaugural-freak-show/full/&feature=player_embedded

[Windy]

1. Wow...just wow... scary... n/t

[firedupdem]

2. Okay.....

The son of a Democratic state senator from the liberal college town of Athens, Georgia, Broun attributes his conservative transformation to the wonder working power of Jesus. Broun’s born-again moment arrived in 1986, during the height of the Reagan Revolution, while he toiled as a doctor in rural Georgia, struggling to keep afloat during the first year of his marriage. He had suffered through several “broken marriages and episodes of broken relationships and financial problems,” Broun recalled during a November 2007 speech on the House floor. While watching an NFL game, Broun became entranced by a “gentleman with this big type hair wig on” holding a “John 3:16” sign. “As I sat there in my office that fall trying to figure out life, I picked up the Bible and read John 3:16,” Broun said. He suddenly transformed into a true believer, a cadre of the Christian right.

[rvablue]

4. OH. MY........... n/t

[EraOfResponsibility]

3. I give you, the culture war ideological bullshit

that's threatening to trip Obama up during his administration. :smh:

[LiberalFighter]

5. Two things I would like to see happen.

Or at least consider.

Paint lamb blood over the archway.

Have a witch spell cast against any enemies to Obama and the Democratic Party.

[Political Tiger]

6. My Jesus Cheetoh

Hello. My name is Dorothy Dursley of Rio Rancho, NM, and I have a story I have GOT to share!

I've had a weight problem for a long time. I've tried everything - Weight Watchers, Atkins, Slimfast, you know the drill! I just haven't been able to keep the pounds off!

Then, last February, I found myself full of remorse as I pulled down yet another bag of Cheetohs. I said "Jesus, I know you want me to lose weight somehow. Please, Lord, give me a sign to help me find the courage to do what I need to. I'm so weak - HELP ME, JESUS!!"

And that's when the Miracle happened. I opened the bag, full of guilt, and pulled out a Cheetoh, and THERE WAS LORD JESUS STARING ME IN THE FACE!!!

Here are some pictures of this Blessed Message. Praise Jesus, I have not eaten one Cheetoh since then.

PRAISE HIM!

Love, Dorothy

   

Share This Message of Love With Your Friends!


http://www.thevigilanteband.com/jesus.htm

[Hekate]

7. The Pagans are also in DC praying, drumming, and doing a sacrifice...

Which is fine with me --I wish I could be there with them.

My point is that the rightwingnuts are entitled to their prayers, too, as much as I disagree with their imprecations.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=262x2086
Animating the Spirit of Democracy With a Ritual of Unity and Blessing

This is a great story, and much more positive energy will be generated by Pagans and Wiccans that day than by many a Christian fundamentalist.

Hekate

[Trajan]

8. Actually ... Crime had diminished during the Clinton boom years ...

And have only again started to climb during the years of GOP control ....

Some things never change ....