End Times for the Christian Coalition?

[ck4829]

It is no secret that the Christian Coalition has been on a downward spiral for quite some time. Last week, the organization founded by the Reverend Pat Robertson, headed by the once-upon-a-time-boy-wonder Ralph Reed, and considered the most powerful conservative Christian lobbying and grassroots group in the country, may have hit rock bottom when it got in on the so-called airplane scandal surrounding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

On February 8, CC President Roberta Combs "issued a press release attacking ... Pelosi for allegedly demanding a lavish military jet to fly her from Washington to her home district in San Francisco," Americans United for Separation of church and State reported on its website http://blog.au.org/2007/02/09/high-flying-lies-the-christian-coal ition-nancy-pelosi-and-the-plane-truth/.

The release read: "Nancy Pelosi is demanding that the Air Force provide her with a large jet on demand -- `Pelosi One' -- so she can transport her political cronies, favorite Members of Congress, congressional staffers, friends and relatives back and forth to her district in San Francisco every week."

The problem with the release, and indeed the entire incident, is that it was all a complete fabrication. "The Coalition has the misfortune to issue its press release the same day even White House Spokesman Tony Snow was dismissing the airplane story," Americans United reported. "This is a silly story and I think it's been unfair to the speaker," Snow said during a press briefing.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/12/95153/9876/Dominionism_in_the_military/End_Times_for_the_Christian_Coalition_

[Bluebear]

1. Oh my, lying isn't very Christian, Ms. Combs n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

3. Lying is a hallmark of professional Christians

Surely that's a given, knowing the history of such people.

[Clark2008]

6. I would dispute that they're Christians.

Professional shills, maybe, but not Christians.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Ya can't make them go away by renaming them

They are still professional Christians, self identified, and they would take offence at you trying to relable them as something else. I know what you mean, in that they don't follow Christ very closely by any objective standard, but as long as their paychecks come from their work in Christian organizations, they are professional Christians nonetheless.

[bryant69]

2. Oh how the mighty have fallen

Still their straits will only be blamed on the apparently pervasive anti Christian Sentiment in America. I don't see it myself, but it's the only explanation (once you rule out their own bad faith and stupidity).

Bryant
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[gratuitous]

4. Don't write their obituary quite yet

It's true that the Christian Coalition is no longer quite so high-flying, but if the Repressive Right has shown us anything in the past 30 years (besides their inability to hit bottom, no matter how low they sink), it's that they always come back with another crapulent idea. The CC is just the vehicle for some hidebound, ethics-free young operative to perfect his demogoguery. Ralph Reed didn't come out very well, but for a considerable period of time he had the media dancing to his sick little hit parade. Folks like Richard Mellon Scaife and the Koch Brothers have a nearly limitless supply of money to invest in young voices that will purvey their peculiar brand of home-grown fascism.

Constant vigilance against these thugs is required, but a small price to pay, really, to ensure our freedom.

[Cerridwen]

5. It's interesting to me that their financial difficulties coincided with

the loss of their tax-free status. Which also coincided with reed leaving and robertson leaving.

It appears they may have problems competing in the political sphere playing by the rules applied to their competition.

Funny that.

[johnaries]

7. I prefer to call them the Konservative Khristian Koaltion. nt

[William Bloode]

8. It's easy to beat these chumps.

All you have to do is divide them into their respective groups, i.e. Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran etc. Get them arguing with each other over differing doctrine, and viola! Their cutting each others throats fighting each other. That plan is old as dirt, and work great. I wonder why Dem's don't try to do this. Seriously it's like shooting fish in a barrel.