Christian Exodus calls people here to transform state's government

[Dems4HowardDean]

Christian Exodus calls people here to transform state's government
100 sign up for conservative Christian meeting

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 6:00 am



By Ron Barnett
STAFF WRITER
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Space was limited to 210 attendees, but Christian Exodus hasn't had to turn anyone away for its fall conference this weekend in Greenville despite national attention the group has drawn.

About 100 people, more than half of them South Carolina residents, are expected for the event, said organizer Cory Burnell.

It was designed to entice people to move here from across the nation, to help push the state toward a "constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles."

Booths will be set up offering information on real estate, schools and jobs.

Speakers -- including a psychiatrist who researches terrorism and plans to run for president in 2008, and a GOP candidate for governor of Texas in 2006 -- are on the agenda.

The group has chosen South Carolina, already an overwhelmingly conservative state, as a place to try to concentrate the political power of Christian conservatives, which it says is too diluted across the nation to have significant impact.



http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051013/NEWS01/510130316

[Zenlitened]

1. Their president is choosing a Supreme Court nomineee 'cuz she's christian

... and these people think christian conservative power is too diluted?

Damaged. Seriously, seriously damaged people.

:eyes:

[stopbush]

2. Excellent! Get all the fundies in one state.

All future national elections will go 49-1 for the Dems!

[JDPriestly]

4. Get the Fundies all in one state,

then quarantine them.

[melody]

5. They want to secede -getting them out of the electorate pool AND the US!

Now there's a good idea...I feel horrible for the good Carolinians, however.

We should provide rescue operations for people with more than a quarter inch of forehead.

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[melody]

10. The south is my ancestral land - they can't have but 1 state :)

MAYBE two, so long as they bring Rush and Co. with them.

You're right, though, the red states would be in bit bucket hell without blue state economy.

[tsuki]

14. They should have been out of the gene pool years ago. eom

[CottonBear]

3. Why the hell did they have to choose one of my favorite states?

Why don't they all go to Utah? I love SC. I vacation on the coast twice each year.

[dretceterini]

8. HEY, don't send them here!!!

we already have more than enough fundie lunatics. At least we have a mayor (Rocky Anderson) who stands up to all this BS...

[CottonBear]

17. Maybe they can all depart for Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia

I forgot about your great mayor!

[dretceterini]

22. How about the west bank?

Round up all the fundamentalists in the world, drop them in the west bank, and rename the place heaven. :)

[calico1]

6. The pity is that from what I hear and have seen

SC is a pretty State with a lot of historical buidings. It would be a pity to give it up to these kooks.

[The Icon Painter]

18. I Used to Live There

It is fine for scenery. Unfortunately, it also has an inordinate number of Southern Baptists as well as Bob Jones University.

[zbdent]

9. Let them secede - especially since you consider that SC is rather

repuke-diving (not just leaning, but apparently diving headfirst into possibly shallow water - on faith).

Once they "secede", make sure that the state gets those "illegals not allowed to vote - voter ID" laws that the righties have been clamoring for.

No dual-citizenship or non-citizen being allowed to vote in the elections . . . watch SC turn purple then blue as these people have to re-apply for citizenship . . .

[jody]

11. Please take Alabama's Roy Moore. I'll personally pay his bus fare.

:hi:

[gratuitous]

12. Does the word "grandiose" occur to anyone else?

Though it does remind me of a joke. A man arrives at Heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He meets Buddhists, Mormons, Christians of all stripes, Muslims, Hindus, and others. St. Peter keeps leading him around a high-walled enclosure, and the man's curiosity finally gets the better of him. "What's inside that walled area, cut off from everyone else?"

St. Peter kind of shrugs with embarrassment. "Oh that? That's where we keep the Baptists. They think they're the only ones here."

[tsuki]

13. "constitutionally limited government"

which will they limit, the government or the constitution? Any bets?

[DemoTex]

15. We don't want them in upstate SC.

These nuts are BoJo-type (Bob Jones "University") Christo-fascists. All three of them. Fortunately, this is a movement of losers, with absolutely no momentum.

[renie408]

16. Damn Skippy. n/t

[beyurslf]

19. I say we ship them all the SC and get our people out. Then build a great

big wall around the state and let them have it.

[Metta]

20. This is Jonesvill w/o the Kool-Aid.

Or Christian fascism, it seems to me.

[QC]

21. Christian Exodus, like Free Republic, is based in California. n/t

[LastDemocratInSC]

23. I am a native of upstate South Carolina - we supported the Union

Upstate South Carolina was a Union stronghold during the Civil War. It was also a Tory stronghold during the Revolutionary War for the same reasons - no great economic power during those times. Better the devil you know than ... well you know the rest.

Our area has always been filled with religious fervor, which accounts for our current situation.

In my youth South Carolina was solidly Democratic, racist to a fault, and distrustful of anyone not from "around here". In my middle years South Carolina is solidly Republican, racist to a moderate degree, and still distrustful of anyone not from "around here".

The Upstate has a large and continuously growing progressive community. It is an absolutely wonderful place to live and raise families. I know this from personal experience. The scenery, life, and amenities here are way above average, especially for commuities in the South. This is the fruit of progressive planning that started in the 1950s in our area. I'm happy to say that my Grandfather was part of those plans.

The Christian Exodus people are coming here because they are leaches. They have heard about the considerable conservative community and they want to "take over the political system."

We have more than our fair share of Nuts here but we continue to progress even with their presence. Our Nuts aren't going to give an inch to Those Nuts. Trust me.

The big weekend Exodus meeting has ... gasp ... 100 attendees. Enuff said.