Guide to the Religious Right
Over at Alternet, Rob Boston has put together a list of The Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right. It’s a very useful compendium, though if anything Boston has understated just how whacked these people really are.
Topping the list is meteorologist and former diamond miner Pat Robertson, who has made a name for himself in the fields of weather prediction and assassination incitement. The number two godbag is James Dobson, the well-known humorist whose Focus on the Family magazines for boys and girls have outpaced The Onion to become the most popular joke sites on the internets.
Then there’s the Alliance Defense Fund, headed by Alan “SpongeBob SquarePants is Gay” Sears; the ADF backs people like the Rev. Rob Schenk, who ensured the Alito confirmation by smearing magic olive oil on the chairs in the Senate hearing room. Jerry Falwell’s on the list, an outstanding Baptist thinker to whom the nation owes a debt of enduring gratitude for his clear-minded revelation that feminism was responsible for 9-11. And of course there’s Timothy LaHaye and his wife, ofTimothy, who founded the Concerned Women for America (which has recently opened a branch in Tehran, I understand). LaHaye is rumored to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his monumental Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels. A great man.
Some of the people on the list are new to me: Louis P. Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition has escaped my notice so far, which is surprising given that Sheldon has clearly drawn a bead on the self-same Marxist/ Leftist/Maoist coterie of homicidal maniacs to whom I owe allegiance: “A dangerous Marxist/Leftist/Homosexual/Islamic coalition has formed – and we’d better be willing to fight it with everything in our power. These people are playing for keeps. Their hero, Mao Tse Tung, is estimated to have murdered upwards of 60 million people during his reign of terror in China. Do we think we can escape such persecution if we refuse to fight for what is right?” Damn. I’d better alert the comrades that our cover’s been blown. Also that we need to invite more Homosexuals and Islamics to the meetings.
If you’ve followed the various links in this post — or if you’ve been reading me for awhile — you’ve gathered by now that my hatred of godbags burns with the heat of a thousand suns. Well, no: not hatred, really; if they would just keep to themselves I wouldn’t care if they worshipped Samsonite luggage. It’s their annoying habit of trying to impose their primitive misogynistic crap on the rest of us that I object to in the most strenuous terms. The “rest of us” also including the hapless daughters born into that godawful godbaggery and warped for life because of it. Purity Balls, anyone?
7 Responses to “Guide to the Religious Right”
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ginmar says:
How come there’s a huge space between the ID boxes and the comment box? Oh,and speaking of fundies….OMG….http://ginmar.livejournal.com/801182.html
July 9th, 2006 at 11:35 pm EST -
Violet says:
Jesus Christ, that’s just…painful. Did you see this? He also wrote (a couple of posts earlier):
“A large number of people sitting in the pews have had abortions or know men or women who have had them.”
You know, that’s the one thing that really scares me about the godbags: they’ve got the intelligentsia on their side.
P.S. I don’t know what you mean about the huge space…where?
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BAC says:
Lou Sheldon probably escaped your radar because his usual target is the LGBT community. He loves to harass the gays!!
Rob Boston is terrific, I’ve known him for a number of years. He is one of the countries experts on the religious right — frequently going “behind enemy lines” for his reports.
He’s with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and they are working on a new project. You can check it out at http://www.firstfreedomfirst.org.
BAC
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richard cherry says:
LGBT, women, blacks, liberals – and now those scary muslims – all the same; all going to hell for thinking too much and shouting when trodden on. Same in England, except that now Blair is beginning to dare to take on the muslims up front. His cure for militant islam (the flames fanned by witch hunts from the right – if that isn’t too curiously mixed a metaphor) is (wait for it) getting muslims to deal with it. Because it’s presumably all their own fault. definitely nothing to do with our denying of racism in British society.
We look forward to his asking nice women (a job for Lydia of the Floaty Purple Cloud perhaps?) to sort out all those annoying shouty ones who hate men, hate everyone, hate Blair, won’t shave their legs* (simply circle as appropriate). I don’t suppose Britain is being run by a large photocopier while the government lies on a beach for the summer. No such luck – you might find traces of consistency in a machine. -
ginmar says:
Men…or women? Moron. No wonder men like that can’t locate the clitorus; they think they have a uterus evidently.
And I still see a big honkin’ space when I scroll down, except it was between the lines of my reply. I have a really tiny computer, though.
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belledame222 says:
BAC has it: Sheldon’s a bit more of a niche market. also better known in his home digs, CA, I believe.
there has been more than one person noting that their gaydar goes haywire around him; surprise, surprise.
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Violet says:
there has been more than one person noting that their gaydar goes haywire around him; surprise, surprise.
It’s like I said when that Baptist preacher was arrested for soliciting a few months ago: it’s gotten to the point where if some godbag speaks out about the evils of homosexuality, I’m pretty much gonna assume he’s gay.
