The American Family Association (a spawn of Dobson) recently sent out an action email requesting letters to senators and, of course, donations to afa.net.
So I kindly wrote back to ask what was wrong with the groups they linked in their email as being "liberal".
What I failed to realize, because they buried it in their email and I was too incensed to read it clearly at first, was that this fundamentalist gang blatantly lied by saying we liberals wanna legalize child pornography. Huh?
Some thoughts and actions plus their lie, their list, and my email, are below the fold.
The question isn't whether or not Alito gets an upperdown vote but whether or not our senators do their Constitutional jobs of vetting a nominee to the Supreme Court to learn if he can truly be impartial as he rules, for the rest of his life, on matters of grave importance to
all Americans.
[snark](Hold on! Hey, what about Harriet Miers' up or down vote?!?! Wait a minute, what's going on here?!?! Darn those librul fundamentalists and their filibusters.)[/snark]
One must also wonder why they'd go to such extremes in their defense of the radical totalitarian-lover Sam Alito that they would lie about something as wrong as child porn. Disgusting.
Here's their email pitting American against American:
Judge Alito Deserves An Up Or Down Vote!
The U.S. Senate will soon be voting on the nomination of Samuel Alito to become a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Your email to your two senators asking them to vote to confirm Judge Alito is needed today!
Often you can tell the quality of a person by his enemies. Listed on this page are some of the most liberal organizations who have come out in opposition to Judge Alito. They represent nearly every leftwing social issue you can name, issues they cannot get through Congress but depend on liberal activist judges to make law. They favor issues from legalizing homosexual marriage to legalizing child pornography. It has been reported that liberal groups are spending as much as $30,000,000 to defeat the nomination of Judge Alito. These groups oppose Judge Alito because he isn't a liberal activist judge who will make law instead of interpreting the Constitution.
[snip]
(Bold emphasis is their's. Underline is mine.)
Legalizing child pornography? Really? Tell us Don Wildmon, what are you secretly fantasizing thinking about when you write these emails?
Here's their list of groups that want to legalize child pornography:
LIST OF GROUPS OPPOSING JUDGE ALITO
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Americans United For The Separation Of Church And State (AU)
American Association For Affirmative Action
People For The American Way (PFAW)
Planned Parenthood (PPFA)
National Organization For Women (NOW)
Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
MoveOn Political Action
National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)
Lambda Legal
AFL-CIO
Alliance For Justice (AFJ)
American Association Of University Women (AAUW)
Americans For Democratic Action ( ADA )
Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence
Center For American Progress (American Progress Action Fund)
Community Rights Council (CRC)
EarthJustice
EMILY's List
Feminist Majority
Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA)
Leadership Conference On Civil Rights (LCCR)
National Women's Law Center (NWLC)
I'll bet Jim Brady and those union guys and Hispanic lawyers are pretty darn surprised to find out they want to legalize child pornography. (Not to mention the millions of other Americans represented by one or more of those patriotic organizations.)
Here's my brotherly love email, sent using their contact us page:
Hello Don,
I just received your email concerning Judge Alito's confirmation hearings. Thank you for sending it.
I wanted to ask, what is so wrong with the organizations you listed on your website http://www.afa.net/... ?
I am a Believer myself and recognize many of those groups as being patriotic Americans which have fought long and hard to bring action to Christ's teachings of love and acceptance.
Please explain what the problems are with Judge Alito.
In Christ,
me
ACTIONS
- You may want to write to Don Wildmon and the American Family Ass and ask them questions like:
why they think liberals are bad; what specific unions and bar associations and woman's organizations (many of whom are also ... errr, umm ... moms) want to legalize child porn; why it's apparently ok for the fundamentalist conservative like American Family Association to spend millions to blindly support Alito but it's not ok for other Americans to spend just as much to question his impartiality; and/or what happened to Harriet Miers' up-or-down-vote
- Or, just ask Wildmon why he's into making shit up
- But, none of what we write to AFA.net will go anywhere anyway (the ol' falling on deaf ears thing). So what to do?
Write the media! We have to let the media know this kind of base lying is going on in support of the radically conservative, king-loving Judge Alito and that we, as average Americans, won't stand for it anymore!!!
We must show our righteous indigination that the fundamentalist conservative base (which tossed Harriet Miers our on her arse) is so rabid that they would lie to support Sam "Clarence Thomas" Alito.
Don't know who to contact? Now you do:
As an aside, please consider joining the Rapid Response Network to help spread the word about this sort of conservative bullcrap. And, yes, I volunteer for RR.