A new religious/political group has just moved into South Carolina to take on the bullshit of the so-called Religious Right. In a full-page ad in the Greenville, (SC) News, on Monday, the groups called Faith In America warns:
"Religion-based bigotry has been used by those who wanted us to believe:
"Women are Inferior (pic of Hillary and Laura Bush)
"Races are Unequal (pic of Obama & Family)
"Interracial Marriage should be banned (pic of Jeb Bush & wife)
"Bigotry disguised as religious truth is also used by those who oppose full and equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.
"History has proven that's wrong
"Faith in America. Don't accept Bigotry Disguised as Religious Truth."
A short story in the same newspaper about the group says its bringing its message to five cities across the country, SC because of its early presidential primary.
The message: Conservatives have misused the Bible to discriminate against homosexuals.
Based in Raleigh, the group is doing a six-week campaign of newspaper, radio, TV, billboard advertising, plus knocking on doors, ending in a town meeting Nov. 13.
The group's also worked in Ames, Iowa and will be in Manchester, NH, Reno, NV, and a Florida city that hasn't been chosen.
A local minister is quoted as saying, "I hope it's going to open eyes and hearts for people to know that we all serve one God."
The group's web site is www.faithinamerica.com
I have to say, I'm amazed at how many churches we have in this town and how many people here still believe so much of the Republicans crap.
The Greenville News is still preaching the "turned the corner" crap on Iraq like it's still 2003 or 2004, or 2005 or 2006. They're trying to drum up support and excitement for Republican candidates, but I swear, nobody's biting.
Lindsay Graham's approval rating was in the 30s in the last poll I saw, and I can't remember for sure, but I think it might have been only 30 percent among state Republicans and there have been rumblings about him having a Republican challenger in his next election. The local Republican party censored him recently, but it was bullshit stuff, not any of the really big lies. Not supporting the President or maybe for not being a fiscal conservative. Some crap like that.
I would love to see something come along and make the churches stop drinking the Republican Kool-aid, but I wonder if it will ever happen.
We had a lovely display of Republican blindness in the paper last week. Page 2, side-by-side, a story about the US Ambassador to Canada being outraged by the Canadian magazine's cover showing Bush as Saddam Hussein and asking how anyone could ever compare Bush to Saddam.
And right next to it on the page was a story about a young Iraqi girl who got both legs blown off in the war. She's been in Greenville for a few months, being fitted for prosthetics. I wonder if anyone but me saw the irony in that.
We're acting self-congratulatory for giving one Iraqi girl new legs when we've blown off the legs of hundreds of thousands of people in this war.
Does that fact really escape us so easily? Or that Bush's war has killed more people than Saddam Hussein ever did?
How blind can we be? And how long can the blindness last?