As we approach the end of 2015, I am getting a record number of solicitations for money from just about every charitable or other type of organization that you can imagine. It always happens at the end of the year. These organizations have their year-end fundraising drives to close budget gaps and to help fund the next year’s initiatives and goals of the organization(s). Yes, even Daily Kos does it. If you’re like me (and, others here), you’d probably like to give every worthy organization thousands of dollars. But, in my case, that is clearly and definitely not possible. And, yes, some of those organizations and people (grifters?) are not worthy of anything. I read about one of these fund-raising solicitations on JMG earlier this week. It was quite interesting, and I’ll share it with you below the fold.
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The blog post is entitled “Austin Ruse: Send Money To Stop JMG.”
From JMG:
“The homosexual buccaneers read these notes and makes huge fun of them on their vicious blogs. One of them is actually called Joe.My.God. That’s right. They are outraged that we are unwilling to allow them to impose their agenda on Christians all over the world.
“But, this is their goal: to force Christians to accept homosexual marriage, to force Christians to officiate at their phony ‘marriages’, to force Christians to cater their phony wedding ceremonies, to force Christian schools to teach how normal and wonderful the active homosexual lifestyle is.
“In order to continue this fight, C-Fam has a profound need of thousands and thousands of dollars to close our budget gap for the year and to fill our coffers so we can come out swinging in the new year.
“Can you go right now to www.c-fam.org/donate and give as much as you are able? Did you have a great year? Were you so blessed? Can you afford $1000? How about $500? $100? $50?
“Please pray for our work, pray for our protection from these very dangerous people, pray for the souls of the children we are sworn to protect. And give: www.c-fam.org/donate.” – Austin Ruse, head of C-FAM, via email.
Just to set the record “straight,” I am not aware of any gay activist trying to force Christians to do anything. We simply want the same rights as any other American.
That’s pretty funny. They are fundraising off of the JMG blog as well as the name of the blog - Joe.My.God. This is one of the LGBT bloggers that many in Daily Kos’ LGBT community read and often quote in our diaries. One of the things Joe usually does at the end of his blog posts is give us a history or rundown of some of the right wingers who he is posting about. Here is that part about Austin Ruse:
Austin Ruse says JMG readers are controlled by Satan. Austin Ruse gets fired by the American Family Association last year after a guest-hosting spot on their radio network during which he declared that liberal university officials “should all be taken out and shot.” Austin Ruse claims that a Vatican priest once offered him absolution if he were to murder Hillary Clinton. Ruse is the head of C-FAM, the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, which is a member of the World Congress of Families, the coalition working with NOM and others to export anti-gay hatred to foreign counties. During a speech at CPAC 2012, Ruse denounced the United Nations for issuing a resolution against the gay death penalty. Ruse is married to FRC “senior fellow” Cathy Ruse.
Mr. Ruse is quite the piece of work, isn’t he?
Now, on to the tops.
CwV nominated this comment by LiberalCanuck from By MRDFS’s diary, “This just might be great for Sanders campaign.”
The perception from outside?
Sanders campaign did something really bad. Then couldn’t explain what they did, how many people were involved or what was taken. Then got angry and threatened a lawsuit if they were punished for the bad thing they did.
Sanders supporters seem to really hate the Democratic Party, the DNC and DWS especially.
Clinton; the one whose information was stolen; has not said a single word about it, but is being blamed by Sanders supporters for the bad thing the Sanders campaign did and the reaction of the DNC to that bad thing.
That makes them look and sound delusional.
I don’t see this as being all that “great for Bernie Sanders”
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