Rachel Maddow reports that the Family Research Council lists seven Republican presidential candidates as participants in an event hosted by religious extremist pastor Rick Scarborough, whose claims include that AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality.
warning: this shit is graphic and fucked up
Pastor Rick Scarborough’s sermon to his flock:
God allowed Benghazi Attack because ‘America is Mired in Sin’
Maybe Sunday isn’t the best day to post this kind of filth. Never, seems like the best day. But this pastor is preaching this divisive garbage to his congregation, several of which expected to attend are republican presidential candidates currently in the running to hold the highest office in the land we call the United States of America
This extremism is the Grand Old Party’s base at its core today.
note: I had this Rachel Maddow segment recorded and just caught up to it, not quite believing what I was hearing, seeing, and admittedly was/am questioning whether the posting of this video segment has any real value. Yet, there is a prurient sickness beneath the “religious freedom” agenda that is demonstrably foundation to the republican party — imo — and at some point the veneer put on it to disguise the deadly reality of the GOP needs removal for all to see. It is a dangerous confederacy and cost the lives of too many in too many ways
The disease of AIDS is labeled by these religious prigs as GRID (Gay-related-immunodeficiency)
Another danger behind dominionism that is just as deadly; the “freedom” to dominate and pollute the earth — the belief that it is “Mankind's Duty to Tame the Wilderness”
The inevitable outcome from this line of faith is that it doesn’t matter what we do to the earth, because as it states in the bible, there will come a time when the heavens open up and all the righteous and faithful will be drawn up into heaven, literally.
The rest of humankind will be left behind on earth for Satan and his minions to do with as he pleases, eventually being drawn down into hell to suffer for eternity alongside Christopher Hitchens. This is the apparently inevitable outcome of this kind of biblical literalism, and points out precisely why dominionist theology is so dangerous.
The real danger in dominionism lies in the ties the dominionists have with government and big business, and it only takes a little scratching of the surface to see that many of those preaching the use and abuse of the earth’s resources are backed by those companies who stand to lose the most under a more sustainable human presence. The Cornwall Alliance, as mentioned above, are given donations from Exxon Mobil, enough money to keep the likes of Calvin Beisner and his “Green Dragon” mob afloat.
This article from ThinkProgress.com goes into detail about these “contributions” from Exxon Mobil. This is the kind of conspiracy that’s hard to refute, when the public records show that this is the case.
— emphasis added
again — imo and with apologies for the explicitly violent nature of this filth
More material from Right Wing Watch are these articles:
Beisner Explains Why Environmentalism Represents the 'Greatest Threat to Western Civilization'
Fischer & Beisner Say That Not Using Fossil Fuels is an Insult to God
Beisner: Belief in Climate Change 'is an Insult to God'
Beisner: Hurricane Sandy was Sent By God as 'a Matter of Grace'
Truth in Action Ministries: America Becoming a 'Lawless' Nation Due to Gay Rights
Fischer and Beisner Praise Paul Ryan's 'Biblical View of the Environment'
The corporate elite extraction industries, hand in hand with the religious tyrants making up this confederacy of violent thieves, polluters and would-be-murderering-pseudo-religious zealots — the GOP