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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 10:46 AM Jun 2012

This is what we're up against.

These hate groups are uniting and delivering their hate filled message to churches based on the ethnic make up of the church:

The fanatical fundamentalists are at it again. Not to be outdone by Catholic bishops clamoring for ever-increasing fetal protections, Flip Benham’s Operation Save America has teamed up with Go Stand Speak, LifeLink, Jeremiah Cry Ministries, Personhood USA, and Repent America to make five states—Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming—abortion “refuges.”
But lest you write off these protests as same-old/same-old, please know that they’re not. OSA’s latest effort comes with a newsworthy difference--scope. The group has not only done outreach to legislators in each targeted state, they’ve also contacted 950 evangelical churches to solicit financial and on-the-ground support.

Their appeal to largely African-American congregations included a copy of Maafa 21, a 137-minute documentary produced by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Inc. in 2009. The film presents abortion and birth control as central components of a Caucasian plot to annihilate people of color; it further lambasts Planned Parenthood as a purveyor of racism and hatred of the poor. Predominantly white churches received The Abortion Matrix, a 10-part, 195-minute film, released in 2011, that posits the reproductive justice movement as a satanic cult comprised of witches and goddess worshippers.

Luminaries of the feminist spirituality movement including Starhawk, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Ginette Paris are slammed, not only as man-haters, but also as proponents of infanticide. As the film unfolds the kind of music typically heard in campy horror flicks envelops the viewer. Throughout, Holmberg describes a litany of evil. Looking the viewer straight in the eye, it’s as if he wants to share a dastardly secret. Yes, he assures viewers, the goddess Aphrodite demands child sacrifice—or, in today’s parlance, abortion. Close-ups of a Florida clinician’s bumper sticker—In Goddess We Trust—is, he says, proof of this phenomenon.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/01/stoking-fire-anti-choice-activists-have-begun-to-unite


I predict it's only a matter of time before they start killing abortion providers again.

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This is what we're up against. (Original Post) sufrommich Jun 2012 OP
Fanatical fundamentalists are very evil, imho. Yep,... Little Star Jun 2012 #1
Oh, crap. Hatchling Jun 2012 #2
No, you have a very good reason to be depressed, sufrommich Jun 2012 #3
I'm down a lot too. I spend some time doing art work and cooking and watching silly TV or reading LiberalLoner Jun 2012 #6
These people are sick. boston bean Jun 2012 #4
The imagery they use is certainly like the lead up sufrommich Jun 2012 #5
It's pathetically true, many churches are hate groups just1voice Jun 2012 #7
I agree. Little Star Jun 2012 #8

Little Star

(17,055 posts)
1. Fanatical fundamentalists are very evil, imho. Yep,...
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 10:59 AM
Jun 2012

it's only a matter of time before they start killing abortion providers again. I doubt they have ever stopped making plans for their next victim. It is scary.

Hatchling

(2,323 posts)
2. Oh, crap.
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 11:58 AM
Jun 2012

As a disabled senior, lesbian, pagan feminist, I am so totally screwed in today's society.

Is it any wonder I am so damned depressed?

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
3. No, you have a very good reason to be depressed,
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:03 PM
Jun 2012

and fearful. The hate out there is funded by powerful crazy right wingers who don't care who gets hurt in their "war for morality". These are scary times.

LiberalLoner

(9,762 posts)
6. I'm down a lot too. I spend some time doing art work and cooking and watching silly TV or reading
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:21 PM
Jun 2012

because sometimes it's all overwhelming and I have to take a break and let my spirit rest and recharge.

I think anyone NOT depressed over what is happening is not fully aware, is in denial.

boston bean

(36,228 posts)
4. These people are sick.
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:11 PM
Jun 2012

I abhor the use of religion for evil. I really do.

It's how you go the salem witch trials.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
5. The imagery they use is certainly like the lead up
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 12:15 PM
Jun 2012

to the Salem witch trials, I'm sure if they had their way,we would be proceeding to something very similar.Good analogy.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
7. It's pathetically true, many churches are hate groups
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 01:58 PM
Jun 2012

The only way to get churches to stop being hate groups is to remove their tax-free status and to start arresting them. Sounds extreme but America is dealing with extremists.

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