RED ALERT: Texas GOP platform declares America a "Christian nation"

At Saturday morning's prayer meeting, (Texas GOP) party leader Tina Benkiser assured them that God was watching over the two-day confab.

"He is the chairman of this party," she said against a backdrop of flags and a GOP seal with its red, white and blue logo.

The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian nation" and affirms that "God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom."

"We pledge to exert our influence toward a return to the original intent of the First Amendment and dispel the myth of the separation of church and state," it says.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-gopreligion_04tex.ART.State.Edition1.903cb29.html

This means war.

It is old news, yet still scary.

non straight, non white Texan-this party ain't for you. And I bet there are a lot of progressive Christians in Texas that feel it's not for them as well.

That assertion does not stand up to fact. I encourage any fellow DUers to take RWs on when it comes to this issue - they're vulnerable because they're WRONG.

Or let me debate them. I'd demolish any RW fundy's arguments in a New York second. I hope for the day that I can take on Falwell, Robertson, (Rod) Parsley, Paul Crouch, etc.
Ringo

and, being infinite, is in every innocent human that has been slaughtered in the name of their 'freedom.'

If god is anything at all, she must be everything at all.

For desecrating the Constitution. That they create their just rewards for betraying human incarnation is certain enough.

mental institutions. In my state, Republicans closed several of them - if this was duplicated around the country, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this is how these nuts reappeared.

Either we all get organized or this country is finished. There is no choice.

The notion that just because a person has some mentall illness, that they somehow become immoral monsters because of it is pretty offensive.

classified every GLBT person in the United States as possessing a "mental illness." In fact, many of these same groups perpetrate that belief today. Are you saying they should be exempt from this accusation about their own superstitions?

any, at that time, it was so against societal norms that it satisfied all four criteria of abnormality, and thus they had reason to do it. Sheesh.

What I am getting offended at is that you, and many, many others, talk about mental illness as if it were something intrinsically bad; that those who are mentally ill are somehow immoral, and lastly, it is used as a great fat cop-out when we as a society do not want to take the shared responsibility that is inherit in society. They are like you. Their cognition is biased towards their beliefs yes, but not in abnormal way.

Two bad accusations:
1) GLBT = mentally ill. Lost all credibility under the DSM-IV.
2) That anyone who is a complete bastard must be mentally ill - because after all, only not-normal (as if that even applies to mentall illness) people would ever do bad things :sarcasm:

:puke:

We still have a religious litmus test in our state consitution, too, you know. You have to profess belief in a 'Supreme Deity". I would LOVE to run for office and refuse to swear on the Bible, etc.

It's shit like this that makes me wish I was still in the UK. People in this country must just be totally genetically fucked. The opposite of what these neopuritans think - we are decidedly NOT blessed. We are cursed. With the worst gene pool in the world. Too bad they reproduce so much and people like me don't.

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Recent studies have found a "religion gap" suggesting church attendance is a good indicator of party affiliation. A survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that among those who attend church more than once a week, two-thirds vote GOP. Among those who seldom or never attend church, two-thirds vote Democratic.


What about the HUGE number of us that fall in the middle, say once a week, twice a month, once a month? This is BS, the survey is BS, and yes - this may mean war!

you have no right to declare America anything...

now if you want to totally fuck up texas..have at it..but keep your filthy hands off my state!!

fly

Some of us actually want to live in Texas - get down here and help us chase these FReepers out!

NJ where we are proud to be a dem state!!

sorry for you...but dallas isn't as bad as the rest of the red state texas!!


i am an east coast gal..i had to get out of the middle!!

couldn't take it!!

besides i talk to fast for texans!!

fly

Or walks faster, either. ;)

they could not keep up with me!!

and i used to fall asleep when they spoke!! lol...

but i got that hookem horns down real well!!..and my family said after i was there a couple years that i sounded funny when i spoke..i guess i picked up enough of the texas twang!!
but there were certain NJ words i just could not rid myself of...
like strawr..and drawr..

it was a dead give away!!

hi texas..wish we could save you!!

fly

If people complain about me talking too fast:

"Sorry, you need to learn to think faster."

Seriously - if I can SAY it that fast, surely you can HEAR it that fast, asshole.

:eyes:

I lived in the UK for four years, been back here a year next week. People still say I have an English accent. Which I don't. At all.

:hi:

or i hope you live in austin or marfa.

I was in Marfa last weekend. Not the hotbed of coolness it has been advertised as of late, IMHO. Alpine was much more happenin'. Tommy Lee Jones and the Coen Brothers and Daniel Day Lewis were all there.

I'm a Dallas boy, myself. We're this close to turning Dallas blue in 2006 - our sister, Fort Worth, might need a little more work, though.

Editing period expired. I'm butterfingers today.

Any citizen in this country who does not recognize this growing danger to our way of life and our government is, in my opinion, a traitor.

This "myth" crap about the First Amendment is pure bulls*it. It has been manufactured by rightwing nutcases like Pat Robertson and Falwell who have convinced themselves that THEY are the true holders of power in this nation by virtue of their pretend assocation with God.

and I'm lovin' it.

Kinky Friedman is Jewish, Texan, and conservative. He shares some of the goals of the Religious Right, including mandatory organized prayer in public schools.

Texas - it's like a whole other... planet.

afterall...by the time it gets to Texas it's been through the digestive system 7 times.

:spray:

Either way any real Christian/Jewish/Other would cringe and turn their backs on these people.

What God made this place the Eden or Jerusalem of the Bible?

Any idiot who doesn't understand the First Amendment to separate church and state needs a course in reading comprehension.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

What part of that do they not understand?

has someone told Ken Mehlman about this development?

Fight their LIES with FACTS: http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html

"Have you accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. No? No? THEN YOU MUST NOT BE RUNNING FOR OFFICE THIS YEAR!"

We are not a Christian nation. "Thanks be to god," (or "Hear our prayer," or whatever). Any sane fucking deity is going into the punishment mode (the Old Testament punishment mode), even as we speak.

Mac

Heard that said on "The Majority Report" the other day. Thought it a perfect way to describe certain folks who call themselves "Christian".

Ok... maybe with three K's then.

:shrug::evilgrin::shrug:

These people are psychotic.

In other words, don't use psychosis as an excuse for their actions. Nor as a way of understanding them. They're human as you are, quite possibly almost as stable.

If you really want to know what the difference between a 'normal' person and someone who is mentally ill is, read the DSM-III, which (rightly at the time) listed homosexuality as a mental illness.

(No worries, DSM-IV doesn't list it)

Even so called "stable" people who would sign over their fate to a magical being in the sky are insane using my diagnostic criteria. And I do not consider DSM-IV to be the be all, end all in diagnostic criteria.

You know they would do the same to any one of us who tried to use a different mythical construct - even if it was equivalent to theirs in every way with just the names changed. It's a sickness.

does not cover everything, but these are normal people. So they believe something different to you. So you can't understand how anyone 'normal' could possibly believe that stuff. It does not mean that that ARE abnormal.

I'll accept that there are a few, but no more.

someone explain how they're not like Nazis?

My daughter will never be a handmaiden.

-Hoot

hmmmmmm! When did God decide to become a Christian? Geez! Do these people ever, EVER, think before they spout off?

Careful, now. Complain too much about it, and you'll get called a "secular atheist whackjob" bent on persecuting those poor, downtrodden Christian Right folks who just want to be left alone... to impose their fucking narrow theocratic bullshit on the rest of us.

Myth? Do you know what happens when you allow people to use religion politically? I guess you can already see the start of it.

The people that vote for these people... do they really want a theocracy?

They're too stupid to know the repercussions of a theocracy.

warning.

What % of people in the U.S. are Christian FUNDIES? Do all the other religions combined out number the Christian FUNDIES?

Apparently, they skipped civics and history classes. :puke:

Gotta play up to those GOP voting fundie sheep who still have the wool pulled over their eyes. Really. Are they that gullible?

What an asshole.

I just finished firing off a letter to Georgia Pacific about an anti-immigrant screed that was posted on the bulletin board in the driver's lounge (I drive a truck and picked up a load there). It had this same shit, along with lots of other nonsense scrawled (couldn't have been written by anyone with more than an eighth grade education) across several pages.

AND THIS NOT 50 MILES FROM PORTLAND OREGON.

Really cheesed me off. Many drivers are immigrants. How in your face can you get? I told them if it's up when I go back I'll take matters into my own hands.