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		<title>By: gay guys</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-236934</link>
		<dc:creator>gay guys</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Redleg</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-174942</link>
		<dc:creator>Redleg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hindrocket is probably telling the truth when he says he&#039;s unaware about ________.  That sorry mutha is pretty damned oblivious if you ask me.  He don&#039;t know shit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hindrocket is probably telling the truth when he says he&#8217;s unaware about ________.  That sorry mutha is pretty damned oblivious if you ask me.  He don&#8217;t know shit.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=174942', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173785</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Marie,

I agree, that&#039;s why I remind these hypocrits of it all the time.  It&#039;s so funny for instance that MrWrong is so homophobic, yet expresses undying love for the GOP - a party RUN by a gay man!  How ironic is that piece of pyschosis!  That level of cognitive dissonance is definitely the sign of a schizophrenic break.  But then again most of the followers of assrocket exhibit those delusions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marie,</p>
<p>I agree, that&#8217;s why I remind these hypocrits of it all the time.  It&#8217;s so funny for instance that MrWrong is so homophobic, yet expresses undying love for the GOP &#8211; a party RUN by a gay man!  How ironic is that piece of pyschosis!  That level of cognitive dissonance is definitely the sign of a schizophrenic break.  But then again most of the followers of assrocket exhibit those delusions.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173785', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173757</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although it doesn&#039;t seem to make much difference to liberals, someone&#039;s sexual orientation is very important to the religious, up-tight, sanctimonious, Bible-thumping, Republican wackos.  Do you think we should tell them that David Drier (who was nearly their temporary House Majority Leader) is gay?  And their party Chairman, Ken Mehlman, refuses to answer questions and suspicions about his own sexual preferences?  Can&#039;t we rattle their cages a bit?  Shake their trees?  
What do you think they would do if it were Democrats who had such hangups? Wouldn&#039;t they turn it on us?
I think we should stop being Mr. Nice Guy, and fight fire with fire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although it doesn&#8217;t seem to make much difference to liberals, someone&#8217;s sexual orientation is very important to the religious, up-tight, sanctimonious, Bible-thumping, Republican wackos.  Do you think we should tell them that David Drier (who was nearly their temporary House Majority Leader) is gay?  And their party Chairman, Ken Mehlman, refuses to answer questions and suspicions about his own sexual preferences?  Can&#8217;t we rattle their cages a bit?  Shake their trees?<br />
What do you think they would do if it were Democrats who had such hangups? Wouldn&#8217;t they turn it on us?<br />
I think we should stop being Mr. Nice Guy, and fight fire with fire.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173757', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173577</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;OK, Ryan, youâ€™re dwelling on the CWA, so for the sake of argument, letâ€™s assume youâ€™re right, and the CWA is a religious leader of the type that John Hinderaker meant when he wrote: â€œI am not aware of a single religious leader who has in any way objected to the Miers nomination or called it an â€œaffrontâ€ to religious people.â€
Please check out the CWAâ€™s website and its most recent statement on the Miers nomination (Oct. 10). You will find that they have not â€œobjectedâ€ to the nomination. Based on what they know right now, they are withholding an endorsement but are â€œopen to persuasion.â€
Can we be done with this now? &quot;

No we can&#039;t Tigrusmus says it best!

â€œThe problem for them is that Fineman didnâ€™t specify leaders, Hinderaker did, and thereby both moved the goalposts and laid a beating on a sadsack strawman of his own making.
Comment by tigrismusâ€</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;OK, Ryan, youâ€™re dwelling on the CWA, so for the sake of argument, letâ€™s assume youâ€™re right, and the CWA is a religious leader of the type that John Hinderaker meant when he wrote: â€œI am not aware of a single religious leader who has in any way objected to the Miers nomination or called it an â€œaffrontâ€ to religious people.â€<br />
Please check out the CWAâ€™s website and its most recent statement on the Miers nomination (Oct. 10). You will find that they have not â€œobjectedâ€ to the nomination. Based on what they know right now, they are withholding an endorsement but are â€œopen to persuasion.â€<br />
Can we be done with this now? &#8221;</p>
<p>No we can&#8217;t Tigrusmus says it best!</p>
<p>â€œThe problem for them is that Fineman didnâ€™t specify leaders, Hinderaker did, and thereby both moved the goalposts and laid a beating on a sadsack strawman of his own making.<br />
Comment by tigrismusâ€<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173577', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173576</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;â€œEveryone needs to read â€œBlack-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USAâ€â€¦
I agree, everyone should read it to get a clear understanding of what crackpots live on the far left, a long distance politically separated from the crackpots on the far right, but crackpots nonetheless.
Comment by Rotgut &quot;

And the difference is that the crackpots on the left have NO VOICE in america, whereas the crackpots on the right run the 3 branches of the government!  The crackpots on the left are the american communist party, and there are more people who went to the reichwing war protest that actually belong to that group!

The issue is that reichwingers talk about moderate progressives like they&#039;re crackpots, when in fact modern day &#039;liberals&#039; are to the right of Eisenhower!  You guys have drunk the koolaid so much you can no longer see reality!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;â€œEveryone needs to read â€œBlack-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USAâ€â€¦<br />
I agree, everyone should read it to get a clear understanding of what crackpots live on the far left, a long distance politically separated from the crackpots on the far right, but crackpots nonetheless.<br />
Comment by Rotgut &#8221;</p>
<p>And the difference is that the crackpots on the left have NO VOICE in america, whereas the crackpots on the right run the 3 branches of the government!  The crackpots on the left are the american communist party, and there are more people who went to the reichwing war protest that actually belong to that group!</p>
<p>The issue is that reichwingers talk about moderate progressives like they&#8217;re crackpots, when in fact modern day &#8216;liberals&#8217; are to the right of Eisenhower!  You guys have drunk the koolaid so much you can no longer see reality!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173576', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rotgut</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173209</link>
		<dc:creator>Rotgut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Everyone needs to read â€œBlack-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USAâ€...

I agree, everyone should read it to get a clear understanding of what crackpots live on the far left, a long distance politically separated from the crackpots on the far right, but crackpots nonetheless.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Everyone needs to read â€œBlack-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USAâ€&#8230;</p>
<p>I agree, everyone should read it to get a clear understanding of what crackpots live on the far left, a long distance politically separated from the crackpots on the far right, but crackpots nonetheless.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173209', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: iggy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173203</link>
		<dc:creator>iggy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Everyone needs to read &quot;Black-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USA&quot; over at http://nascarblue.blogspot.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone needs to read &#8220;Black-Ops Weather/Bio Wars in the USA&#8221; over at <a href="http://nascarblue.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://nascarblue.blogspot.com</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173203', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Frank</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-173194</link>
		<dc:creator>Frank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those groups are the religious groups you site? I don&#039;t know anyone who&#039;s ever heard ot them.I can see why you dolts can&#039;t win elections,you can&#039;t even debate a subject without looking foolish.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those groups are the religious groups you site? I don&#8217;t know anyone who&#8217;s ever heard ot them.I can see why you dolts can&#8217;t win elections,you can&#8217;t even debate a subject without looking foolish.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=173194', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rotgut</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-172898</link>
		<dc:creator>Rotgut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK, Ryan, you&#039;re dwelling on the CWA, so for the sake of argument, let&#039;s assume you&#039;re right, and the CWA is a religious leader of the type that John Hinderaker meant when he wrote: &quot;I am not aware of a single religious leader who has in any way objected to the Miers nomination or called it an â€œaffrontâ€ to religious people.&quot;

Please check out the CWA&#039;s website and its most recent statement on the Miers nomination (Oct. 10). You will find that they have not &quot;objected&quot; to the nomination. Based on what they know right now, they are withholding an endorsement but are &quot;open to persuasion.&quot;

Can we be done with this now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, Ryan, you&#8217;re dwelling on the CWA, so for the sake of argument, let&#8217;s assume you&#8217;re right, and the CWA is a religious leader of the type that John Hinderaker meant when he wrote: &#8220;I am not aware of a single religious leader who has in any way objected to the Miers nomination or called it an â€œaffrontâ€ to religious people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Please check out the CWA&#8217;s website and its most recent statement on the Miers nomination (Oct. 10). You will find that they have not &#8220;objected&#8221; to the nomination. Based on what they know right now, they are withholding an endorsement but are &#8220;open to persuasion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Can we be done with this now?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172898', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rotgut</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rotgut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 07:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am not a Republican.

I did not write &#039;feel,&#039; you did. And yes, it is my opinion, no sh*t. Isn&#039;t that what the comment section is for?

And, talk about parsing.... CWA is not a religious leader! It&#039;s an advocacy group of people with a common religious opinion. Can you not see the difference??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not a Republican.</p>
<p>I did not write &#8216;feel,&#8217; you did. And yes, it is my opinion, no sh*t. Isn&#8217;t that what the comment section is for?</p>
<p>And, talk about parsing&#8230;. CWA is not a religious leader! It&#8217;s an advocacy group of people with a common religious opinion. Can you not see the difference??<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172882', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Rotgut</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-172873</link>
		<dc:creator>Rotgut</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 06:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Publishing someone&#039;s private (work) e-mail when he/she provides an easy contact e-mail address on the blog is immature and disrespectful, regardless of how much you disagree with someone. And how convenient that your Privacy Policy (lower right, folks, try it out) is  a dead link.

Mr. Hindraker himself provides his phone number on his profile page linked from the home page. Darth Filibustrous obviously copied and pasted it; easy to tell by the same formatting error (missing space).

In addition, it is not &quot;parsing words&quot; to point out that Mr. Hinderaker clearly wrote: &quot;...religious leader&quot; but you gave examples of &quot;organizations,&quot; not persons, and certainly not even ones most people would identify with religious leadership in the way Mr. Hinderaker obviously meant. 

Perhaps folks on the left consider advocacy groups and lobbyists to be on par with leaders? Not so on the right. I&#039;ve read both sides here, and I have to say Hinderaker prevails, at least on this issue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Publishing someone&#8217;s private (work) e-mail when he/she provides an easy contact e-mail address on the blog is immature and disrespectful, regardless of how much you disagree with someone. And how convenient that your Privacy Policy (lower right, folks, try it out) is  a dead link.</p>
<p>Mr. Hindraker himself provides his phone number on his profile page linked from the home page. Darth Filibustrous obviously copied and pasted it; easy to tell by the same formatting error (missing space).</p>
<p>In addition, it is not &#8220;parsing words&#8221; to point out that Mr. Hinderaker clearly wrote: &#8220;&#8230;religious leader&#8221; but you gave examples of &#8220;organizations,&#8221; not persons, and certainly not even ones most people would identify with religious leadership in the way Mr. Hinderaker obviously meant. </p>
<p>Perhaps folks on the left consider advocacy groups and lobbyists to be on par with leaders? Not so on the right. I&#8217;ve read both sides here, and I have to say Hinderaker prevails, at least on this issue.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172873', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-172836</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AVI,

Your KKK brothers have a new show, you should watch it to catch the latest news on what you should believe...

http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=3980511</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AVI,</p>
<p>Your KKK brothers have a new show, you should watch it to catch the latest news on what you should believe&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=3980511" rel="nofollow">http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=3980511</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172836', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/14/powerline-dumbest-bit/comment-page-2/#comment-172833</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Deist is defined in Webster&#039;s dictionary as: 

&quot;One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.&quot;

The &#039;bible&#039; is clearly a &#039;christian&#039; and therefore &#039;revealed&#039; religion.  Anyone who&#039;s promoting it&#039;s values are in fact &#039;religious&#039; and not &#039;deist&#039;.

And I forgot to respond on the KKK Kalifornia birch society.  You want me to move on, but these idiots haven&#039;t.  They&#039;ve repackaged their white supremacist and fascist doctrine for a new generation, but it&#039;s the same old hooded and bigoted ignorant asses.  You&#039;re either with&#039;em or again&#039;em - which are you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Deist is defined in Webster&#8217;s dictionary as: </p>
<p>&#8220;One who believes in the existence of a God or supreme being but denies revealed religion, basing his belief on the light of nature and reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8216;bible&#8217; is clearly a &#8216;christian&#8217; and therefore &#8216;revealed&#8217; religion.  Anyone who&#8217;s promoting it&#8217;s values are in fact &#8216;religious&#8217; and not &#8216;deist&#8217;.</p>
<p>And I forgot to respond on the KKK Kalifornia birch society.  You want me to move on, but these idiots haven&#8217;t.  They&#8217;ve repackaged their white supremacist and fascist doctrine for a new generation, but it&#8217;s the same old hooded and bigoted ignorant asses.  You&#8217;re either with&#8217;em or again&#8217;em &#8211; which are you?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172833', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;CWA falls squarely into the category of American civil religion that applied to nearly everyone around 1958 â€” a rather vague deism.&quot;

Actually &#039;deism&#039; doesn&#039;t believe in &quot; protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens&quot;, your understanding of what deism is, is frankly nonsense.

&quot;Within that organization I think there are many specific Christians, but my reading of their website suggests a stronger cultural than doctrinal tie with Christianity.&quot;

Bullshit, &#039;promoting the bible&#039;, is not a deist or secular act - it&#039;s clearly a christian religious organization.  Your claim is entirely bogus and irrational based on their own words that I posted.

&quot;would certainly grant that they are not a secular organization. That does not make them a powerhouse of influence on the Religious Right by default, or even a very clearly religious one at all.&quot;

Did you even read the profile on them?  They&#039;re a MEMBER OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT COALITION.  Or didn&#039;t you know that.

From the profile of the group...
&quot;CWA is a member of a Christian Right coalitionâ€”including American Values, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and Southern Baptist Convention&quot;

Clearly you either don&#039;t know what a &#039;religious&#039; organization is, or you&#039;re a deceptive apologist.  Either way, you&#039;re WAY wrong across the board.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;CWA falls squarely into the category of American civil religion that applied to nearly everyone around 1958 â€” a rather vague deism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually &#8216;deism&#8217; doesn&#8217;t believe in &#8221; protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens&#8221;, your understanding of what deism is, is frankly nonsense.</p>
<p>&#8220;Within that organization I think there are many specific Christians, but my reading of their website suggests a stronger cultural than doctrinal tie with Christianity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bullshit, &#8216;promoting the bible&#8217;, is not a deist or secular act &#8211; it&#8217;s clearly a christian religious organization.  Your claim is entirely bogus and irrational based on their own words that I posted.</p>
<p>&#8220;would certainly grant that they are not a secular organization. That does not make them a powerhouse of influence on the Religious Right by default, or even a very clearly religious one at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>Did you even read the profile on them?  They&#8217;re a MEMBER OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT COALITION.  Or didn&#8217;t you know that.</p>
<p>From the profile of the group&#8230;<br />
&#8220;CWA is a member of a Christian Right coalitionâ€”including American Values, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and Southern Baptist Convention&#8221;</p>
<p>Clearly you either don&#8217;t know what a &#8216;religious&#8217; organization is, or you&#8217;re a deceptive apologist.  Either way, you&#8217;re WAY wrong across the board.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172832', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Assistant Village Idiot</title>
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		<dc:creator>Assistant Village Idiot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I saw 54 comments, I thought this might be difficult.

I have little objection to swearing, but are the blog supporters here capable of something in addition to that?  On other topics does this group get above the level of Har! Har! They&#039;re Stoopid?   Several &quot;trolls&quot; have calmly made the point that the organizations mentioned are not what Amanda claimed them to be.  The inclusion of Liberty Council and Operation Rescue has been dealt with so easily above that I&#039;ll not even bother to repeat.

Ryan does make a fair point -- or at least the beginning of one -- about CWA.  Were it in a list of clearer qualifiers, I might give its inclusion a pass. But as the pillar of the claim, it is lacking.  The premise that mentioning prayer disqualifies an organization from being more secular than religious would have to then accept that scouting organizations, the US Congress, service organizations, the UN, and Live 8 are more religious than secular.  I&#039;m not sure you&#039;d like to tie yourself to that reasoning.

CWA falls squarely into the category of American civil religion that applied to nearly everyone around 1958 -- a rather vague deism.  Within that organization I think there are many specific Christians, but my reading of their website suggests a stronger cultural than doctrinal tie with Christianity.  I would certainly grant that they are not a secular organization.  That does not make them a powerhouse of influence on the Religious Right by default, or even a very clearly religious one at all.

The other crap about the John Birch Society and spelling things with K&#039;s -- it&#039;s not 1970 anymore.  Have a new thought once in awhile.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I saw 54 comments, I thought this might be difficult.</p>
<p>I have little objection to swearing, but are the blog supporters here capable of something in addition to that?  On other topics does this group get above the level of Har! Har! They&#8217;re Stoopid?   Several &#8220;trolls&#8221; have calmly made the point that the organizations mentioned are not what Amanda claimed them to be.  The inclusion of Liberty Council and Operation Rescue has been dealt with so easily above that I&#8217;ll not even bother to repeat.</p>
<p>Ryan does make a fair point &#8212; or at least the beginning of one &#8212; about CWA.  Were it in a list of clearer qualifiers, I might give its inclusion a pass. But as the pillar of the claim, it is lacking.  The premise that mentioning prayer disqualifies an organization from being more secular than religious would have to then accept that scouting organizations, the US Congress, service organizations, the UN, and Live 8 are more religious than secular.  I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d like to tie yourself to that reasoning.</p>
<p>CWA falls squarely into the category of American civil religion that applied to nearly everyone around 1958 &#8212; a rather vague deism.  Within that organization I think there are many specific Christians, but my reading of their website suggests a stronger cultural than doctrinal tie with Christianity.  I would certainly grant that they are not a secular organization.  That does not make them a powerhouse of influence on the Religious Right by default, or even a very clearly religious one at all.</p>
<p>The other crap about the John Birch Society and spelling things with K&#8217;s &#8212; it&#8217;s not 1970 anymore.  Have a new thought once in awhile.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172823', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tom Paine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did BSR spam that crapple here too? Pathetic. JBS. Wingnuts who were convinced Eisenhower was a commie. Can&#039;t we please just send these clowns to Mars?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did BSR spam that crapple here too? Pathetic. JBS. Wingnuts who were convinced Eisenhower was a commie. Can&#8217;t we please just send these clowns to Mars?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172806', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The CWA is part of the spawn of the John Birch Society (KKK Kalifornia style), and is as right wing, religious, and irrationally insane as they come!

Concerned Women for America (CWA) was founded in San Diego in 1979 by Christian Right social conservative Beverly LaHaye. Well connected to the Christian Right network, Beverly LaHaye is married to Tim LaHaye, cofounder of the Moral Majority. According to LaHaye, who continues to serve as CWA&#039;s â€œchairman,â€ she founded the antifeminist organization after hearing Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women, claim that she was speaking for all American women in her criticism of patriarchy and male chauvinism. LaHaye viewed Friedan&#039;s feminist stance as anti-God and anti-family.

CWA&#039;s mission is â€œto protect and promote Biblical values among all citizensâ€”first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our societyâ€”thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.â€ According to its vision statement, CWA aims â€œfor women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.

CWA opposes gay rights, sex education, drug and alcohol education, and feminism, while advocating what it calls â€œpro-lifeâ€ and â€œpro-familyâ€ values. It advocates a return to traditional family structures and regards homosexuality as a sinful condition that can be overcome by believing in Jesus Christ.

CWA is a member of a Christian Right coalitionâ€”including American Values, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and Southern Baptist Convention, formed in 2004 to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages.

In a 1987 interview with Ms magazine, LaHaye stated: â€œYes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The CWA is part of the spawn of the John Birch Society (KKK Kalifornia style), and is as right wing, religious, and irrationally insane as they come!</p>
<p>Concerned Women for America (CWA) was founded in San Diego in 1979 by Christian Right social conservative Beverly LaHaye. Well connected to the Christian Right network, Beverly LaHaye is married to Tim LaHaye, cofounder of the Moral Majority. According to LaHaye, who continues to serve as CWA&#8217;s â€œchairman,â€ she founded the antifeminist organization after hearing Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women, claim that she was speaking for all American women in her criticism of patriarchy and male chauvinism. LaHaye viewed Friedan&#8217;s feminist stance as anti-God and anti-family.</p>
<p>CWA&#8217;s mission is â€œto protect and promote Biblical values among all citizensâ€”first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our societyâ€”thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.â€ According to its vision statement, CWA aims â€œfor women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.</p>
<p>CWA opposes gay rights, sex education, drug and alcohol education, and feminism, while advocating what it calls â€œpro-lifeâ€ and â€œpro-familyâ€ values. It advocates a return to traditional family structures and regards homosexuality as a sinful condition that can be overcome by believing in Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>CWA is a member of a Christian Right coalitionâ€”including American Values, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, and Southern Baptist Convention, formed in 2004 to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages.</p>
<p>In a 1987 interview with Ms magazine, LaHaye stated: â€œYes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172731', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And any dipshit knows CWA really stands for CHRISTIAN WOMAN&#039;S ASSOCIATION - they just use the &#039;concerned&#039; like bush used &#039;compassionate&#039; to lie to people not paying attention!  Please!  BSR might be this stupid (well clearly he/she is), but we&#039;re not!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And any dipshit knows CWA really stands for CHRISTIAN WOMAN&#8217;S ASSOCIATION &#8211; they just use the &#8216;concerned&#8217; like bush used &#8216;compassionate&#8217; to lie to people not paying attention!  Please!  BSR might be this stupid (well clearly he/she is), but we&#8217;re not!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172729', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Neat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ryan Neat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;CWA is a respected conservative womenâ€™s organization, but it is only â€œmajorâ€ in the sense that its membership is larger than that of the National Organization for Women. Like NOW it is an advocacy group, not a religious ministry organization.&quot;

Bahaha, bullshit!  They are NOTHING alike!  CWA describes itself as &#039;built on prayer&#039;.  That is not only NOT SECULAR, but clearly and blantantly anti-abortion and we BOTH know it.  You&#039;re such a lying sack of deceptive shit BSR.  But then again you post crap from a &#039;satire&#039; website like it&#039;s real news - so clearly your ability to distinguish reality is compromised!

&quot;CWA is built on prayer and action.
We are the nation&#039;s largest public policy women&#039;s organization with a rich 25-year history of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.&quot;

This is from the CWA website in the ABOUT US section.  How is this NOT a religious orgainization again?  You&#039;re an idiot!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;CWA is a respected conservative womenâ€™s organization, but it is only â€œmajorâ€ in the sense that its membership is larger than that of the National Organization for Women. Like NOW it is an advocacy group, not a religious ministry organization.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bahaha, bullshit!  They are NOTHING alike!  CWA describes itself as &#8216;built on prayer&#8217;.  That is not only NOT SECULAR, but clearly and blantantly anti-abortion and we BOTH know it.  You&#8217;re such a lying sack of deceptive shit BSR.  But then again you post crap from a &#8217;satire&#8217; website like it&#8217;s real news &#8211; so clearly your ability to distinguish reality is compromised!</p>
<p>&#8220;CWA is built on prayer and action.<br />
We are the nation&#8217;s largest public policy women&#8217;s organization with a rich 25-year history of helping our members across the country bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is from the CWA website in the ABOUT US section.  How is this NOT a religious orgainization again?  You&#8217;re an idiot!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=172727', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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