Americans only thought this presidential administration was unusually rich in biblical references. Turns out it’s not good enough for the Christian Exodus movement, a 2-year-old effort aimed at reinventing the government according to Christian principles. The short-term goal is to control South Carolina, by encouraging thousands of the group’s activists to move there from other parts of the country. The group plans to take over the state one office at a time, by running its candidates in local GOP primaries.
“All we have to do is put our guy on the ballot with an ‘R’ sign,” founder Cory Burnell told the Los Angeles Times. “It could be a corpse and they’ll vote for him.”
Hey — that part sounds like Kansas. Which raises a question: Is there an answer here to our state’s lagging population growth?
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Um…isn’t anyone a little, I don’t know, terrified at this development? Because it’s sort of true. Stick an R on the ballot, and the straight-ticket masses will elect anything that breathes.
Shudder…just counting the days until my (overwhelmingly liberal) generation takes over.
Tara, don’t be too sure. My generation was overwhelmingly liberal, too (60s). Seems like conservativism is like a disease….it sneaks up on some people.
Also, at the rate we’re going, what makes you think there’ll be anything left for your generation?
NO!!!!!!! This is not the way to boost our population. These people are one step away from living in the hills in a “compound” and collecting all the guns they can get. We have enough crazy religious zealots in Kansas. We don’t need to be importing them.
The conservative message is very appealing to a lot of voters–it tells them “all your problems are because of big gov’t–YOU are the real victim, not the poor” (scapegoating and self-pity). “If you have anything, it’s only because of your own hard work and talent. You don’t owe anybody else anything.” (rationalizing selfishness)
I’m willing to let the conservatives hold their beliefs in peace as long as they stop using the services “big gov’t” provides–they can give up their social security checks, they can stop driving on the roads taxpayers built, they can tear up the degrees they earned at public schools and colleges, they can let their houses burn down instead of calling the fire department, they can just go ahead and get raped or murdered instead of calling the police.
While they’re at it, they can’t go to any hospitals that take public funds or any doctors that were educated a public med schools. They can’t use any drugs that were developed using public funds, even if that means they die an early death.
They will have to eat the meat that was rejected by the USDA, eat the vegetables that are covered with pesticides, and drink the water full of lead and arsenic.
So until they start actually living the life they claim to want, I’m going to continue to point out the hypocrisy of conservativism.
Overwhelming Liberals? Oh My! Lets hope not.
I’m optimistic. The largest majority of people (the sane people) is the great vast middle. I do not want a theocracy christian controlled government, nor do I want a total liberal government. Both will be devistating to this country.
Now I’m reading this particular blogg just to see what Galahad has to say ! God please deliver me from these red neck right wring conservative nut cakes of Kansas. Amen.
Thanks, Dan, but don’t encourage me . . . I’ll just end up burning more time posting (heh heh).
Why do we want to boost population in Kansas? I like being the only ones who want to live here!! Everytime I go to some big city, I come back to good ‘ole Kansas and kiss the ground. I love the wide open spaces, the lack of traffic, the clean air, the cheap real estate, and the midwestern values. Why would we want to spoil that? Yes, we have our nut cases (Connie Morris and Fred Phelps, to name a few)and our problems, but compared to other places I’ve been, there’s no place like home!!
Why is anyone so stunned about this? It’s been coming on since we became a country. The extremer forms of christianity and democracy are just plain incompatible.
When ministers start suggesting how their congregation should vote from the pulpit, then that church needs to lose it’s tax exempt status.
“The Christian Exodus movement” sounds like a Jim Jones reincarnation to me. They want South Carolina? Maybe we could offer them Louisiana at a discount; then wall them off.
Aeon,How ’bout just exporting them to Haiti? Santeria isn’t that much different from pentecostalism, so they all ought to get along just fine. Surround it with a shark preserve- much less expensive than a wall, and we wouldn’t have to give up Mardi Gras!
I’m all for that, Jed. In fact, I’d like to send all of the raving right-wing religious nutcases to Hati. Maybe we could even furnish some Koolaid.
I wonder if we can chopped Liberals up for Shark bait, just like the French does with kittens and puppies. Yeah! That’s it! I mean, they are good for nothing anyways.
I can see it now: The Ayatollah Pat Robertson with his sidekick Fred Phelps running their own little country. We should find them an uninhabited island somewhere; I wouldn’t wish them upon the people of Haiti. Hatians have suffered enough!
I don’t think a lot of people in Mississippi and Louisiana will be voting Repuglican again anytime soon. That is, presuming there are some survivors there in a week or two.
OMG, I can’t believe I missed this article until now! This is almost scary. I say almost because they are obviously delusional. Can we all say CULT? I think it is funny that a bunch of these people have promised to move there, yet only a handful have done it. Only the craziest will go through with it.The radical religious right was really scaring me until this week. The veil is being lifted for the public to see the real face of the ones currently in power.