Saturday, August 06, 2011

Who's going to protect America from Rick Perry's 'prayer warriors'

The main thing about Rick Perry's prayer rally today, it definitely proves the adage that sometimes "up is down" and "black is white." This is a partial list which I got from Right-Wing Watch highlighting the participants of the rally. To put it mildly, these folks are a grotesque hodgepodge of demagogues and ultra religious maniacs so fanatical that they would probably turn the legendary anti-Semite and Islamophobe Tomas de Torquemada into an aetheist. And it definitely makes one want to ask the question -  why are these folks concerned with our souls when they definitely don't care for their own:

The American Family Association

The American Family Association is the driving force behind The Response. Founded by the Rev. Don Wildmon in 1977, the organization is based is best known for its various boycott campaigns, promotion of art censorship, and political advocacy against women’s rights and LGBT equality. The organization also controls the vast American Family Radio and an online news service, in addition to sponsoring various conferences frequented by Republican leaders, including the Values Voter Summit and Rediscovering God in America. The AFA today is led by Tim Wildmon, Don’s son, and its chief spokesperson is Bryan Fischer, the Director of Issues Analysis for Government and Public Policy and host of its flagship radio show Focal Point. Fischer routinely expresses support for some of the most bigoted and shocking ideas found in the Religious Right today. He has:

International House of Prayer

The Response’s leadership team includes five senior staff members of the International House of Prayer (IHOP), a large, highly political Pentecostal organization built on preparing participants for the return of Jesus Christ. In a recent video, IHOP encouraged supporters to pray for Jews to convert to Christianity in order to bring about the Second Coming. IHOP is closely associated with Lou Engle, a Religious Right leader whose anti-gay, anti-choice extremism hasn’t stopped him from hobnobbing with Republican leaders including Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Mike Huckabee.
Engle has a long history of pushing extreme right-wing views and advocating for a conservative theocracy in America. Engle:


Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, is a co-chairman of The Response. At the FRC, Perkins has been a vocal opponent of LGBT equality, often relying on false claims about gay people to push his agenda. He:


Other Allies

Among the other far-right figures who have signed on to work with Gov. Perry on The Response are:
  • Rob Schenk, an anti-choice extremist who was once arrested for throwing a fetus in the face of President Clinton, and who allegedly had ties with the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Barnett Slepian.
  • Loren Cunningham, who is working to mobilize support for the rally is a co-founder of the radical “Seven Mountains Dominionist” ideology. Cunningham says that he received the “seven mountains” idea, which holds that evangelical Christians must take hold of all aspects of society in order to pave the way for the Second Coming, in a message directly from God.
  • Doug Stringer, The Response's National Church and Ministry Mobilization Coordinator, who blamed American secularism and the increased acceptance of homosexuality for the 9/11 attacks, saying “It was our choice to ask God not to be in our every day lives and not to be present in our land.”
  • Cindy Jacobs, self-proclaimed “prophet” and endorser of The Response, who famously insisted that birds were dying in Arkansas earlier this year because of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
  • C. Peter Wagner, an official endorser of The Response, is one of the most prominent leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation, a controversial movement whose followers believe they are prophets and apostles on par with Christ himself (other adherents include Engle, Jacobs and Anh). Wagner has advocated burning Catholic, Mormon and non-Christian religious objects. He blamed the Japanese stock market crash and later the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the country on a traditional ritual in which the emperor supposedly has “sexual intercourse” with the pagan Sun Goddess.

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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:32 AM

    God bless you Rick Perry and other Christians for standing up to satan and his children of darkness.

    The fool sees only foolishness in God's wisdom

    "He who trusts in his own heart is a fool...." Proverbs 28:26

    "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, 'He catches the wise in their own craftiness'; and again, 'The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.'" 1 Corinthians 3:19-20

    "...the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Corinthians 2:14-15

    "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.' Psalm 53:1

    "Fools mock at sin, but among the upright there is favor." Proverbs 14:9

    "A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart." Proverbs 18:2

    "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools..." Romans 1:20-22

    "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
    But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
    It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.
    For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
    This also is vanity." Ecclesiastes 7:4-6

    "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise." Proverbs 12:15

    "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed." Proverbs 13:20

    "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16

    "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are saved it is the power of God. For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.'

    "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

    "For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

    "...God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;" 1 Corinthians 1:27

    "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." 1 Corinthians 2:12

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  2. All of the verses in the Bible mean nothing when they are used to lie, disenfranchise, enslave and bear false witness. They say that the devil can quote Scripture for his own purposes. Perry's prayer rally more than proves this point.

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  3. Man of Prayer, Rick Perry's prayer for rain worked out so well that two months later when a tropical storm came to Texas, it rained dust...
    It shows everyone (that has eyes to see), that God is not answering this man's prayers, is He?

    I'm going to pray for anonymous now.

    Thanks for sitting on the wall for us.

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  4. "Christianity does not hold a monopoly on truth" -Dean Spenser Simrill, St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral.

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