Non-Prophet

Huckabee is Un-American

Good Lord Man. This shows -- more than anything I've seen so far -- why this "dude" is entirely unfit to serve in any public office. To have a view based on one's own convictions, even to cite those convictions, is one thing. But to stand up and say in plain English that you want to create a theocracy out of the good ole U, S of A shows a short sightedness that boggles the mind. This guy doesn't seem to understand the nature of what we are founded upon. One's reasons for wanting to amend the constitution shouldn't be because of the word of one particular God, but because one believes that reason is righteous outside of a theology. Good ole boy Mike should know better than to spew this kind of nonsense. This is in its entirety, un-American.

Off of Alternet:

The United States Constitution never uses the word "God" or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from "We the People." However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it's time to put an end to that.

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."

(from a tip off the N8. :0)

Silly Global Warming

Oh man! Watch Stuart Shepard totally tear apart all of those silly global warming alarmists! Scientists can get so excited over nothing! I'm glad Focus on the Family was around to get my brain working correctly. Stuart asks a whole bunch of really good questions and then implies that they don't have any answers. :0)

here.

Soulforce Civil Disobedience @ Focus

Soulforce is staging an act of civil disobedience RIGHT NOW at Focus on the Family. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

From an email I received a few minutes ago:

Colorado Springs, CO, February 19, 2007 -- Soulforce, a national civil rights and social justice organization, has launched an ongoing campaign called "Focus on the Facts," which aims to intervene in James Dobson and Focus on the Family's representations of lesbian and gay families through an ongoing campaign of civil disobedience modeled on Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent social change.

What: Lesbian couple enters Focus on the Family headquarters to engage in dialogue and civil resistance: they seek an end to anti-gay propaganda.

When: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. MST

Where: Focus on the Family, 8605 Explorer Dr., Colorado Springs, CO

At approximately 11:00 a.m., Dotti Berry and Robynne Sapp of Blaine, Wash., entered Focus on the Family headquarters to join a regularly scheduled tour. Once inside, the two women will attempt to speak with visitors and staff about the organization's defamation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans. They will not leave voluntarily until Focus on the Family (FotF) and James Dobson promise to cease their misleading statements about research on lesbian and gay parents.
Arrests are possible.

[UPDATE]

(Colorado Springs, CO) - At approximately 1:30 p.m. on February 19, 2007, Dotti Berry and Robynne Stapp of Blaine, Wash., were arrested and removed from Focus on the Family headquarters in police custody. The couple entered the building earlier in the day and refused to leave until the organization's founder, James Dobson, takes a step toward reconciliation with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities by ceasing his misleading statements about research on lesbian and gay parents.

They have been charged with trespassing and have not yet been released.

"I am here today because I believed Dr. Dobson's teachings for many years, and it almost led to my suicide. My healing came from my acceptance of myself and my acceptance that God loves me exactly as I am," said Stapp. Stapp and Berry have toured Focus on the Family twice before to dialogue with visitors and staff about LGBT individuals and families.

Dobson has consistently misrepresented LGBT families with misleading references to social science research. In recent months, several social scientists--including Dr. Carol Gilligan of New York University and Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale--have publicly rebuked him for mischaracterizing their research conclusions.

Dobson and other Focus spokespeople frequently discredit LGBT parenting with references to "more than 10,000 studies that have showed that children do best when they have a mom and a dad." According to the American Psychological Association (APA), such claims rely on "studies that simply do not address gay and lesbian parents and their children." Moreover, "no credible evidence shows that children raised by lesbian or gay parents differ in any important respects from those raised by
heterosexual parents."

Berry and Stapp are the first participants in an ongoing campaign called "Focus on the Facts," which is modeled on Gandhi's Satyagraha campaigns in South Africa and India. In the words of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi "rightly believed in the efficacy of pitting the soul force of the Satyagraha against the brute force of the oppressor and in effect converting the oppressor to the right and moral point."

"I am here to mirror Dr. Dobson's human essence, so that the reflection will cause him to fully understand why it is important to begin telling a new and true story, one that empowers all of us," says Berry.

Berry and Sapp will speak to the media outside Focus on the Family headquarters when they are released later this afternoon.

This Is Just Freaky...

The Simpsons on the Culture War.

Mike Jones Visits New Life

I'm not all that interested in New Life Church anymore, at least as far as blogging goes. Now that the evil and powerful Ted Haggard has departed I don't feel like a social/political movement is being brewed under my own feet, at least not one that I need to be concerned about. They're going to get back to Jesus, and plan to stay off of Hardball: With Chris Matthews and the entire political media surrealist scene. That is good I think. In any case, Mike Jones went to New Life today, and while he and I probably don't have a whole lot in common, I thought his take on New Life was a lot like my own. My pal Rob Brendle talks a bit from the other side of the glass, and he was, as he usually is, gracious and eloquent. Gaia bless him.

Denver Post:

Jones was accompanied Sunday by members of a New York- based theater troupe, the Civilians, who are in Colorado Springs researching a project on evangelicals. Church leaders were told in advance of the visit.

"A couple of ladies cried when they were touching me," Jones said. "I was thanked for exposing the church, for helping Ted Haggard. A couple of them said they hoped I get God into my life. And they all said 'God bless you,' every one of them."

But Jones - who came forward out of anger toward Haggard's political stances against homosexuality - said he wasn't impressed on the whole. If the Gospel message is enough, he said, why the loud music and MTV-quality production?

"There seems to be something missing, some realism, in my opinion, because it's so vast, like some kind of self-contained city," said Jones, who said he was raised Methodist but is estranged from organized religion.

When associate pastor Rob Brendle encountered Jones in the foyer, he commented, "The last time I saw you was on the other side of a split screen" during TV interviews.

Brendle characterized Jones' presence as a reminder of both grief and God's faithfulness.

"I told Mike, 'I don't want to impose my religious beliefs on you, but I believe God used you to correct us, and I appreciate that,"' Brendle said. "The church's response to him was overwhelmingly warm. One of the wonderful and enduring truths of Christianity is to love people the world sets up to be your enemies."

True Colors

This must be more of that good old Christian persecution that I've been hearing so much about. Use something other than a Christian bible to swear in a public official? God forbid!

Goode should be run out of Washington and have his citizenship revoked.

here:

ROCKY MOUNT, Va., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Va., said he will not apologize for criticizing the use of the Koran for swearing in government officials.

Goode came under fire for sending his central Virginia constituents a letter criticizing a request by Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., to be sworn in using the Koran instead of the Bible next month.

"I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped," Goode wrote.

Are All Evangelical Pastors in Colorado Gay?

It has happened again. Unbelievable! Pastor Paul Barnes of 2,100 member Grace church in South Denver sent in a video confession. If it wasn't for the adultery and harm to his family I think I'd feel sorry for Barnes. He seems to be the victim of a ridiculous ideology, one that forced him to spend his life living a lie. Then again, being gay and all should have been a hint for him to choose to pursue some other form of employment.

Washington Post:

On Sunday, Paul Barnes, founding pastor of the 2,100-member Grace Chapel in this Denver suburb, told his evangelical congregation in a videotaped message he had had sexual relations with other men and was stepping down.

Dave Palmer, associate pastor of Grace Chapel, told The Denver Post that Barnes confessed to him after the church received a call last week.

Left Behind: Eternal Forces

What could be a greater great than a video game adaptation of Left Behind, the popular series of Christian novels? Nothing! Imagine being able to slink around a greasy urban locale, dodging the putrid hands of radical secularists? Ignore the crappy reviews. This game has everything you could ever want out of this life AND the next. ;)

ign:

The game lets players take charge of the new believers in the struggle in a standard real-time strategy format. New York City is your battleground and missionaries are your soldiers. You'll be fighting against the forces of the Antichrist -- secular recruiters, rock stars and cultists. Who comes out on top will depend on how well you use the resources at your disposal.

At the most basic level, the game is about using your disciple units to recruit more believers. These believers can then be sent to a variety of structures for training in other essential roles: they can become disciples themselves and go out to recruit more believers; they can become builders to buy and refit old buildings; they can become musicians to shift the allegiance of evil units to neutral; they can become soldiers or doctors to help on the frontlines when things get bloody.

Atheistic Evangelism

Stick with it at least to 3:30 to see where it goes. Funny. ;)
via N8: