Meet Your 2006 Spokespersons For God

Have you heard the news?

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As the audio above mentions, Christians are in fact being persecuted, and the leaders of the Christian Right gathered last week to tell you why. If you’d like a 1st person view of the account, I’d strongly recommend reading CampusProgress.org’s undercover investigation of the 48 hour gathering.

Meanwhile, if you really want to get a feel for those who are leading the fight against Christian persecution in a nation made up of 80-90% Christians with 43 consecutive Christian presidents including our current one who speaks openly of his faith daily, I’ve created a lineup of who’s who of speakers at the “War on Christians and the Values Voter in 2006."

Sam Brownback

(R)-Kansas

Best Known For: Hating, and I mean hating anything federalized. Upon entering Congress in 1994, he wanted to abolish the departments of education, energy and commerce (Because after all, Jesus hated education). He considers fetuses citizens of this country, and draws analogies between slavery, the Holocost, and the freedom he wants for fetuses. See this site for more info.

Actual Quote: "I have been and continue to be a strong believer and protector of traditional marriage. I think it's an important issue for society and for the country,"

Family Values: His wife proudly states that she “lives in the kitchen.” His older kids opt out of sex education at school.

John Cornyn (R)- Texas

Best Known For: Making excuses on the Senate floor for violence toward members of the judiciary if they are perceived too liberal, and comparing gay marriage to marrying a box turtle. As the former Texas Attorney General, there are emails between Ralph Reed and Tom Delay detailing help they received from Cornyn. (Read more here). As with our other Christians, he has an A+ rating from the NRA (because Jesus was a big fan of the A-K 47 and Bushmaster).

Actual Quote: “I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in -- engage in violence.”

Family Values: In 2004 along with other Christian conservatives, voted against an amendment to increase funding for child care. Women should be at home, not meddling around in the work force.

Tom DeLay

(Christ do I even have enough space?)
Best Known for: Indimidating judges during the 2000 election, using Enron money to finance political racketeering, taking bribes from energy companies in Kansas, receiving multiple indictments for his hand in illegal corporate fundraising, getting rebuked by the Republican-lead House ethics committee for bribing and subsequently threatening a Michigan Congressman, getting rebuked yet again by the committee for voilating FAA rules, obstructing justice for low-paid sweatshop workers on the island of Saipan by taking large campaign contributions from Saipan's chief lobbyist and blocking any Congressional investigation of the appalling conditions there (including forced abortions, rape, and torture), shoving Rep. David Obey (D-WI) and while calling him "chicken shit" on the House floor, getting addmonished for threatening Electronic Industries Alliance for not hiring a Republican as its president, and much, much, much more.

Actual Quote(s): "A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability," and "It has never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people, " and "So many minority youths had volunteered…that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like myself," and "Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."

Family Values: Of of the most fervent advocates for keeping Terri Schaivo in a coma, DeLay pulled the plug on his own father when he was in a similar situation.

Phyllis Schlafly

Best Known for: Her strong opposition to both feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment, and being anti-woman in general; looking like someone's grandmother trapped in 1940 - forever.

Actual Quote(s): Schlafly credits improvement in women's lives over the years with inventions such as clothes dryers and disposable diapers. "When I got married, all I wanted was a dryer so I didn't have to hang my diapers on a clothesline. Now, mothers have paper diapers. Et cetera, et cetera."

Family Values: Schlafly has dedicated much of her life in the past 20 years to opposing gay rights, gay marriage or recognition of any bias toward gays whatsoever. Her son, John Schlafly, is gay.

Janet Parshall - Talk Show Host

Best Known for: Attacking women, hating Hillary Clinton, former spokesperson of the Right Wing hate group Family Research Council.

Actual Quote(s): "But, in reality, I understand that Matthew (murdered because he was gay) was somewhat of a person who hung around some of the gay bars and was coming on to some people. So, was he looking for trouble in all the wrong places?"

"What I have against (gay parents adopting children) is that it's a pretend family."

"I think when two people of the same sex get together and they decide to use the moniker of a marriage, I think it's a grotesque misrepresentation, and actually, if that union decides that they want to then adopt children 'cause biology says they can't create children, then I think what you have in many respects is state-sanctioned child abuse..."

Family Values: Parshall is a closet lesbian.

Gary Bauer (R) Presidential Hopeful

Best Known for: Half of his staff, including the head of his campaign, quitting on him after it was discovered he was having an affair with his 27-year old presidential campaign aide in 2000. He was part of the neocon PNAC movement to invade the Middle East, yet received two deferrments and avoided the draft during Vietnam. As with other Christian Conservatives, he strong ties to Jack Abramoff, and has co-chaired, served on panels with and launched organizations with Abramoff.

Actual Quote(s): "I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. "

"Public Education, as the government’s means of influencing the next generation of Americans, should gratefully acknowledge the presence of religious belief in our country…Religion offers what even the best public school cannot: eternal hope, purpose and meaning, and redemption for the child’s soul."

Family Values: To read more about the man who claims to be the spokesperson for sacred institute for marriage, Google "Gary Bauer affair."

Alan Keyes (Senate Hopeful)

Best Known for: Perhaps fighting for anti-gay legislation more than anyone on this panel. He has called abortion the "genocide" of African-Americans, and abortion doctors as terrorists, and referred to Dick Cheney's daughter as a "selfish hedonist" because she is gay.

Actual Quote(s): "(Barrak Obama) stands for the position that has been identified by the Catholic Church as objectively evil...Catholics who vote for him make themselves part of that evil, just as the folks in Germany who voted for the party that eventually led to the Holocaust."

Family Values: Like other Christian conservatives who hate homosexuality, Keyes has said that those who are gay should pray to God for help dealing with that sin. Alan's daughter Maya, is gay.