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ARE EXTREMIST CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS THE ENEMY AND TRAITORS TO AMERICA? by R. Blackbird

Extremist Conservatives are selfish, power hungry, hateful of the poor, disloyal to the nation and its people, dishonest, avaricious, scornful of the nation's history, the dignity of its institutions, its standards of political morality, and its vision of advancement for all the people.  Extremist Conservatives love war as long as they and theirs do not have to put on helmets and carry guns into the fighting. They use lies to start wars that kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and thousands of our own military service people. They love massive war-time profits, unavailable to their rich masters if war is absent.

Today's Extremist Conservative doesn't believe that intelligence, logic, compassion or an appreciation or acknowledgment of historical facts or legal precedents are required, relevant or worthy of consideration. They believe that Corporations should be given the same first amendment free speech rights as individual citizens so they can "buy" political candidates and elections. 

Although this attitude works against the best interests of working class Americans and further diminishes their political relevance and influence, the Extremist Conservatives have found a way to Brainwash Blue Collar Americans with Fox News and Conservative pundits like Glen Beck and Sean Hannity who preach to the sheeple who are always waiting to be told what to do.

Extremist Conservatives believe that Pollution, global warming and de-forestation are all un-provable "myths" of egghead/tree hugger scientists who are “socialist” enemies of “over-regulated” capitalism. They believe the earth, which right wing fundamentalist claim is less than 6,000 years old, will miraculously heal itself! All we have to do is “pray”.  

Today's mercenary self-focused deviant breed of dysfunctional near-sighted Extremist Conservative, believes that Power and Control are the most important reasons to be a Conservative.  It's not about right or wrong, good or bad, fair or unfair, rational or irrational, even if that means intellectual, moral, psychological and functional delusion, denial and dishonesty. They want what they want for no other reason than they WANT it……regardless of the consequences to themselves and everyone else!  

Somehow, that makes "them" feel good about themselves­…..makes them “feel” safe.   To them driving jobs out of America and Americans out of their homes is "just business as usual" and nothing "personal".

Extremist Conservatives hate the rest of us, which they must, in order to pass away from themselves and onto us, the financial burdens and losses their crimes, schemes and thefts cause. They are prolific, incessant, and destructive liars. They are blasphemers for they insist that their hateful and destructive deeds are the work of God. They are apostates for they gleefully attack the poor, the immigrants, the old and the sick, of whom God has commanded all of us to be mindful.  They are Adulterers.

There is no reasoning with them, for all their logic is built on false premises. There is no appealing to them for honor's sake for they have lost all sense of shame and have no honor, there is no appealing to them for the nation's sake for that it what they hate the most.

What Extremist Conservative Republicans do NOT care about:

☑ US Constitution
☑ Facts, Science
☑ People in General, Human Lives
☑ Children, Young, Women, Elderly, Single Mothers
☑ Middle Class, P00r, Min0rities­, People of Color, Gays
☑ Equality, Human Rights, Love, Empathy, Family Values
☑ Poverty, Hunger, Homelessness
☑ Education, Deficit
☑ Equal Pay for Women
☑ Workers Right, Small Business, Agenda-Free Judges
☑ Ethics & Integrity, Principles
☑ Rule of Law, Social Justice
☑ Health Care for American People
☑ Tax cut for 98% of Americans
☑ Veterans, Active duty military, Firefighters
☑ Peace, The Earth, Rest of the World
☑ Animals

What Extremist Conservative Republicans - DO care about:

☑ Themselves
☑ Money
☑ Oil
☑ Power
☑ Wealth
☑ White
☑ Their Party
☑ Wars
☑ Guns
 

How to recognize an Extremist Conservative Republican:

The following are the twenty criteria which you can use to measure the central traits of the Extremist Conservative Republican personality (It also applies to Fundamental Christian Conservative Extremists.) This covers the two aspects that help define this person: selfish and insensitive exploitation of others and an unstable lifestyle:

1.   They are Glib, Superficially Charming, Usually Intelligent, Smooth-talking, Engaging and Slick.

2.   They are Egotistical to the point of narcissism. They really believe they are set apart from the rest of humanity by some special grace. They have Grandiose Self-Worth and a greatly inflated idea of their abilities and self-esteem.  They are arrogant and have a sense of superiority.

3.   They are prone to being bored and have an excessive need for new, exciting stimulation and risk-taking.

4.   They are Pathological and habitual liars. They seem incapable of either knowing or telling the truth about anything.  They are shrewd, crafty, sly and clever as a Moderate Republican; deceptive, deceitful, underhanded and unscrupulous as a Ultra Right Republican.

5.   They are Manipulative, using deceit and deception to cheat others for personal gain.

6.   They have no guilt or remorse: no feelings or concern for losses, pain and suffering of others, they are  coldhearted.  Genuine religious, moral, or other values play no part in their lives. They have no empathy for others and are capable of violence.

7.   Under older psychological terminology, they fall into the category of psychopath or sociopath, but unlike the typical psychopath, their behavior is masked by a superficial social facade.

8.   They have a limited range or depth of feelings; they evidence interpersonal coldness. They lack empathy and have a lack of feelings toward others; They are cold, contemptuous and inconsiderate.

9.   They live a parasitic lifestyle – they are intentionally manipulative, selfish and have exploitative financial dependence on others.

10.  They have poor behavioral controls and readily express negative feelings, verbal abuse and inappropriate expressions of anger.

11.  They are promiscuous and have brief, superficial relations, numerous affairs and an indiscriminate choice of sexual partners.

12.  They have no realistic long-term goals and have an inability or constant failure to develop and accomplish long-term plans.

13.  They are Impulsive.  Their behaviors lacks reflection or planning and their actions are done without considering the consequences.

14.  They are irresponsible and repeatedly fail to fulfill or honor commitments and obligations.

15.  They scapegoat and are incapable of either having the insight or willingness to accept responsibility for anything they do. Whatever the problem, it is always someone else's fault. They deny responsibility and attempt to manipulate others through this.

16.  They have many short-term relationships and have a lack of commitment to a long-term relationship.  If married for any length of time, they have established control over their spouse to the point of being a dictator.

17.  They had early behavior problems where there was a variety of dysfunctional and unacceptable behaviors before age thirteen.

18.  They had criminal behavioral tendencies between the ages of 13-18 but they were never caught.

19.  They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed.

20.  As they obtain more and more political power, they become guilty of diverse criminal offenses, whether or not they were arrested or convicted. 

Other Related Qualities:

They tend to have the same political philosophy as the author Ayn Rand

They are Contemptuous of those who seek to try to compromise with or understand them.

They do not perceive that anything is wrong with them.

They are Authoritarian.

They are Secretive.

They are Paranoid.

They sometimes have difficulty with obeying the law regarding ethics, sexual mores, financial mismanagement, etc but seek out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired. 

They have a conventional appearance in their community.

Their goal is the enslavement of their constituents (victim(s)) through fear and lies.

They exercise despotic control over every aspect of their constituents (victim's) life by generating fear in their psyche.

They have an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore need their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love).

Their ultimate goal is the creation of a willing Constituent (victim).

They are incapable of real human attachment to another.

They are unable to feel remorse or guilt.

They experience extreme narcissism and grandiose behavior.

They may state readily that their goal is to rule the world whatever community they insert themselves into.  See The Family

Extremist Conservatives Republicans are the Enemy of America:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."  John Kenneth Galbraith

REMEMBER IN ORDER TO DEFEAT THEM WE MUST STRUGGLE!

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." Fredrick Douglas

ON THE KOCH BROTHERS:

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” -Fredrick Douglass

REMEMBER:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat....Teddy Roosevelt, past President of the United States

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION

   Introduction

   Purpose

     President Obama and the American Jobs Act

   The Friends of Religious Freedom!

WIKILEAKS

EVERYONE THINKS WE SHOULD GET OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.  HERE IS AN ORGANIZATION WHICH HAS TAKEN ON THE JOB OF MAKING SURE WE, THE PUBLIC, ARE ABLE TO MAKE HARD DECISIONS ON WHO IS TELLING US LIES OR THE TRUTH, BE THEY DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, MILITARY OR INDUSTRY. CLICK HERE TO VISIT.

TED KENNEDY

A GREAT AMERICAN, SENATOR TED KENNEDY,  PASSED AWAY.  THE FOLLOWING WORDS ARE A TRIBUTE TO HIM, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE HIS OWN.

"I have come here to discuss my beliefs about faith and country, tolerance and truth in America.  “I know we begin with certain disagreements; I strongly suspect that at the end of the evening some of our disagreements will remain. But I also hope that tonight and in the months and years ahead, we will always respect the right of others to differ, that we will never lose sight of our own fallibility, that we will view ourselves with a sense of perspective and a sense of humor. After all, in the New Testament, even the Disciples had to be taught to look first to the beam in their own eyes, and only then to the mote in their neighbor’s eyes….

“I am an American and a Catholic; I love my country and treasure my faith. But I do not assume that my conception of patriotism or policy is invariably correct, or that my convictions about religion should command any greater respect than any other faith in this pluralistic society. I believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly on it?"

"Unfortunately, there are those who do, and their own words testify to their intolerance. When people agree on public policy, they ought to be able to work together, even while they worship in diverse ways. For truly we are all yoked together as Americans, and the yoke is the happy one of individual freedom and mutual respect."  Sen. Edward Kennedy

EVEN THOUGH OBAMA WON THE ELECTION, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WHO ARE LIKE POISONOUS SNAKES.  SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO HIT THEM SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE YOU GET RID OF THEM. 

       Who is Rick Perry

      Who is Herman Cain

       Who is Newt Gingrich?

    Who is Michelle Bachmann?

      Who is Ron Paul

      Who is Mitt Romney

      Who is Jon Huntsman

      Who is Rick Santorum

       Who Are the Koch Brothers?

       Who is Joe Walsh

      Who is Rand Paul

    Who or What is the Family?

    Who are The Birthers?

       Who is Darrell Issa

     Who is Rudy Giuliani?

    Why are the Right Wing Extremists trying to Repeal Healthcare Reform?

    Who is Sarah Palin and why is she supporting Right Wing Terrorism?

    Who is Ex-Senator John Ensign - Does he really represent Family Values?

       Who is David Vitter - Does he really represent Family Values?

    Who is Ex-Governor Mark Sandford - Does he really represent Family Values?

    Who is State Senator Paul Stanley - Does he really represent Family Values?

    Who is Senator Chuck Grassley and Why is He Lying?

     Who is Doug Lamborn?

      Who is Mike Enzi?

      Who is Vito Fossella?

      Who is Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon?

      Who is Rep. Walter "Wally" Herger of California?

      Who is Mitch McConnell of Tennessee?

     Who Are The Wyly Brothers

      Who is Richard Viguerie?

       Who is Haley Barbour?

      What is Fox News?

       Who is Sean Hannity?

       Who is Rush Limbaugh?

     Who is Bill O'Reilly?

        Who is Ann Coulter?

       Who or Rather WHAT is Glenn Beck? (Gag!)

       Who is Paul Ryan?

       Who is Scott Walker?

     Why Is The Republican Party Destroying Itself?

     10 Epic Failures of the Bush Tax Cuts

     Who is The Family?

   Who is trying to stop Health Care Reform In America I?

     Who is trying to stop Health Care Reform In America II? - See The Republican Health Care Plan Here

     Republicans Who Vote For Rape

   Who Are The Un-Americans?

   Facts About the Health Care Disaster in America.

   The Enemies of Religious Freedom who some say are Traitors to America!!

     Right Wing Terrorists and Those Who Support Them

     Death Threats Against Obama

  Are You Going To Hell?

     Why are All the Glaciers Melting?!!!

     What is the Truth About Climate Change?!!

    Than Shwe - The Worst Person in the World

    Ahmadinejad - Another Worst Person

     Muqtada al-Sadr - Another Worst Person

     Who Are The Wyly Brothers?

   Who is Harold Camping and Why Does He Matter?

     Climate Change and Why It Matters to Us as a Nation

     Republican Conservative Taliban

     Republican Bigotry

     Republican Scandals

     Republican Hypocrisy

     A Day in the Life of Joe Middle Class Republican

     Republican Sodom and Gomorrah

     Republican Criminals

     Is There a Right Wing Conspiracy?

     Republican Sex Scandals

     Who is Rupert and James Murdoch?

 

BOOKS WRITTEN BY LEADERS OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS

     SPECIAL!!! BOOKS BY MAJOR LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES WITH REVIEWS!!

BOOKS WRITTEN ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND THEIR ATTEMPT TO MAKE THIS A CHRISTIAN ONLY NATION WITH EVIL TALIBAN LIKE LAWS.

    Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternative Version of American History Vol. 1 by Chris Rodda. Go to: http://liarsforjesus.com/ and buy the book

If you want to purchase more books about the Religious Right and their attempt to become the American Taliban, following is a brief selection of books that will only increase your thirst for truth.

  Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce

  American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right by Markos Moulitas

  Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane by John Amato  and David Neiwert

  Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right by Robin Morgan

  C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy by Jeff Sharlet

    The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet

   How to Win a Fight with a Conservative by Daniel Kurtzman

   Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John Avlon

   Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State by Rob Boston

ALL ABOUT THE BUSH SCANDALS.   ALTHOUGH HE'S GONE BACK TO TEXAS, LETS REMEMBER HIM AND THE CORRUPTION HE LEFT OBAMA TO CLEAN UP:   NO ETHICS, NO HONESTY, NO WAY!!

     The Two Faces of George "Dubya" Bush Page

     How George "Dubya" Bush Destroyed Conservatism in America

    How George "Dubya" Bush Lost the Iraq "War".

    The Collapse of The Bush Foreign Policy

    George Bush Thinks History Will Vindicate Him? Good Luck!!!

   Rumors About George Dubya Bush!!!

   The Qualifications of George "Dubya" Bush.  Why Did We Elect Him?

   The Bush Christian Blood Cult!!

    Featured Bush Mistakes

   Architects of the Iraq "War": Where Are They Now?

Famous Quotes Regarding Freedom Of Religion:

1.  "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington

2.  "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion ..." from the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, June 10, 1797.

3.  "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State." Thomas Jefferson, in his historic Danbury letter, January 1, 1802

4.  "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"   James Madison, in "Memorial and Remonstrance", 1785

5.  "The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of church and state."  James Madison, March 2, 1819

6.  "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State."    The U.S. Supreme Court, 1947

7.  "I am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. ... We must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."- retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- a Republican, conservative-leaning Reagan appointee who helped deliver the White House to the Bush Syndicate in 2000 -- seems to have developed a serious case of conspirator's remorse.

SOME OF THE MANY SCANDALS OF THOSE THAT FOLLOW A RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY

      100+ General Scandals!!!

      272 Offenders 1998 - 2008

      Scandal Number 700 - Vito Fossella

      Republican Sex Scandals

AND NOW WE HEAR FROM THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT!!!!!

1.  "They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state.  There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore." Pat Robertson, addressing the ACLJ, 1993  (I Believe Pat was under educated! He might have read his history a little better!!!)

2.  "The national government ... will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality."  Adolf Hitler, 1938  (Yep! That worked for him didn't it?!!)

SCANDALS INVOLVING THE STATE OF ALASKA

   Who is Sarah Palin

   What are the Alaska Scandals?

   Who is Senator Ted Stevens?   Aren't You Glad He's Gone Now?

   Who is Rep. Don Young?

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SCANDALS INVOLVING NATIONAL SECURITY

   Who is Sun Myung Moon?

   Who is Karl Rove? - Should He Be Tried For Treason?

   Who is Dick Cheney? - Should He Be Tried For Treason?

SCANDALS INVOLVING PUBLIC FIGURES AND SEX, FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY, OR BLATANT LYING.

   The Dirtiest Politicians

  Political Corruption

  Political Bigotry

  Political Gomorrah

  Political Hypocrisy

  Political Catastrophes

   Senator Mitch McConnell and His Trip to Dante's Inferno!

   Senator Roger Wiker and Dante's Inferno

   Click Here For Information About Your Favorite Political Pundit

   Who or What is Ann Coulter? and What are Her Voting Problems?

   Who is Coy Privett?

   Who is Senator David Vitter?

   Who is Senator Larry Craig?

   Who is Congressman Doug Lamborn?

    Who is Haley Barbour?

     Who Are The Wyly Brothers

      Who Are the Koch Brothers

    Who is Herman Cain

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HOW TO SURVIVE WHAT NEO-CONSERVATIVES HAVE IN MIND FOR AMERICA.

   Surviving the Global Cataclysm.

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THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND THE MISTAKES THEY MADE AND CONTINUE TO MAKE.

  The Anatomy of the Religious Right

   Senator Gordon Smith

   Did "Christian" Fundamentalists lose their Spirituality?

   Do "Christian Fundamentals have Bad Policies?

   Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole Misrepresented North Carolina and Why She Lost.

   Fundamentalists and Witchhunts?

   Christian Fundamentalist?

  Is the United States a Christian Only Nation?

  Moslem Right Wing Extremists? 

 Who are the Real American Traitors?

  Find out about the Un-Christian Religious Right!!!

  Separation of Church and State!

  Biblical Consistency about Morality!

  Religious Right in their own Words!

  Right Wing Religious Extremists!

  Revealed Religion and Religious Right!

  Right Wing Conspiracies!

  Judgment and the Religious Right!!

  Change is Possible!!

  Nazi Bigots? 

  Who is Hijacking the Christian Church?!!!

  Articles on Religious Freedom!!!

  Monitoring the Religious Right!!!

  Religious Liberty On-Line Links!!!

  Other Recommended Sites!!!

  Books about Today's Bigots !!!

   Fundies's and "Filthy Practices?"

  Why the Christian Right Hates America

   What is Mormonism (What do John Huntsman, Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck have in Common)

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What Happens When a School Board of Religious Zealots 'Lie for Jesus'?

In her book, The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America, Lebo writes of her journey through a familiar town made alien by a handful of school board members willing to, as Lebo puts it, "lie for Jesus." Lebo closely follows the story of how a handful of fundamentalists, pushing to include the teaching of creationism in school biology courses change their tack when the conservative Christian Thomas More Law Center gets involved. School board members suddenly stop talking about Jesus and creationism, denying statements they made to local reporters, and saying instead they were advocating the teaching of the so-called science of intelligent design. The lies were outright enough to make the presiding judge flush with anger, who subsequently cited the school board's "breathtaking inanity," in his decision against them. Go HERE for the story.

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WHO OR WHAT IS THE RFCSE?

  Mission Statement of the RFCSE

  Membership in the RFCSE!!!

  Who visits the RFCSE Home Page?!!!

  Who is the RFCSE?!!!

  Director of the RFCSE.

  The Georgia Branch of The RFCSE.!!!

  So Much for 2008 by the original Die Hard  This is how our religious future declined under Bush.

TO MEET REAL CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, CLICK HERE!!!

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MOSLEM FAITH AND WHY IT MAY BREED MORE TERRORISTS THAN THE OTHERS, CLICK HERE!!!

TO VISIT WITH BETTY BOWERS "AMERICAS BEST CHRISTIAN" (SATIRE) CLICK HERE

TO VISIT THE LANDOVER BAPTIST CHURCH "WHERE THE WORTHWHILE WORSHIP.  BUT THE UNSAVED ARE UNWELCOME !" (SATIRE) CLICK HERE

TO MEET PROGRESSIVES IN PORTLAND OREGON CLICK HERE

Every once in a while we come across a quotation that is so true, that chills go up and down our spine.  The following short statement says exactly what I wanted to say to someone yesterday, but couldn't find the words.

"Many in the Religious Right in this country believe that since homosexuals "can't pro-create," they thus need to "recruit" or else their "way of life" will dwindle and disappear as their numbers are depleted over time. This is, of course, an utterly ridiculous belief. Gay people are not rendered infertile due to their sexual preferences, and their sperm and ovum are as capable of producing children as is yours or mine. Indeed, there are a great many gay people who are also married with children. Ancient Greece - the cradle of Western Civilization - thrived despite widespread homosexuality. Men had sex with other men for pleasure, and yet these "gays" all had wives and lots of kids back home. Homosexuality and the ability to produce offspring are not mutually exclusive.

"Of course, the irony of the religious Right's paranoia about the "homosexual agenda" is the fact that they, themselves, are the biggest supporters of true brainwashing and indoctrination. And they've always known that the best time to "recruit" someone is when they're still kids, with highly malleable world-views (see: church, Boy Scouts, Sunday School, Junior Klan, Hitler Youth, etc).    Therefore, they extrapolate from their own twisted desire to control the hearts and minds of children (and thus the future voting population) and project an image of their shadow selves onto their (current) most feared and hated enemies: Homosexuals.

"The Religious Right have always created bogeymen for themselves. They did it in the thirties with immigrants and Jews (remember Father Coughlin?). They did it in the fifties with the Red Menace of communism. They did it in the sixties with hippies and those darned, "unconstitutional" civil rights. They did it in the seventies with bussing and desegregation (i.e. black folks). They did it in the eighties with commies, black folks, drug users and the poor, and they did it in the nineties with Latinos, anyone for separation of church and state, and any democratic congressman.

"In all these cases, the Religious Right was battling something about themselves that they hated, but were afraid to confront. Like an alcoholic ranting about the evils of pot and cocaine. Like a bunch of wealthy businessmen sitting in exclusive, private gentlemen's clubs, whispering gravely to each other about the "sinister conspiracy" of labor unions. Bogeymen creating bogeymen.

"And now, with the homosexuals, the far-right-wing lunatics want to stamp out any attempts to instill tolerance towards The Other in our children - they call it "brainwashing" - because they quite rightly sense that tolerance is the best inoculation for the kind of brainwashing in which they, themselves, are engaged.

"Simply put, the Religious Right, as they attempt to implement their own theocratic, freedom-crushing national agendas via a Byzantine collection of secrecy-obsessed organizations with poorly-hidden motives - and way too many politically powerful people among their members for comfort - see any attempt to counteract their own pro-active efforts as a "sinister plot." And seeing as these loons see the world in terms of Good vs. Evil, it is far easier for them to paint anyone who is against their ideals as being in league with SATAN than it is for the sane and the secular to vilify them. The demonization of their enemies is taken care of for them in advance, by their own perverted, hate-filled psyches.

"And before you try to tell me that I'm exaggerating the political power wielded by these freaks, just remember this: They make up five out of nine Supreme Court Justices, and they got their anointed boy installed as President, despite the fact that he lost the popular vote... and despite the fact that they probably would have burned Miami and Washington D.C. to the ground if the shoe had been on the other foot."   .....Jerky B.

Religion is a convenient tool with which those individuals and groups who control most of the wealth in our society, control those people with little or no money normally called the middle class or working class. In their minds, the poor do not count because they have no money and they are ignored.  In the case of fascist-types like Pat Robertson and (in the past) Jerry Falwell, they don't even try to hide their greed. They come up with all manner of convoluted Biblical defenses of their avarice and opportunism.

If one learns to detect the ECONOMIC and POLITICAL reasons that many powerful right-wingers want to Churchize American society, then American society in general starts to look a whole lot different. Can anyone really maintain that it's a COINCIDENCE that so many fundamentalists are Republicans? They'll give you a million reasons why this is so. But the real reason is simple enough: religion in the U.S. is a business of both profit and control.

Although Religious Right extremists are only a small portion of the U.S. population, they  wield political power far beyond their numbers.  They have their own TV stations and they control the Republican party, yet they claim to be victims of "religious persecution".   L.O.L. 

They manipulate public opinion through letter writing campaigns, to make their extremist views look mainstream.  They lie, but they lie so loud and so consistently and so pervasively that many people think they are speaking the truth.   It is the strategy of the "big lie".. to repeat a deliberate untruth as often as you can, and eventually, it will become a "fact" in the public consciousness.  They have many different organizations, but only one agenda. That agenda is to establish a Christian fundamentalist theocracy in the United States.

But you will not hear Pat Robertson or Pat Buchannon or any Republican Candidate for President admit to that on CNN.  When they are on national television, Religious Right leaders exercise moderation and restraint.  They pledge their "love" for the people they hate (everyone who doesn't share their views), and their deep concern for this nation, and, invariably, "our" children (as if liberals did not have children).  They monopolize the word "family", acting as if only extreme-right, fundamentalist Christians can be good parents.  They have the impudence to claim that they represent "Judeo-Christian" values, but they do not even represent mainstream Christianity.  They claim the exclusive monopoly on morality - their own very special brand of "morality".  They glorify the "golden 50's", a time when the US was supposedly a "moral" nation.

But the truth is that more right wing fundamentalist Christians are found to be immoral than other Christian groups.  The 1950's?   The 1950s were a deeply immoral time.   It included institutionalized racism, discrimination of women and gays, rampant abuse of wiretapping powers by the FBI and Witchhunts against political dissidents were only some of the hallmarks of that "moral" time.  Those social ills were finally addressed in the 1960s.  But for those who define morality not by "justice and equality for all", but by what is going on in our bedrooms, the 60's mark the beginning of the "moral decay" of our nation. According to Pat Robertson, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, inflation, the oil crisis, Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, the attempted Reagan assassination, the national debt, drug use and the high divorce rates are directly related to the 60's decisions of the Supreme Court to end religious coercion in public schools.

These are the kinds of message they have hammered into the minds of the people for two decades, and it is working.   An increasing segment of the population is buying into the "moral decay" lie and supports legislation and constitutional amendments that would forever take away the civil liberties that we take for granted.   Never mind that many of the social problems that fuel such sentiments, such as youth violence and crime, are exacerbated or even created by right-wing obstructionist policies, designed by Religious Right leaders and their political minions to make sure their own predictions of gloom and doom come true.  First block any meaningful reform in the legislature, than blame the resulting problems on "lack of moral values".   The Religious Right's campaign against public education is just one example of that destructive, cynical strategy.   In implementing that strategy, Christian extremists know no shame.   They aggressively blamed liberal values (= lack of values) for the Columbine massacre, as if Littleton, CO wasn't an affluent, conservative community with a disproportionately high number of evangelical Christians!   It happened right in James Dobson's back yard, but they have the impudence to blame liberals for it.

Religious Right leaders make no secret of their utter contempt for the constitution and the freedoms it represents.   When Phyllis Schlafly makes her hysterical pleas for "no more Clinton judges", what else is she but saying that the US constitution (which gives the president the right to appoint judges) has no meaning to her?  What else is Pat Robertson but an enemy of the constitution when he calls for the impeachment of every judge who disagree with his agenda?  What could be more unconstitutional than Gary Bauer's presidential campaign promise to permit state facilities to post the ten commandments?

Exposing these people as enemies of constitutional freedoms is easier than taking candy from a baby, but the "liberal" mass media - which are many things, but certainly not liberal - usually shy away from the task.  These "liberal" media never expose the hypocrisy of the Religious Right, and the highly selective reading of religious scripture that is behind most of its ideologies.   Not that that would be hard - ever wondered why Jerry Falwell was not wearing a beard (Lev. 19[27])?  Ever wondered why Pat Robertson has not given away his millions to the poor (Matt 19 [23-24])?

Many other Religious-Right myths just beg to be challenged: Premarital sex is against Christian values?  Not according to the bible, which condemns adultery, but not sex between two people who are both unmarried (see this  )  Abortion is murder? Not according to Exodus 21 [22], which considers killing a fetus only a minor misdemeanor (reference).

Homosexuality condemned by "millennia of moral teaching"?  Pure fiction. The ancient Greek and Roman civilizations considered homosexuality perfectly normal, so normal that in fact they did not even have a word for it.  Many native societies considered it normal and acceptable as well.    And even in the Christian world, there was never a universal agreement that homosexuality was wrong.  In the words of Ken Collins:

Some modern Christian teachers allege that the church has officially considered homosexuality to be morally wrong, but that long dogmatic tradition doesn't extend much farther back than the 1960s, and even then only in certain sects.  For example, the current edition of the United Methodist Book of Discipline has a lot to say about homosexuality, but the topic doesn't even appear in the 1965 edition or in any earlier edition of the same book.  If this is such an important historic dogma of the Christian Church, we might reasonably ask why it is not listed as such in historical documents.  We might ask, 'Why were the seven ecumenical councils silent on this topic?'  Historically, there has always been a debate among Christians on this topic, and the categorical judgments against gays are recent, not ancient.

Even if such universal and long-standing condemnation existed, it would be irrelevant, considering the many grave errors in moral judgment that Christians committed throughout the centuries, of which approval and defense of slavery is only one example.

"The first four commandments: no other gods, no graven images, not take name in vain, and remember the Sabbath are wholly religious in nature unrelated to any civil or criminal law.  That is 40 percent of the commandments.  Two other commandments: the fifth commandment to honor thy father and mother, and the tenth commandment not to covet are semi-religious social and psychological norms which would have to be enforced by thought police." (...) In Mark 10:19 Jesus said, "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother." Thus he omitted five of the original Ten Commandments--- most notably those dealing with God and the practice of religion---- and added a new one of his own.  Elsewhere, in Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus replied that the greatest commandments were the golden rules rather than any of the Ten Commandments. source