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[above: click on image for YouTube video trailer]"Renewal or Ruin": New Video Documentary By Steve D. Martin Spotlights Secretive Rightwing Effort To Destroy Mainstream Protestant Churches
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The Shaming Projectdoes the violence of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" bother you ? If so, what can you do ? Well, to begin with you can email Jonathan Hutson's stories to people you know. That will help to bring more public scrutiny of the game. Public shaming really works ! Just click on the "email" icon and link at the top or bottom of the story and you'll be taken to a form that will allow you email the first story, The Purpose Driven Life Takers or the latest installment without leaving this site. Thanks.
Fundies raising stink about prospective gay appointment |
| Mon Feb 02, 2009 at 06:32:56 PM EST |  print story | |
cross-posted at dKos President Obama may soon tap a homosexual activist for a high-profile government post. John Berry, director of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, is reportedly the frontrunner to be nominated director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). That would make Berry the highest-ranking openly homosexual official in government history. Brought to us by One News Now, the online arm of the American Family Association's newswire service. Berry was one of the frontrunners for Secretary of the Interior, but this would still be a pretty plum assignment. The OPM manages the federal civil service. |
"First of all, looking at Mr. Berry's track record, it's obvious that he's a homosexual activist within the federal government, doing a lot of things within a Republican administration that most people never were aware of," he contends. "So, what we have is sort of a subversive -- if you could call it that -- homosexual activist, and now he's going to have an even much more visible and powerful role at OPM, which is a very powerful job in Washington. And it just shows what's going to happen under the Obama administration."
Although President Obama has been an outspoken champion of civil unions and domestic-partner benefits for government employees, LaBarbera contends many people remain unaware of how radical his campaign promises were to homosexual activists.
As many of you know, I've heard some of this even before becoming a charismatic Christian. I find myself asking the same question I've always asked--what's so "radical" about gays being hired to government jobs? It's not a "special" right.
Don't be surprised to hear more hand-wringing about this from fundie circles in coming days.
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