Another Wingnut Coven Coming Up in September

Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the far right Eagle Forum, a shameless self-promoter, and the queen mother of the lunatic far right is promoting a gathering of the unhinged entitled the "How to Take Back America Conference" in St. Louis, Missouri, in September. Her co-chair is Janet Folger Porter who has made a career out of gay bashing and disseminating false information. The remainder of the "host committee" is a who's who of the demented and deranged, including but not limited to Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, Matt Staver of Liberty Counsel, Michael Farris, a home school nut from Northern Virginia, and Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily, a/k/a Wingnut Daily. Without a doubt LGBT Americans will be one of the boogey men used to incite the Christianists who fall precisely within the group Frank Rich was talking about in my prior post. Here is a sampling of some of the "workshop" topics:

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How to keep ERA permanently dead
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How to deal with the supremacist judiciary

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How to teach criticisms of evolution
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How and why to encourage homeschooling

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How to defend traditional marriage and DOMA
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How to pass effective pro-life bills and avoid pro-life defeats
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How to defend against gay attacks on marriage and religious speech
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How to stop feminist and gay attacks on the military

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These folks are not, in my opinion, dealing with a full deck of cards and I suspect as their ideology becomes more and more non-mainstream, they are likely to attract those willing to engage in violence to protect against what threatens their fabricated reality world.