The Advocate has a story about Ralph Reed, former leader of the Christian Coalition once based out of local nutcase Pat Robertson, CBN University complex, opening a Florida branch of his new Faith and Freedom Coalition to energize social conservatives and financing Republican state campaigns in Florida (and I'm sure make Ralph a nice buck or two along the way). *
The irony to me , of course is that Reed - who I meet several times back in my GOP days - is in my view a self-hating closet case. Each time I met him and was in close proximity to him my gaydar went off the charts (I will concede that he was cute in person back in the day). Thus, I classify him with Robert Knight and a few other bete noire figures of the Christian Right who are a wee bit too frantically hysterical about the issue of homosexuality unless they them selves have some issues about their sexual orientation. Here are some story highlights:
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Ralph Reed, former head of the Christian Coalition, formalized plans last week to open an affiliate of his new Faith and Freedom Coalition in Florida, with the goal of energizing social conservatives and financing Republican state campaigns. The new coalition, which was created last weekend, plans to organize conservative voters and pour cash into high-profile races such as the Republican senate primary between Governor Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio, former speaker of the Florida house of representatives, according to the News Service of Florida .
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“Florida is the largest of a half-dozen states where the Faith and Freedom Coalition now has chapters, which some have dubbed a 2.0 version of the Christian Coalition, intended to draw younger, Internet-savvy social conservatives,” reported the News Service of Florida.
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Reed was hired by Pat Robertson two decades ago to serve as the first executive director of the Christian Coalition. He later became a lobbyist, and was connected to the Jack Abramoff scandal.
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Like a bad penny, some of the fixtures of the Christianist camp just keep reappearing - making money off the sheeple and grasping for power and influence are just too much for them to pass up. Ralph is definitely once such bad penny.
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