I noted in a post today that the fundamentalists are conducting witch hunts at evangelical Christian affiliated colleges and farcically named universities to root out faculty members who - gasp! - might accept modern knowledge. But the obsession with ideological purity extends to would be presidential candidates and their staffs. The American Renewal Project has appointed itself as the guardian of religious dogma purity and will seek out dirt on presidential candidates and their staffs and families to identify those who are gay, or equally bad in the minds of the religious zealots, might be gay rights sympathizers. The Raw Story looks at this latest batshitery from the "godly folk." Here are highlights:
An evangelical Christian organization has called on right-leaning pastors to “investigate” the family and staff of U.S. presidential candidates in order to expose anyone who is secretly gay or who supports LGBT rights.
The Washington Examiner‘s Paul Bedard reported on Monday that David Lane’s American Renewal Project had asked “100,000 pastors” that it was working with to mobilize Christian voters to also dig up dirt on people connected to presidential candidates.
“As the race begins in the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary, Evangelicals have no choice but to investigate which consultants and operatives are behind each of the candidates; decisions about personnel provide evidences about policy,” Lane wrote in a column for Western Journalism last week.
Lane pointed out that evangelicals had been disappointed when Ken Mehlman revealed he was gay after stepping down as the chairman of the Republican National Committee. And he suggested that George W. Bush would have been disqualified if Christian voters had known that his wife, Laura Bush, would hint at support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights after the president left office.
According to the Christian activist, GOP attempts to appeal to independent voters had been “disastrous for the Republican Party-and America.”
“Moderates flushed the legacy-and branding-of limited government, lower taxes, deregulation of business, and the attitude of ‘the-one-thing-that-government-can-do-for-me-is-leave-me-alone’ bequeathed to the Grand Old Party by President Reagan,” he wrote. “Moderates have sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind for Republicans, winning the presidency only 8 of the last 24 years.”
“For the last quarter century, Evangelicals have been discipled by the likes of Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt, Ken Mehlman, and Meghan McCain. Haven’t they done enough damage?” Lane asked.
Lane and his followers are freaking insane. What really gets me is that they cannot see that it is they themselves and the policies that they demand that the GOP support that have lead to electoral defeats for GOP presidential candidates. The coming campaign season will be potentially hilarious to watch as these loons rile the waters.
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