About Blackwell: Gods and monsters: Prominent Ohio Christian right leader

[MelissaB]

Gods and monsters: Prominent Ohio Christian right leader surprisingly open about his disdain for Muslims

2005-07-11
By Anastasia Pantsios
Cleveland Free Times


Ohio Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Blackwell has made no secret of his ties to Ohio's Christian conservatives.

He seems to be especially tight with the Rev. Rod Parsley, whose World Harvest Ministries in suburban Columbus is headquarters for a growing religious empire. The sprawling campus is home to a congregation of 12,000, a Bible college, kindergarten-through-12th grade school, and an international TV ministry.

Parsley's ties to Blackwell are close and many. The two stumped Ohio together last October in support of the anti-gay-marriage Issue 1. Blackwell spoke at the World Harvest Church during a weekend in April celebrating Parsley's latest book, "Silent No More," whose jacket boasts the following endorsement from Blackwell: "This book should inspire men and women of faith ... and make 'values voters' a force that politicians can no longer ignore." Parsley returns the favor in the acknowledgments: "Ohio's Secretary of State, the Honorable Kenneth Blackwell: thank you for your courageous and outspoken support of moral value... Character like yours is instrumental in restoring honor to public service."

Parsley clearly aspires to greater political influence: his Center for Moral Clarity is part of the Ohio Restoration Project, a thinly veiled "Christians for Blackwell" movement.
So their heaping praise on each other is not surprising.

But it will be interesting to see how Blackwell handles the tricky parts of such alliances. For example, Parsley's blunt attacks on Muslims.


More shit here: http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=21076


I'm really glad that Blackwell had the high morals enough to see that the election and recount went well.

[MelissaB]

1. and another I found while searching

The New Republicans

By Joseph Evans
July 11, 2005


Journalists are creating public awareness of an emerging class of people called New Republicans. No longer operating under the proverbial radar screen, they are people who value family, limited government, self-help and responsibility, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Partly, journalists may be interested in their enlarging presence because they are noticing an obvious sociopolitical paradigm shift occurringinourcountry. Another reason may be that the New Republicans are African Americans and Hispanics.

...snip

Politically,Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State of Ohio, is leading a conservative charge as the conservative gubernatorial frontrunner in the 2006 election. As Mr. Bush rightly thinks of Karl Rove as his "architect" in the 2004 presidential victory, Mr. Blackwell should be thought of as his "engineer." The Republican establishment in the state of Ohio thought Mr. Blackwell's insistence on placing the marriage amendment on the ballot was not demonstrating political savvy, but Mr. Blackwell had his finger on the pulse of his fellow Buckeyes' values.

Link: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20050710-100557-2597r.htm

[mtnester]

2. Gotta say, Rodney better be careful

he still lives in his hometown, and he surely does not want them drinking and pot smoking pictures from high school popping up...do ya Rodney?

How about some eye witness statements? People talking to the press about ya? Look Rodney, no one liked you in high school, and no one likes you now...we have left you alone cause you left us alone...we let you sit out on Gender Road in your big church, watched you build your big house with all the security gates out on Allen Road next to your momma's big house you built off the BACK of your followers, but when you start interfering in our lives buddy, BELIEVE me the yackers will come out of the WOODWORK to sell their tales, photos and stories about you asshat. Think your church offerings won't suffer? You won't even come to a class reunion cause a Barnes and Noble book signing down the road was more important to you, but the real reason is you are chickenshit to look seriously into the eyes of the people that REALLY know who you are.

Sit down, shut up and get back to your church fool...you have NO idea what a steaming pile of shit your life can become if you stick your nasty little mind into our business. Don't try us.

[delete_bush]

3. Parsley and his father are real family values types...

In 1992, The Columbus Dispatch newspaper reported the filing of a lawsuit by 48-year-old Naomil Endicott against Parsley and his father, claiming that the father had sexually harassed her and offered her money for sex with Parsley’s knowledge. The woman is Parsley’s aunt and was an employee of his World Harvest Church.

She says she sued rather than complain to church officials because they punish boat-rockers.

and this

a former church member named Lewis Bungard claims that in September 1991, Rod Parsley choked him and James Parsley (Rod's father) punched him in a dispute over some painting work Bungard had done at the Parsleys’ homes.

Bungard also charges that a $7000 donation he made to the church to build a home for unwed mothers and a senior care center was used ‘for the enrichment of Rodney Parsley, his parents and others so as to achieve an opulent lifestyle for themselves.’

Don't these flock people ever learn?

[MelissaB]

4. OMG!

I didn't know that.

[delete_bush]

5. found this at...

http://www.pfo.org/parsley.htm

this site has a lot more goodies on them. Some never learn.