AFA: Boehner leading “war” against “the powers of evil”

[cynatnite]

In a new fundraising letter asking for help to “restore our nation to its Christian roots,” the American Family Association asks its supporters to pray for House Speaker John Boehner, who AFA says is leading a war against the “powers of evil” – meaning pro-equality and pro-choice members of Congress.

After recounting the biblical story of Moses relying on the help of Aaron and Hur to keep his arms raised and help the Israelites defeat Amalek, the AFA letter says this:

We are at war with the powers of evil no less than Moses was. In the physical realm of politics, our leader is House Speaker Boehner.

Even as you read this letter, he is combating those in Congress who seek to destroy our families and the unborn. As he does so, we need to be holding him up in prayer!

It’s worth noting that the Amalekites that the AFA invokes for comparison to its political opponents were, according to scriptures, the most despicable and implacable enemies of Israel and God, so much so that God ordered that they all be slaughtered, including women, children, and animals.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-boehner-leading-%E2%80%9Cwar%E2%80%9D-against-%E2%80%9C-powers-evil%E2%80%9D

Yeah, let's change that nasty violent rhetoric. :sarcasm:

[spanone]

1. so much for changing the tone, eh? they will change nothing

[gratuitous]

2. And, just like Moses

When Boehner could have been present at a moment of national healing and reconciliation in Tucson, he opted to stay in Washington DC for a cocktail party with fatcat donors and lobbyists. The biblical parallels are inescapable!

[fascisthunter]

3. Fucking Irresponsible Asshole: Stochastic Terrorism

you right wing idiots need to tone this shit down!

[LeftinOH]

4. GOP business as usual, then: Gays and abortion (and guns, natch). That's all they got.

[hatrack]

5. And he's fighting that war in every bar in the Beltway.

:puke:

[young_at_heart]

6. Thank Ronald Reagan----he put "religion" into politics

Reagan allowed the religious right nuts into the White House. Leaders of the New Christian Right coalesced around the candidacy of Ronald Reagan. Reagan embraced the political efforts of the NCR and pledged to work for enactment of its agenda. He won by impressive margins and Republicans, with a clearly conservation platform, took control of the Senate for the first time in over twenty years. Although some scholars cautioned against drawing such conclusions, the New Christian Right was credited with securing those victories as well as with successfully influencing the nation's political agenda.

And----they are even stronger today!

[mariawr]

7. Holding him up in prayer? More like holding him up in

...a bar.

Be careful. Out of their own mouths comes their destruction....from that same book.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Left Behind Much??? These are Fearful People who delve in Fantasy

[bdamomma]

10. fearful, cowardly and do not listen to facts.

[charlie]

9. Look at the AFA being all politically correct

There's a second example they could've used. What could be better than a double warning?

God also ordered the slaughter of the Midianites. But, he instructed: keep "for yourselves" the virgin females.

C'mon AFA, if you're in, go all in. Rape fantasies are perfectly okay when you're doing the Lord's work.

[Initech]

11. Boner *IS* the power of evil.

[DCKit]

12. Yeah, a lot of drunk people think they can do crazy shit.

[LiberalCatholic]

13. I have a really hard time believing

that God ordered them to be slaughtered. Jesus talked of a loving and merciful God. If the AFA is a Christian organization, shouldn't they be quoting the New Testament? Oh, I forgot, they can't- it's not angry and violent enough...