Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

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http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/03/11/invisible-children-funded-by-antigay-creationist-christian-right/

What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools — or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an “avenger of blood” and a “terrorist”, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?

990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children, and 990s from its major donors, tell a story that’s jarringly at odds with the secular, airbrushed, feelgood image the nonprofit has cultivated.

Among the tens of millions of people who have watched Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 viral video, including Oprah Winfrey – a dedicated supporter of LGBT rights who also has given $2 million dollars to Invisible Children, how many were aware of IC’s extensive financial ties to far-right fundamentalism, including major funders of the mounting global war on gay rights ? IC doesn’t go out of its way to advertise these things.

But Invisible Children’s first yearly report, from 2006, gives “special thanks” to the “Caster Family Foundation” and IC’s 2007 report is more specific, thanking Terry and Barbara Caster. In the lead up to the 2008 election, the California-based Caster family was identified as one of the biggest financial backers of the push for California’s anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8.

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1. Just to point out

Xchrom-I'd like to just point out (Without being inflammatory in any way) that the crap that the rightwing religious zealots spout is not true Christianity. It's a twisted, hypocritical and sanctimonious mutation of it. It's a shame that they've coopted it for their own nefarious purposes. They make the rest of us look like bigots and if anyone doesn't know better they would not be wrong for assuming we were.

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2. Don't worry, I'm Christian my self.

But I don't have a problem delivering tough criticism on my own people.

Progressive Christians were too silent with regards to fundies. And that was a mistake.

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3. TOTALLY. 100% AGREE GOPPERSTOPPER!

Amen Didn't see your post before I replied to Gopperstopper , Xchrom. I have said this over and over again and have gotten into heated arguments with some "people" hear on DU trying to explain that what is protrayed in the media about Christians, courtesy of the hypocritical right isn't what Christ taught. I COMPLETELY agree with your point about the Progressive Christian community needing to speak up and counter the idiot left.

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4. Most of us do know better

If it's your house clean it up!

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5. I'll give this 1 kick. Nt