christian right web sites not bothered with Tsunami

[donsu]

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18309


Christian right's compassion deficit
More than 100,000 dead in south Asia, but it's business as usual at the web sites of America's Christian right organizations


It took President Bush three days to ready himself to go before the television cameras and make a public statement about Sunday's devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck southern Asia. Even though he was late, and much more money will be needed, the president pledged at least $35 million in aid to the victims of the disaster. But, as of December 30, some of the president's major family-values constituents have yet to be heard from: It's business as usual at the web sites of the American Family Association, the Family Research Council, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, and the Coral Ridge Ministries.

These powerful and well-funded political Christian fundamentalist organizations appear to be suffering from a compassion deficit. Organizations which are amazingly quick to organize to fight against same-sex marriage, a woman's right to choose, and embryonic stem cell research are missing in action when it comes to responding to the disaster in southern Asia. None of their web sites are actively soliciting aid for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami.

In fact, there is no mention of the giant earthquake and tsunami that devastated southern Asia. There are no headlines about the dead, injured or the tremendous damage; there are no urgent appeals for donations; there are no phone numbers to call; there are no links to organizations collecting money and providing aid for the victims.

-snip- (this snip tells what the various groups are talking about instead of the Tsunami)

While many Christian evangelical organizations have rushed to help the victims, why aren't the nation's major religious right political groups -- quick to claim the moral high-ground at every opportunity -- putting their organizational muscle to good use? Why hasn't the devastation from the earthquake/tsunami been on the radar screens of these groups? Are they all on a values vacation?
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but wait - most of the Tsunami deaths are brown people

[AntiCoup2K4]

1. Pat Robertson seems to be paying attention

http://www.700club.com/

[InvisibleBallots]

2. Randi Rhodes said it best

The reason you only hear from right-wing Christians is because the left-wing Christian go to Africa to feed the hungy and heal the sick - where they are actually needed.

[lonestarnot]

3. Absolute Truth!

[underpants]

4. Good- more room in heaven for us

My God stock is through the roof compared to those people

[frankly_fedup2]

5. Somalia was affected . . . anyone heard about the deaths there?

Even in Somalia itself, the lighter skinned Africans treat the darker skinned Africans like slaves. I forget what they call them. They even have prejudice against their own people because of the color of their skin.

This is where the ethnic cleansing is coming from . . . trying to lighten the skin.

Maybe the Christians of this Country as well as our Government will notice them once they are all blonde haired, blue eyed, and white.

[livinginphotographs]

6. Yeah but that was Clinton's fault.

/sarcasm

[idiosyncratic]

7. All week I've wondered about Somalia.

Perhaps because it is such a war-torn country no one can get in to show what happened.

[Ezlivin]

8. Changing a web site is hard work

I'm a web developer and it could take as long as an hour to completely update a "Home" page on a web site.

That's good money that can be put to better use. These hard-working Christians need their vacation homes, private jets and luxurious surroundings. How else are they going to prove that they're on the winning side?