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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:20 AM
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This sounds kind of fun
This guy makes some great points. We should treat the Religious Right the same way they treat us so as to follow the Golden Rule. Here is some of his thoughts and ideas about what we can do, (if any of us EVER had the nerve!) He takes a lot of impetus from the way Pro-lifers picket and harass young women going into Planned parenthood clinics.

http://elroy.net/ehr/dountoothers.html


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Either they are liars, and we should simply ignore them; or our assumption is true, and we should be doing to them as they are doing to us. Based on the belief that the Religious Right indeed see themselves as defenders of the Golden Rule, it is not inappropriate, therefore, to make the following suggestions on what we should be doing to them.

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1. Picket Their Churches
The Religious Right have taken the position that verbal and sometimes physical confrontation is an acceptable method of enforcing morals. They picket abortion clinics, often getting physically in the way of women entering and leaving (even where new laws apply to prevent it), and almost always emotionally battering the woman exercising her constitutional right to control her body and her reproductive system.
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Based on their actions, it is clear that the Religious Right would like us to do the same to them.

it should be perfectly acceptable for us to picket and confront members of Religious Right churches and parachurch organizations as they enter and leave their buildings.
Go to their churches on Sunday Morning. You can find out when services begin by reading the Saturday newspaper. Take big signs with horrible pictures of people who have committed suicide because of the torment caused them by the Religious Right, and wave your signs in their faces.
And if the Religious Right truly means what they say, then they will thank you for following their example.

2. Disrupt Their Meetings
The Religious Right have shown support for the idea that public outbursts at gatherings of the "morally-challenged" is a justifiable method of spreading the word. They have disrupted rallies that support equal rights for Gays. They have gotten into shouting matches at meetings of Liberal politicians. They have heckled leaders of Planned Parenthood when they give speeches.
In your Sunday best, go into their sanctuaries and wait for the service to begin. Plant yourselves in different places interspersed between the regular members. Then, in five or ten minute intervals, take turns standing up and yelling at the preacher and the congregation. Heckle them about their support of oppressive legislation. Shout out against their opposition to equal rights for women. Disrupt their services with arguments against their stance on homosexuality.

4. Boycott Their Companies

Get a copy of the "Christian Yellow Pages." Most large cities have one, and they can usually be found in the local Christian book store. In smaller towns you need only talk to the locals to discover which businesses are owned by members of the Religious Right. Find them, and print up a list of the best targets. Hand it out on street corners. Send it to the local media (unless the paper is owned by such a person, in which case they will do the unethical thing - they won't cover the story). Picket in front of the targeted businesses if you must. The important thing is to let it be known that you are boycotting these businesses because they are owned by people who promote an agenda that discriminates against a person's right to choose whom they love.


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