"Christian" Activists: ACLU is this generation's Ku Klux Klan

[Bluebear]

Beyond outrageous rhetoric. Methinks they are pulling out all the stops now because they know their monkey President is politically kaput.

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hristian Activists to Hand-Deliver Letters Demanding ACLU Back Off

To: National Desk

Contact: Dane Rose, 202-546-8329 ext. 106, off hours at 703-447-1072; Rev. Rob Schenck, 703-447-7686 cell, both of Faith and Action

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Reverends Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) and Patrick J. Mahoney will visit ACLU headquarters today to hand-deliver more than 20,000 petitions demanding that the left-leaning liberal attack group back off of terrorizing communities and individuals who seek to affirm America's Judeo-Christian values.

Schenck, who heads up Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital, and Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, asked their respective members to sign the statements after the ACLU sued a small rural school district in Adams County, Ohio, over four displays of the Ten Commandments in front of public schools there. The ACLU won an order for the Commandments to be removed, then demanded that the school reimburse them for legal expenses. After Christian ministers in the community stepped forward with a pledge to replace the money taken from the school budget, the ACLU settled for $80,000.

"The ACLU is this generation's Ku Klux Klan," said Rev. Rob Schenck. "They gallop into small towns with legal hoods over their heads and terrorize good people by threatening to harm children by draining the coffers of local schools if they so much as dare to recognize our nation's true heritage. These ACLU bullies are nothing more than psychological terrorists."

The Reverends Schenck and Mahoney plan to arrive at the offices of the ACLU around 3:00 P.M.

http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc1117.htm

[KingFlorez]

1. More like the Christian right is today's KKK

Their behavior is mirrors that of the KKK.

[greendog]

44. For reference: The KKK's website

http://www.kkk.com/

[Deep13]

2. Yeah, the ACLU sure has lynched a lot of people.

I seem to remember Billie Holiday singing a song about it.
:wtf:

[iamjoy]

9. What About Showing Up At Christian Funerals

saying God hates Fundamentalists. And advocating violence against radical clerics.

Oh, wait, that is Christians showing up at homosexual funerals. It is the radical clerics praying for, inciting violence against those who don't share their beliefs.

[Deep13]

13. Yep, that's what Jesus would do.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. And also remember

they protested at Al Gore senior's funeral because he supported gay people.

[CornField]

3. Mahoney... Mahoney...

There was something I knew about Mahoney, but I can't put my finger on it at the moment. Anyone got bio info on him?

As for the ACLU & Ten Commandments... "our nation's true heritage"... blah! I believe the court case stated that if the monuments could be proven to be items of historical significance, they could stay. Quite obviously, these were not of that variety.

[Cassandra]

4. Where's the "Judeo" in their values?

Other than trying to beat the crap out of us with selections from Leviticus.

[northzax]

27. right, I love the term judeo-christian

we love all the jews who become christians.

[mrcheerful]

5. Wonder if they'll show up wearing

their hobnail boots and brown shirts goose stepping to the tune of ''on wards Christen soldiers''? Then they can march down to the nearist jews setlement and talk about how jews are to blame for american christen greed. After all, we all know if it wasn't for the jews, greed would never have entered a fundie mind.

[Deep13]

12. Well, yah know, the ACLU is a bunch of devious "Jew" lawyers...

...who are out to destroy this country by enforcing all the provisions of the Constitution. Yep, freedom, limited government, rule of law, freedom of speech and freedom of religion: all subversive ideas. I don't accept everything the ACLU stands for. For example, I support campaign finance reform and squelching the press on pending criminal litigation to protect 5th and 6th Amendment rights. Still, it is hard to imagine that the nation is somehow worse off because some people are willing to stand up for the Constitution.

Aren't the Ten Commandments a Jewish invention?

[FreedomAngel82]

35. Yes on the Ten Commandments

They were given to the Jews when they were set free from Egypt and the Pharoah to Moses as guide lines for worship and how to live since they weren't used to being free and things like that. I personally don't know of any Christian's who follow them now days. You recognize them and most of it is basic common sense.

[gollygee]

6. PROJECTION

"Christian Activists" are this generations Ku Klux Klan

[MN ChimpH8R]

7. So bringing a lawsuit is the equivalent

of terrorism? This analogy is so ridiculous it defies belief. The courts are where we settle our differences in a civilized manner. What asshats. :puke:

[PassingFair]

8. I'll go along with this when they allow me to tack up

my NO GODS: NO MASTERS broadsheet on their church doors.

[Deep13]

15. Right. The 10 Commandments in classrooms and ...

... the Bill of Rights tacked on every church cross.

[iamjoy]

10. I Give The Activists Credit

At least it wasn't another Nazi analogy. Come on folks, any points for creativity here? Not too many, KKK isn't too original, they should have come up with something really fresh like Genghis Khan pillaging our fine traditions. Come on, when was the last time you heard a Genghis Khan analogy?

All kidding aside, where is the outrage from the right at this deplorable tactic? I'm waiting to hear it. I'm waiting. Crickets are chirping. Hmmmm......

[The Stranger]

11. What is next? A "cold" civil war?

Or are we already there?

[OneAngryDemocrat]

14. CALL THEM!!!

I just telephoned Faith and Action, and left them a message on their automated answering service.

I told them that I thought it was absolutely incredible for them to believe that they had a right, that they somehow deserved MY tax dollars to preach their religion in the public school that I pay for.

I urge you to do the same - it will take just 4 minutes.

[phone]

Press #2 to reach the automated message service.

And visit my website, www.shockedandawful.com

[drm604]

20. Yes,

call and demand that they back off terrorizing non-"Judeo Christians". That's no more off the wall then what they're doing.

[tjwash]

16. "if they so much as dare to recognize our nation's true heritage"

If they so, oh fuck it. It aint even worth the effort.

[drm604]

17. So they're demanding

that the ACLU stop doing something that the ACLU hasn't been doing. :crazy:
Can you saw "strawman attack"?

[JHB]

18. "I have no brain" syndrome is alive and well, I see.

Can you imagine, back in the heyday of lynchings, if black ministers had announce they were going to deliver "cease and desist" petitions to a Klan HQ?

All Reverends Schenck and Mahoney have to do is show up and they've proven themselves wrong.

Blind, damnfool idiots.

[cascadiance]

19. Aren't these Kristians risking alienating their followers?

By likening their followers' beloved KKK to the "hated" ACLU?

[Bluebear]

21. :snarf

[MadHound]

22. Two questions

How many people has the ACLU killed, maimed, or destroyed their lives?

And how come the ACLU is just fine with you when they are helping those conservatives like Rush, or the Ohio Neo Nazis?

These people have to much time on their hands, and too much coffee in their system.

[zbdent]

23. Seems like the right-wing of the Republican party attracts the likes of

the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, the Unabombers, etc. than does the ACLU . . .

Of course, when they get into trouble, they ALL turn to the ACLU to protect their "freedom of speech"/"expression" . . .

[Cha]

24. Seperation of Church and State,

Baby! Keep your faux Christian values outta my face.


:patriot: Go ACLU! Fightin' for our rights. :patriot:

[kweerwolf]

25. "back off of terrorizing communities" ... WTF?

If they want to see "terrorizing" let's kidnap the two "reverends," force them to listen to Judy Garland records and sign Broadway show tunes until they admit their love for each other and desire to wear their wives K-Mart Prada-knockoff pumps.

[jane_pippin]

26. And I bet they'll call the ACLU first when someone tries to tell them they

can't call the ACLU the KKK of this generation.

Idiots. These people are beyond ignorant.

[tjwash]

30. "Religious Right enlists the aid of the ACLU to sue the ACLU"

Wouldn't that make a great "Betty Bowers" headline?

[jane_pippin]

31. Ha! I'd love to see that headline.

:rofl:

At least then I'd know the world was about fall apart under the weight of its own stupidity.

[tjwash]

34. We'll let Rex Ray be their spokesman...

[jane_pippin]

36. Oh dear lord, that's just...not...right.

But it is hilarious!

[BiggJawn]

28. So what, then, is the "Christian" Right?

"The ACLU is this generation's Ku Klux Klan," said Rev. Rob Schenck. "They gallop into small towns with legal hoods over their heads and terrorize good people by threatening to harm children by draining the coffers of local schools if they so much as dare to recognize our nation's true heritage. These ACLU bullies are nothing more than psychological terrorists."

But we have people like the Good Pastor clogging up the school board and keeping them from their REAL job ofr funding the school and providing up-to-date materials and technology with their endless logjams over Creationism.


I'm beginning to think that they should put a Gallows, Ducking Stool and Burning Stake in every public square.

That would be a TRUER representation of "our nation's true heritage"...

[Deep13]

39. In a word, wrong.

A true representation of our nation's heritage would be a roomful for people arguing and fighting with each other until their common values could be written in vague enough terms to be accepted by most. The Constitution is the only thing that holds this country together. As someone who grew up in rural Massachusetts, Alabama or Los Angeles or the Southwestern dessert may as well be the dark side of the moon.

[BiggJawn]

46. Well, they have the arguing and fighting down pat, any road.

My patience is wearing thin with the Fundy.

They wouldn't recognize the "Principles America was Founded on" if you wrote them on the side of a 2-by-6 and crushed their empty skull with it.

[tjwash]

29. I see the RR is following the proud tradition of Joe Macarthy...

...who tried to slur the ACLU as a communist organization back in the fifties.

The ACLU has been through worse attacks than this current crop of shitheads, and know how to handle it...

[FreedomAngel82]

32. Why do these people hate America?

And no sarcasm either. I guess they don't like the first amendment which, to me, makes them unAmerican and undemocratic.

[Deep13]

41. Their view of America does not match the reality ...

... and their aspirations of a benign theocracy do not match the aspirations of most people or the promises of the founders. They want us all to be homogeneous in thought and action, if not appearance, and to have no nails sticking up. Just one big happy brain-dead syrup filled Disneyworld. The problem is that their collective memory does not match reality. What is more is that hammering those high nails in practice is a lot more bloody than it is in theory.

[More Than A Feeling]

37. The ACLU are true Americans

Patrick Mahoney is a spiritual descendant of the theocrats that taught our founders the importance of separation of church and state.

[triguy46]

38. er, what world did I wake up in? Have I moved to a parallel

but infinitely stupider dimension?

[Deep13]

42. Yes. Also, apes have evolved from men.

[Loonman]

40. "America's Judeo-Christian values."

No.

Such.

Fucking.

Thing.

America was founded as a secular nation.

[Deep13]

43. Pilgrims of England, come to America for FREE LAND!

That's right, fellow Christian Englishmen. Book passage on the Mayflower and make a town free from the English Church where you can have all sorts of weird-assed laws. Also, real estate is FREE. That means all the maize you can plant, all the cows you can milk, all the timber you can cut! Did we mention that the navy is paying TOP SHILLING for long, straight timbers that can only be found in America? Discover what your Jamestown neighbors already know. America has FREE LAND and fewer lethal diseases than London.

Travelers will ride in luxury aboard the Mayflower. At over twenty-five feet long, she is the pride of the Atlantic. Each passenger will be guaranteed a square foot of floor space to stand on during the three-month passage. Upon arrival at balmy Cape Cod, over half of you that survive the trip will be greeted by docile Indians who will cheerfully surrender their land to you and submit to your superior civilization. (Even though none of them would be stupid enough to take this trip.)

Act now. This offer is only good for the first 150 pilgrims, criminals, adventurers, escaping slaves, press gang dodgers, vagrants or Catholic exiles that sign-up.

[tsuki]

45. Typical Conservative trick. Accuse someone of the vices they

possess and do not acknowledge.