GOP Scare Tactic: Libs Will Ban Bibles

[Dover]

GOP Scare Tactic: Libs Will Ban Bibles
By WILL LESTER
Sep 18, 2004, 06:38



Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.
The literature shows a Bible with the word "BANNED" across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word "ALLOWED." The mailing tells West Virginians to "vote Republican to protect our families" and defeat the "liberal agenda."

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn't aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. "It wouldn't surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage," Gillespie said.

The flier says Republicans have passed laws protecting life, support defining marriage as between a man and a woman and will nominate conservative judges who will "interpret the law and not legislate from the bench."

"The liberal agenda includes removing `under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance," it says. It does not mention the names of the presidential candidates. Jim Jordan, a spokesman for America Coming Together, described the mailing as "standard-issue Republican hate-mongering."

Gillespie said same-sex marriage is a legitimate issue in the election. President Bush has proposed amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage. Democratic Sen. John Kerry also opposes gay marriage but said a constitutional amendment is going too far.
The RNC also is running radio ads in several states urging people to register to vote.

"There is a line drawn in America today," one ad says. "On one side are the radicals trying to uproot our traditional values and our culture. They're fighting to hijack the institution of marriage, plotting to legalize partial birth abortion, and working to take God out of the pledge of allegiance and force the worst of Hollywood on the rest of America."...cont'd

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_5278.shtml

[amlouden]

1. when does the push polling start?

should be any time now

[GreenArrow]

2. "dems will ban Bibles"...

And Republicans will ban everything else?

[Dover]

3. Ought to be very effective on Jethro, but I doubt this is effective with

even halfway informed swing voters. This seems to be targeting the single-issue Biblebelt vote.

[blondeatlast]

4. Um, liberals aren't book banners; I know, I'm a library assistant.

I'm the first in my organization to see "Requests for Reconsideration."

They aren't coming from NOW, Greenpeace, and the Democratic Party.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. Please clarify for those of us who've never worked in a library.

Are those "Requests for Reconsideration" asking to have books removed from the shelves?

[blondeatlast]

7. Generally, yes. Never happens.

They are occasionally offered for reclassification, ie. "The Celestine Prophecy," which does occasionally happen.

[slor]

5. Liberals will also...

eat babies and almost always hate freedom. They tend to look french too!

[blondeatlast]

8. I, for one, look like a young Brigitte Bardot! nt

[slor]

9. ooooh BabyDoll...

post a pic?

[blondeatlast]

10. Sure, and the Eiffel tower is for sale as well!

Got a prospectus ryecheer!

:evilgrin:

[Arkana]

11. You've got to be kidding.

This is pathetic. If no other attempt at hatemongering was pathetic, this is certainly pathetic. Ban Bibles? Kerry's a friggin Catholic!

[Dover]

12. Katholic! Eeeegads! That's not even 'christian' is it?

The only 'real' Christians are from the South and go to fundamentalist churches, silly.

[DemBones DemBones]

13. Sadly, many of those "Christians" are quite sure that

Catholics will go to Hell. Bush* is counting on their votes since they tend to see everything in black and white, the way he does, with no allowance for nuance.

Edit: Oh, yeah, lots of the fundy-type Christians believe that Catholics are not allowed to read the Bible for themselves, so they might well buy into this.

Protestantism began at a time when books were becoming available to all, due to the printing press, and focused on Bible study from the beginning. Catholicism existed for many centuries when most people couldn't read and depended on Bible readings during Mass and artwork in churches to educate them about the life of Christ and the Old Testament stories. We still have the Bible readings and artwork, but we also have our own Bibles and we have Bible study groups, too. Down here in Georgia, Protestants are often amazed to learn this!