US President-elect Barack Obama
BARACK Obama’s historic victory in the US Presidential elections has left the Christian Right in America in a tatters – and a state of deep gloom.
But few are so deeply upset as the nutters over at Focus on the Family Action, led by the egegious homophobe James Dobson, who had fervently prayed for a McCain victory. God, as usual, failed to deliver.
In a letter issued ahead of the momentous poll, Focus on the Family Action predicted that an Obama victory would lead to terrorist strikes on four American cities; Russia rolling into Eastern Europe; Israel hit by a nuclear bomb; gay marriage in every state … and the end of the Boy Scouts.
Unhinged: The paranoid Dr James Dobson, of Focus on the Family
The end of the Boy Scouts? WTF is THAT all about?
Well, according to the letter, an Obama victory would force the Boy Scouts to:
Hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys. (The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).
A “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America” – an imagined look into the future –illustrated just how paranoid conservative Christian activists were about what would happen to their causes and influence if the Democrats seized control of both Congress and the White House.
Said the Rev Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections:
It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me.
The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter “false and ridiculous.”
Like other political advocacy groups, Christian right organisations often raise worries about an election’s consequences to mobilise voters. In the early 1980s, for example, direct mail from the Moral Majority warned that Congress would turn a blind eye to “smut peddlers” dangling pornography to children.
Said Clyde Wilcox, a Georgetown University political scientist:
Everyone uses fear in the last part of a campaign, but evangelicals are especially theologically prone to those sorts of arguments. There’s a long tradition of predicting doom and gloom.
Steve Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, “Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected.”
Strang said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama administration, taxes would rise and:
People who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms.
Separately, a group called the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission posted a series of videos on its site and on YouTube called “7 Reasons Barack Obama is not a Christian”.
The commission accuses Obama of “subtle diabolical deceit” in saying he is Christian, while he believes that people can be saved through other faiths.
But among the strongest attacks was Focus on the Family Action’s letter which claims that a series of events, based on the group’s interpretation of Obama’s record, Democratic Party positions, recent court rulings and other trends, could logically occur.
Among the claims are:
• A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land ,and another forcing the Boy Scouts to “hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys.” (In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).
• A series of domestic and international disasters based on Obama’s “reluctance to send troops overseas”. That includes terrorist attacks on US.soil that kill hundreds, Russia occupying the Baltic states and Eastern European countries including Poland and the Czech Republic, and al-Qaida overwhelming Iraq.
• Nationalized health care with long lines for surgery and no access to hospitals for people over 80.
The goal was to “articulate the big picture,” said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action.
If it is a doomsday picture, then it’s a realistic picture.
UPDATE – Nov 6: Leading British political pundit, Stephen “Birdshit” Green has added his [Christian] voice to those of other fruitcakes dismayed by Obama’s election.
Here is an extract from a press release the pathetic twerp issued yesterday:
Obama will end funding for chastity-based projects, switching it to sex education models like ours which promote promiscuity, start funding population bodies such as UNFPA and IPPF, and if there is worse on this front, I am sure it will happen. With pro-abortion Democrats now firmly in control of both houses, he should meet no opposition. It is ironic that a man with Kenyan parentage will bring shame on his roots by allying himself with the eugenicists who think there are too many black people in Africa and attempting to impose the cultural imperialism of population control.
