Have you see this ad? It’s by the Governor of Texas, a certain Rick Perry, who calls the ability of American citizens to retain their civil rights under the Law, a war on religion.
Okay… so… Guess what? Seems that Perry’s top staff are members and favorites of the LGBT community -
It just so happens that several members of Perry’s campaign staff have worked to advance LGBT causes inside the GOP. Liz Mair, a consultant to the Texas governor, serves on the advisory board of the group GOProud. And Fabrizio has done polling for the Log Cabin Republicans in addition to urging lawmakers to reconsider their approach to the culture wars and embrace basic fairness for gay Americans on the issue of marriage. He was considered an ally by pro-gay rights conservatives….
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“It is the height of hypocrisy for Tony Fabrizio to have been a part of that,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, co-founder and executive director of GOProud. “He has lined his pockets for years with money from the gay community to conduct polls to ostensibly help gay people in this country, and for him to be a part of this is the height of Washington hypocrisy. It is absolutely what is wrong with Washington. It is all about the payday for these people.” (here)
So, Perry who employees openly homosexual people on his staff and would possibly do the same in the White House, thinks it is an attack on religion if openly gay men and women serve in the U.S. Armed Forces?
So, do you get it yet, my dear Christian friend, that politicians only want to use the words of faith, your faith and my faith, so long as it takes to get your vote but could hardly care about anything else?
Joel Landon Watts is a Masters of Theological Studies student with a focus in Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific ideals of the past century. Currently, he is a TA for Old Testament at United Theological Seminary under Dr. Vivian Johnson, Associate Professor of Old Testament. His first book, Rhetorical Strategies of the Evangelist: Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark, is expected to be published by Wipf and Stock early next year. He is currently co-editing a book on moving from Fear to Faith (Energion, 2013).
[...] Henson does an excellent take-down of this statement, as does Joel at Unsettled [...]
It’s ironic that this video is entitled “Strong” while displaying such fear and cowardice.