More Examples of Christian Right Voter's Guides Found Inside Pennsylvania Polling Locations
Rachel Tabachnick printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Thu Nov 08, 2012 at 02:16:38 PM EST
Following are more examples of Christian Right voter guides found by voters inside Pennsylvania polling locations. State law requires that campaign signs, individuals campaigning and distribution of electioneering media must be kept at least ten feet outside the entrance of the polling place. This post includes voter's guides from Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition and Life PAC of Southwestern Pennsylvania.  Photos follow.
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This Image Sums Up The Religious Right and Gay Marriage
Bruce Wilson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Wed Nov 07, 2012 at 07:14:08 PM EST
Well, it's not a single picture, it's three pictures (scroll down a few paragraphs to view), and each is an animated GIF. Here's the context:

One of the stunning upset victories of the November 6, 2012 election came when Maine and Maryland voters passed ballot initiatives legalizing same-sex marriage. Another ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage is expected to pass in the state of Washington. And a ballot initiative in Minnesota that would have banned same-sex marriage was defeated, 52% to 48%. Topping things off, Wisconsin voters elected the first openly gay U.S. Senator, Tammy Baldwin. Compared to the 2008 election, when ballot initiatives banning same-sex marriage passed in California, Florida, and Arizona, it was a stunning reversal.

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The Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania's Bible, Flag, and Cross Flier
Rachel Tabachnick printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Wed Nov 07, 2012 at 01:09:11 PM EST
PhotobucketThe Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania spent over eight million dollars in the 2012 election cycle, including paying for this flier. President Obama won Pennsylvania by a margin of 52% to 46.8%. I previously posted an example of Christian Right voters guides found in Pennsylvania polling locations on election day.  More coming.
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PA Family Council and Other Voter's Guides at Polling Places in Pennsylvania
Rachel Tabachnick printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Tue Nov 06, 2012 at 02:18:59 PM EST
PhotobucketThe photo at right is the polling place for Pittsburgh's 19th Ward, District 6, at Grace Episcopal Church on Sycamore Street. [This church is a member of the Anglican Church in North America and no longer Episcopal. See author's note at end of article.] Voters enter the church and then must pass the table shown as they enter the voting area.  A stack of 2012 Voter's Guide with the words "AN IMPARTIAL, NON-PARTISAN GUIDE TO THE NOVEMBER 6TH ELECTION" are displayed on the table.

The guide is from the Pennsylvania Family Council, the legislative arm of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, the state's affiliate of the Family Research Council (FRC) and Focus on the Family.  I'm also following reports of other material at polling sites in Western Pennsylvania, including from Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition and from Life PAC of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Family Research Council (Action) E-mail Blasts for Romney
Chip Berlet printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Tue Nov 06, 2012 at 08:37:31 AM EST
The supposedly non-partisan Family Research Council's legislative arm sent out a clearly pro-Romney e-mail blast the morning of election day. The text was careful, but the embedded link for voter "resource" information led to a right-wing website that made Romney the Godly candidate and Obama the ghoulish candidate.

The e-mail was signed by Tony Perkins. Not the shower guy, but the President of both the Family Research Council and FRC Action. Here is the link: please review our silo of voter resources for information on the presidential as well as state level races.

The e-mail is hardly a surprise, since the FRC's "Voter Guide" is equally biased and ludicrous.

Click on for the text of the e-mail:

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Voter Mobilization by Religious Progressives
Frederick Clarkson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 06:53:06 PM EST
There was a time, not so long ago, that religious progressives were told by Beltway Insiders to, well, shut-up about matters of sexual and reproductive justice.  A faux religious left had been manufactured that would handle this, thank you very much.  But as it turned out, many of us would not be silenced.  Time went on, and progressives at the historic Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) began to find their voices for reproductive justice as never before, focusing less on Washington-based "God talk" and more on living out their values via organizing and empowerment in the great tradition of religious social justice that was so integral to progressive advances in the 20th century.

The Christian Right has, of course, been very effective in the electoral arena for decades. And this year is unlikely to be an exception.  It is long past time that religious progressives who support reproductive rights, LGTB civil rights, and separation of church and state get better organized. This was one of the main arguments of my 2008 book, Dispatches from the Religious Left.  

And now it seems it is starting to happen.

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Religious Right Leaders Warn: Vote Republican, Or We'll Have Another Holocaust
Bruce Wilson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 02:09:03 PM EST
Obama is like Hitler; his healthcare reform legislation includes a provision to create an army of Marxist brownshirt thugs; the hour is late, the church now faces what German churches faced, with the rise of the Nazis, in the 1930s - we must fight now, or never; taxpayers are the Jews for Obama's ovens; stop Obama, or face another Holocaust.

At an October 30, 2012 pastors rally in Tampa, Florida, with the election only days away, prominent Texas Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who in 2011 attacked Mormonism (Mitt Romney's faith) as a cult, informed his audience that failing to stop President Barack Obama from gaining a 2nd term in office would be like failing to stop Hitler and could lead to another Holocaust.

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What Jewish Voters Should Know About the Source of Those 'Support Israel? Fire Obama' Yard Signs
Rachel Tabachnick printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 11:30:49 AM EST
PhotobucketIt would be logical to assume the "Support Israel? Fire Obama" yard signs (graphic at right) come from an organization focused on Israel as an issue.  They are not.  The signs are from the nonprofit American Majority, a Tea Party outfit with ties to the Koch brothers.  American Majority has also received substantial funding (over one million dollars in 2010) from a foundation that is headed by a member of the secretive Catholic prelature Opus Dei and shares the address of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
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Bad Actor: Presumptuous Prelate Hopes His Partisan Ploy Plays In Peoria - And Elsewhere
Rob Boston printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Mon Nov 05, 2012 at 10:46:14 AM EST

For the past few days, my inbox has been overflowing with emails about Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky.

The Roman Catholic prelate last week wrote a letter that he ordered all priests in his Peoria, Ill., diocese to read during services over the weekend. The missive purports to offer guidance about tomorrow's election.

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Fidelis's CatholicVote.org Embraces the Apostate Glenn Beck & More!
Frank Cocozzelli printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Sun Nov 04, 2012 at 08:55:53 AM EST
The Tom Monaghan-linked group Fidelis which has seemingly dabbled in financial fiddling seems to be at it again. It's political affiliate, CatholicVote.org is employing Catholic Right culture war memes to help elect Mitt Romney to the presidency - while also falsely casting economic libertarianism as the basis of the Church's understanding of Social Justice.

We'll talk about that in a moment, but let's first call on Glenn Beck to help us set the stage.

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Republican for MA Senate: Smurfs Cause Witchcraft, Gay Lifestyle "sad and meaningless"
Bruce Wilson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Sat Nov 03, 2012 at 03:11:37 PM EST
Running again for a seat in the Massachusetts State Senate, Chelmsford, MA Republican Sandi Martinez has aired, according to the Lowell Sun and the Boston Globe, a number of unusual beliefs on the local Chelmsford cable access TV show she once hosted, including the view that 1980s children's shows such as "The Smurfs" and "The Care Bears" can lure children into witchcraft - which, according to candidate Martinez, is promoted in public schools. Martinez has also claimed Christianity can turn gays straight.
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Rape Gaffes Highlight Growing Influence of Religious Right in the GOP
Bruce Wilson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Thu Nov 01, 2012 at 04:05:02 PM EST
"Incest is so rare, I mean it's so rare. But the rape thing, you know, I know a woman who was raped and kept the child, gave it up for adoption and doesn't regret it. In fact, she's a big pro-life proponent. But, on the rape thing it's like, how does putting more violence onto a woman's body and taking the life of an innocent child that's a consequence of this crime, how does that make it better?"

--Republican Congressional candidate John Koster (WA), 10/28/12

Now that candidate John Koster and Newt Gingrich have each so graciously pitched in, with just a few more of these cringeworthy Republican rape statements and there will be enough for a 4-column version of the Republican Rape Advisory Chart. But until then, the new 3-column chart will have to suffice (here's where the chart originated.)

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