Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" but When my Father Said the Same Thing
He Was a Republican Hero
by Frank Schaeffer
Obama's Minister Committed "Treason"
but When my Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero
When Senator Obama's preacher thundered about racism and injustice Obama
suffered smear-by-association. But when my late father -- Religious Right
leader Francis Schaeffer -- denounced America and even called for the
violent overthrow of the US government, he was invited to lunch with
presidents Ford, Reagan and Bush, Sr.
Every Sunday thousands of right wing white preachers (following in my
father's footsteps) rail against America's sins from tens of thousands of
pulpits. They tell us that America is complicit in the "murder of the
unborn," has become "Sodom" by coddling gays, and that our public schools
are sinful places full of evolutionists and *** educators hell-bent on
corrupting children. They say, as my dad often did, that we are, "under
the
judgment of God." They call America evil and warn of immanent destruction.
By comparison Obama's minister's shouted "controversial" comments were
mild.
All he said was that God should damn America for our racism and violence
and
that no one had ever used the N-word about Hillary Clinton.
Dad and I were amongst the founders of the Religious right. In the 1970s
and
1980s, while Dad and I crisscrossed America denouncing our nation's sins
instead of getting in trouble we became darlings of the Republican Party.
(This was while I was my father's sidekick before I dropped out of the
evangelical movement altogether.) We were rewarded for our "stand" by
people
such as Congressman Jack Kemp, the Fords, Reagan and the Bush family. The
top Republican leader****p depended on preachers and agitators like us to
energize their rank and file. No one called us un-American.
more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/obamas-minister-committe_b_91774.html
The fact is, nothing would please right wingers more than to
censor the African American Churches.
Whether or not you agree with anything Jeremiah Wright said, it stands up
as
small potatoes compared to some of the things quoted as having been said
about America by religious right-wingers.
And look at Fred Phelps and his Westboro gang...we protect those nutjobs
and
their right to appear at the funerals of everyone from soldiers to the
people who died in the NYC crane accident (don't think those won't be the
funerals they'll want to picket next) because they think America is
"damned"
for allowing gay people to live. Why do we do it? Because we protect free
speech, even when the speech revolts us.
seriously- pick apart any one of wright's comments and tell me how it
relates to something the kkk did or said- and i'm talking a side-by-side
comparison with direct similarities, no subtleties or nuances or
implications- exact parallels,
b/c until white people are being lynched
and forced into poverty
and sent to substandard schools
and being denied jobs and equal pay
and locked up and even executed for crimes they didn't commit
and being chased out of towns
and threatened
and taunted
and raped
and beaten
and dragged by pick up trucks till their deaths
and being treated as though they are subhuman on every single level
and not even being allowed to speak their minds
all for being white
and on a regular basis
and for centuries
i don't ****ing want to hear the whining.
this whole "outrage" bull**** is really starting to get on my nerves. i
thought it was isolated, but it seems it's not.
beezlebum
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