religious right

The NC Constitution is being rewritten from the pulpit:

“Marriage was ordained by God, not by government. God set it in motion,” said the Rev. Ron Baity, president of Return America, a Winston-Salem-based conservative Christian organization that has led rallies in Raleigh on behalf of the amendment. “We’re trying to uphold the biblical standard of marriage.”

Is that the New or the Old Testament? I'm just wondering if we should go ahead and put to death the adulterer and adulteress, or let God sort that out later. And yes, that was sarcasm. For those who follow the Legislature, this is not the first time the good Reverend has tried to strong-arm our elected officials:

also available in orange

Back in January, Kay Hagan attended the Martin Luther King Day service at King's Park International Church in Durham, North Carolina. Video of her speech here:

On paper, that church seems to be the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream--it's one of the most diverse churches in North Carolina and the South. Nothing wrong with that, right? Problem is that this church is a member of Every Nation, one of the more notorious outfits in the dominionist/Latter Rain movement. It was also once part of Maranatha Campus Ministries, a dangerous campus cult from the 1980s.

Most of you noticed my alarm at discovering that Tim D'Annunzio, one of the Repubs trying to unseat Larry Kissell, attends a church affiliated with a borderline fascist strain of charismatic Christianity. I take things like this very personally, since I was almost suckered into joining a similar outfit when I was a freshman at Carolina. I've mentioned it in passing on here since I first started posting back in 2006, but haven't really talked about it in full until now.

It's been almost 13 years since I broke free of that bunch. However, the scars still run pretty deep. These guys stole the first six months of my adult life--what should have been the happiest time of my life--from me. About the only good thing that came out of it is that their shabby attempt to turn me into a Christian conservative failed miserably--and I ended up even more of a Democrat than I was coming in.

Cross-posted from Facing South with author Sue Sturgis's permission

There was a cryptic moment in the emotional press conference South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford held last week to apologize for committing adultery.

"C Street," Sanford said, is where men face "hard questions."

Later, in response to a question from a reporter, the Republican governor and former congressman said that he had been to "what we called 'C Street' when I was in Washington."

In the wake of the Tragic MURDER of Dr. Tiller at his Church of all places it leads me to think who in there right mind could do something like that. What gives them the Right to place judgement on any person? Tiller was an Abortion Doctor that performed late term abortions that most Dr.'s wouldn't do. This made him a Target for the Religious Right! The most hypocritical group of people on the Planet. The Group that hollars and screams about LIFE is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF AN INNOCENT MAN THAT COMMITTED NO CRIMES.