Posted on 09/10/2006 12:38:06 PM PDT by wagglebee
The full-page ad in the New York Times featured head shots of Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Pat Robertson. Above them, in giant type, were the words, “Meet America’s Most Influential Stem Cell Scientists.” The ad charges evangelicals with trying to turn America into a theocracy and outlaw scientific research.
This ad was one of many hysterical, vicious, and untruthful ads paid for by a group called the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, or “DefCon.” But far from defending the Constitution, DefCon, which does not have to report who they are or who is paying for these ads, is an extreme left-wing group intent on demonizing religious conservatives.
Promoting embryo-destructive stem-cell research is just one of its causes. DefCon also supports abortion, special rights for homosexuals, a radical animal-rights agenda, and force-feeding school kids an uncritical view of Darwinian evolution.
Those views, of course, are standard fare for the left today. But much more disturbing is the manner in which this secretive campaign portrays people of faith. On its website, it accuses Christians of “hijacking” the federal courts and of wanting to achieve “absolute power over all branches of government . . . breaking the rules to get it.” We’re accused of trying to make medical decisions for women and turning homosexuals into second-class citizens.
In the school classroom, we zealots are scheming to replace “scientific knowledge with religious ideology.” Moreover, we are plotting to use the government to “proselytize or to infringe on the religious freedom of all Americans.” Wow.
Well, who is funding the spewing of all this hatred and deceit? It takes a lot of digging to find out.
One major source is the Tides Center, funded by the far-left Tides Foundation, which helps to fund the ACLU, PETA, pro-abortion groups [NARAL], the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, Planned Parenthood, Moveon.org, and the Council for American-Islamic Relations, which has links to terrorism.
The coordinator for DefCon is David Fenton of Fenton Communications, a public relations firm with a history of creating front groups and using smear tactics and bogus science. Years ago Fenton served as a lobbyist for the Sandinistas and today helps publicize the rantings of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. And it was Fenton who launched the Evangelical Climate Initiative, an apparent attempt to split evangelicals.
Whatever its campaign may be, DefCon’s tactics are the same, says Bruce Chapman of the Discovery Institute: that is, accuse opponents of being reckless, far right religious theocrats, and get liberal Christians—some of them unsuspecting, others not—on their side. No one in the press has tried to expose this secretive enterprise, which is spending millions. Why not? Well, we had better start asking the hard questions ourselves and expose the backers—men like George Soros—who give money to these kinds of groups.
And tell your neighbors, who may have been taken in by this advertising, the true story behind this vicious campaign. If you will call us here at “BreakPoint” (1-877-322-5527), we will be happy to send you further information.
That's what others on the thread have said, I haven't had time to really research it.
oops, "wife"
The one that Mama Terazzzza pumped a bundle of cash into?
That's the exact argument used for every act and agency of the Federal government. The whole POINT of the Constitution was to grant specific, limited powers to the Federal government. Therefore, the clause you cite refers to Congress's making laws to forward ONLY those activities specifically assigned to the Federal government ... not anything they can think of.
LOL! I thought you were making a pun, but I couldn't figure out why it was funny :-).
What do you think the Tenth Amendment means? Apparently you weren't paying much mind during the Constitutional Law classes, Captain.
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If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know!
Has Teresa Heinz been hitting the vodka injected raisens again?
Yucky group of lefties.
Here is more on Fenton and the kind of dirty machinations they will pull to reach their goals:
FORTUNE Small Business) – WHAT DOES THE TERM 'PUBLIC RELATIONS' CONJURE UP in your mind?" asks David Fenton, the tall, gray-haired, blue-eyed, 51-year-old founder of Fenton Communications. We've only just shaken hands; I haven't even sat down. Before I can object--hey, I ask the questions!--he answers, "Something unethical. It means, 'Will lie, distort, say anything for money.'" He said it, not me.
more here:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2003/07/01/347318/index.htm
Well, I think as many people have probably referred to SVN as the brain child of Josh Mailman, who also started, in 1981 an organization called the Threshold Foundation. The Threshold Foundation is the membership organization of primarily young inheritors, but also other people of wealth who have come together with a similar sort of commitment to progressive purposes and values and interests in sort of personal growth and interest introspection, and the common experience of having a lot of money in a society where that can be a complicated phenomenon. And Threshold Foundation is also managed by Tides.
http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=68&CID=275&ProjCID=275&ProjID=48&TID=664&NID=32&LanguageID=0
Moreover, the law is well settled and is unassailable that Congress acts subsequently with knowledge of previous decisions of the Supreme Court. That body's failure to act to change a court decision is deemed a ratification. Thus, the interpretation you decry has become an integral part of U.S. constitutional law. Your fervent dislike of the constitutional principle expressed in that doctrine is no doubt honestly and seriously held but, that being true, it is equally non sequitur; it simply doesn't matter.
As a society with a firm foundation in law, the debate on the issue can and should be vigorious while recognizing that it is an academic discussion on a theoretical abstraction and not a sinister usurpation by any branch of government.
Please see my response to essentially the same comment as yours offered by Lurker.
Sorry, I meant TaxChick
Isn't John Kerry's wife a board member of the Tides Foundation?
It would need more than just Congress to effect the appropriate Constitutional amendment. But what politicians would do that now? This would be like foxes voting to lock the henhouse.
The Tenth Amendment is not relevant to the matter.
Tides... in the laundering business. Yup.
How cute of Tides to pick such a name.
Procter and Gamble should sue that they have full rights on Tide for laundering.
Should have scrolled down before posting!
Lovely bunch.
The Theonomists (threy prefer that term) are a minority on the right, but they do exist.
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