Posted on 06/25/2005 10:56:24 AM PDT by Pikamax
Group Apologizes for Comments Comparing Conservative Christian Group to Gestapo The Associated Press
DENVER (AP) - A Washington-based interfaith religious group is apologizing for comments made by some of its members that compared a conservative Christian group to the Gestapo and the Taliban. The letter of apology released Thursday by the president of The Interfaith Alliance said the comments made in May about the group Focus on the Family were inappropriate for public dialogue.
"We regret that personal opinions expressed by individuals have been viewed as, associated with or confused with the organizational voice of The Interfaith Alliance," the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy wrote.
Clergymen representing the alliance denounced Focus on the Family for criticizing Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar's support of the Senate filibuster for federal judges.
Rev. Peter Morales, head of the public policy commission of The Interfaith Alliance, called Focus on the Family's stance "the actions of an American Taliban, of reactionary, religious zealots."
"This, my friends, is the Gestapo," added the Rev. Bill Kirton, a United Methodist minister, referring to the secret Nazi police during World War II.
Tom Minnery, vice president of Focus on the Family, criticized the remarks, saying, "If they had an intellectual argument, they'd use it, but the left is without argument, so they resort to name-calling. That demeans the process."
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"We regret that certain comments have been associated with us"?????
That's no apology.
That's like OJ saying he "regrets being associated" with Nicole's murder.
Interesting
If FOTF were really the Gestapo, the nimrod who made the comments would suddenly disappear and not be seen by family and friends ever again? Did that happen? Then FOTF is not Gestapo, QED .
The original statements in these cases are always much more revealing than the non-apology.
Democrats hate Christians. Thats the subtext, the text, and the bottom line.
There is another issue. "Interfaith Alliance" is another of the offspring of McCain-Feingold. "Campaign Finance Reform" shifts politics from the above-ground party to a whole host of organizations which must maintain the legal fiction of independence but which are, in the end, The Party. "Interfaith Alliance" is the Democratic Party. MoveOn.org is the Democratic Party. The NAACP, sadly, is the Democratic Party. The human rights organizations which abound and agree that Bush is worse than Hitler are the Democratic Party.
There is no point to getting too worked up about what any of these people think. They are Democrats. The only difference among them is simply this; the "moderates" want the terrorists to win in Iraq because it would hopefully drive the Republicans from the White House. And the hard core want the terrorists in Iraq to win because it would weaken the American project in the world, which they view as fundamentally evil.
In either case, the Democrats have placed themselves in the position that a military victory is bad for them, and military defeat is good for them. Traditional American values are bad for them, and the silencing of those values is good for them. Traditional religious values are bad for them, and they continue to drive believing Christians and Jews from their ranks.
So the "head of the public policy commission of The Interfaith Alliance" isn't associated with the "organizational voice" of the group?
Anybody keeping track of all these "apologies" flying around these days. We seem to have become a nation of apologizing girlymen.
later read/ping?
Great point! These groups are like the paperbag puppets in the Fandango movie ads. They may look different on the outside, but they all have the same set of hands making their mouths move.
'Never apologize son, it's a sign of weakness.' john wayne
It's not so much the apology, the sign of civility is not saying anything that you need to apologize for. If you do say it, be prepared to back it up.
I wonder whether they got hit in the pocket book for what they said initially and whether their members can read sufficiently to understand that this is not an apology. It is merely characterized as being what it isn't.
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