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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyDecember 6th, 2007
Gary Cass used to be the Executive Director of D. James Kennedy’s Center for Reclaiming America. Now he has founded a new organization he calls the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. His latest press release from Christian Newswire touting his new book, Christian Bashing and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, carries the title:
Christian Bashing: The Last Acceptable Bigotry
As you can imagine, I would beg to differ. I suspect that in this campaign season, GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney might have a thing to say about it too. Here’s another press release from the Christian Newswire earlier today:
Expert Guest/ Interview Opportunity: ‘Romney’s Speech Nothing But a Lie,’ Says Evangelical Leader Bill Keller, Who Coined the Infamous ‘A Vote for Romney Is a Vote for Satan’ Slogan
I would normally link to that press release, but it appears to have gone missing from the Christian Newswire’s web site. Here’s a screen shot though in case anyone’s interested. Just click on the image to see it full size.
No, I’m afraid there’s plenty of bigotry to go around.
Here’s the text of the press release:
Expert Guest/ Interview Opportunity: ‘Romney’s Speech Nothing But a Lie,’ Says Evangelical Leader Bill Keller, Who Coined the Infamous ‘A Vote for Romney Is a Vote for Satan’ Slogan
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ — Bill Keller, founder of www.liveprayer.com – the first national Christian leader to call into question Mitt Romney’s Mormon background with his now infamous “A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” message – is predicting Romney’s upcoming speech on Thursday will be “Nothing but a big lie.”
So certain is Keller, who sends out a daily devotional to over 2.4 million opt-in subscribers worldwide, that he has pre-written his devotional for Thursday morning critiquing Romney’s speech as deceptive and misleading.
Keller states that if Romney were planning to be honest, he would be giving his speech in the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, rather than at the George Bush Presidential Library in Houston, Texas. Keller says he is certain Romney will have his wife and five children with him while he gives the speech, and that his delivery will be peppered with a steady dose of words such as “God,” “Jesus,” and “The Bible,” even though the god and Jesus of Mormon theology is not the same as the God and Jesus of the Holy Bible. In fact, says Keller, Mormons believe the bible is a flawed and incomplete book.
Keller concludes that this upcoming speech will simply be Romney’s most recent attempt to try to deceive people into thinking he is a Christian, when in fact Mormon theology is totally inconsistent with biblical Christianity.
“In the end, Romney will try to demonize anyone who has the guts to hold him accountable for his deception, calling them religions bigots and other names,” says Keller. “But I refuse to be silenced since, for me, this is not – and never has been – about politics. It’s about the eternal souls of men who will be lost if they follow the false teachings of a Mormon cult.”
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In 1999, Keller launched LivePrayer.com, which has become the most successful online faith outreach in history. Since its inception, LivePrayer.com has responded personally to more than 60 million online requests for prayer. And Keller’s Live Prayer devotional is received daily by more than 2.5 million email subscribers. For information on where to watch Live Prayer in your area, visit www.liveprayer.com. The Live Prayer program is about to go on worldwide internet (live streaming broadcast). Visit the website for details.
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David
December 6th, 2007
Yes, there is plenty of bigotry to go around. And around. And around.
Sigh.
homer
December 6th, 2007
How can someone prepare a critique of a speech before it is given???
Emily K
December 6th, 2007
There’s a saying: God made Mormons so that Christians would know how Jews feel.
I love it when these same fundie evangelicals try to convince us Jews that the god and theology of Christianity is the same as the Jewish G-d and theology. Nope.
cowboy
December 6th, 2007
The gist of it is: why what door to a church/temple/snyagogue/mosque you choose to enter to do your personal worship should matter in politics?
You may not agree with his ethics, his family or his religion…fine…then don’t vote for the man. But someone’s religion should not preclude him/her from being elected.
Jason
December 6th, 2007
cowboy, that’s actually a law.
Something to the effect that there shall be no relgious test in order to be elligible for office. People do everything they can to get around that law, but it’s at least in place.
Bot
December 6th, 2007
Bill Keller is a disgrace to the Evangelical community. He is bigoted against anyone who doesn’t think as he does.
He will be surprised to find out that Mitt’s church believes every word of the original (Greek) New Testament, and believes in the Jesus of the New Testament. They, however, do not believe in the Emperor Constantines Creeds. How can a denomination which believes in the Jesus of the New Testament be termed “non-Christian”?
Bill Keller has been taken off the air because of his bigotry.
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