Titus 3:1
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, and to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work
Looks like the GOP GOTV efforts this cycle at bringing the noise, bringin teh fundy isn’t working so well. I’ve been wondering when those idiots would realize they were being led by the nose by a party that promises the world but never follows through and abandon that party. Not that they’ll vote Dem, of course (no way, too many brownies in the Dems), but they won’t go to the polls for the GOP.
It’s a lot like crazy holocaust denier and anti-Semit Gibson’s My Bloody Masochistic Torture Orgasm Movie, where the fundies came out in droves herds. Nothing else is going to get those particular people to the movies, so unless they can be baited with another exercise in snuff porn, they’re just going to stay away.
Anyway, this election cycle, it looks like it may be happening. Witness:
The Nashville rally was almost canceled after organizers failed to sell the 6,000 tickets they needed to fill the city’s Municipal Auditorium, forcing them to hold the event in the Two Rivers Church. Similar events in recent weeks in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Pittsburgh also drew smaller-than-anticipated crowds.
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Jerry Sutton, the senior pastor at Two Rivers Baptist Church in Nashville, said he believed Dobson’s effort would pay off. “There is a concerted effort to say conservative voters are going to stay home this year because they are disgusted with Mark Foley,” Sutton, 54, said. “It’s not going to work. Our congregation, we did voter registrations twice. They are very, very motivated to vote.”
I think his church should be renamed the Boss Daley Baptists. Their softball team is murder.
I seem to recall a certain IRS provision for 501(c)(3) tax exempt organizations regarding political activities. What was it again? Oh yes, nonprofit religious groups may not advocate for political parties.
Under the Internal Revenue Code, all section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.
Of course the IRS isn’t going to investigate this or revoke their tax exempt status. That would be targeting religiosity! They would never do that. Unless you make liberal, anti-Bushevik, or antiwar statement.
Not that stopping the fundie zombies from coming out on Nov. 7th is going to be sufficient for the Dems to take control, of course. In addition to the previously mentioned tactics by the GOP, there’s also a huge bias in our gerrymandered country in favor of the GOP.
If Bush had received the exact same vote share in 2004 that he received in 2000 (that is, 48 percent), he still would have managed to win in 239 of the nation’s 435 House districts—or almost 55 percent. He actually won 255 districts in 2004, or almost 59 percent, while winning around 51 percent of the vote (slightly higher if the calculation excludes Ralph Nader’s one percent). In other words, House districts are now drawn so that an evenly divided country can produce surprisingly lopsided GOP victories. Indeed, the Republicans gained seats in the House in 2004 only because of Tom DeLay’s redistricting scheme in Texas.
I’ve gotten a bit off track here, but to reiterate, the GOP has lost the fundie hordes for the moment.
See also: billmon
