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Old 01-15-2010, 03:43 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by dreadgeek View Post
That may be a comforting belief but I think Robertson does, in fact, have quite a following. Not only does he have his own show (which is syndicated on a lot of stations) but he has his own network. He has the ear of Republican politicians AND, keep in mind, he's just one who *said* it. How many people will hear something similar on Sunday?

Having deprogrammed myself from a fundamentalist Christian mindset a decade ago, I tend to take folks like Robertson, Hagee, Warren, et. al. *very* seriously. I presume that they mean what they say and say precisely what they mean. What's more, I presume that there are any number of people who believe the things that they spew forth. It can be very comfortable to dismiss Robertson as just some old cook sitting in a basement somewhere but I think that the time for that is past.

I watched the queer movement dismiss the Christian right through the nineties, writing them off as some kind of rump movement of maybe a thousand people sitting in some basement church while all the while, the CR gathered strength, executing their stealth strategy with commitment and discipline. Their views have consequences and those of us who stand to lose the most from them coming to power would be well-served to take them seriously and to make certain that their words are heard beyond the safe circle where their ideas are welcome.

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They are very scary. The fact that Warren can make trips to Uganda as part of "The Family" and preach to them about gays being cured has ended up with a death penalty for being gay there. Now he is trying to distance himself from it all.

They really do believe we should receive the death penalty. Scare the Jesus right out of me.
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