GOP Sees a Future in Black Churches

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This reminded me of Rev. Moon's 50-city tour of black churches back in 2001. Currently, a Moonie group is encouraging black churches to remove their crosses. (This group has also been endorsed by Bush). Apart from being an insane cult leader who claims he is the new messiah (replacing Jesus Christ), Moon is perhaps the rightwing media machine's deepest pocket.

Interestingly, Al Sharpton is mixed up with Moon. Sharpton even renewed his marriage vows in a Unification Church ceremony. And Moon backed Farrakan's Million Family March.

(LA Times) Black conservatives who supported President Bush in 2004 and gained new prominence within the Republican Party are launching a loosely knit movement that they hope will transform the role African Americans play in national politics.

The effort will be visible today at the Crenshaw Christian Center, one of Los Angeles' biggest black churches, headed by televangelist Frederick K.C. Price. More than 100 African American ministers are to gather in the first of several regional summits to build support for banning same-sex marriage — a signature issue that drew socially conservative blacks to the Republican column last year.

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Moon's broadcast studios sponsored Bush's Faith-Based Initiative

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Moonwatcher John Gorenfeld has this...

From an L.A. Times piece -- on how the Faith-Based Initiative increased the black pro-Bush vote -- comes this mention of Moon's role in promoting the radical plan at a 2001 summit. The Republican-dominated program was beamed to about 50 locations on a television feed sponsored by foundations linked to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church has received indirect aid through the federal faith-based initiative.

In the section below this post, Gorenfeld discusses Armstrong Williams at a Moonie conference.

Another GOP black voter recruitment scam

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The African American Republican Leadership Council is a group of Regressives that is trying to leech black voters away from the Democratic Party, under the disguise that they actually give a shit about them. From the African American Republican Leadership Council's own website:

The mission and purpose of the African American Republican Leadership Council (AARLC) is to break the liberal democrat stranglehold over Black America.

Wouldn't this effort be more effective if there were actually a majority of black representation in it?

Leadership
Alex St. James - Chairman (black)
Senator Edward W. Brooke - III Honorary Chairman (R-MA) Retired (black)
David Keene - Honorary Co-Chairman (white)
Hon. Winsome E. Sears Local and State Co-Chairman (black)

Advisory Panel
Steve Baldwin - (white)
Gary Bauer - (white)
Ken Connor - (white)
Becky Norton Dunlop - (white)
Charles Evers - (black)
Sean Hannity - (white, asshole)
Richard Lessner - (white)
Connie Mackey - (white)
Stephen Moore - (white)
Terry Neese - (white)
Grover Norquist - (white, evil)
Rev. Jesse Peterson - (black)
Rev. Lou Sheldon - (white)
Kenneth Timmerman - (black)
Paul Weyrich - (white)

That's 13-6 whites vs. blacks by my count. What is wrong with this picture?

That is how Repuglicans love

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That is how Repuglicans love to intimidate and be a joke with the black voter. They just love to do that. It would be funny, except with the millions of black voters that take the Democratic Party for granted every day. I think the Repugs are disgusting to try something like this.

The only thing we have to fear, is George W Bush and Richard B "Dick" Cheney.

Besides, They cant find a sin

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Besides, They cant find a single black voter that is conservative/republican anyways and have those kinds of values. All or most blacks think liberal and progressive, and no how to stand up for progressive values.

The only thing we have to fear, is George W Bush and Richard B "Dick" Cheney.

The common thread between all

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The common thread between all of the blacks on this panel is gay rights. They are not fiscal conservatives, they are religious zealots. Once again, a single issue is all they have.