Do you think that Family Values is nothing but bait for the Christian Vote?
Why is it that republican and religious and secular conservatives continue make family values an election issue. The issue of family values and morality was ONE of the hallmark reasons for the Republican take-over of congress and it was also used as a theme during Bush’s first run for office.
Read the list of “hypocrites” below and respond whether or not you think that family values was/is a “SMOKE SCREEN” to win favor and votes
POPULAR SCANDALS
1.Senator Larry Craig, recently pleaded guilty to lued homosexual acts in an Airport. He still defiantly claims that he is not gay.
2.Mark Foley, had phone sex and indecent conversations with male pages.
3.George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later committed suicide. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999
4.Senator David Vitter (R-La) who ran a hard-core platform on traditional family values, name was found on a Madams list. He told his constituents that it was a “private issue” and to leave him alone.
5.Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican governor, had sex with a 16 year old when he was 28.
6.Joe Scarborough, former Republican Congressman, currently a conservative talk show host. Resigned his congressional seat abruptly to spend more time with his family, amidst allegations of an affair. His intern, Lori Klausutis, was soon after found dead in his office. The medical examiner, who had his license revoked in Missouri for falsifying information in an autopsy report, and suspended in Florida for six years, ruled the case an accident, after giving conflicting information about her injuries. He said he lied about them because "The last thing we wanted was 40 questions about a head injury."
7.John E. Peterson, Congressman (R-Pa), accused of sexual harassment and creation of a hostile work environment by six women. Peterson has refused to admit a crime, saying only "I may have been an excessive hugger."
8.Henry Hyde, Judge who oversaw Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, prominent opponent of reproductive rights, who had an extramarital affair with a woman who was married and had three children, during the course of which she and her husband were divorced.
9.Newt Gingrich, married three times. Gingrich campaign worker Anne Manning admitted that she gave Newt oral sex while he was still married to his first wife. Informed one wife he was filing for divorce while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer treatments
10.Richard A. Dasen Sr., Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, convicted of sexual abuse of children, promotion of prostitution and several counts of solicitation, enough to add up to a sentence of 126 years in prison
Conservative Personalities and Figure Scandals
1.Paul Crouch Televangelist, Former President of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). Paid 5,000 in hush money in an attempt to cover up a gay affair.
2.Ted Haggard, popular conservative pastor who advised Bush on Family Values issues was outed by a male prostitute who also alleged that he gave Haggard drugs.
3.Rush Limbaugh, triple-divorcee
4.Bill O’Reilly Right-wing conservative talk show host on Fox News, sued for sexual harassment by his producer.
5.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, right wing conservative radio host. Promotes family values, estranged from her mother, opposes birth control, has had her tubes tied, espouses saving oneself for marriage, admits to having had sex before she was married, opposes adultery, has committed adultery while she was married, and has slept with a married man, opposes divorce, is divorced and remarried, has posed for nude photos which are available online.
There are many, many, many more. I know that I am going to be accused of being repub-coserv-basher. I am not, I know the democrats have just as many scandals if not more. However, I think that the whole PLATFORM OF CONSERVATIVE FAMILY VALUES IS A DISINGENIOUS strategy to rally votes and to swing elections. THIS LIST DEMONSTRATES THE FACT THAT NO ONE PRACTICES WHAT THEY PREACH!!!
I also believe that we are all human and everyone makes mistakes, but it is VERY HYPOCRITICAL to impose ideas that these “cultural-icons” don’t keep!
(((What are your thoughts???)))))))
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Good luck on finding a perfect unstainded human being thats running for office!
Hell yes.
Denying gay couples equal rights, for one, is anti-family.
Take Laura Schlessinger.She may have done those things in the past,but she is adamantly opposed to them now.That shows a turn around in her values.
We shouldn’t be relying on famous personalities to tell us what is right or wrong.Family values are good,and that is good no matter how many hyopcrites espouse those views and then fall of the wagon.
Christians are easily tricked
I am not justifying anyone’s sins; they are all wrong, however, everyone sins…even Christians. (For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23) But we also ask for the forgiveness of our sins and try to live as God commanded. We could also compile a whole list of Democratic wrongs, but no one has time for all that.
I will always supporting a Christian who sins & acknowledges those sins, but has family values and faith in God and God is important in his life, as opposed to someone who doesn’t have a place for God in their lives, who sins, but doesn’t even recognize those sins, and only cares about pleasing the people. It’s not even a contest.
let’s not forget clinton’s sexapades in office. you just can’t
trust Any one in office can WE??? family values in this
time and place means nothing.
Of course that is part of what it is about. The real agenda is for the super-rich (btw my family about 2/3 fo the way to an 8 figure net worth, but we’re not super-rich) to get richer. Examples include the 400 million $$ you paid at the pump that went to the retiring chairman of Exxon last year, btw a homophobic company.
And then there is power, pure power as well as greed. And that is what it and the George W Bush administration and his right wing lackeys are all about. Their using right wing religions to gay bash to get out the conservative vote parallels in many ways what hitler did in Germany to gain power, and the holocaust and WWII were the result. And, btw, Bush’s grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was director of a NY bank that was a major source of funding for the buildup of the nazi war machine in the 1930s. The bank was fined a princely sum.
And then there is the closet. So many people who are somewhat gay, and religious, are naturally attracted to the right wing of the republican party. By bashing gays, they satisfy their twin urges of supporting their closet status, and reflecting out their own religious self hatreds on external victims. Craig, Foley, Minister Haggard ("want gay sex, dial 1800- HAG-GARD – btw I just called that number, and they really are some sort of phone sex etc operation, no s#!+.
It sure would be nice if the Log Cabin Republicans became a group using a log to bash the gay closet republicans, out them to the general populace. That, & ending DADT so suddenly a whole other multi-million segment of society discovers their friends, fellow soldiers, people on whom they depend for their lives mutually, are gay. Another barrier knocked over. I do see this happening amongst college students, I work part time now retail in MD just to keep busy, most all the others are high school or college students, most have gay friends and they are not homophobic.
Victory for gay people is coming. Most of Western Europe has either gay marriage, federal – nationwide recognized civil unions almost identical to civil marriage, or domestic partnerships (sri no details). Add in Israel, Republic of South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico’s Cohuila State, Mexico City (like our DC- a semi-state0, Buenos Aires also. It almost happened in Columbia, SAmer. also. It is also expected in Ireland this year.
And please, if you are in the closet, realize what the closet is about. As segregation and Jim Crow were used to trap Black Americans- instantly recognizable people – into poverty and 3rd class citizenship, the closet is the same for gays. Generally you aren’t readily recognizable so the closet is a form of terrorization of gays, to keep you from being visible, and agitating for equality under the law.
Go out, get involved in politics. It may take several years, but you can help make a difference!