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The bestselling author of Stranger at the Gate provides an inside exposŽ of the Christian Right’s agenda-and a playbook in how to resist it.

This Fall’s midterm elections will see much discussion about the enhanced power of the Christian fundamentalist Right, leaving many people to wonder: just who are these people and what exactly do they want? What are their ultimate goals? The Reverend Mel White, a deeply religious man who sees fundamentalism as “evangelical Christian orthodoxy gone cultic,” believes that it is not a stretch to say that the true goal of today’s fundamentalists is to break down the wall that separates church and state, superimpose their “moral values” on the U.S. Constitution, replace democracy with theocratic rule, and ultimately create a new “Christian America” in their image. White’s new book, Religion Gone Bad, is a wake-up call to all of us to take heed.

White is singularly qualified to write this exposŽ of the Christian Right because he himself was a true believer who served the evangelical movement as pastor, professor, filmmaker, television producer, author, and ghostwriter for such fundamentalist leaders as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, all of whom he got to know well. As he writes, “These are not just Neocons dressed in religious drag. These men see themselves as gurus called by God to rescue America from unrighteousness. They believe this is a Christian nation that must be returned forcibly to its Christian roots.”

He is also a gay man, who made news when he came out more than twelve years ago. White has gained a unique understanding of the fundamentalist agenda because, since the fall of “godless Communism,” homosexuality and abortion have become the primary targets through which fundamentalists have created fear, raised money, and mobilized recruits. Religion Gone Bad documents the thirty-year war that fundamentalist Christians have waged against homosexuality and gays and lesbians and offers dramatic, heartbreaking evidence that fundamentalist leaders-Protestant and Catholic alike-are waging nothing less than a “holy war” (jihad) against sexual minorities. By focusing on the current plight of gay people in this country, White addresses the wider issue that fundamentalist Christianity-like fundamentalist Islam-has become a threat not just to gays, but to all Americans who disagree with fundamentalist Christian “values.”

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I don’t know if it’s to see the man with the bicycle in the shop, “well it could not be that we did that all the time as teens brining our bikes in the shops”, or the way he pushed his bicycle. My attention where more and more absorb by the man’s actions. He pushed the bicycle closer to the tills, but the way he did this amused me, he had the bicycle by the saddle and handle bar he looks like a hen protecting it chicks, slowly he pushed the bike making sure it is out of the way, and no one walks in to it. He make it stand against the counter, then he take out a dirty old cloth out his trouser pocket, open it up and take out some money to pay for the few things he bought.

My eyes wondered back to the bicycle and the state it is in. The frame, rims and forks are rusted, the saddle padding shows that it knew better times, a brake cable is torn and a spoke broken. The brake levers where skew and lose. The man took his bicycle and leaves the shop.

I where startled by this and don’t know why, normally when something like this happened I turn my questions to the Lord, why did this bother me so much, out of nowhere this came to me, this is how your relationship with your partner is. HUH? Were my first reaction, where did that came from.

The Holy Spirit starts to explain to me that every body is the old man and every body is the bicycle, you are the old man and your partner is the bicycle, and vice versa in your partner’s case. Now I’m more confused. I earn a good salary, there is food and a roof over my head a new car in the parking, and a company car I’m not poor with a rusted bicycle!

The Holy Spirit again came to me, “that is how your love life is, you barely have the means to sustain your self, and your partner is like the rusted Bicycle. Life use us and break us, mostly it’s done by the choices we make. When the love banks run in a overdraft we trough the bicycle away because we can’t fix the breakages, there is nothing left in the bank for repairs”. My eyes filled with tears how true, how true.

Look what the Lord Promise us, we just need to come to Him, pay attention to verse 3 “I will give you my faithful love” if you received that you can give it away, we cant give away what we don’t have …….

Jes 55:1 “Come, all of you who are thirsty. Come and drink the water I offer to you. You who do not have any money, come. Buy and eat the grain I give you. Come and buy wine and milk. You will not have to pay anything for it.
Jes 55:2 Why spend money on what is not food? Why work for what does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to me. Then you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the richest food there is.
Jes 55:3 Listen and come to me. Pay attention to me. Then you will live. I will make a covenant with you that will last forever. I will give you my faithful love. I promised it to David.

If we really want to fix your rusted bicycle, we must fill up our account with Jesus Christ so that we can repair our trusted rusted bicycles.

by January Jones

excerpt from

Thou Shalt Not Whine
The Eleventh Commandment

Beaufort Books May 2008

This hypothetical question popped into my head the other day after I heard a minister on television say that, “Jesus definitely did not approve of gays.” My thought is, “How could Jesus not approve of gays since he created all of us in his own image?”

Now let’s ask, “What was the image of Jesus Christ, the Son of God?” Well for a starter, he was a good Jewish boy that lived at home with his mother until he died. He had no girlfriends that we know of except for his friend, Mary Magdalene. She was a prostitute who was probably one of the early celebrities in the gay holy land. Mary would have been a biblical Madonna or Cher type personality.

Jesus never married or had children that we know of unless you are a fan of The DaVinci
Code that most churches are quick to denounce. His best friends were the twelve apostles who were all men just like him. Granted some of the apostles were married men. But if Jesus were gay, “Why couldn’t some of his close friends be bi-sexual?”

Then there is the way he dressed. Jesus wore long, flowing gowns, great sandals and had fabulous hair. I’m not saying he was a cross dresser but the clothes he wore were very similar to the ones his Mother and Mary Magdalene wore. Also, I think it is rather interesting that now his male priests and ministers dress more outrageously for services than most women. “Wouldn’t be amazing if we find out that Jesus was not only a fabulous, darling guy but he was the Boy from Oz?” The original one!

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