I'd sure like to see those sources you took this from.
That list at the bottom is a little hard to swallow.
And I've swallowed some REALLY big ones in my time.
LOL
--- Ronni Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There have been many accounts of Republican and
> Conservative/NeoCons who have been exposed for their
> sexual crimes against children in the news lately.
> (*see below). It's certainly clear that their
> obsession with the sex lives of other people only
> serves to hide the underlying sexual obsessions they
> have with children. Remember this when you hear a
> Conservative or Republican woman or man preaching so
> heavily against other people's sexual choices. It's
> just a coverup for their own vices.
>
> It's also well known that being raised in a
> fundamentalist Christian Household is most likely
> involving abuse from parent(s) toward the children,
> the way the fundamentalist parent forces the
> fundamentalist Cult Christianity they worship, down
> the child's or children's throats is abuse in
> itself. They are not allowed to reject the religion
> or practice something else; most fundamentalist Cult
> Christians would kill the child before they let that
> happen. And usually accompanied by physical
> beatings, torture and abuse, and always accompanied
> by emotional abuse because the child is unable to
> regurgitate the twisted teachings well enough to
> escape the "punishment of Christ" through Mom and
> Dad.
>
> Forcing a child to pretend to buy into the basic
> non-sequitur core of the Cult Christian belief
> system is abusive, let's face it. These children are
> usually better off being taken away from the abusive
> Cult Christian parents and placed in a new home with
> more decent, and liberal parents. To do otherwise is
> to pay a heavy price later, the oppressed child
> usually becomes a power-hungry criminal or "acts
> out" in other ways (public preaching, scams
> involving collecting funds as a "preacher" or
> "healer" to support drug and alcohol addictions,
> plus maintain that ugly middle-class surfacy
> lifestyle, etc.) It cost the taxpayers millions of
> dollars for every battered Cult Christian child who
> turns to a life of crime or bizarre Cult
> Christianity that ends up getting people murdered
> for the color of their skin or for following a
> different religious or spiritual path. The battered
> Cult Christian child becomes a child abuser
> themselves and passes on "the Jesus on the Cross"
> syndrome to another sad generation of hucksters and
> bigots who will only torture and abuse their own
> children.
>
> We need to be proactive!! to Stop Cult Christians
> from passing on their ugly racist, homophobic,
> children-abusive lifestyle!! It destroys the family.
> The whole family of mankind. It's endangering the
> very planet we are a part of and depend on for
> future generations of our children to live a healthy
> long life as "God"
> (nature/spirit/cosmos/universe/universal) as god,
> she intended us to do.
>
> Revelations about Catholic priests, Protestant
> Preachers and sexual abuse may inspire the Church to
> abandon its current obsession with sex and reclaim
> its more compelling focus on social justice. The
> Protestant branch of Christianity has long been
> known to harbor child molestors, where both women
> and men church members are often pedophiles. Some of
> the more rural churches often do nasty things with
> snakes and religious icons. I understand this is
> very popular in many small towns in Georgia, for
> instance Duluth and that local area. Also known to
> be popular in many small mountain communities across
> Appalachia and at certain regular parties on a dry
> Texas Ranch during the George W. Bush White House
> era. (Please don't email me asking me if I know who
> to contact to get guest reservations).
>
> The ever-darker clouds of revelations about criminal
> sexual conduct by hundreds of thousands of Catholic
> priests and Protestant Preachers may contain a
> silver lining. For they may inspire the Church to
> abandon its current obsession with sex and reclaim
> its more compelling focus on social justice.
>
> The timing is felicitous. The new pope is probably a
> typical Catholic Child Molester and liable to harsh
> measures to deny it. The current debate about
> changing the Church's thinking on sexual topics
> could blossom into the kind of full-throated debate
> about the Church's mission that shook doctrinal
> foundations a generation ago.
>
> Forty years ago, Pope John XXIII convened Vatican
> II, the first general council of bishops for almost
> a century. He asked the Council to engage in an
> aggiornamento -- a bringing up to date of the Church
> to make it more relevant to the needs of the modern
> world. The results were nothing less than
> revolutionary. Church services began to be conducted
> in native languages. The Church began to formulate
> policy from the bottom up. Priests and nuns and
> laity were given more participation and authority.
> "Let the layman not imagine that his pastors are
> always experts," the Pope proclaimed. "Rather,
> enlighted by Christian wisdom let the layman take on
> his own distinctive role."
>
> One of Pope John XXIII's goals was to increase the
> authority of women in the Church. In his
> groundbreaking encyclical, "Pacem in Terris," the
> Pope declared, "Since women are becoming ever more
> conscious of their human dignity, they will not
> tolerate being treated as mere material instruments,
> but demand rights befitting a human person both in
> domestic and in public life." Of course, Southern
> Baptists are not going to treat women, equally, not
> quite ready for that yet, but eventuallys gays and
> women and bisexuals will become a political force
> that will force even Southern Baptists to shut down
> the bigoted hate that is commonly preached in church
> on Sunday. Liberals are going to win in the long run
> because we support human rights, dignity and
> tolerance.
>
> Pope John XXIII also sought to align the Church with
> movements for social justice. Under his urging and
> the Vatican II's tutelage, the Church would begin to
> teach its members -- and the world -- that it was
> not God's will that poor children died of
> malnutrition, but the result of sinful man-made
> structures. The names given to this new Catholic
> doctrine reflect its emphasis on improving the lot
> of those most in need -- "liberation theology" and
> "the preferential option for the poor."
>
> Pope John XXIII's reign was brief, but his
> aggiornamento bore fruit for almost two decades. I
> personally witnessed the dramatic effects in Latin
> America in the 1970s. Vatican II spawned Christian
> movements throughout that region that challenged the
> existing inequitable and oppressive order.
>
> When the Church began preaching justice, it was met
> with savage brutality by those who fomented
> injustice. More than a thousand bishops, priests and
> nuns were killed or tortured in Latin America. No
> rank was safe. The United States was directly
> involved in alot of the murders of liberal Priests
> and Nuns. In 1980, the archbishop of San Salvador
> was gunned down on the steps of his Cathedral after
> he spoke out against military repression.
>
> The highest levels of the Church were not
> indifferent to the courage demonstrated by their
> lowest rungs. When Leonardo Boff, along with two
> other Dominican priests, spent four years in prison
> for giving shelter to urban guerrillas, Pope Paul VI
> sent an inscribed crucifix to him in his prison cell
> as a symbol of solidarity.
>
> In 1978, in the midst of this growing partnership
> between the Church and the outcasts of society, Pope
> John Paul II assumed office. His background was
> unique. As Archbishop of Krakow, Poland he had
> witnessed, and indeed, grown up under Soviet
> tyranny. To him, liberation theology -- with its
> Marxist overtones -- played into the hands of a
> grasping Soviet empire. He moved to eliminate its
> influence.
>
> The first step occurred in 1984 when the Church
> issued its Instruction on Certain Aspects of the
> Theology of Liberation. The Instruction reversed the
> teachings of Vatican II by insisting that the cause
> of injustice is sin, not social inequities.
> "(L)iberation is first and foremost liberation from
> the radical slavery of sin," it declared, "the
> source of injustice is in the hearts of men."
>
> From then on the Church would struggle to change the
> hearts of those in power, but would no longer
> aggressively challenge power itself.
>
> Pope John Paul II's second step was to replace the
> advocates of liberation theology within the Church
> hierarchy with those actively opposed to it. In
> Latin America, home to 40 percent of the world's 1
> billion Catholics, 10 Archbishops named by Pope John
> Paul II last year were known for their conservatism.
> Yet even the pope can not stop the hands of time
> from changing the church from conservative to
> liberal. Human rights and sexual already are
> championed by many old-line Catholics. Change is
> coming at last to all of the Catholic Church and
> even the fundamentalist Protestant Sects are on
> their last legs before liberalism and tolerance
> sweeps the old mindset and bigotry right out of the
> church doctrine. It's inevitable.
>
> Pope John Paul II re-centralized power in the
> Vatican. He stood firm against giving women more
> authority within the Church. Instead of social
> justice, the Church turned its focus once again on
> personal sin, and personal sin almost always is
> equated with sex. There are, to be sure, homilies
> about justice. But the greatest proportion of the
> Church's resources, both personal and moral, are
> invested in the battle against sex in all its
> guises: homosexuality, divorce, birth control, adult
> bookstores.
>
> And now, suddenly, with a clarity unprecedented in
> religious history, the Church has been stripped of
> its moral standing to lecture us about sex. Indeed,
> as the Economist magazine has warned, "by
> mishandling sex, or trying to ignore it, the Church
> has hurt its authority in general."
>
> To be sure, the Church must get its sexual
> proclivities under control. But at the same time, it
> should redirect its energy away from a sex-based
> theology and toward a justice-oriented theology.
>
> The Soviet empire is no more. Poland is independent
> and free. Now is time for the Church to rekindle the
> spirit of Vatican II -- time for the Church to help
> Catholics and non-Catholics alike struggle against
> human-made structures that make life miserable for
> billions of people. Such as the antiquated bigotry
> against women, gays, bisexuals and others. Change
> has come to the church at last, and it cannot be
> turned back.
>
> * Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott
> Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
> * Republican County Commissioner David Swartz
> pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age
> of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
> * Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no
> contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was
> sentenced to 10 years probation.
> * Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency
> pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on
> his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who
> murders an abortion doctor.
> * Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was
> sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his
> daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
> * Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a
> 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually
> abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
> * Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was
> sentenced to three years probation for taking nude
> photographs of a 15-year old girl.
> * Republican racist pedophile and United States
> Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old
> black girl which produced a child.
> * Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush
> commended during the 2004 presidential campaign,
> surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual
> affair with a female juvenile.
> * Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no
> contest to having an inappropriate relationship with
> a 13-year-old girl.
> * Republican activist Lawrence E. King, Jr.
> organized child sex parties at the White House
> during the 1980s.
> * Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized
> child sex parties at the White House during the
> 1980s.
> * Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was
> found guilty of having sex with a female minor and
> sentenced to one month in jail.
> * Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was
> found guilty of child porn charges and paying two
> teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
> * Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on
> six counts of sex crimes involving children.
> * Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded
> guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
> * Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a
> female minor working as a congressional page.
> * Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader
> Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous
> relationship with his step daughter.
> * Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
> allegedly had sex with a 16 year old girl when he
> was 28. He consumed fast amounts of illegal drugs
> and sex stimulants, otherwise as it's well known, he
> couldn't get it up, even for her.
> * Republican congressman and anti-gay activist
> Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a
> 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
> * Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was
> arrested for distributing a video clip of a
> 5-year-old girl being raped.
> * Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a.
> "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by
> Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual
> activity with an underage girl and one count of
> delivering the drug LSD.
> * Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was
> charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and
> possession of child pornography.
> * Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was
> accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby
> sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the
> allegations were reported in the media.
> * Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a
> return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail
> after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for
> permission to perform oral sex on him.
> * Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded
> guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old
> girl.
> * Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch"
> Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for
> molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to
> stop a gay couple from adopting her.
> * Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty
> to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14
> years in federal prison.
> * Republican election board official Kevin Coan was
> sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex
> over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
> * Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with
> two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old
> boy.
> * Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was
> arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and
> lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16
> (i.e. exposing himself to children).
> * Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt
> was charged with sexual misconduct involving a
> 15-year old girl.
> * Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded
> guilty to molesting a male child.
> * Republican activist John Butler was charged with
> criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
> * Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to
> molesting his two daughters.
> * Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W.
> Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old
> girl.
> * Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert
> Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and
> assault on a teenage boy.
> * Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr.
> pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and
> served 6-months in prison.
> * Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty
> to possession of child pornography on his home
> computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal
> prison and fined $18,000.
> * Republican parole board officer and former
> Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz,
> was fired after child pornography was found in his
> possession.
> * Republican strategist and Citadel Military College
> graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia
> on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls
> over the internet.
> * Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is
> described as a "good military man" and "church
> goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex with
> an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in
> prison.
> * Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his
> candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations
> surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four
> underage girls, including his daughter.
> * Republican director of the "Young Republican
> Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year
> old daughter and was sentenced to six years in
> prison.
> * Republican benefactor of conservative Christian
> groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was charged with rape
> for allegedly paying a 15-year old girl for sex.
> Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and
> several grandchildren, has allegedly told police
> that over the past decade he paid more than $1
> million to have sex with a large number of young
> people, both boys and girls.
>
> **** Not to mention that both George H.W. Bush and
> George W. Bush have been accused of sexually
> molesting young male child cousins. George W. Bush
> has been accused of raping a black woman and her
> husband while on a cocaine/alcohol binge/rage. And
> of course, the sexual abuse, rape and torture of
> prisoners in Iraq that came from orders issued by
> George W. Bush, including children, women and men.
>
> {plagarized and adapted from several sources.}
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