furrbear: (PissOff Reich)
[personal profile] furrbear
... here's the mass-mailing email circulating from the American Family Association ugring storming of the Newsweek battlements:

Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire e-mail list of family and friends. Newsweek trashes the Bible in support of homosexual marriage

Send an e-mail to Newsweek telling Newsweek you are disappointed with its distorted interpretation of scripture.


December 8, 2008

Dear Friend,

Newsweek magazine has published a lengthy article stating that the Bible supports homosexual marriage. The article was written Lisa Miller, Newsweek religion editor.

Miller's article is one of the most biased and distorted pieces concerning homosexual marriage ever published by any major news organization. The article is much too long for this e-mail.

Dr. Albert Mohler has offered a response to the Newsweek article. I suggest you read Mohler’s article and then read Miller's Newsweek article.

Mohler made a significant point in his response: "The national news media are collectively embarrassed by the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Gay rights activists are publicly calling on the mainstream media to offer support for gay marriage, arguing that the media let them down in November. It appears that Newsweek intends to do its part to press for same-sex marriage. Many observers believe that the main obstacle to this agenda is a resolute opposition grounded in Christian conviction. Newsweek clearly intends to reduce that opposition."

Take Action!

Send an e-mail to Newsweek telling Newsweek you are disappointed with its distorted interpretation of scripture.

Forward this e-mail to your friends and family. They need to see how the media distorts scripture to support same-sex marriage. Ask them to send the e-mail to Newsweek.

Call CEO Thomas E. Ascheim at 212-445-5245. Please be polite.

If you subscribe to Newsweek, cancel your subscription and tell them why.

Thank you for caring enough to get involved.

Sincerely,

Donald E. Wildmon,
Founder and Chairman
American Family Association

The AFA is "America's Largest Pro-Family Action Site - 2,406,681 Supporters Strong". Let's see in a country of 300,000,000 that's 0.8%. Well, I'll give them most vocal.

BTW: The links above have been scrubbed of AFA's tracking material. And the Send Mail link is specially prepared for our community.

Date: 2008-12-09 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackwingbear.livejournal.com
Those racist, sexist bigots just don't give-up, do they?

Date: 2008-12-09 03:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mister-don.livejournal.com
Yes, saw their hate spew earlier on my e-mail "junk folder"

Date: 2008-12-09 04:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] b-a-n-d-i-t.livejournal.com
They are fading away slowly. They know it. Society is changing - slowly - and they can't stand it, they want to turn back the clock... and ultimately they won't be able to.

Date: 2008-12-09 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
Not sure about fading away... becoming irrelevant, dying off,...

They won a battle with Prop 8, but they know it will precipitate their losing the GLBT Culture War.

Date: 2008-12-09 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pink-halen.livejournal.com
It is really kind of amazing that Newsweak could possibly distort the meaning of scripture by actually quoting it correctly. It it possible that Abraham didn't have a child by his servant or that David Loved Jonathan. Perhaps Newsweek was using the Catholic Bible or the Greek Bible or the New Jerusalem Bible or the Good News Bible or St. John's Great Bible or some old version printed by Gutenburg.

Date: 2008-12-09 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
Yes, because all (Good) "Christians" know the only True Word of God™® is the King James' Bible used by Good Suth'un Bab'tis' around the world. The fact that King James was himself a Flaming Queen is overlooked in another example of convenient Fundamentalist Cherry-Picking.

Date: 2008-12-09 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blt4success66.livejournal.com
I just saw something on Yahoo last night about this. Newsweek already has a response for the throngs of e-mails and letters it expects to see.

I'll try to find it and post it.

Date: 2008-12-10 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blt4success66.livejournal.com
I already posted this earlier today plus the link to the Newsweek article. Thanks!

Date: 2008-12-10 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furrbear.livejournal.com
I thought you were going to come back and update your earlier comment

Date: 2008-12-10 02:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blt4success66.livejournal.com
Hmm, that's odd...I have the posting here: http://blt4success66.livejournal.com/500720.html

HUGS!

Date: 2008-12-10 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bookish-cub.livejournal.com
I read the article online, and I found it to be pretty fair and reasonable. I love how things are "biased" if they don't completely line up with someone's views these days.

The AFA is a bunch of talk and very little action. I don't know why anyone takes them seriously.
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