Would they be beyond taking advantage of one's faith?

[Doctrine1st]

"In August 1999, political organizer Ralph Reed's firm sent out a mailer to Alabama conservative Christians asking them to call then-Rep. Bob Riley (R-Ala.) and tell him to vote against legislation that would have made the U.S. commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands subject to federal wage and worker safety laws.

Now those seven-year-old words are coming back to haunt Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition and a candidate for the Republican nomination to be Georgia's lieutenant governor:

"The radical left, the Big Labor Union Bosses, and Bill Clinton want to pass a law preventing Chinese from coming to work on the Marianas Islands," the mailer from Reed's firm said. The Chinese workers, it added, "are exposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ" while on the islands, and many "are converted to the Christian faith and return to China with Bibles in hand."

A year earlier, the Department of the Interior -- which oversees federal policy toward the U.S. territory -- presented a very different picture of life for Chinese workers on the islands. An Interior report found that Chinese women were subject to forced abortions and that women and children were subject to forced prostitution in the local sex-tourism industry.

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And this:

"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it."

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So just a public service announcement, be very wary of wolves in sheep’s clothing.

 

[Yusuf Evans]

I'm not sure who to be more mad at in the article. Either way, sex slaves are a very bad thing and our goernment needs to do more to stop it.

 

[k]

This is the third or fourth thread on the very same issue, though it is new info, at least to me, about the fliers put out.

Why hasn't this issue caught traction on a Christian site?

 

[blueapplepaste]

Why hasn't this issue caught traction on a Christian site?

I imagine that anything that sheds even the slightest negative light towards Christianity most would rather just brush it under the rug and look the other way. Because it couldn't possibly be their religion that could be involved in such acts.

 

[reverend B]

i brought this up about two weeks ago. this whole thing is an abomination against humanity for profit. it is supported by the grover norquist conservative think tank. grover called the marianas a "model for free enterprise". people like him and reed should be humiliated by their own reflections. perhaps this explains norquists beard. as Christians, we should be ashamed to have them anywhere near our institutions and should loudly shun these perverse manipulators and users of people of faith. this is what evil looks like.

 

[Texas Lynn]

Reed is going down in flames. The slick politician on the make will not become Georgia's Lieutenant Governor, thus assurring the late Lester Maddox's place as the worst in that position is secure.

 

[k]

i brought this up about two weeks ago. this whole thing is an abomination against humanity for profit. it is supported by the grover norquist conservative think tank. grover called the marianas a "model for free enterprise". people like him and reed should be humiliated by their own reflections. perhaps this explains norquists beard. as Christians, we should be ashamed to have them anywhere near our institutions and should loudly shun these perverse manipulators and users of people of faith. this is what evil looks like.

This is excellent and the only thing I can add is to expand on the "this is what evil looks like" part. It's what Evil looks like not JUST by what those bungs did, but also by the lack of response by "Christian" America.

Yes folks, the US still owns slaves in 2006!! Wakey wakey!!