Michele Bachmann Lobbies for Christian Punk Ministry Bent on Forcing Christ in Public Schools

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Michele Bachmann Lobbies for Christian Punk Ministry Bent on Forcing Christ in Public Schools

By Andy Birkey, RH Reality Check. Posted October 5, 2009.

The Christian punk rock band organizes motivational student assemblies to bring conservative Christian dogma to public schools. Separation of church and state, anyone?




Rep. Michele Bachmann will be headlining a fundraiser in November for controversial ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCRBYCH).

Based in Annandale, Minn., the group has made a name for itself as an anti-drug Christian punk rock band that organizes motivational student assemblies to bring Christ to public schools. But over the last several years, parents and school administrators have complained that the ministry misrepresents itself, claiming that the group is not transparent about its Christian mission. And since schools pay using public funds, some are concerned that the group is violating the constitutional principle of the separation of church and state.

Bachmann will be the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the group on Nov. 12 at a Bloomington hotel. Bachmann’s office did not return a request seeking comment about the event.

It won’t be Bachmann’s first time at a YCRBYCH fundraiser. At a Minneapolis hotel in October 2006, she offered a powerful prayer for the ministry and praised the group’s work of sharing the gospel in public schools.

“Lord, I thank you for what you have done at this ministry… how you are going to advance them from 260 schools a year, Lord, to 2,600 schools a year,” she said. “Lord, we ask thy faith that you would expand this ministry beyond anything the originators of this ministry could begin to think or imagine. Lord, the day is at hand! We are in the last days! The day is at hand, Lord, when your return will become nigh. Pour a double blessing, Lord, a triple blessing on this ministry.” ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/143073/michele_bachmann_lobbies_for_christian_punk_ministry_bent_on_forcing_christ_in_public_schools

[Ian David]

1. How does a chrisTian band ever find out that they suck?

I doubt that your fellow chirsTians would boo you off the stage if you're singing about Christ, even if you're doing a terrible job.

They'd just sway back and forth, speaking in tongues, no matter how bad you are.

[Orsino]

3. When Michele Bachman starts boosting for them.

Fonzie has cleared that shark.

[donco6]

2. "Punk Rock"? Well, they're only 20 years behind now.

I guess that's a step up.

[LeftHander]

5. Like these acts that took the High Schools by storm...

[MineralMan]

7. And don't forget The Faith Tones

[joeybee12]

11. These 3 by themselves are responsible for depleting the ozone layer n/t

[joeybee12]

12. Hmmm...4 old men saying "Let me touch him."

Creepy.

[Odin2005]

4. Lunatics. All of them!

:scared:

[gratuitous]

6. So, they're all "serve one another in love"?

"Love does not insist on its own way"?

"As much as you did it to the least of these, you did it to me"?

Lemme guess: We're not likely to hear a whole lot of that.

[LeftinOH]

8. That's one incredibly weak deity -if he needs to much help "getting in" to schools-

you'd think that the *truly faithful* would carry Christ and his word within them at all times, even into school buildings. The fundies never seem to understand that.

[Initech]

9. Nazi punks fuck off!

[spanone]

10. lobby on ms wingnut

[asdjrocky]

13. Christian punk?

Now I've heard everything. Is that anything like Atheist Church Lady?

[Canuckistanian]

14. Christian Punk?

Isn't that like Easy Listening Heavy Metal?