A New Wave of Wacko Evangelicals Swept GOP Primaries—and Could Win Several Seats in Washington

[doxydad]

Mega churches fuel a dangerous new wave of political activism.

A Southern Baptist Pastor claiming dangerous and crazy things like the notion that there is a homosexual plot to sodomize children, and that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to Muslims is so common that it barely registers as newsworthy these days. What should be catching the attention of even the most jaded news editors, however, is that a Southern Baptist Pastor who actually said exactly these aforementioned things has just won his GOP primary race, has just won his GOP primary race, for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Say hello to Tea Party Republican Jody Hice.

In the coming 2014 election, Hice will be the official Republican nominee to replace outgoing Georgia Congressman Paul Broun. Hice believes gay people have a secret plot to seduce and sodomize America’s sons, thinks same-sex marriage is akin to bestiality and incest, and compares abortion to the genocide waged by Hitler. Broun (R-GA) has endorsed Hice, which is unsurprising given it was Broun who once claimed, “Evolution and embryology and the big Bang theory are all likes straight from the pit of Hell.”

Pastor Hice has a long history of delivering hateful and homophobic laden sermons from the pulpit. He has struck out at those who oppose harmful “gay conversion therapy,” and by banning it “we are enslaving and entrapping potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals in a lifestyle that in reality they are not.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/new-wave-wacko-evangelicals-swept-gop-primaries-and-could-win-several-seats

Religious ideas, mantras, beliefs, do not belong anywhere around politics. The only true believers of such nonsense are sheeple.

[Rozlee]

1. In the meantime, polls show increasing support for gay marriage, marijuana legalization...

women's reproductive choice and other progressive social issues, not just among millennials, but across the country. Where are all these kooky evangelicals coming from? Are they some kind of 'dead-enders?' I was reading just three months ago that despite the increase in the US population, church attendance has dropped sharply. I wonder if attendance in small community churches are responsible for the rise in mega-churches? Right-wing evangelical Christians aren't finding the their wacko views vindicated by pastors in their local parishes and they're drifting to mega-churches whose more charismatic preachers project their own beliefs and personal biases in their sermons.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Tea Party = extreme hard right religious-based paranoia/bigotry

[Herself]

3. tea tards predict success based on their fantasies

Claims that a political party that has alienated every non rich white male group in the world is going to gain anything, is pure fantasy.

[GOLGO 13]

4. Best thing that ever happend to the repukes was bringing these openly racists

into their wretched arms. These tea-baggers are like gifts from heaven.