Fall to Your Knees for Bigotry:

[rpannier]

On July 5, the FRC hopes to have thousands of congregations fall to their knees to pray for victory over the evil abortionists and queers. What about feeding the hungry?

On Sunday, July 5, the Family Research Council hopes to have 40,000 churches across the country participating in its latest PR scheme the “Call 2 Fall.”

FRC president Tony Perkins says the day is set aside for Christians to “fall on their knees” in prayer for the country:

Observances can take several forms, Perkins said, from a three- to five-minute period during a worship service when people would get on their knees and pray to a full day of praying and expressing dependence on God.

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Lou Engle, in a blog post at “Call 2 Fall” sums up the error in a post rife with 9/11 references:

And now something far worse than the twin towers is upon us and we are more than a day late in “Keeping Guard”. The twin pillars of righteousness and justice – the issue of life (abortion) and the definition of marriage, are experiencing an all out collapse far greater than the collapse of those twin towers. There is no alternative to be found. The building is crashing. There is no political help. No economic help. Only one remedy remains. We must hear The Call to Fall.

link:
http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/religiousright/1498/fall_to_your_knees_for_bigotry

[Skittles]

1. I wish they'd fall and not get up

[Toucano]

2. Close this thread.

No other comment could possibly express it more perfectly!

:yourock:

[NanceGreggs]

3. Well, that pretty well sums it up ...

... :applause:

[rpannier]

4. Agreed

That is funny -- and true

[MADem]

5. All they've got is wedge issues. What failures. nt

[dorkulon]

6. Good thing prayer doesn't actually do anything

I hope they really focus their efforts on prayer from now on.

[hfojvt]

7. well at least they are not praying for anybody to die

unlike some on the non-hateful left.

[get the red out]

13. Last week a right winger was praying for the President to die

I haven't heard about any lefties praying for anyone to die.

Right-wing religion has been owned and operated by the Republican Party for years. And the Republican Party is owned and operated by the corporate biggies. So this isn't religion, this is politics.

The people duped by this stupidity are really praying to their corporate masters. These people revere Ronald Reagan more than they do Jesus Christ. Political worship. If you are worshipping in a right wing church good luck with getting your prayers answered by Wall Street.

[hfojvt]

14. see above

I think there is an equivalence between 'wishing' and 'praying' although my desk dictionary does not make one a synonym of the other. They both are synonyms of 'request'.

[charlie]

8. Call 2 Fail

July 6 will be exactly the same as July 5, with the God-bothering pinchbritches losing just as hard. They'll have to claim some sort of miraculous signage, so maybe God will move everything in the universe one inch to the right that day, just for them.

[provis99]

9. well if their prayers don't work,

does that mean god hates them?

[madeline_con]

10. Sometimes, God's answer is "NO!"

:eyes:

[Enthusiast]

11. The entire religious Reich WIng

behaves as if abortion suddenly became legal after President Obama's inauguration. Has anyone else noticed this?

[Lasher]

12. Now that you mention it, I can see that.

Obama invented deficit spending too.