Alan Keyes

Will They Let Him Bring Alan Keyes as his Date?

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 8/29/2006 12:00 pm
Keyes.bmp After leading criticism of George Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University  and  “not repudiating the schools anti-Catholic teachings or policy banning interracial dating”, likely presidential candidate, John McCain, “left the door open for a visit” should an invitation come to him from BJU.
McCain said he'd have to look at the school's latest policy statements. "I understand they have made considerable progress," he said. "I can't remember when I've turned down a speaking invitation. I think I'd have to look at it."

Missouri Stem Cell Rally Predicts Dystopian Future, Clone Slavery

Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 8/18/2006 4:21 pm

Rick Scarborough held his second rally to oppose a Missouri ballot initiative on embryonic stem cell research. At the first, former talk show host and presidential candidate Alan Keyes compared the anti-stem cell campaign to the civil rights movement. In a Cape Girardeau high school gymnasium last night, Keyes suggested the amendment would lead to the creation of an army of slave clones. From the Southeast Missourian:

Speakers at the Christians Against Human Cloning rally painted the proposal as the next step in a satanic onslaught, using promises of cures to promote tyranny and death.

Alan Keyes, the keynote speaker, said embryonic stem-cell research is the moral equivalent of Nazi medical experiments on the inmates of death camps during World War II.

And despite wording in Amendment 2 imposing harsh criminal penalties on anyone attempting to create a living human clone using the stem-cell research techniques, Keyes raised the possibility of an industrial effort to produce clones.

The result, he said, would be "new legions of humans to be enslaved and brutalized."

While Keyes envisioned the clone legions, Scarborough claimed that supporters of the amendment “are leveling their howitzers at the prayer army” composed of his followers.

Rally in Cape Girardeau
(Don Frazier, Southeast Missourian)

Alan Keyes Staffer Claims Gay Trend Is "Sex with Infants"

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, 8/3/2006 5:08 pm

Truth Wins Out is calling attention to an interview given by Guy Adams on an Internet radio show. Adams, who is the deputy national grassroots director for Alan Keyes’ Renew America, asserts that the latest “trend” among gays is “sex with infants.” You can listen to the show here [link broken--see below].

Keyes himself is no stranger to wild anti-gay rhetoric. In 2004, when Keyes was the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois—and when Guy Adams served as his bodyguard—he claimed that incest is “inevitable” for children of gays and called Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter a “selfish hedonist.”

UPDATE: The link to the radio show's web site has been removed. You can listen to the program here.

Rally in Missouri Compares Fight Against Stem Cell Research to Civil Rights Struggle, Nazis

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday, 8/1/2006 1:37 pm
Dallas-based right-wing organizer Rick Scarborough and former presidential candidate and talk-show host Alan Keyes "kicked off a church-based campaign" yesterday to defeat a Missouri ballot initiative on embryonic stem-cell research, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Scarborough, a figure instrumental in building a network of "Patriot Pastors" in Texas willing to mobilize their churches around far-right causes and candidates, is using the stem-cell issue to recruit a similar network of "Patriot Pastors" in Missouri. Scarborough is promoting the controversial Keyes as the keynote speaker in these "Patriot Pastor" rallies in much the same way that Keyes was featured in Scarborough's "War on Christians" conference earlier this year.

Yesterday's rally at a Baptist church in Jefferson City was described by the Post-Dispatch as the first shot in a "three-month holy war" planned by Scarborough -- the first of at least five church rallies.

Scarborough and Keyes didn't pull any punches before the "capacity crowd," as the newspaper reports:

Keyes equated the effort to protect embryonic cells with the struggle for equality among African-Americans. And he likened the movement in favor of embryonic stem cell research to the Nazi effort to preach the inferiority of certain forms of humans.

"We have sacrificed blood and treasure to bring (that thinking) to an end," he said. "Shall we now vote to legalize it in Missouri?"

Stem-Cell Research and Missouri "Patriot Pastors" Update

Submitted by Anonymous on Friday, 7/21/2006 12:09 pm
As we reported before, Texas "Patriot Pastors" pioneer and full-time activist Rick Scarborough is looking to spread the model to Missouri, where votes will decide a stem-cell research ballot measure. And, with a six-figure budget, he's bringing right-wing superstar Alan Keyes for a series of rallies across the state. Now Scarborough's Vision America has the details:

Stem-Cell Research and Missouri "Patriot Pastors" Update

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 7/17/2006 5:24 pm

In an e-mail to his supporters, Texas activist Rick Scarborough, president of Vision America, decries the upcoming Senate vote on stem-cell research:

The Senate is debating stem cell research and cloning, for the first time since Dolly, the cloned sheep appeared.  This debate is long overdue and will allow Christians to know who the true pro life legislators are.  At the heart of the debate on stem cell research and cloning is the issue of who originates life and who can decide when life is expendable.  Will little “gods” replace the Lord God in America?

I am saddened that Senator Dr. Frist betrayed his longstanding commitment to the sanctity of life when he embraced embryonic stem cell research. To date, there is no evidence that embryonic stem cells are the magic cure all that is being touted while adult stem cells have produced many encouraging advances toward curing diseases.  It is never right to exploit a life for the advancement of another life and that is what embryonic stem cell research is in essence.

Scarborough is an influential figure in the “Patriot Pastor” movement in Texas, and as he pointed out in a fundraising e-mail last month, he is working on spreading the model to Missouri around a state referendum on stem-cell research. The Pathway reports on five upcoming rallies, including one with far-right luminary Alan Keyes.

Texas “Patriot Pastors

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday, 6/27/2006 2:40 pm

Rick Scarborough, an influential Religious Right advocate whose Vision America has been trying to organize “Patriot Pastors” in Texas to mobilize their congregations at the ballot box, is now setting his sights on Missouri. In an e-mail to supporters, Scarborough writes that “God has chosen to bless and anoint our efforts” to build up “Patriot Pastors” – who were critical in the passage of an anti-gay marriage amendment last year and are poised to play a similar role in Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign.

Much of what we have been able to do so quickly can be attributed to a small number of large donors who have been gracious to assist our efforts.  But what Vision America needs now more than ever, are hundreds of small, but faithful Patriot Partners, who will invest a minimum of $1 a day, to help solidify our base operations so we can function without facing the ups and downs of one time large gifts.

“During the next five months we will be focusing most of our efforts on the state of Missouri,” he writes, “where the next major battle for the soul of America is being waged” in the form of a referendum on stem-cell research, which Scarborough describes as “allowing human cloning for the first time in American history,” a characterization disputed by supporters of the bill. Writes Scarborough:

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Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 08/07/2009, 4:51pm
It doesn't look like Gov. Mark Sanford's efforts to save his marriage are working out as he had planned.Sen. Mel Martinez announced that he is resigning his seat and will step down as soon as a replacement is named.Alan Keyes wants to know why people like Don Wildmon, Gary Bauer, and others on the Right aren't defending the Birthers.OneNewsNow: Operation Rescue is formally launching a campaign called "Keep it Closed" that targets Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart. Carhart has stated that he will open a late-term abortion facility in Kansas or Nebraska in the aftermath of the... MORE >
Birthers Gone Wild
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 08/04/2009, 11:59am
I suppose I am obligated to post the video of Orly Taitz's appearance on MSNBC yesterday, so here it is:I don't feel this clip provided any new information to the issue - other than providing further evidence that Taitz is insane despite her insistence that she is not, in fact, crazy. In fact, the insistence by the Birthers that they are not crazy seems to be a their new defense, as that was exactly the point that Wiley Drake made last week:Obama's supporters "want to brand anyone who questions him as a nut, and they're not. Alan Keyes is not a nut. I'm not,"... MORE >
Obama's America: "A Cross Between Stalinist USSR and Nazi Germany"
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 07/31/2009, 3:59pm
By now, everyone realizes that Orly Taitz is the "Queen of the Birthers" and, more importantly, a verifiable nutcase.  Everyone that is except for people like Lou Dobbs, Janet Porter, and all of the others who have latched onto her conspiracy theories.And while Taitz has been saying crazy things since she launched this crusade, the recent attention she has been receiving seems to have emboldened her to really let loose, leading to profiles like this one by Max Blumenthal in which she proclaims that President Obama is worse than Stalin, ought to be in prison, and rapidly... MORE >
When the Conspiracy Theory Becomes the Conspiracy Theory
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/30/2009, 12:55pm
It looks like the Birther conspiracy theory might be turning a corner.  No, it is not going away but rather the entire issue is now being held up by people on the Right as evidence of a plot by the media and President Obama to marginalize conservatives.Earlier this week, Bill Pascoe, the man "whose idea it was to recruit Alan Keyes to run" against Barack Obama in Illinois, wrote in CQ that all the attention suddenly being paid to the Birthers was part of a media ploy to discredit the conservative movement:Is this anything but a gift to the Democrats?Am I the only one to notice... MORE >
Wiley Drake Insists That He Is Not a Nut
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 07/29/2009, 4:36pm
Wiley Drake has played a central role in keeping the Birther conspiracy alive, as he and his running mate, Alan Keyes, are among the few members of the movement who can claim "standing" in the various lawsuits filed by Orly Taitz by alleging that they were directly harmed by the fact that Barack Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States.So despite the fact that Hawaii's health director released a statement yesterday attesting that she has personally seen President Obama's birth certificate in the Health Department's archives, it comes as no surprise that Drake remains... MORE >
Huckabee and Bachmann to Headline Event Co-Hosted By a Birther
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 07/17/2009, 12:11pm
If there is one Religious Right figure through which any and every fevered right-wing conspiracy theory can gain exposure, it is Janet Porter.  Hate crimes legislation will throw Christians in jail? Check. The Department of Homeland Security report was really an attack on conservatives? Check.Barack Obama was not born in the United States and is ineligible to hold the office of President? Check.In fact, in most of these instances, Porter has not only been avidly spreading these falsehood but has actually played a leading role in their propagation, having been behind... MORE >
Alan Keyes Is (The Only One) Making Sense!
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 07/10/2009, 11:32am
The emerging convention wisdom among the Religious Right and conservative commentators regarding Sarah Palin's abrupt decision to resign before the end of her sole term as Governor seems to be that she was hounded out of office by Democrats, bloggers, and mean people who criticized her.Gary Bauer says "she was tired of being harassed" but that her decision is "a move that could end up serving her very well."Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America decried the "dirty politics" that forced Palin out, saying no other politician in "public life has ever had... MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 07/06/2009, 5:36pm
Tony Perkins says the "essential issue" of efforts to the overhaul the nation's health care system is "will health care reform force taxpayers to pay for abortions for the first time in 30 years?"On a related note, FRC also produced these fliers [PDF] to be handed out at the July 4th TEA Party rallies promoting their Clear Conscience Health Care site.Alan Keyes explains why, of all the TEA Parties he could have attended, he chose the one in Boiling Springs, S.C: it was the only one that would allow him to talk about God.Speaking of which, at the event at... MORE >