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Gingrich Tells Religious Right Audience They Must Take Power Back From The "Minority Elite"

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 11/29/2011 4:07 pm

Think Progress has posted a video of Newt Gingrich calling on President Obama to "repudiate the concept of the 99 and the 1," saying it is "un-American [and] divisive" and promising that, if he is elected, he will be "president of all the American people, not part of the American people, and I will seek to unify the American people, not to divide them against each other."

Yes, of course ... because Gingrich would never seek to divide Americans and pit the majority against the minority. 

So obviously his remarks at the recent "One Nation Under God" event where he told Religious Right activists that they are the majority in the country who must stand up and take this nation back from the anti-Christian "minority elite" who are ruining it was actually a message designed to "unify the American people":

Now the good news for all of you is you represent the vast majority. Ninety percent of the country believes the words of the Founding Fathers are relevant today. Eighty-five or ninety percent actually believes - over ninety percent of the country believes young people should be allowed to have a moment of silent prayer every morning. The country overwhelmingly believes that "one nation under God" should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance.

But we have allowed ourselves to be bullied, harassed, intimidated, and dominated by a tiny elite using the courts, using the news media, using the entertainment community, using the bureaucracy to coerce the American people against their will. It is fundamentally anti-freedom, fundamentally anti-democratic and the core meaning of the 2012 is to stand up and say "no, the eighty percent of the country that actually believes in classical America is now about to take back power from the minority elite."

Barton: Our Government Came Right Out Of The Bible

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 11/8/2011 2:22 pm

I know that we have already done this several times before, but as long as David Barton keeps making baseless assertions that key elements of our system of government were taking directly out of the Bible, we are going to keep posting it. 

And this is exactly what he did, yet again, during his presentation at the "One Nation Under God" conference:

Barton's success is largely rooted in the fact that he generally only speaks to friendly audiences who don't question anything he says and never bother to check to see if his assertions actually make any sense.  Because if they did, they might be surprised by what they found.

Barton says Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lays out policies for "uniform immigration" and that this concept is rooted in Leviticus 19:34.

Article I, Section 8 merely gives Congress the authority to "establish a uniform rule of naturalization"  ... but Barton asserts that it come from the passage that says "The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the LORD your God."

Barton also asserts that Article II, Section 1's requirement that the President must be a natural born citizen is based on Deuteronomy 17:15 which says "Be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite."

He then asserts that Article III, Section 3's language that "no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court" is rooted in Deuteronomy 17:6 which says "On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness."

Likewise, he says Article III, Section 3's stipulation that "no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted" comes from Ezekiel 18:20, which says "The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them."

Barton then goes on to claim that the Founding Fathers pointed to Bible verses like Jeremiah 17:9 ["The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"] as the inspiration behind the separation of powers while Isaiah 33:22 ["For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us"] was responsible for the three branches of government.

Finally, the idea of tax exemption for churches came out of Ezra 7:24 ["You are also to know that you have no authority to impose taxes, tribute or duty on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants or other workers at this house of God"] and the idea for a republican form of government came from Exodus 18:21 ["But select capable men from all the people--men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain--and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens."]

Barton never provides any documentation for any of these claims - he simply asserts them as if they are undeniable facts. 

In Barton's view, if something has any sort of parallel to anything in the Bible, then the inspiration for that thing could only have come from the Bible.

I honestly would not be surprised to hear Barton one day explain how the invention of water skiing obviously came right out of Matthew 14:22-33.

Rodriguez: Christians Must Mobilize To Vote And Save America

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 11/8/2011 12:21 pm

One thing we have never understood is how Samuel Rodriguez of The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference has managed to somehow be both a radical Religious Right activist while enjoying a reputation as a moderate who is regularly invited to the White House and to presidential events.

Would leaders like James Dobson or David Barton, who are committed to seeing President Obama defeated in 2012, regularly be welcomed for meetings with the President to discuss policy? That seems unlikely, but for some reason Samuel Rodriguez is a frequent guest even though he joined Barton and Dobson and others for the "One Nation Under God" DVD aimed at mobilizing millions of Christian to vote Obama and the Democrats out of office:

Dobson: God Will Stop Blessing America If We Don't Vote Right In 2012

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 11/8/2011 11:16 am

A few weeks ago, Religious Right activists gathered for a secretive event hosted by the Florida Renewal Project aimed at mobilizing pastors though speeches from the likes of Newt Gingrich, David Barton, and Rick Perry.

Though the media was banned, the event was filmed in order to produce DVDs that are to be used for the upcoming "One Nation Under God" house parties.  These house parties are part of an effort called Champion The Vote which seeks to register five million Religious Right voters before the 2012 election.  The Champion The Vote effort is itself part of an even larger effort called United In Purpose, which seeks to mobilize forty million Religious Right voters over the next decade.

The DVDs that are to be used for the "One Nation Under God" house parties this weekend have already been sent out and we received our copies yesterday and it was pretty much what you would expect. 

The first hour consisted mostly of David Barton's presentation at the Florida event and ten minutes of Newt Gingrich's speech.  The second hour also featured another Barton presentation, along with several shorter interviews with people like Lila Rose, John Stemberger, and James Dobson, who declared that the best days of this nation may very well be behind us because God may stop blessing the US if President Obama is re-elected:

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Gingrich Tells Religious Right Audience They Must Take Power Back From The "Minority Elite"
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/29/2011, 4:07pm
Think Progress has posted a video of Newt Gingrich calling on President Obama to "repudiate the concept of the 99 and the 1," saying it is "un-American [and] divisive" and promising that, if he is elected, he will be "president of all the American people, not part of the American people, and I will seek to unify the American people, not to divide them against each other." Yes, of course ... because Gingrich would never seek to divide Americans and pit the majority against the minority.  So obviously his remarks at the recent "One Nation Under God"... MORE
Barton: Our Government Came Right Out Of The Bible
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/08/2011, 2:22pm
I know that we have already done this several times before, but as long as David Barton keeps making baseless assertions that key elements of our system of government were taking directly out of the Bible, we are going to keep posting it.  And this is exactly what he did, yet again, during his presentation at the "One Nation Under God" conference: Barton's success is largely rooted in the fact that he generally only speaks to friendly audiences who don't question anything he says and never bother to check to see if his assertions actually make any sense.  Because if... MORE
Rodriguez: Christians Must Mobilize To Vote And Save America
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/08/2011, 12:21pm
One thing we have never understood is how Samuel Rodriguez of The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference has managed to somehow be both a radical Religious Right activist while enjoying a reputation as a moderate who is regularly invited to the White House and to presidential events. Would leaders like James Dobson or David Barton, who are committed to seeing President Obama defeated in 2012, regularly be welcomed for meetings with the President to discuss policy? That seems unlikely, but for some reason Samuel Rodriguez is a frequent guest even though he joined Barton and Dobson... MORE
Dobson: God Will Stop Blessing America If We Don't Vote Right In 2012
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/08/2011, 11:16am
A few weeks ago, Religious Right activists gathered for a secretive event hosted by the Florida Renewal Project aimed at mobilizing pastors though speeches from the likes of Newt Gingrich, David Barton, and Rick Perry. Though the media was banned, the event was filmed in order to produce DVDs that are to be used for the upcoming "One Nation Under God" house parties.  These house parties are part of an effort called Champion The Vote which seeks to register five million Religious Right voters before the 2012 election.  The Champion The Vote effort is itself part of an even... MORE