Big Bucks in forced Faith-Based Rehabilitation
Is anybody surprised that a White house ruled by the likes of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney would engage in manipulation of religion—or anything else? I recall the reflections of the first head of the faith-based program office, John Dilulio, who left after six months, and later cited the disconnects between the White House's faith-based office and the domestic policy advisors, referring to them as “Mayberry Machiavellians.”
"We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians."
--Ralph Reed, 1996
"How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?"
--Pat Robertson, The New World Order, p.227
"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
--Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue,
The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93
Now that the longhouses breed superstition. You force us to send our toddlers away. To your schools where they're taught to despise their traditions. You forbid them their languages, then further say.That American history really began. When Columbus set sail out of Europe, then stress. That the nation of leeches that conquered this land. Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best. And yet where in your history books is the tale. Of the genocide basic to this country's birth, Of the preachers who lied, how the Bill of Rights failed,
Hear how the bargain was made for the West: With her shivering children in zero degrees, Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest, Oh well, blankets for land is a bargain indeed, And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected. From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day. And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored, A hundred years of your statesmen have felt it's better this way. My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
