76 Republican staffer and long-term director of financial operations for Seattle Republicans Larry Corrigan pleaded guilty for attempted rape of a 13-year-old girl

77 Republican talk show host Scott Eller Cortelyou plead guilty on charges of using the Internet to try and lure a child into a sexual relationship with him

78 Republican constable Joshua Dickens sentenced to five years in prison for torture-related activities against a young woman.

79 Republican spokesman Brian Doyle arrested for trying to seduce a 14-year-old girl over the Internet. He was later sentenced to 5 years in prison

80 Republican campaign official and former Romney staffer Matthew Joseph Elliott convicted of sexual exploitation of a child Got a great deal, but really went astray, ending up murdering a child.

81 Republican party chair Donald Fleischman was charged with two counts of child enticement and one count of exposing himself to a child

82 Republican Michael Flory, former head of the Michigan Young American Foundation, raped a colleague at convention

83 Richard Gardner, a Nevada State Representative (R), admitted to molesting his two daughters and 34% of voters still voted for him. That 7 over the Keyes Constant!

84 George Roche III resigned as president of conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan after accusations of a quasi-incestuous relationship with his daughter-in-law, Lissa. This is an exception to my no adultery rule because yuck, his daughter-in-law. How could he do that to his son?

85 Bishop Paprocki is not a sexual predator, but he protects them. He protected and enabled pedophile priests. He engages in partisanship to order Democratic politicians be denied communion by all priests in his diocese, including Dick Durbin

86 Republican high-level Bush appointee Dr. David Hager sodomized his wife while she slept. She divorced him for it.

87 Republican sheriff Don Haidl used his office to try to smear the victim that was gang raped. The main perpetrator was Haidl’s son, who poisoned the victim. Sheriff Haidl claims that the girl deserved it because she was a "slut." The original story I linked is now 404, but here is another one.

88 Republican activist Neal Horsley admits to having had sex with a mule. Horsley also wants all homosexuals arrested and solicited murders of abortion providers on his Nuremberg files site.

89 Conservative Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston covered up thousands of instances of sexual molestation by fellow conservative members of the clergy.

90 Republican congressman Joseph McDade charged with exposing his genitalia to two women on a public beach

91 Republican delegate Robert McKee resigns after police seized two computers and videotapes from his home pertaining to child pornography

92 Republican blowhard TV personality Bill O’Reilly paid several million dollars to settle a sexual harassment suit with Andrea Mackris.

93 Republican mega-preacher Marshal Seymour arrested on charges of having sex with underage boys. Seymour had been jailed almost a decade earlier for similar charges in a different state

94 White supremacist National Vanguard leader Kevin Alfred Strom arrested and charged with child pornography

95 Daniel Dean Thompson founded a family-values film company that removed all the "bad parts" from films to make them family-friendly front for child porn, arrested for having sex with 14-year-old

96 Wharton prof & conservative consultant on media effects on children Lawrence Scott Ward had video of himself having sex with children. Sex tourist

97 Spokane Republican homophobic mayor Jim West recalled after evidence surfaced that he molested little boys

98 Focus on the Family's Steve Wilsey - molesting an 8-year-old boy

99 Republican Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Paul Williams faces charges of molesting his son

100 Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, Glenn Murphy Jr., from Indiana was busted for assaulting another man. Not the first time it's happened.

Also,

Matthew Reilly, Cranston City council member and chairman of the Cranston Republican Party caught passed out in the drivers seat of his car after smoking crack. He had cocaine, fentanyl, and crack all over the open car where anyone including children could grab it.

Let me guess, your answer will be some random person’s tweet having nothing to do with republicans smoking crack and fucking children.

American Christianity is extreme because it's a business. Is it any surprise that the US excels at selling the "Christianity" product? Lifestyle marketing is our specialty and religion provides the ultimate product for building Brand Identity.

Apple
Anthropologie
Urban Outfitters
Focus on the Family
Saddleback Church

Christianity in the US sells an identity to its followers. When done right, it's a carefully tuned brand that collects profits in both money and power.

In the finest tradition of religion.

ok,first off?
this is heritage foundation,a right wing think tank.
this by itself is not terribly damning.

however.

bridgette gabriel is a spokeswoman for the FRC:family research center.

the FRC,along with james dobson's "focus on the family" ,were both funded with seed money from the families of betsy devos and erik prince,the amway pyramid scheme dynasty.

so what enoch?
what's the big deal?

well,when you understand the underlying religious philosophies of the the devos/prince family.you know that they are christian supremacists who wish to install an amercian government that adheres to "christian" laws and "christian" values.

yeah..you know that whole "sharia" law that has rightwingers pissing themselves? same thing,but this is with JESUS,so it has to be good,right?

and what this gabriel woman does is utter revisionist history to fit her own narrative and agenda.i am talking fucking blatant,but since most americans don't even know their OWN history,never mind the history of a religion they profess to love and worship,they just lap this womans bullshit up as if it were spoken from god's own lips.

because let us be frank,and clear.

christian right wingers literally piss themselves at the thought of muslims.and this woman hand feeds that fear.

this woman is a fucking disgrace.
9/11!
benghazi!

this woman feeds on your ignorance.
stop being a fucking tool to demagogues like this fucking twat waffle.

lantern53,

I agree with you to some degree up to a point. He could have forwarded it to Weiner to let Weiner handle it as he would have liked to handle it. The family values thing to do would have probably been to discuss it with Ensign and encourage him to resign and focus on his family.

But here's where it falls apart for Santorum - he seems perfectly fine with calling for Weiner to resign publicly when it's a Democratic Senator. Seems to make a point of making sure he gets on the record for them. When it's a Republican? Not so much. That's hypocrisy. And let's be clear about this, too. Weiner sexted some people, that's all we know. Ensign had an actual affair with his wife's best friend. And he calls for Weiner to resign?! Santorum needs to mind his own business.

Personally, my thoughts are I don't care what Congressmen do in their own time so long as its legal and doesn't impact their ability to do their jobs well. I don't understand why anyone is calling for Congressmen to resign strictly due to affairs. It's ridiculous. Bill Clinton should have been impeached because he lied about his affair under oath. That I agree with. Ensign should have resigned because of the ethics violation related to the affair. That I agree with. Weiner sent some dirty pictures to porn stars? Who cares. Is he doing his job well and ethically? That's all I care about. He'll pay for the sexting in his relationship with his wife.

One would think this was a parody, but it is on the official Focus on the Family's Citizen Link website (http://www.citizenlink.com/2011/05/13/redefining-gravity/)... now how serious they are is another question, but given their traditional stance on gay marriage and lack of understanding of even the basic precepts of science, I would guess they are being serious. We may have to invoke Poe's Corollary here.

Link to THE AD IN QUESTION

aka shameless promotion

Tags for this video have been changed from 'pornography, James Dobson, focus on the family' to 'pornography, James Dobson, focus on the family, eyeglasses' - edited by calvados

Thank God James Dobson's focus on the family stopped people from getting cable TV.

I mean, just think of how quickly civilization would crumble if people had 24/7 access to porn in their very own homes!

There's no way voting republicans will select her as the candidate against Obama. She'll be out of the race by the time she announces she's in. She's a figurehead for the moment, but everybody knows she brought down the McCain campaign, and you'll see republicans start to come up with odd reasons to vote against her. They will never mention her lack of intellect or political knowledge, it will be strange things. Then she will bow out, saying that she needs to focus on her family and her "other projects".

Hopefully at that time she will disappear forever.

The anti-muslim version of Ahmadinejad. This is hate speech with a sheer cloak of pseudo-intellectualism.

If he thinks Islam is the biggest threat to the constitution, he should watch and listen to the 700 Club, or Focus on the Family sometime.

I like the idea of advertising and fundraising for causes a lot. Though I think if you want it to be non-partisan you're going to have to limit it to fund raising for charities. If it's a "cause" like the American Civil Liberties Union, National Rifle Association, Organizing for America, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Greenpeace, or Focus on the Family that does political work, it's going to be "partisan" to somebody. I'd wager even EFF and Amnesty International will seem partisan to somebody.

Maybe just make a clear separation between charities, and non-profit political organizations, and let them coexist in separate areas, so people can be clear about what they're signing on for.

I'd also like a form of "news article sift", to try and get some crowd sourcing at work on elevating reports and opinion pieces with some quality.

You're welcome, cracker!

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thanks for the promote, KP!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I checked out First Stone's home page, and sure as shit they are under the umbrella of "reparative" therapy charlatans Exodus International, which is associated with (surprise) Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family, who warned us that teh GAYZ are coming to your town. All firmly united in hate.

*promote *news

Thanks for the promote, KP!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I checked out First Stone's home page, and sure as shit they are under the umbrella of "reparative" therapy charlatans Exodus International, which is associated with (surprise) Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family, who warned us that teh GAYZ are coming to your town. All firmly united in hate.

*promote *news

I checked out First Stone's home page, and sure as shit they are under the umbrella of "reparative" therapy charlatans Exodus International, which is associated with (surprise) Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family, who warned us that teh GAYZ are coming to your town. All firmly united in hate.

*promote *news

i was totally suckered in until the "santa clause for adults",
and hollywood bob is correct.i live in the bible belt and what you see in this video in not as uncommon as you may think.
right now i am awaiting my court date due to a summons i received recently from a small town north of orlando called sanford.every other sunday i would do a lecture on early creationist myths.nothing big,maybe 20-30 people would attend,very informal at a small unitarian church.seems "focus on the family" thinks there is only ONE creation myth *cough* i mean historically accurate description of creation.(there are over 7000 for those of you interested)
now,to be frank,i have encountered fundamentalist christians all over the southeast,where i live,and i dont even attempt to engage them in a discussion of any type.not because i hate them,nor even because i disagree,but rather due to their incredible self-righteousness.the bible is the written word of god to them,i teach comparative religions and cultural religious history,so my
profession is in direct conflict with their entire belief system.
basically they view me as an enemy of god.
which is ironic to me considering i am an ordained minister.
think i would get in trouble if i sent this video to their website?