Blackwell

[bnr65432]

an article in the Akron Beacon Journal shows that not only does he help steel elections, but also how terrible he is. He supports putting religion into government but only christianity, he denounced Islam. We can't let him win governor. It is a good thing there are other strong candidates for governor, but it will be hard to beat someone that has control of the entire electoral process and will use his powers to cheat.

Blackwell backs up religion in politics
"Parsley, a suburban Columbus evangelical pastor, is a rising star in the national fundamentalist movement. At religious rallies, he may denounce Islam, homosexuality and abortion, then finish with a call for voter registration.

Blackwell wants to be Ohio's next governor.

He has the strong support of Parsley and an infantry of more mainstream Patriot Pastors across the state -- ``allies on the battlefield of issues of importance,'' as Blackwell defines them -- who urge Christian activism in Ohio politics."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/13273347.htm
the article is interesting and worth reading

[BillORightsMan]

1. Blackwell is a Dominionist!

I may have posted this before, but it's something that needs to see the light of day IN A BIG WAY!

Please read this entire article, from the Yurica Report:
Blackwell’s Un-American Scheme:
Under the Guise of “Character and Civic Renewal”
Ohio State Foists a Religious Moral Code upon Its Citizens

SNIP
The question I have had is: How on earth do dominionists expect to accomplish these things? An unsuspected vehicle for dominionism has turned out to be “Civic Renewal,” a term that describes both the diminished participation in civic duties by citizens over the last thirty-five years and the ways citizens can be encouraged to become more involved in their civic responsibilities again.

~snip~
J. Kenneth Blackwell has stepped to the forefront of the American culture wars. Standing with his feet securely rooted in a form of Orwellian “Double-Think,” he has posted his official endorsement of a 20-point religious moral code claimed to be “a shared vocabulary of character-building ethics” on Ohio’s official Secretary of State web site. Blackwell wrote, “Character is the cornerstone of American citizenship. And good citizenship is the foundation of community. It is also the foundation of both good business and good government.” (Note that he places business before government.)

The 20-Rules to “good” character is titled “UncommonSense”<10> which Blackwell recommends “as a character ethics model for Ohio’s business and government leaders.” Blackwell invites candidates for office to join him in launching “a revolution of character-building in our great state.”

Blackwell speaks candidly. It is a revolution in a deceptively pretty package. Hidden in its paragraphs are concepts of submission, obedience, inspection of the personal lives of people, and the loss of personal rights and freedom that would make America’s founding fathers stand on their heads in their graves.

:wow:

If more people see what this guy is really about, we will have a GREAT chance to bury his political career forever.

And we're just the folks to do it! :patriot:


In a related Dominionist matter, from the Columbus Dispatch Nov. 13 2005

Down-payment ‘help’ can hurt - Cost of charity may be foreclosure, report says

Federal officials are sounding new alarms to home buyers: Beware of down-payment help from charities working with sellers.

You’re likely going to pay more for your house, and you’re doubling the odds of falling behind on your government-backed mortgage, according to a soon-to-be-released report by the investigative arm of Congress.

Taxpayers should take notice, too.

You’re on the hook to bail out the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development if too many home buyers default on their mortgages.

Government officials predict potential losses of at least $1.8 billion as more and more borrowers with down payments paid by sellers fall into foreclosure.

~snip~
GAO investigators found that programs such as AmeriDream and the Nehemiah Corp. of America continue to gain in popularity, artificially inflate home prices and operate with little HUD oversight.

The charities also find themselves the targets of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, of Chicago, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Fitzgerald filed a complaint against one charity last week, accusing it of operating a scheme that defrauded the IRS.

The suburban Chicago group, Partners in Charity, also is among a dozen down-payment charities that the IRS confirmed last week are under investigation. Their tax-exempt status is at stake — a designation necessary to play a role in Federal Housing Administration mortgages.

~snip~
In central Ohio, no-moneydown financing has helped give Ohio the nation’s worst foreclosure rate.

Dominion Homes, for example, which has the nation’s highest default rate among big builders with financing arms, has used the charities to funnel down payments to nearly 5,000 customers in central Ohio.
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NOTE: they don't call themselves "Dominion" for nuthin'!!!

To find out more about Dominionists (sometimes called "Reconstructionist" but not quite the same) Google it or read more at Theocracy Watch

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Just wait for the Abramoff probe to expand

We'll all see that the man belongs in jail with Abramoff, Ney, Noe, Taft, DeLay, Rove and most of the Bush Administration. I have the stlly idea that Fitzgerald may take over the Abramoff probe as time go by.