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Yesterday we posted a video of Bishop Harry Jackson speaking at the Generals International's "Convergence 2010: A Cry to Awaken A Nation" conference in Dallas, Texas, noting the growing merger between traditional Religious Right activists and self-proclaimed "prophets" like those who run Generals International.
Faith 2 Action's Janet Porter also spoke at the conference and spent nearly an hour more or less recounting the stunts she had carried out via her organization, from urging people to send baby rattles and roses to Congress to signify their opposition to abortion to her more recent effort to inundate the Capitol with "pink slips."
The focus of her speech was on how to use the media to spread the word of God and at the end, she delivered this prayer asking God to deliver control of the media to them, to "take power and influence in the media of this country and of this globe from the unrighteous and give it to righteous people" and to "make CBS the Christian Broadcasting System" so that God's people can finally take dominion over this nation:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/janet-porter-prays-control-over-mediaBishop Harry Jackson:
In recent months, we've noticed that many of the political activists in the leadership of the Religious Right have started merging their movement with the self-proclaimed "prophetic" voices like Lou Engle.
Over the weekend, this trend continued as Harry Jackson spoke at Generals International's "Convergence 2010: A Cry to Awaken A Nation" conference in Dallas, Texas. Generals International is run by Cindy Jacob who describes her specialty as "prophetic intercession" and claims to be highly sought after by those seeking "prophetic advice."
It was Jacob was introduced Jackson by calling him "the modern day Martin Luther King," which was a comparison Jackson also played up during his lengthy speech, comparing the opposition to his efforts to stop marriage equality in Washington, DC to the opposition faced by King before proclaiming that, twenty years from now, some of the movements "great apostles and prophets are going to be people who came out of the gay lifestyle," starting with the lesbians and then by "radical homosexuals" who have been "smitten down on their road to Damascus" and raised up by God. Finally, Jackson led the gathering in prayer, setting free those held captive by "demonic authority" and speaking in tongues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_KWzHfjT1s Blogging the Social Studies Debate IV 9:20 – The State Board of Education will resume debate and amending proposed new social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools this morning. Board members are getting a short lesson on parliamentary procedure right now.
9:27 – The board is taking up remaining amendments on the high school world history course.
9:30 – Board member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment ideas (replacing with “the writings of”) and to Thomas Jefferson. She adds Thomas Aquinas and others. Jefferson’s ideas, she argues, were based on other political philosophers listed in the standards. We don’t buy her argument at all. Board member Bob Craig of Lubbock points out that the curriculum writers clearly wanted to students to study Enlightenment ideas and Jefferson. Could Dunbar’s problem be that Jefferson was a Deist? The board approves the amendment, taking Thomas Jefferson OUT of the world history standards.
9:40 – We’re just picking ourselves up off the floor. The board’s far-right faction has spent months now proclaiming the importance of emphasizing America’s exceptionalism in social studies classrooms. But today they voted to remove one of the greatest of America’s Founders, Thomas Jefferson, from a standard about the influence of great political philosophers on political revolutions from 1750 to today.
9:45 – Here’s the amendment Dunbar changed: “explain the impact of Enlightenment ideas from John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson on political revolutions from 1750 to the present.” Here’s Dunbar’s replacement standard, which passed: “explain the impact of the writings of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and Sir William Blackstone.” Not only does Dunbar’s amendment completely change the thrust of the standard. It also appalling drops one of the most influential political philosophers in American history — Thomas Jefferson.
9:51 – Dunbar’s amendment striking Jefferson passed with the votes of the board’s far-right members and board member Geraldine “Tincy” Miller of Dallas.
9:56 – Here is what the Library of Congress says about Jefferson’s influence: “Recognized in Europe as the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson quickly became a focal point or lightning rod for revolutionaries in Europe and the Americas.” The Library of Congress notes, in particular, Jefferson’s influence on revolutionaries in France (including on the Declaration of the Rights of Man), other European nations, South America and Haiti.
http://tfninsider.org/2010/03/11/blogging-the-social-studies-debate-iv/
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