Is the Left Allowed the Same Chicanery as the Right


Conservative religious groups are forever cloning the names of liberal groups for their own advantage. For example, when the abortion clinic opened in Fargo, an anti-abortion group immediately put an ad in the local yellow pages calling itself Women's Health Clinic (or some similar name) and after the name, "abortions." The idea was to trick women into calling them instead of the clinic that actually provided abortions and giving pregnant women an ear full about the evils of abortion. The phone company, and maybe a judge, made them stop doing this.

I was surprised to see a liberal group I have given money to doing the same thing. The Iowa Environmental Committee has announced that next week it will hold a "Prayer Breakfast."

Every reader has no doubt heard of the "National Prayer Breakfast" which U.S. Presidents seem required to attend. Those who follow the event carefully have noted it is attended by some questionable people, including several Russians who seem to have no source mentioned as to why they are there. And of course attending are the usual suspects against gays and abortions and who want both less government and more government regulating our private lives. 

It will be hard for a liberal's prayer breakfast to compete with the National Prayer Breakfast. It has a permanent staff and a publicity machine. Nevertheless, it's fun to watch how liberals are going about it. 

In the publicity I received, there is a featured speaker, who will perhaps pray, whose topic is "environmental justice." Certainly, justice is mentioned in the Bible so that seems a reasonable starting point for a prayer from anyone. I'm wondering if the speaker or someone else will read a passage from the Bible calling for environmental justice. So far, the world has made little progress against pollution so a little Bible could not hurt. 

I hope this little gambit by the environmental group to emulate the National Prayer Breakfast is successful. Unfortunately, those of us who do not pray find it a little off putting.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 9, 2023 at 8:26 PM

    Democrats are professionals at crime, fraud and abuse. Most Republicans don't have an idea how to be that evil.

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  2. Ardy BJanuary 10, 2023 at 7:33 AM

    Anonymous, “Democrats are professionals at crime, fraud and abuse. Most Republicans don't have an idea how to be that evil.”

    Members of both parties are quite capable of crime, fraud, and abuse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes

    Not sure what you mean by “evil”. I can offer up an example to consider:
    “Christofascism refers to use of the faith of Chritianity as a cover for totalitarian ideology. This radical phenomenon is embodied among American Christians today in the various Militia movements, White Supremacist, and Christian Identity movements, and where these radical, armed, and Christian racist groups overlap with the Pro-Life movement and the right wing of the American political landscape, including the fringes of the Republican party.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fascism

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    1. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2023 at 8:35 PM

      The left stops at nothing to try to criminalize anyone who follows Jesus. Your linking of silly concepts is laughable when one considers the faces of these groups being Saint Mother Teresa, Saint John Paul II the Great, Lech Walesa, Blessed Oscar Romero, Oscar Schindler, Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty, etc.

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    2. JonJanuary 11, 2023 at 7:09 AM

      Anonymous--"when one considers the faces of these groups being...."

      This notion that trust will be automatic because of the credibility of those in the faith is the very technique scoffed at by those now studying trends in religion. In a past time, people trusted and admired leaders in the faith. Today the majority, especially among the young, no longer pays much heed to them. It's the strength of the argument and evidence presented that is more important.

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  3. tsmJanuary 10, 2023 at 10:33 AM

    you are probably too stupid to get the point but you just now gave us a good example of anon's comment. the fraud and abuse part, that is.

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