October 31, 2008

Proposition 8 Supporters Take Child Exploitation to New Low: Anti-Gay Fliers to Be Passed Out to Trick-or-Treaters Tonight.

It’s not a joke. It’s not a rumor. It’s not a hoax.

Cain Hamm (great alias, by the way, for those who get the Mormon connection) started me on the story that the Yes on 8 bigots plan to hand out anti-equality fliers to Trick-or-Treaters tonight.

Aside from the version Cain links to, there’s this mention in yesterday’s SF Bay Times:

Our adversaries at Yes on 8 have issued a game plan for the final week that includes a reminder to pass around fliers on Halloween entitled “Don’t be Tricked!” They are also advising supporters to call people, volunteer, and bring wedding cake to church this Sunday to drive home the message that traditional marriage rules.

Lest you still think it’s just a rumor, or a hoax, here’s the evidence:

From one of those revolting, all-anti-gay-all-the-time “Mormon family blogs,” “The Hansen Home“:

Thursday, October 30, 2008

8 Days for Proposition 8: Day 3

On Day 3 of the 8 Days for Proposition 8 campaign, we encourage you to print the “Don’t be Tricked” postcards on your home printer and then hand them out to trick-or-treaters’ voting parents that visit your house tomorrow. Whether you participate in Halloween festivities or not, this is an excellent opportunity to share with your neighbors the impact same-sex marriage will have on their families.

The “Don’t be Tricked” postcards print four to a page and can be easily printed and cut to hand out to voting neighbors. Please print several copies and distribute them as trick-or-treaters visit your home. This activity is minimal effort for maximum impact in reaching out to fellow voters.

Friday, October 31, 2008

8 Days for Proposition 8: Day 4

Today is Halloween and this evening your home will be visited by many neighborhood children in search of treats. This is the perfect opportunity to share with your neighbors the importance of passing Proposition 8.

As the kids and their parents knock on your door, hand them one of the “Don’t be Tricked” postcards and remind them to vote for Proposition 8. Your neighbors are coming to your front door so take advantage of the chance to talk with them about Proposition 8.

If you haven’t printed the postcards already, there are four to a page and can be easily printed and cut. Please print several copies and distribute them as trick-or-treaters visit your home.

The blog links to a PDF file on yesonproposition8.com with a four-up “postcard” page to be printed, cut apart, and distributed (the image at the top of this post).

What’s more, the link to the “postcard” is listed under “church resources” on the yesonproposition8.com site:

And who’s behind this latest low in child exploitation for political gain?

yesonproposition8.com

Registrant:
Capitol Resource Institute
660 J Street
Suite 250
Sacramento, California 95814
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: YESONPROPOSITION8.COM
Created on: 27-Jun-08
Expires on: 27-Jun-09
Last Updated on: 04-Aug-08

Administrative Contact:
England, Karen kengland@capitolresource.org
Capitol Resource Institute
660 J Street
Suite 250
Sacramento, California 95814
United States
(916) 498-1940 Fax –

Technical Contact:
England, Karen kengland@capitolresource.org
Capitol Resource Institute
660 J Street
Suite 250
Sacramento, California 95814
United States
(916) 498-1940 Fax –

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.JC-EVANS.COM
NS2.JC-EVANS.COM

“And,” noted Calitics in 2006, “look who shares the same offices: Pacific Research Institute. (More info here.)”

And who’s Karen England? A rabidly anti-gay wingnut who’s very cozy with rabidly anti-gay wingnut Tom Clintock. But… oh, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Per Folsom Telegraph (bold emphasis mine):

… Another $6,000 was “donated” by Tom McClintock to the Capitol Resource Institute, an “issues advocacy group” (lobbyists), directed by Karen England.

Surprise! Capitol Resource Institute board of directors includes John Doolittle and Tom McClintock. …

Ted Gaines made a donation to the Capitol Resource Institute (run by John Doolittle, Tom McClintock, Aanestad, Campbell and England). Gaines has also given $5000 to the “National Tax Limititation Foundation” (Lew Uhler, President).

Uhler is also a member of MOVE AMERICA FORWARD, which is currently doing the Swiftboating / hanging effigy ad targeting Charlie Brown. Follow the money.

In other words, Ted Gaines and John Doolittle are helping to pay for Tom McClintock’s campaign via donations to charities, religious organizations, Minutemen and others by using his state account. Then McClintock donates the donated money to organizations that are supporting his campaign by donating money back to him. Some of these are tax exempt “religious charities”. Still following the money? Good. …

… Gaines has also made many donations to “Save Our Kids,” which funded the initiative for Prop. 8, which brings us back to Pastor John Stoos.

Stoos started out as a aide to retired State Senator H.L. (Bill) Richardson, himself a former John Birch Society field organizer (and a radical religious right fruitcake before there was a radical religious right). Stoos also heads up the California chapter of Newt Gingrich’s Conservative Opportunity Society, which this year raised nearly $300,000 to help California elect social conservatives to the California legislature. Most recently, Pastor Stoos got himself into the tax-exempt religion business by having himself declared a pastor and the head of his own church, The Church of the King Sacramento.

Stoos is the former head of the California Gun Owners Lobby, and he frequently fills in for Sara DiVito Hardman, executive director of the California Christian Coalition. Stoos lost his position with the California Gun Owners Lobby a few years ago because of his viciously antisemitic attacks. But Stoos still is a radical Christian Reconstructionist and one of the most astute Republican political strategists in California. His credentials and connections read like a who’s who of the radical religious far right and extremist right-wing politics. Pastor Stoos is also the current vice president of the California Republican Assembly, the largest Republican volunteer organization in the state, with affiliates in 31 states.

Stoos’ position on religious minorities in the American theocracy he envisions is based on the beliefs of Christian Reconstructionism, which will reconstruct American government from a democratic republic, which Stoos’ mentor R. L. Rushdoony refers to as a “heresy,” into a biblical-style theocracy ruled by biblical laws. Only “godly” families would be permitted to continue to live in his American Christian society. All others would fall into one of the 18 categories of capital crimes, which would be dealt with by being stoned to death. In an article he wrote for the Chalcedon Report, a journal of the radical Christian Reconstructionist movement, Stoos actually called Reconstructionist Christian politicians “God’s Vice-Regents, those who believe in the Lordship of Christ and the Dominion Mandate…”

Both Ken Campbell and Stoos have been regularly blogging for McClintock. England has also routinely put out PR for McClintock. Both “charities” are pushing wedge issue propositions, like Prop. 8, in this election, even though Federal Law prohibits state campaign accounts from being used for federal elections. That’s why wedge issues involving sex are always dragged into the political arena; they allow tax exempt “non profit” political-religious organizations to collect and move money around while coercing as many voters of faith to the polls as possible for “their” politician or cause.

…

Ted Gaines has made lots of donations to groups that are supporting McClintock via the Mormon Church and Prop 8. This is why they keep talking about the “gay marriage” and “teaching gay sex to kids” boogy-man. It’s a frightening distraction for which they accept large donations, launder money, lie, break the rules, misuse religion and flaunt their so-called family values to true people of faith.

LDS Church members in Utah and Arizona are giving millions of dollars to pass prop 8 in California. McClintock’ and Gaines realize this is a potential PR disaster for the LDS; a Utah-based church advocating taking away an existing civil right for minority citizens of California. It would be like the Pope funding a constitutional amendment to make birth control illegal in California. If you like gays or not, not every person of faith in California wants the Mormon Council of Elders in Salt Lake City telling Californians who they can marry. But McClintock and Gaines don’t seem to really care as long as the money keeps rolling in.

It all keeps coming back to the Mormons, over and over and over again. (And the Mormons keep whining about being “targeted” and “singled out”? Pfffffffffffffffft! Cry me a river.)

Well, friends, what say you? I’ve just about run out of creative ways to describe the players in this massive, incestuous web of money-and-power connections… Maybe you can come up with a new way to say what I’m thinking.

One thing, ‘though: Isn’t it fascinating how all these Radical Religious Righties gnash their teeth and rend their garments over the satanic influence of the pagan Halloween?

And then turn right around and use it to their advantage.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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