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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMeet the Billionaire Brothers You Never Heard of Who Fund the Religious Right
Last June, presidential hopefuls Rand Paul and Ted Cruz traveled to Iowa for an event convened by David Lane, a political operative who uses pastors to mobilize conservative Christian voters.
Lane is a Christian-nation extremist who believes the Bible should be a primary textbook in Americas public schools, and that any politician who disagrees should be voted out. Lanes events are usually closed to the media, but he has given special access to the Christian Broadcasting Networks sympathetic David Brody. Brodys coverage of the Iowa event included short video clips of comments by brothers Farris and Dan Wilks, who were identified only as members of Lanes Pastors and Pews group.
CBNs Brody reported: The Wilks brothers worry that Americas declining morals will especially hurt the younger generation, so theyre using the riches that the Lord has blessed them with to back specific goals. One of those goals may be David Lanes insistence that politicians make the Bible a primary textbook in public schools.
Heres Dan Wilks speaking to Brody: I just think we have to make people aware, you know, and bring the Bible back into the school, and start teaching our kids at a younger age, and, uh, you know, and focus on the younger generation. And heres Farris: Theyre being taught the other ideas, the gay agenda, every day out in the world so we have to stand up and explain to them that thats not real, thats not proper, its not right.
http://prospect.org/article/meet-billionaire-brothers-you-never-heard-who-fund-religious-right
Lane is a Christian-nation extremist who believes the Bible should be a primary textbook in Americas public schools, and that any politician who disagrees should be voted out. Lanes events are usually closed to the media, but he has given special access to the Christian Broadcasting Networks sympathetic David Brody. Brodys coverage of the Iowa event included short video clips of comments by brothers Farris and Dan Wilks, who were identified only as members of Lanes Pastors and Pews group.
CBNs Brody reported: The Wilks brothers worry that Americas declining morals will especially hurt the younger generation, so theyre using the riches that the Lord has blessed them with to back specific goals. One of those goals may be David Lanes insistence that politicians make the Bible a primary textbook in public schools.
Heres Dan Wilks speaking to Brody: I just think we have to make people aware, you know, and bring the Bible back into the school, and start teaching our kids at a younger age, and, uh, you know, and focus on the younger generation. And heres Farris: Theyre being taught the other ideas, the gay agenda, every day out in the world so we have to stand up and explain to them that thats not real, thats not proper, its not right.
http://prospect.org/article/meet-billionaire-brothers-you-never-heard-who-fund-religious-right
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Meet the Billionaire Brothers You Never Heard of Who Fund the Religious Right (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jun 2014
OP
So, it's OK to toss out the 1st but you're a traitor if you even think about tossing out the 2nd? nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2014
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Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)1. Limitless money buys you exactly zero extra brain cells.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)2. In other words, they want a theocracy.
They're no different from the Taliban.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)3. Religious education is not mandatory in this country
What do they not understand?
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)4. The Religious Right has always been
bankrolled by extraction industries. The Hunts bankrolled the Fundy takeover of the Southern Baptist. Not sure why.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)5. They don't seem to understand
that this country was founded on exactly the opposite idea. People of the 18th century were sick of constant religious conflict.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)6. What makes you assume they don't understand
They're just liars.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)7. So, it's OK to toss out the 1st but you're a traitor if you even think about tossing out the 2nd? nt