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Lars77

(3,032 posts) Mon Apr 9, 2012, 05:39 AM Apr 2012

Report Ties Invisible Children/KONY 2012 To "The Family": Extensively

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/05/1080853/-New-Report-Ties-Invisible-Children-To-The-Family-Extensively

It is unlikely that many Americans who watched Invisible Children's record-smashing viral video hit KONY 2012 were aware of IC's evangelical nature (1, 2) or of the nonprofit's early financing from foundations that back the hard Christian right, including one of the biggest funders of the 2008 push for California's anti-same sex marriage Proposition 8.

But Invisible Children, which has branded itself as welcoming cultural, religious, and sexual diversity, also enjoys extensive institutional and social ties to the global evangelical network known as The Fellowship (also known as "The Family&quot

- which has been credited with inspiring and providing "technical support" [see footnote 1] for Uganda's internationally-denounced Anti Homosexuality Bill, also dubbed the "kill the gays" bill.

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Report Ties Invisible Children/KONY 2012 To "The Family": Extensively (Original Post) Lars77 Apr 2012 OP

Republican "values" are totally twisted Gibby Apr 2012 #1

Hillary Clinton is involved with "The Fellowship".. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #3

Your saying Hillary's 'Inner Republican' has Overshadowed Gibby Apr 2012 #4

Eh, just pointing out the bipartisan nature of the Fellowship.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #5

Bipartisan BS. It is Republican DOMINATED Gibby Apr 2012 #6

Hillary is a mover and shaker in the Democratic party.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #7

They are liars and sociopaths, and are getting worse! secondwind Apr 2012 #2

There's a difference between an org and its funding source garybeck Apr 2012 #8

Gibby

(96 posts)

1. Republican "values" are totally twisted

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 05:41 AM

Apr 2012

and vile

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

3. Hillary Clinton is involved with "The Fellowship"..

Reply to Gibby (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 07:29 AM

Apr 2012

http://motherjones.com/politics/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-hillary-clintons-religion-and-politics

Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open Bibles, and prayer."

Gibby

(96 posts)

4. Your saying Hillary's 'Inner Republican' has Overshadowed

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:02 AM

Apr 2012

her sense of decency? And that now she is acting like a Full-On Republican Pharisee?

Oh my.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

5. Eh, just pointing out the bipartisan nature of the Fellowship..

Reply to Gibby (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:10 AM

Apr 2012

Bipartisanship is good, no?

Gibby

(96 posts)

6. Bipartisan BS. It is Republican DOMINATED

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #5)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 09:58 AM

Apr 2012

...and they embrace and espouse the loathsome 'values' of Republicanism. Even if a few Dems deign to join the cabal.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)

7. Hillary is a mover and shaker in the Democratic party..

Reply to Gibby (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 12:10 PM

Apr 2012

There's really only one bigger Democratic wheel I can think of.

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

2. They are liars and sociopaths, and are getting worse!

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 06:21 AM

Apr 2012

garybeck

(9,942 posts)

8. There's a difference between an org and its funding source

Reply to Lars77 (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2012, 03:58 AM

Apr 2012

When one organization gives funds to another, that doesn't mean the two organizations blend into one.

For example The Koch Brothers are major funders of PBS. Does that mean PBS supports everything the Kochs do? Of course not.

I just find it hard to believe that the people who made this film have other motives in mind, like killing gay people. If they wanted to support killing gay people, there would be other ways to do this more directly than to make a film about Kony.

Consider this, if you are a small org and you need some cash to get things moving, and another organization wants to give you money, you don't normally bend over backwards to look for things you don't like about the donating organization, or reasons not to accept the money.

I think people should just take the film for what it is, and stop trying to turn everything into a republican conspiracy.

The bottom line is KONY is a bad guy. Millions of people (including myself) had never heard of him a month or two ago. Now it appears something is going to be done about it. Is that a bad thing?

Personally I'd rather have those organizations giving money to this KONY film than a long list of other things they could be donating to.

just my 2 cents.

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