Look out, here comes real trouble

From the leader of the gay marriage amendment in Ohio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/national/26gay.html?oref=login&th


Beyond that, Mr. Burress plans to take his grass-roots movement in Ohio to a new level, using a computer database of 1.5 million voters to build a network of Christian conservative officials, candidates and political advocates.

He envisions holding town-hall-style meetings early next year in Ohio's 88 counties to identify issues, recruit organizers and train volunteers. With a cadre of 15 to 20 leaders in each county, he says he believes religious conservatives can be running school boards, town councils and county prosecutors' offices across the state within a few years.

"I'm building an army," Mr. Burress said. "We can't just let people go back to the pews and go to sleep."

:mad:

...cause I see the Cockroaches are comin' out.
If they do manage to get on all the school boards, you can bet your sweet ass that science books will have a chapter on: "God's role on creating the Universe"

to Ohio progressives/liberals. If Mr. Buress can do it, so can you.

my organization, IMHO, that will attempt to unite African Americans and GLBT groups. Any ideas where to get literature on starting a grassroots movement?

Good to see the old traditions upheld.

And Al Gore for that matter. We should be able to answer this. We are not Utah, after all.

Not to be too much of a pain in the ass, but the last valid exit poll results in Ohio showed that 53% of women and 51% of men voted for Kerry -- so, as Greg Palast says, "Unless there is a third gender out there somewhere, Kerry won Ohio."

Nobody knew who he was when he just went around strong-arming hotels to remove their pay-per-view porn, and pressured local DA's to indict your local sex shop.

Then he got into the anti-gay marriage thing and so he's famous now.

I hope that everyone that read that article realizes this is not just one crazy person. He is a leader in a dominionist movement that is hell-bent on taking over our country and turning us into a theocracy.

We must do everything we can to stop them.

And he'll get one.

Burress is the typical born again loser who screwed up his own life, finds God, and now wants to force his beliefs down everyone else's throats. I'm sorry, but Christian fundamentalism isn't going to save Ohio. This ain't no theocracy, and it's not about to become one if I have any say in things.

The "sort of good news" is, he's already putting himself at odds with the traditional Ohio GOP, which is quite comfortably moderate. A neo-right christian fundamentalist movement could divide them, however, which would leave the Ohio GOP vulnerable as a whole, and open to an attack from a reorganized Democratic Party.

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I'm working on trying to put together some kind of "Ohio DU" now. We'll need a rallying point if we're going to take back control of our state and our communities over the coming months and years ahead.

I'll be glad to help out in any way I can.

Hamilton County went red when all the other metropolitan counties in Ohio went blue.

Cincinnati Republicans think they can legislate morality. The burr under their blanket has always been Larry Flynt.

Frankly, I imagine they've already done what he's talking about to some success down in Hamilton, Clermont, Warren, Brown and Butler Counties.

There was a woman up here in Montgomery County who thought she was going to use her anti-choice platform to win her election for county commissioner, too. It got her the auditor's position in Kettering, after all.

She found out there were plenty of Republicans who weren't radical enough to vote for her up here. She lost.

Doubtless nanny-culture crusader Burress will come up here and save us heathens, now.

I can't wait.