Wayne Besen's (of Truth Wins Out) response to Mary Zeiss Stange Op-ed - Beware the Christian extremists:
I’ve come up with 10-Point Playbook that these homegrown Christian extremists use when they attempt to accomplish their frightening goals. As I go through this list, you will recognize some of the insidious techniques that have, sadly, been woven into our political process: [Brackets mine, all stuff I have posted about]The Religious Right’s 10-Point Playbook For Hijacking Nations
1) Find inflammatory wedge issues and scapegoats to divide people and force them to choose sides [Marriage equality]
2) Persuade people to join your righteous “team” in its effort to purify society. Demand absolute loyalty and obedience to that team’s leaders (even above allegiance to the state) [American Family Association, Family Research Council]
3) Identify and cultivate key major donors to fund mission. To reward their support, back conservative economic policies [Koch Brothers, Greens (Hobby Lobby), Waltons (Walmart), John Schnatter (Papa Johns)]
4) Create parallel infrastructure and institutions (i.e. private education, conferences, think tanks, and charities) [John Birch Society, Heritage Foundation, The Gathering]
5) Build an insular media cocoon to disseminate propaganda. This vast echo chamber is contemptuous of contradictory facts, suspicious of reason, and impervious to mainstream media scrutiny [Fox News,BarbWire, Glenn Beck,WorldNetDaily]
6) Infiltrate society’s major institutions in a clandestine effort to undermine, influence, and ultimately control (See 7 Mountains Movement: government, education, family, religion, entertainment, business, and media) [Texas State Board of Education]
7) Facilitate the decline of secular government by deliberately and persistently creating crises in confidence and eroding trust in venerable institutions {GOP/TP, Gov't shutdown over Debt Ceiling, IRS and Benghazi]
8) Oppose all gun control laws and tacitly encourage local militias, so in the event of insurrection fundamentalists are the most well armed sector of society [NRA, Gun Owners of America]
9) Constantly agitate and manufacture havoc, because theocracy can only be attained amid chaos. Without a functioning central government, the shadow infrastructure created by fundamentalists makes them the best situated to fill a vacuum, restore order at the price of liberty, and install their regime [Racism,, see #7]
10) Export model abroad: Send influential emissaries and dedicated missionaries; deploy basic services to create dependence; and dispense money to acquire strategic local alliances; while organizing key international gatherings and fostering opposition at The United Nations…we’ve seen the manifestation of these efforts most notably in Uganda and Russia – with both nation’s veering far to the right, restricting freedom, and passing draconian anti-gay laws [Uganda, Russie]
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