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|    Re: Koch Brothers vs. Methodist Church    |
|    11 Apr 13 09:16:22    |
      XPost: alt.society.liberalism, soc.culture.usa, alt.politics.radical-left       XPost: alt.atheism       From: zer@roer.invalid.com              On 4/11/2013 6:44 AM, Dänk 42Ø wrote:       >       > It's four-twenty in the morning and my brain is buzzing on some really       > good drugs, and as I surf through hundreds of satellite channels I       > stumble upon "Koch Brothers Exposed" on LinkTV.       > The Koch Brothers are a pair of Damien Antichrists and they use the       > billions of dollars they stole from poor disabled elderly minorities to       > finance right-wing propaganda campaigns to brainwash people to vote for       > Scott Walker.       > Around minute 48 in the documentary they are screeching about how so many       > pillions of poor disabled elderly minority voters are being       > disumframpchized by evil voter identification laws, and the video cuts to       > what appears to be a polling station with a woman inserting her ballot       > into a black box, and a poster with a logo of the United Methodist Church       > behind her. They try to cut it out, but a screen capture shows that it       > is definitely the Methodist logo*.       > The documentary screeches about how wrong the "Citizens United" Supreme       > Court decision was, how it allows the evil Koch Brothers and other right-       > wing corporate perverts to brainwash people. An institution like a       > corporation is not a person! they screech. But the United Methodist       > Church (and its theological buttbuddy, the United Church of Christ) is       > also not a person! The Wisconsin Public Teachers Union is not a person!       > The TSA Anal-Prober Union is not a person! Oh, but the First Amendment       > protects THEIR right to freely assemble and fund political propaganda!       > It's been said that Methodists (and UCCists) are so progressive that       > their shit doesn't stink. But their shit does stink. The UCC webpage*       > sounds like the Democrat Party platform on crack, but we hear no       > complaints from atheist liberals about these CHURCHES sticking their       > righteous (lefteous?) nose in secular politics. A perfect example is the       > Tobacco Control Act which Chairman Obama signed into law in 2009: The       > Methodist and UCC churches actively campaigned for the bill, a clear       > violation of church-state separation. As a reward for delivering their       > members' votes, a representative of the Methodist church was invited to       > the signing ceremony*. Shit. Pot. Stink. Kettle. Black.       >        Isn't it well known that Methodists drink goat bile and fornicate on       Sundays?              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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