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Question: "Separation between Church and State." Who coined the
Phrase? Give up? Answer: Thomas Jefferson - one of
the founding fathers of this great Nation and a creator of the U.S.
Constitution and the First Amendment to that same Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson, in 1802, wrote a Letter to the Dansbury Baptist
Convention, referring to the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
In it he said:
"Believing
that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God,
that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that
the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not
opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
American people which declared that their Legislature should 'make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and
State."
We will leave it up to the
reader to determine whether
Governor Brownback has made serious errors in in
judgment.
He has supported a Conservative Far Right
Christian position especially when it comes to Church and State issues.
It is apparent from the data collected, that the first amendment may be in
danger from his past and future actions as well as other constitutional
sections. He has supported deregulation of banks and the SEC causing
the current economic Depression.
Governor Brownback's office stated that his
position is that Certain Religions aren't "Real" religions.
What is a real religion, Mr.
Brownback? What you have been practicing?
He says on the one hand that only certain Christian denominations are valid.
Read the following and remember: "By their Works may they be known."
This is a summary of information collected from several sources about
Senator Brownback.
(Remember it is best to
investigate on your own when looking at allegations about anyone.
Don't believe us, think for yourself and investigate for yourself! And
remember, the First Amendment Coalition and Religious Freedom Coalition of
the South East do not represent any political party nor do we recommend any
political candidate, nor are we involving ourselves in the political
process.)
EXTREMIST
(TEA PARTY) REPUBLICANS ARE THE ENEMY AND TRAITORS TO AMERICA by R.
Blackbird
Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are selfish, power hungry, hateful
of the poor, disloyal to the nation and its people, dishonest, avaricious,
scornful of the nation's history, the dignity of its institutions, its
standards of political morality, and its vision of advancement for all the
people. The Republicans love war as long as they and theirs do not have to
put on helmets and carry guns into the fighting. They use lies to start wars
that kill hundreds of thousands of innocents and thousands of our own
military service people. They love massive war-time profits, unavailable to
their rich masters if war is absent.
Those Extremist Republicans
hate the rest of us, which they must, in order to pass away from themselves
and onto us, the financial burdens and losses their crimes, schemes and
thefts cause. They are prolific, incessant, and destructive liars. They are
blasphemers for they insist that their hateful and destructive deeds are the
work of God. They are apostates for they gleefully attack the poor, the
immigrants, the old and the sick, of whom God has commanded all of us to be
mindful.
There is no reasoning with them, for all their logic is built on false
premises. There is no appealing to them for honor's sake for they have lost
all sense of shame and have no honor, there is no appealing to them for the
nation's sake for that it what they hate the most.
Extremist (Tea Party) Republicans are the enemy.
Below are excerpts from Governor
Brownback's webpage, his bio on wikipedia.org, articles on
huffingtonpost.com, articles on rightwingwatch.org, articles on politico.com
and other sources
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas district attorney said Friday
that he's likely to interview Gov. Sam Brownback as a
witness during an investigation into the legality of
private meetings with legislators at the governor's
official residence, but the state's most powerful
lawmaker criticized the prosecutor's tactics.
House
Speaker Mike O'Neal, a Hutchinson Republican, said he's
advising fellow legislators not to respond immediately
to a letter from Shawnee County District Attorney Chad
Taylor, a Democrat. The letter, delivered to most
lawmakers Friday, directed them to maintain records and
electronic files that could be potential evidence.
O'Neal, an attorney, said he's hoping legislators will
draft a collective response to Taylor's letter. In an
interview with The Associated Press, he said didn't
think it was professional for the district attorney to
send a letter to all 40 senators and 125 House members,
even those not involved in the meetings.
Taylor
said he's hoping to gather information without having to
subpoena witnesses and documents and that he sent the
letter to all legislators because he didn't know exactly
who was involved in the meetings. There were seven
gatherings in January for Republicans on 13 committees
at Cedar Crest, the governor's residence.
Brownback said Friday that he's confident the law wasn't
violated. He has private gatherings with legislators
scheduled Monday and Tuesday, though with bipartisan
groups not tied to specific committees.
O'Neal
stressed that he's not suggesting that legislators will
resist Taylor's attempts to gather information about
whether the meetings were legal. Instead, O'Neal said,
he expects legislative leaders to consult next week with
their top staff attorney on a response.
The
House speaker – whose authority over his chamber is
undivided, while power in the Senate is shared – said
Taylor should have worked through legislative leaders to
get information and talk to individual lawmakers,
instead of sending an "unreasonably overbroad" letter to
all of them. Each of Taylor's letters asked the lawmaker
to respond to his office by email by Tuesday.
"He
could follow the chain of command. He doesn't need to be
writing members who don't possibly have any connection
with this investigation," O'Neal said. "Our advice to
our members is to not respond to the district attorney's
letters."
Taylor
also sent letters to Brownback's office, his secretary
of administration, and the information technology
director for the executive branch. He spoke to reporters
about the investigation before O'Neal made his comments
and didn't respond Friday evening to telephone messages
seeking a response.
Taylor
agreed with Brownback's aides about several key issues.
He said Brownback himself, as an individual, isn't
covered by the Kansas Open Meetings Act. He also said
the legality of the meetings would depend upon what
legislators discussed and how they interacted with
Brownback and each other and would not violate the law
simply because majorities of individual committees had
gathered.
Brownback's office has said both that the meetings were
social gatherings and that legislators were admonished
not to discuss their official business.
Taylor
said he hopes to gather information without having to
issue subpoenas and his office is likely to interview
dozens of officials, including Brownback.
"He is
a witness in this matter," Taylor said, adding, "I would
say it's more likely that not" that he'll see to
interview the governor.
Brownback spokeswoman Sherriene Jones-Sontag said his
office would evaluate a request for an interview, once
it's formally made.
Earlier, during a news conference, the governor said:
"We will fully cooperate with any investigation, and I
am completely confident that they will show no
wrongdoing."
The
Open Meetings Act generally prohibits a voting majority
of a legislative body from discussing government
business without giving the public notice or access to
the meetings. Alleged violations are a civil matter, not
a criminal one. A person found to have broken the law is
subject to fines of up to $500 per incident.
The
law allows the state's attorney general or a county
prosecutor to subpoena witnesses and documents and
compel witnesses to answer questions under oath.
But
O'Neal noted that the Kansas Constitution says that no
legislator shall be "subject to the service of any civil
process" while lawmakers are in session.
"We're
not looking for a big fight with the DA's office, but he
needs to have an understanding of what his limitations
are," O'Neal said.
The
Legislature's top Democrats acknowledged governors have
routinely invited lawmakers to the official residence in
the past but said the January meetings were improper
because invitations went to a majority of members of
specific committees.
Several Republican legislators who attended meetings
said they struck them as social gatherings. They
described eating dinner and hearing greetings and
remarks from the governor, some repeating comments he'd
made in previous speeches, other expressing hope
lawmakers would have a good session.
Senator
Sam Brownback Supports Rape
I think that all homo sapiens can understand
how the mere thought of an organization that receives government
money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in
setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake
prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to
lawmakers
going absolutely cross-eyed with
white-hot, impotent rage. But what happens when a similarly
taxpayer-endowed contractor attempts to cover up
employee-on-employee gang rape
by locking up the victim in a shipping container without food
and water and threatening her with reprisals if she report the
incident? Somehow, it doesn't engender the same level of anger!
30 misogynist Republicans in the
U.S. Senate are totally OK with rape, at least where women are
concerned. Predictably in yet another routine attempt to serve
their corporate masters, (this time the GOP stood by
Halliburton) Republicans voted against women and for corporate
contempt of rape victims.
Some Republican senators
are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would
allow employees of military contractors to sue their
employers if they are raped at work -- and they want the
Democratic senator who wrote the amendment to help them
fight off the bad publicity.
In
October, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken's
amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would
de-fund contractors who prevent their employees from suing
if they are raped by co-workers. Since then, those
Republicans have faced outrage for what critics say amounts
to support for rape.
Instead of
standing up to take responsibility for or clarifying their
disgraceful votes, Republican cowards are instead attacking Al
Franken, blaming him for their votes.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
accused Franken exploiting the story of Jamie Leigh Jones --
a former KBR employee who says she was locked in a container
in Iraq after alleging she was raped by co-workers -- to
further his political agenda.
"Trying to
tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim
of this rape --and use that as a justification to frankly
misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don't think
it's a very constructive thing," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
said in an interview.
I guess
Franken held a sledge hammer over Cornyn's head and said if he
did not vote against the anti-rape amendment Franken would crack
it over his head.
What shameless
cowards.
To summarize the Republican
position: As women, we are not "average Americans," and gang
rape is not a "serious" issue. As women, no matter how powerful
we become on our own merits, the Republican establishment will
still be hoping for a man to come along and put us in our place.
Not every
Republican signs onto these views -- indeed, 10 Senate
Republicans voted for the Franken amendment, giving the lie to
the NRSC's claim of partisanship -- but this is the undercurrent
of the party's policies. This is what they're hoping to get
voters to overlook when they run a Sarah Palin or a Kelly Ayotte
for office. This is why Bob McDonnell's campaign for Virginia
governor has been such a popular campaign stop for 2012
prospects: because of, not despite, his opposition to marital
contraception and women in the workplace. This is why David
Vitter (who voted against the Franken amendment) is still a
senator in good standing with the party of alleged sexual
morality.
You don't have
to go very far beneath the Republican surface claims of
equality-but-not-really to get to the rock-bottom sense that
women just don't count, that our rights and our wellbeing are
always subordinate to whatever interest of men they might
conflict with. When it comes to it, even the (themselves sexist)
notions of chivalry and protecting women come behind protecting
the right of corporations to imprison their female employees to
shield their male employees from rape charges and still get
government contracts.
Credit
new Senator Al Franken however, for
introducing an amendment to the
Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if
they "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual
assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." You'd think
that this would be a no-brainer, actually, but that didn't stop
Jeff Sessions from labeling Franken's effort a "political attack
directed at Halliburton." Franken, of course, pointed out that
his amendment would apply broadly, to all contractors, because
otherwise, 'twould be a bill of attainder, right? Right?
Franken's
amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here's a list of the Senators
who showed broad support for
Rapists and Pedophiles by voting against it:
(Click on their names to find out more about them).
Republicans point out that
the amendment was opposed by a host of business interests,
including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and applies to a
wide range of companies, including IBM and Boeing.
I guess we must cover up
crimes like rape in order to save capitalism.
The
State of Kansas has a health care crisis that it should be
addressing, but instead the Brownback administration is tied
up restricting women's access to low cost birth control and
abortion care. The crisis that I refer to is this fact
according to the
latest data
from the Annie E. Casey Foundation:
Kansas
dropped to 40th in the country in infant mortality, and
to worst in the nation for African-American infant
mortality, said Christie Appelhanz, vice president of
public affairs of Kansas Action for Children in Topeka.
Ms.
Appelhanz explains:
We
have to invest in our kids. We need to be protecting the
crucial supports — nutrition, early education, college
savings — anything we can do to be sure kids are growing
up healthy. I think it's important that children have
access to food stamps, quality education
such as Head Start and Early Head Start and
workforce development.
Governor Brownback’s budget, which he unveiled in January
2011, drew much criticism due to
drastic cuts proposed for Head Start
in Kansas.
Their funding
remained uncertain through the entire legislative session,
until,
after much public criticism
it was finally restored. But the problem doesn't begin and
end with Head Start funding.
This
administration is also upending the Kansas Department of
Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS). This agency is
responsible for child protective services, child support
enforcement, and child, adult and family well being services
within the state of Kansas. The state was
on track to close 9 service centers
citing agency cost savings. Public outcry has prevented one
of those closures. The City Council of Lawrence, Kansas has
agreed to pick up the state's tab and fund their own office
to serve the most needy within their community. Yet, somehow
the administration believes this agency can afford new and
expensive "faith based initiatives" programs. For example,
chief of staff Jeff Kahrs is making $100,000 a year in a new
position. A deputy secretary leading a new faith-based
initiative, Anna Pilato, is making $97,500.
Governor
Brownback is promoting a "culture of life" from his mansion
in Topeka and thinking of new ways to pimp out poverty
stricken single mothers within the state while what we
really need are healthy, empowered mothers, because healthy
mothers lead to healthy children. Health care, childcare
assistance and educational opportunities should be the
Governor's focus. Instead, the hypocrisy runs rampant and
we wait for God and a big strong man to come along and save
us from feminine handicap, meanwhile an increasing number of
children are dying in the state of Kansas.
Commentary:
The Crazy State of Sam Brownback's
Kansas
Excerpt
from an article by Barbara Shelly
in The Kansas
City Star
Things are getting confusing in
the Kingdom of Sam.
Only a week or so ago Gov. Sam
Brownback was returning a $31.5
million federal grant that was
to help Kansas design a health
insurance exchange where small
businesses and consumers would
shop for a plan that best meets
their needs.
Never mind that a number of
citizens have put in hours of
work brainstorming what an
exchange should look like. Or
that the state’s elected
insurance commissioner and a
number of key legislatures were
fully behind the project. Or
that the rejected federal money
was also being used for
technology to make the state’s
Medicaid program more efficient.
Kansas has to cut the cord with
Washington, says King Sam.
“There is much uncertainty
surrounding the ability of the
federal government to meet its
already budgeted future spending
obligations,” he opined. “Every
state should be preparing for
fewer federal resources, not
more.”
But a few days later,
Brownback’s administration was
explaining why it is applying
for a $6.6 million federal grant
over three years to promote
marriage. The marriage grant is
OK, it seems, because
strengthening marriages
decreases child poverty.
So does making health care
accessible and affordable, but
never mind that either. Reducing
child poverty is Brownback’s
stated top priority, but all
paths to that goal must meet the
governor’s political and
ideological litmus tests.
Then there’s the response
Brownback’s office put forth to
the news that yet another
lawsuit has been filed in
protest over the spate of
anti-abortion bills that King
Sam signed into law in his first
term in office.
This one, by the American Civil
Liberties Union and the ACLU of
Kansas and Western Missouri,
protests a law that tells health
insurance companies they can’t
include coverage for abortion in
their comprehensive plans.
“There seems to be a pattern
here of suing voters when they
express their preferences
through elections,” said
Sherriene Jones-Sontag,
Brownback’s spokeswoman.
“Those who fail at the ballot
box are turning to the courts to
advance their agenda. We will
uphold the law as written by the
people who express their
sovereignty through their
elected representatives.”
First of all, the law in
question was written by
conservative Republicans who
control the Legislature, not the
people of Kansas themselves.
And beyond that, the U.S. system
of checks and balances allows
for a judiciary so that citizens
can challenge laws written by
elected officials that may be
unconstitutional.
Brownback knows this very well.
He is super enthusiastic about
Kansas’ participation in a
lawsuit challenging a provision
in the Affordable Care Act that
requires everyone to purchase
health insurance, starting in
2014.
Like it or not — and Brownback
emphatically does not — the
health care law was passed by a
majority of the people’s elected
representatives in Congress. But
in this case he’s fine with
“turning to the courts to
advance (his) agenda.”
The lawsuit over the abortion
restriction on insurance
companies brings to mind another
question. Whatever happened to
The Repealer?
Upon taking office, Brownback
announced he was creating an
office to hunt out laws and
regulations that intrude on
private citizens and businesses.
The designated repealer, Dennis
Taylor, told a group during a
recent luncheon in Wichita that
he expects to unveil about 300
repeal recommendations soon.
Presumably, the new restriction
telling insurance companies they
can’t cover abortion if they
want to will not be on the list.
Yes, it’s hard to keep track of
everything going on in the
Kingdom of Sam, but a few
patterns are emerging.
Federal aid is unwelcome, except
when it isn’t. Laws passed by
elected representatives are
good, except when they’re bad.
Onerous restrictions must go,
unless they must stay.
In the Kingdom of Sam, the
governor is always right. Except
when he isn’t?
Kansan's concerned about Sam Brownback's Relationship
with Lou Engle
Excerpt from an article by
Barry Albin
at the Kansas City Religion
and Politics Examiner
October 13, 2010
Senator Sam
Brownback’s apartment in Washington, D.C. burned in 2000 and he
found himself homeless. Lou Engle, showing a Christian spirit,
took him in and he lived with Lou for three or four months. Thus
began a relationship that continues today. Some Kansans are
rightly concerned about Sam Brownback’s relationship with Lou
Engle because of the extremist views that Lou Engle holds. It is
inappropriate, especially since a statement by Brownback that he
is concerned about Lou Engle’s views, to associate any
particular view which Engle has to Brownback. However, it is
appropriate to raise some issues that the Senator and Lou have
in common.
First,
Lou Engle has been associated with the infamous law in Uganda
that would make being gay or lesbian punishable by imprisonment
for life and acting on ones homosexuality punishable by death.
Further, the Huffington Post has reported that Lou Engle has
said that if California allows same-sex marriage it “will
release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of
lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be released
on Earth.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waymon-hudson/thecall-uganda-anti-gay-a_b_558890.html.
Given Brownback’s strong opposition to same-sex marriage and
support of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, it seems clear that
he opposes homosexuality in general. Whether he also holds the
violent and extremist views of his friend, Lou Engle, is a valid
concern of Kansans who are set to elect him their Governor on
November 2, 2010.
Next,
Lou Engle has been associated with the Dominionist Movement.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org.
Dominionist theology believes that Christians are called to take
“dominion” over every aspect of our culture and use them to
create G-d’s kingdom on Earth in order to bring about the return
of Jesus Christ. The principles of the Dominionist movement are
set forth in what is called the Seven Mountains Mandate, http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creeping-dominionism-religious-right.
The Mandate seeks to place Christians at the top of seven
distinct spheres that shape our culture: (1) Business; (2)
Government; (3) Media; (4) Arts and Entertainment; (5)
Education; (6) Family; and (7) Religion. As Sam Brownback is a
friend of Engle’s Kansan’s rightly would like to know if he is
being groomed for a top position in the American government,
especially since he ran for President in 2008 and now is set to
become Governor of Kansas in a few weeks.
This examiner
will be delving more deeply into the Kansas City connection to
these questions as the International House of Prayer is
headquartered on Red Bridge Road here in Kansas City.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on August 6, 2011
For those of you who had better things to do
with your time then spend seven hours on a
Saturday watching the extended Christian
Rock-jam session that was Gov. Rick Perry's "The
Response" rally, we put together a
short video featuring the appearances by all
of your favorite Religious Right and elected
leaders, including Perry, David Barton, Tony
Perkins, Penny Nance, Gov. Rick Scott, Gov. Sam
Brownback, Jim Garlow, John Hagee and finally
even a quick shot of Perry giving some love to
Don Wildmon of the AFA, the founder of the SPLC-designated
hate group which footed the bill for this prayer
event:
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on July 7, 2011
In
our coverage of the upcoming "The Response"
prayer rally that Gov. Rick Perry is organizing,
one of the points we have been trying to hammer
home is that Perry
reached out to the American Family
Association as his partner of choice in
organizing the event and that the AFA will be
paying for the event.
Today Warren Throckmorton
wrote a good post asking why Gov. Sam
Brownback had been the only governor who has
agreed to attend, especially since Brownback has
played a leading role in apologizing for the
treatment of Native Americans ... whereas the
AFA's chief spokesman believes that Native
Americans deserved to have been wiped out:
In my view, the AFA has earned their
designation as a hate group by the Southern
Poverty Law Center. Critics point to
outrageous statements from the AFA’s Bryan
Fischer regarding gays, Muslims and
African-Americans as reason to question why
a prominent elected official would partner
with the AFA.
While all of the insults and stereotypes
identified by critics are serious and
disqualifying, I don’t want us to forget
Bryan Fischer’s views of Native Americans.
Early in 2011, Fischer wrote that “Native
Americans morally disqualified themselves
from the land,” saying that Native Americans
were so savage and immoral that they were
displaced for their evil. In other words,
they got what was coming to them. Even
though that article was removed from the AFA
website, the AFA was silent on the issue,
allowing Fischer to remove it without an
apology saying he removed it because his
critics were not “mature enough” for the
subject. Then Fischer followed up that
article with one that stated Native American
assimilation into the new America would have
been “seamless and bloodless” if only they
had converted to Christianity. One Native
American writer called Fischer’s writing
“ugly” and said he advocated “thinly veiled
race-purity arguments.”
...In my view, the AFA should not be
leading a prayer event claiming to call
America to their view of righteousness. I am
surprised and sad that Governor Perry would
partner with them.
I was even more surprised that Governor
Sam Brownback (R-KS) would agree to take
part. Brownback was a prime mover of the
Native American Apology Resolution which I
called the AFA in March to endorse. I do
agree that at times it can be productive to
join together with various groups to
accomplish an objective. However, it is
beyond me how these two Governors can
partner with a organization that regularly
slanders and maligns entire groups of
people, not individuals mind you, entire
groups. In the case of Brownback, he stands
for confession to Native Americans, and yet
he will stand with the AFA who could not
even publicly acknowledge how they had
offended an entire group of people.
Swallow
became a Christian in 1961, so perhaps
Fischer would not consider him to be one of
those Native Americans who "resisted the appeal
of Christian Europeans to leave behind their
superstition and occult practices for the light
of Christianity and civilization" and therefore
deserved to be wiped out. But it would still be
interesting to know just how Swallow feels about
endorsing and participating in an event being
paid for by an organization that has, as its
public face, a man who not only believes Native
Americans got what was coming to them but
attacks anyone who disagrees with his
bigoted views as "not mature enough" to handle
the truth.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Brian Tashman at
rightwingwatch.org on June 21, 2011
When Texas governor and potential presidential
candidate Rick Perry decided to host a prayer
rally, The Response, with the bigoted American
Family Association and the radical International
House of Prayer, Right Wing Watch noted
the two groups’
bigoted and extreme beliefs
along with the
rally’s goal of proselytizing to non-Christians.
Another The Response
endorser is “spiritual warfare” leader James
‘Jay’ Swallow, a Native American “apostle” who
founded the Two Rivers Native American Training
Center. Like Jacobs, Swallow has spoken at
The Call rallies including one in which he
accepted on behalf of all Native Americans
Brownback’s apology for the federal
government’s mistreatment of indigenous people.
According to his
biography, “God has given Dr. Swallow
extraordinary insight into ‘healing the land’
through prayer and spiritual warfare.” The
Center is built around the “Strategic
Warriors At Training (SWAT): A Christian
Military Training Camp for the purpose of
dealing with the occult and territorial enemy
strong holds in America.” Seminars include
“Demonic Spirits,” “Spiritual Warfare,”
“Identifying the Strongman,” and “Freemasonry.”
The training is apparently so intense that
Swallow asks participants sign a “release
of liability” form to waive their right to
sue.
In the last decade great leaders have
been given the revelation of ingredients
that have instituted the desire of God to
recover from the enemy the promises of our
nation, America, and to compact the many
divisions into an expression of Biblical
Christianity.
The enemy has fortified his temporary
property by placing strongholds of
resistance to the coming invasion. He knows
he is to be removed from authority over
areas that we, the divided church, have
given him permission to rule.
The next two weeks will make warriors out
of you. I don’t mean armchair warriors, but
a SPECIALIZED COMMANDO group that will
engage and set the order of discipline and
order to tear down the first line of defense
against the enemy.
Our job will be to establish a beachhead
and occupy until the main forces can
mobilize to secure the territory in Jesus’
Name.
Again, these are just a few of the people who
Rick Perry is working with to put on his prayer
rally.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on
December 15, 2010
Last week when
Jeremy Hooper discovered that the Family
Research Council was planning to roll out a
campaign fighting back against the Southern
Poverty Law Center's designation of the
organization as an anti-gay hate group, we noted
that FRC was asking people to sign on to the
campaign to "stand in solidarity with Family
Research Council, American Family Association,
Concerned Women of America, National
Organization for Marriage, Liberty Counsel and
other pro-family organizations that are working
to protect and promote natural marriage and
family."
By doing so,
we pointed out, any one who added their name
was essentially declaring that they stood
shoulder-to-shoulder with groups that proclaim:
Today,
FRC announced that it was
running this open letter [PDF] in both
Politico and The Washington Examiner
and that the effort had the support of dozens of
Republican members of Congress and conservative
leaders:
Family Research Council (FRC) announced
the placement of a full-page open letter in
today's print editions of Politico and the
Washington Examiner responding to the
Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) recent
attacks on FRC and other groups.
SPLC has targeted FRC and other
organizations that uphold Judeo-Christian
moral views, including marriage as the union
of a man and a woman. The open letter,
signed by more than 150 organizational
leaders, Members of Congress and other
elected officials, calls for a "vigorous but
responsible exercise of the First Amendment
rights of free speech and religious liberty
that are the birthright of all Americans."
The open letter was signed by many
current and former elected and government
officials including Speaker-designate
John
Boehner, Majority Leader-elect
Eric Cantor,
U.S. Reps Mike Pence (R-IN),
Michele
Bachmann (R-MN), John Carter (R-TX), John
Fleming (R-LA,)
Trent Franks (R-AZ), Louie Gohmert (R-TX,) Gregg Harper (R-MS), Jeb
Hensarling (R-TX), Jim Jordan (R-OH),
Steve
King (R-IA,) Don Manzullo (R-IL), Kevin
McCarthy (R-CA), Joe Pitts (R-PA), Peter Roskam (R-LA), Lamar Smith (R-TX,) Steve
Scalise (R-LA,) Fred Upton (R-MI), U.S.
Senators Jim DeMint
(R-SC), Jim Inhofe
(R-OK,) David Vitter (R-LA),
Roger Wicker (R-MS), Sam Brownback (Gov.-elect, Kansas),
Governor Bobby Jindal, former Governor
Mike
Huckabee, Governor
Tim Pawlenty, former
Senator Rick Santorum, Edwin Meese III,
former Attorney General of the United
States, and Virginia Attorney General
Ken Cuccinelli.
For the record, here is the complete list of
leaders
who have publicly declared their solidarity
with SPLC-designated anti-gay hate groups who
want to see gays barred from serving in public
office and homosexuality made illegal:
Alaska Family Council Jim Minnery -
President American College of Pediatricians Tom
Benton, MD - President American Conservative Union Foundation Cleta
Mitchell - Chairman American Decency Association Bill Johnson -
President American Family Association Tim Wildmon -
President American Family Association of Pennsylvania
Diane Gramley - President American Principles Project Andresen Blom -
Executive Director American Values Gary Bauer - President Association of Maryland Families Derek McCoy
- President Best-Selling Author and Host of Morning in
America Dr. William J. Bennett Calvary Chapel Jack Hibbs - Senior Pastor Cardinal Newman Society Patrick Reilly -
President Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights Bill Donohue - President CCV of Indiana PAC Joseph Sergio, Ph.D -
Chairman Center for Arizona Policy Cathi Herrod -
President Center for Law and Social Strategy Mark
Spengler - Executive Director Center for Security Policy Frank Gaffney -
President and CEO Center for Urban Renewal and Education Star
Parker - President Christian Civic League of Maine Carroll
Conley - Executive Director Christian Medical Association David Stevens
- CEO CitizenLink Tom Minnery - Senior Vice
President, Public Policy Citizens for Community Values Phil Burress -
President Citizens for Community Values of Indiana
Patrick Mangan - Executive Director CNSNews.com Chris Johnson - News
Correspondant CNSNews.com Eric Scheiner - Senior Video
Producer Coalition for Marriage and FamilyTom Shields
- Chairman Colorado Family Action Jessica Haverkate -
Director Committee for Justice Curt Levey - Executive
Director Concerned Citizens for Family Values of
Connecticut Ray Kastner - President Concerned Women For America Penny Nance -
CEO Concerned Women for American Wendy Wright -
President ConservativeHQ.com Richard Viguerie -
Chairman Coral Ridge Ministries Robert Knight -
Senior Writer Coral Ridge Ministries Hector Padron -
Executive Vice President Cornerstone Action, NH Kevin Smith -
Executive Director Cornerstone Family Council of ID Julie Lynde
- Executive Director Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of
Creation E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. - National
Spokesman Delaware Family Policy Council Nicole Theis
- Executive Director Design4 Marketing Communications Clint Cline
- President Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafly - President Ethics and Public Policy Center Rick
Santorum - Senior Fellow Faith Christian Fellowship Church The Rev
Dr. R. Edgar Bonniwell - Senior Pastor Family Action Council of Tennessee David
Fowler - President Family First (Nebraska FPC) Dave Bydalek
Bydalek - Executive Director Family Institute of Connecticut Peter
Wolfgang - Executive Director Florida Family Policy Counci lJohn
Stemberger - President and General Counsel ForAmerica David Bozell - Executive Director Generals International Cindy Jacobs -
President Illinois Family Institute David Smith -
Executive Director Iowa Family Policy Center Chuck Hurley -
President Jews Offering New Alternatives to
Homosexuality Elaine Silodor Berk - Director Judicial Action Group Phillip Jauregui -
President Kansas Sam Brownback - Governor-elect Kansas Family Policy Council Donna Lippoldt
- Executive Director Kingdom Warriors Ministry William Boykin -
LTG(R) USArmy Landmark Legal Foundation Mark Levin -
President Leadership Institute Morton Blackwell -
President Let Freedom Ring Colin Hanna - President Liberty Center for Law and Policy Mandi
Campbell - Legal Director Liberty Counsel Matt Barber - Director of
Cultural Affairs Liberty Counsel Mathew Staver - Founder and
Chairman Liberty Institute Kelly Shackelford
Louisiana Bobby Jindal - Governor Louisiana Family Forum Action Gene Mills -
President Massachusetts Family Institute Kris Mineau -
President Media Research Center Matthew Balan - news
analyst Media Research CenterL. Brent Bozell -
Founder and President Media Research Center Kyle Drennen - News
Analyst Media Research Center Matthew Hadro Mike Huckabee - Former Governor, TV/ Radio
Commentator Minnesota Family Council David Eaton -
Chairman Minnesota Family Council John Helmberger -
Chief Executive Officer Mission America Linda Harvey - President Missouri Family Policy Council Joe Ortwerth
- Executive Director National Organization for Marriage Brian
Brown - President National Organization for Marriage Maggie
Gallagher - Chairman National Organization for Marriage - Rhode
Island Christopher Plante - Executive
Director National Review Rich Lowry - Editor Nationally Syndicated Radio Talkshow Host
Janet Parshall Nevada Concerned Citizens Richard Ziser -
Director New Jersey Family First Len Deo - Founder &
President New Yorker's Family Research Foundation Rev.
Tom Stiles New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms Rev.
Jason McGuire North Dakota Family Alliance Tom Freier -
Executive Director Ohio Faith and Freedom Coalition Ken
Blackwell - Chairman Priests For LifeFr. Frank Pavone - National
Director Prison Fellowship and The Colson Center for
Christian Worldview Chuck Colson - Founder Public Service Research Foundation David
Denholm - President Radio America Franklin Raff - Sr. Executive
Producer Rappahannock Ventures WillIam Walton -
Chairman ReAL Action Rick Tyler - Chairman RedState Erick-Woods Erickson - Editor Renewing American Leadership Jim Garlow -
Chairman Republican Party of Louisiana Roger Villere,
Jr. - Chairman Restore America David Crowe - President Retired Rensselaer Broekhuizen - Pastor RightMarch.com William Greene - President Shirley & Banister Public Affairs Diana
Banister - Vice President Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty
Commission Dr. Richard Land - President State of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty - Governor The American Spectator Alfred Regnery -
Publisher The Coalition of Conscience Michael Brown,
Ph.D. - Director The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Abby
Moffat - Vice President and COO The Family Foundation of VirginiaVictoria
Cobb - President The Family Policy Council of WVJeremiah Dys,
Esq. - President and General Counsel The National Legal Foundation Steven
Fitschen - President THE New Voice, Inc.Herman Cain - CEO and
President The Oak InititativeRick Joyner - President The Washington Examiner Mark Tapscott -
Editorial Page Editor TheCall Louis Engle - President Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.C. Preston
Noell III - President Traditional Values Coalition Jody Hutchens -
Regional Director Traditional Values Coalition Andrea Lafferty
- Executive Director U.S. Congress Senator David Vitter - (R-LA) U.S. Congress Senator Roger Wicker - (R-MS) U.S. House of Representatives Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) U.S. House of Representatives
Speaker-designate John Boehner - (R-OH) U.S. House of Representatives Majority
Leader-elect Eric Cantor - (R-VA) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
John Fleming, M.D. - (R-LA) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Trent Franks - (R-AZ) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Louie Gohmert - (R-TX) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Jeb Henserling - (R-TX) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Jim Jordan - (R-OH) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Steve King - (R-IA) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Donald Manzullo - (R-IL) U.S. House of Representative sCongressman
Kevin McCarthy - (R-CA) U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman-elect Alan Nunnelee - (R-MS) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Mike Pence - (R-IN) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Joe Pitts - (R-PA) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Peter Roskam - (R-IL) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Steve Scalise - (R-LA) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Lamar Smith - (R-TX) U.S. House of Representatives Congressman
Fred Upton - (R-MI) United States SenateJim DeMint - Senator Virginia Ken Cuccinelli - Attorney General Western Center for Journalism Floyd Brown -
President Wisconsin Family Action Julaine Appling -
President WMtek Corp. Dan Pennell - CEO WND.com Joseph Farah - Chief Executive
Officer
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on October 15, 2010
Over the last few days, we've been noting that
Sam Brownback's ties to Lou Engle have become an
issue in the race for Governor in Kansas, with
Brownback at first
refusing to comment but
eventually addressing the issue by trying to
downplay the relationship and distance himself
from Engle's views.
As we noted yesterday,
that is easier said than done, as Brownback has
had deep ties to Engle and his Dominionist
associates for years and
has played a lead role in turning their
religious concerns into public policy.
Gubernatorial candidate Tom Holland is
calling on Senator Sam Brownback to denounce
Brownback’s former roommate and confidant,
controversial anti-gay preacher Lou Engle
...
“I am calling on Senator Brownback to
formally denounce Lou Engle – not just
“some” of his statements – but his entire
message of violence, hate and bigotry. Lou
Engle sounds a lot like Fred Phelps. But the
difference is unlike Fred Phelps, Lou Engle
lived with Sam Brownback in Washington
D.C.,” said Holland. “It’s time Sam
Brownback stops brushing this issue aside,
and make a denouncement on par with the nine
year relationship that preceded it.”
Holland is right: Brownback lived with Engle
for several months and has had a relationship
with him and the various "prophets" and
"apostles" with whom he associates that has
lasted for year, so he cannot simply say he has
"concerns" about "some" of Engle's views and
hope that that settles it.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on October 14, 2010
In
our post yesterday on Sam Brownback finally
acknowledging his long relationship with Lou
Engle, we noted that Brownback sought to
downplay it by claiming that they only worked on
human rights issues:
Brownback, of Topeka, said he worked with
Engle on adoption by the U.S. Senate of
official statements of apology to Native
Americans and African-Americans. He said the
Native American statement became law.
"Those were the substantive items,"
Brownback said. "It's all been about human
rights and helping people live better."
Now, as anyone who knows anything about Engle
and his associates realizes, every move they
make is aimed at unleashing revival here in
America and ultimately establishing God's
kingdom on Earth ... and that is exactly what
was at work in these two cases.
If you jump ahead to the
4 minute mark of this video of Sen.
Brownback on the Senate floor discussing the
apology for slavery, you will hear him talk
about a "kettle tour":
This
"kettle tour" was organized by Engle
associates
Dutch Sheets and
Will Ford in order to create a "'synergistic
agreement' that will release a multiplication of
power for spiritual breakthrough" and Brownback
played a key role in the tour when it came to
Washington:
The idea for what is being called the
"Kettle Tour" was birthed during a
conference last March when Sheets spoke
about the joining of the present
generation's prayers with those of the past
to form a "synergy of the ages."
Will Ford, an African American conference
attendee from Euless, Texas, shared a
powerful story about an old kettle that had
been passed down through the generations
from his slave ancestors.
"My ancestors would be beaten if they
were caught praying," Ford explained, "so
they'd wait until everyone was asleep, sneak
into the barn late at night, turn this pot
upside down on some rocks, and get
underneath it to pray where they wouldn't be
heard. Although they didn't believe they
would see freedom in their lifetime, they
prayed for the freedom of the next
generation."
When Ford heard Sheets speak about the
"bowls of incense," which contained the
prayers of the saints from all generations,
mentioned in Revelation 5:8, he said he
realized his prayers were being united with
those of his slave ancestors.
Ford agreed to travel throughout New
England with Sheets and a team of people,
taking along his "prayer kettle" as a symbol
of what God desires to do in this nation.
"God is connecting all the ages to heal
history," Sheets told the prayer
participants in Washington. "We must come
into agreement with the prayers of past
generations in order for God to fulfill His
purposes for this nation."
Pointing to a significant movement of
repentance and reconciliation between races,
genders, and denominations that has already
taken place in the last few years, Sheets
believes God is now desiring a "synergistic
agreement" that will release a
multiplication of power for spiritual
breakthrough.
"The church has been so disjointed that
we haven't been able to accomplish what the
Lord wants to do through us, but we're
moving into a season in the body of Christ
where I believe over the next five years
there's going to be more joining together of
the church than in all the 2,000 years
leading up to this."
At the Washington prayer gathering, Sen.
Sam Brownback, R-Kan., told those present
that in all the history of the country
nothing has happened but that it happened
first in prayer.
"We've made it up the mountain a long
way, but we have to make that final assault
on the peak," Brownback said. "We can make
that final leap to the top, if we stay on
our knees."
[On] January 15, 2003 Dr. John Benefiel,
Chairman and Mobilizing Apostle of OCOP,
along with Dr. Jay Swallow, Dr. Neigel
Bigpond, Jim and Faith Chosa, Gabriel and Vi
Medicine-Eagle, Jean Stephenson, Sandy Grady
and Mike and Cindy Jacobs met with Senator
Sam Brownback in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Benefiel explained to the Senator the curse
brought upon our nation because of the 381
covenants the United States Government broke
with the Native Americans. The Senator
repented to the Native Americans right then
and there. As a result of these events,
Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 37, (which
will provide a formal apology from the
United States Government to Native
Americans), was written and is currently on
General Order in the U.S. Senate awaiting a
full Senate vote ... [Dutch Sheets] said the
starting of the 50 State Tour could not have
happened until what happened in D.C. took
place with the broken covenants and the
repentance of Senator Brownback.
And here is
Brownback being introduced by Sheets at the 2007
The Call rally in Nashville where he
officially apologized to several Native
Americans for the actions of the federal
government and asked for their forgiveness. He
then issued a similar apology for the treatment
of African Americans which he delivered to none
other than Harry Jackson before finally bringing
his own daughter out on stage and asking her for
forgiveness for the 40 million abortions that
have taken place in the wake of Roe v Wade:
Engle, Sheets, Jacobs and other are all key
leaders in the
dominionist movement and Sam Brownback has
had a deep relationship with them for years,
often serving as their man in Washington and
joining them for various events and even living
with Engle for several months at one point ...
so his recent claims that he doesn't really have
any contact with them and has "concerns" about
their views is, quite literally, unbelievable.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on October 13, 2010
Earlier today
we noted that Sam Brownback was refusing to
comment on his ties to Lou Engle despite the
fact that the two lived together for several
months and that he has attended several events
with Engle.
Well, it looks like the pressure has started
to get to him and so
Brownback finally broke his silence today
and attempted to distance himself from Engle
while claiming that his work with him was all
about "human rights":
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback expressed
uneasiness Wednesday with some elements of
controversial evangelist Lou Engle's
proselytizing.
The Kansas Democratic Party raised
questions about ties between the Republican
Party's nominee for governor and the
minister with headquarters in Kansas City,
Mo. Brownback has participated in religious
rallies in Tennessee and elsewhere hosted by
Engle, who says Christians may need to
martyr themselves in the campaign against
abortion and homosexuality.
Engle and Brownback were together as
recently as December 2009 when they appeared
on the Internet broadcast of a prayer
service seeking God's intervention to block
Senate passage of health reform.
Brownback, interviewed following a TV
appearance in Topeka, said Kansas voters
should understand he doesn't agree with all
positions expressed by Engle.
"He's said things I don't agree with,"
Brownback said. "I haven't talked to him in
months."
Brownback, of Topeka, said he worked with
Engle on adoption by the U.S. Senate of
official statements of apology to Native
Americans and African-Americans. He said the
Native American statement became law.
"Those were the substantive items,"
Brownback said. "It's all been about human
rights and helping people live better."
Brownback said any description of his
relationship with Engle shouldn't suggest
the senator had minimized his views on
abortion and gay rights.
"I'm pro-life," Brownback said. "I
support marriage as the union between a man
and woman and I support the 'don't ask,
don't tell' policies."
Please - Engle is know for a lot of things,
but his "substantive" concerns about Native
Americans, African Americans, and human rights
are not at the top of the list.
He may very well care deeply about such
issues, but Engle is not drawing tens of
thousands of prayer warriors to day-long fasting
and prayer rallies aimed at apologizing to
Native Americans - he mobilizes activists to
fight abortion and gay marriage.
So let's ask Brownback again just which of
Engle's views concern him the most: Is it his
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on October 13, 2010
As we have
noted before, Democrats in Kansas have
rightly been making an issue of Sam Brownback's
ties to Lou Engle given that the two lived
together for several months after Brownback's
condo burned down.
Recently, Brownback tried to distance himself
a bit from Engle,
Kansas Democrats are highlighting
Republican gubernatorial nominee Sam
Brownback's ties to a controversial
evangelist, saying the association raises
questions about his judgment.
The Kansas Democratic Party cites
Brownback's appearance at a 2007 rally for
evangelist Lou Engle, who has urged
Christians to fast and pray that "God, the
avenger of blood" will heal the nation's
sins of abortion and homosexuality.
"Does Sam Brownback know where to draw
the line?" said Kenny Johnston, the Kansas
Democratic Party's executive director. "It's
an important question to ask about Sam
Brownback's judgment."
"I have read the stories in the Topeka
Capital-Journal, the Lawrence Journal World
and by the Associated Press detailing
Senator Brownback's relationship with Lou
Engle, and my staff has shared with me
additional information1 on Mr. Engle's views
and statements. I found all of this to be
very troubling.
"The next Governor of Kansas will need to
bring people together, not divide them along
lines of fear and bigotry.
"Whether it's upholding the executive ban
on workplace discrimination against gays and
lesbians, or preventing our state from being
defined by the messages of Fred Phelps and
Lou Engle – the next Governor has a
responsibility to protect the rights of
every Kansan.
"We've seen what happens when right-wing
extremists get the spotlight; our state
becomes a punch line on late night talk
shows and companies think twice before
bringing new jobs to our state. We can't go
down that path again.
"I'm running to be a leader for all
Kansans, so that we can continue our legacy
as a Free State, where discrimination and
bigotry – against anyone – is not
tolerated."
told the Topeka, Kansas
Lawrence
Journal-World, "He [Engle] said a number
of things that I'm troubled by," and
Brownback added, "I haven't had much
association with him for some period of
time." In Sam Brownback's lexicon, 'some
period of time' would have to mean 'at least
ten months' because back in December 2009
Brownback
could be found up onstage with Lou
Engle, who led the Family Research Council's
nationally broadcast "Prayercast" against
health care reform.
Brownback's disavowal elides his long
association with Lou Engle. As I
broke here at Talk To Action in late
December 2009, Lou Engle says he and Sam
Brownback lived together for 7 months in a
rented Washington DC condominium. And, in
footage from Brownback's 2007 appearance at
Lou Engle's Nashville TheCall rally,
evangelist Dutch Sheets
stated that Brownback, whom Sheets
called a personal friend to both Sheets, Lou
Engle, and other mutual associates, had
already attended four of Lou Engle's TheCall events.
If Brownback has "concerns" about Engle, it
sure didn't stop him attending at least four of
his The Call events.
As I was mobilizing for Boston I said to
kids in California ‘we need to dig the
dwells of revival in Harvard and close the
door of false ideologies that have come
through Boston’. Amazingly a week later, I
received a phone call from the US Senator
from Kansas, Senator Sam Brownback, he’s a
godly man. He calls me up, he says ‘Lou, I’m
in England, you need to dig the dwells of
revival in Harvard and close the door of
false ideologies that have come through
Boston’. Almost word for word. A Senator was
prophesizing me, glory to God.
In fact, it was prophesized to me that I
would be connected with a man named Senator
Sam Brownback from Kansas. But I forgot
about the prophecy, so when I rented a condo
in DC to mobilize for The Call, a week later
I received a phone call from the owner of
the condo and he said ‘there’s a man named
Senator Sam Brownback. His condo just burnt
down, he wants to know if he could stay in
your condo’. I became the room mate of
Senator Brownback for 7 months. We began to
get dreams that he would be the president of
the United States and right now, who knows?
We are praying.
And now,
as Sam Stein reports, Brownback has been
asked about it and admits that some of Engle's
views are rather worrisome:
Voter: Hi Senator, thanks so much for
coming out. It's great to meet you. Clarissa
Unger.
Brownback: What's your name again?
Voter: Clarissa Unger. It's so nice to
meet you. I just have to say that there's
one thing that really concerns me about this
race, and it's that a minister, Joe Engle
has...
Brownback: Lou.
Voter: Lou Engle. Yes, I'm sorry. He
claims that you have lived with him. And I
was just curious, is that true? Did you live
with him while you were in the Senate?
Brownback: Lou and I were...we...Lou and
I were...we were...That's when I got burned
out of an apartment, I was trying to think
of the year...and then I subleased a place
for a period of time. [Inaudible]...but yes.
Voter: You did?
Brownback: Yeah.
Voter: Some of his positions really
concern me.
Brownback: Yeah, I know, they do me too.
Voter: The views on [inaudible]. Great,
well thank you so much again for coming.
Excerpt of an
article posted by Kyle Mantyla at
rightwingwatch.org on May 17, 2010
Late last year
we wrote a post based on
a video posted by Bruce Wilson in which Lou
Engle explained how he had come to live with
Sen. Sam Brownback for seven months:
As I was mobilizing for Boston I said to
kids in California ‘we need to dig the
dwells of revival in Harvard and close the
door of false ideologies that have come
through Boston’. Amazingly a week later, I
received a phone call from the US Senator
from Kansas, Senator Sam Brownback, he’s a
godly man. He calls me up, he says ‘Lou, I’m
in England, you need to dig the dwells of
revival in Harvard and close the door of
false ideologies that have come through
Boston’. Almost word for word. A Senator was
prophesizing me, glory to God.
In fact, it was prophesized to me that I
would be connected with a man named Senator
Sam Brownback from Kansas. But I forgot
about the prophecy, so when I rented a condo
in DC to mobilize for The Call, a week later
I received a phone call from the owner of
the condo and he said ‘there’s a man named
Senator Sam Brownback. His condo just burnt
down, he wants to know if he could stay in
your condo’. I became the room mate of
Senator Brownback for 7 months. We began to
get dreams that he would be the president of
the United States and right now, who knows?
We are praying.
Now,
via Frederick Clarkson, we see that the
Kansas Democratic Party is making this an issue
in the race for Governor, asking
people to sign a petition demanding that
Brownback denounce and distance himself from
Engle:
“This is the type of behavior one would
expect from Fred Phelps – not from someone
who has the ear of Kansas’ most ambitious
politician. We are calling on Senator
Brownback to denounce Lou Engle for his
hateful rhetoric and extreme agenda,” said
Kenny Johnston, Executive Director of the
Kansas Democratic Party, “If this is the
sort of company Brownback keeps, it speaks
volumes about the kind of Governor he would
be.”
The next Governor of Kansas needs a
laser-like focus on creating quality jobs.
We can't afford to let a strong and lasting
economic recovery be jeopardized by divisive
and narrow interests. Now, more than ever,
Kansans can't afford an out-of-touch
Washington politician who will open the
doors of Ceder Crest to extremists like Lou
Engle.
In order to demonstrate that he will
focus on policies that unite Kansans to
solve the challenges that confront our state
Sam Brownback needs to demonstrate his
independence from right-wing extremists, and
strongly denounce Lou Engle.
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org
on December 22,
2009
To follow-up on
our post from
yesterday
about the
revelation that
Lou Engle and
Sam Brownback
were roommates
for seven
months, Bruce
Wilson has now
posted the video
of Engle
explaining how
it came about -
we've
edited
Wilson's video
down just to
highlight
Engle's
Brownback
connection:
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
December 21,
2009
At the risk of
turning this
blog
into "Lou Engle
Watch," I wanted
to highlight
this recent post
by Bruce Wilson
- who had been
covering Lou
Engle well
before he
co-hosted the
recent FRC "prayercast"
and long before
most people had
ever heard
Engle's name -
about plans for
"The Call" to
hold a rally in
Uganda in May of
2010, in which
he points to
this sermon from
2006 where Engle
explains how he
came to be
roommates with
Senator Sam
Brownback for
seven months:
As I was
mobilizing
for Boston I
said to kids
in
California
‘we need to
dig the
dwells of
revival in
Harvard and
close the
door of
false
ideologies
that have
come through
Boston’.
Amazingly a
week later,
I received a
phone call
from the US
Senator from
Kansas,
Senator Sam
Brownback,
he’s a godly
man. He
calls me up,
he says
‘Lou, I’m in
England, you
need to dig
the dwells
of revival
in Harvard
and close
the door of
false
ideologies
that have
come through
Boston’.
Almost word
for word. A
Senator was
prophesizing
me, glory to
God.
In fact, it
was
prophesized
to me that I
would be
connected
with a man
named
Senator Sam
Brownback
from Kansas.
But I forgot
about the
prophecy, so
when I
rented a
condo in DC
to mobilize
for The
Call, a week
later I
received a
phone call
from the
owner of the
condo and he
said
‘there’s a
man named
Senator Sam
Brownback.
His condo
just burnt
down, he
wants to
know if he
could stay
in your
condo’. I
became the
room mate of
Senator
Brownback
for 7
months. We
began to get
dreams that
he would be
the
president of
the United
States and
right now,
who knows?
We are
praying.
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org
on
December 18,
2009
Janet Porter was
not involved in
the Right Wing "prayercast"
earlier this
week, so she is
issuing her own
call to prayer
and fasting
to stop health
care reform
because "we are
literally in a
battle for our
lives and our
freedom":
Faith2Action,
founded by
Janet (Folger)
Porter, is
today
issuing a
national
call to
prayer,
fasting and
action until
Christmas
Day.
The two
reasons for
this urgent
call, one
week before
Christmas,
are (1) the
pending
cloture vote
in the U.S.
Senate on
government-run
healthcare,
and (2) the
last-minute
attempts to
reach a
global
agreement as
the
Copenhagen
Climate
Change
Conference
comes to an
end.
“Even though
Christmas is
less than a
week away,
we are
literally in
a battle for
our lives
and our
freedom,"
states
Faith2Action
President
Janet
Porter. "If
the Senate
votes to put
the
Government
in control
of our
life-saving
treatment
options, we
are all in
grave
danger. This
lethal
legislation
includes
abortion
funding and
the denial
of treatment
needed to
save our
lives. We
are also in
danger of
surrendering
our
Sovereignty
to global
governance,"
added
Porter.
"Please pray
that God
will
intervene to
block a
treaty from
being signed
in
Copenhagen
that would
sign away
U.S.
sovereignty
and issue
unprecedented
taxes and
control over
our lives
and
businesses.
"Please join
us for a
time of
prayer,
fasting, and
action all
the way to
Christmas--calling
on our
Senators to
vote against
Cloture on
the
government
takeover of
health
care,"
Porter
added.
"Please also
pray that
Senator Ben
Nelson will
continue to
stand strong
against
forced
funding of
abortion on
demand and
vote against
cloture
which would
bring the
government-run
healthcare
bill to the
floor for a
vote. If he
doesn't,
Americans
would be
forced to
violate
their
consciences
in funding
abortions
through
their tax
dollars for
the first
time in 30
years.
"All I want
for
Christmas is
my life and
my freedom.
But it's
going to
take prayer,
fasting, and
action to
achieve
that."
Porter
emphasized.
And for good
measure Sen. Sam
Brownback, who
was a featured
participant in
the "prayercast,"
appeared on
Porter's radio
program
yesterday
to discuss the
Republican
effort to stop
health care
reform,
promising that
they would do
everything
possible to
"string this
thing out" and
make sure that
this
"monstrosity" does
not pass and
agreed with
Porter when she
declared that
"our very lives
are on the
line":
Submitted by
Kyle Mantyla on
December 14,
2009 - 10:53am
On Wednesday
December 16,
Reps. Michele
Bachmann and
Randy Forbes and
Sens. Jim DeMint
and Sam
Brownback will
be joining
forces with the
likes of Lou
Engle, Tony
Perkins, Jim
Garlow, and
Harry Jackson
for a "prayercast"
organized by the
Family Research
Council during
which they will
seek God's
intervention to
prevent the
passage of
healthcare
reform:
Did you know
that deep
within the
Senate
health care
bill is a
tax penalty
for couples
that are
married? Or
that in
Nancy
Pelosi's
version of
health care
"reform"
that not
only is tort
reform not
included -
but trial
lawyers are
rewarded
even more?
To learn
more facts
about this
attempted
government
takeover of
health care,
tune your
browsers
this
Wednesday
night to
FRCAction.org.
On December
16, FRC
Action and
The Call to
Conscience
will host a
live video
webcast
entitled "An
FRC Action
PrayerCast:
Government
Takeover of
Healthcare".
Beginning at
8:30 p.m.
(EST), this
PrayerCast
will feature
a powerful
line-up of
speakers,
including:
Tony
Perkins,
President,
Family
Research
Council
Action
Lou
Engle,
Founder
and
President,
The Call
to
Conscience
Hon. Sam
Brownback,
United
States
Senator,
Kansas
Hon.
Randy
Forbes,
United
States
Congressman,
Virginia
Hon. Jim
DeMint,
United
States
Senator,
South
Carolina
Hon.
Michele
Bachmann,
United
States
Congresswoman,
Minnesota
Bishop
Harry
Jackson,
President,
High
Impact
Leadership
Coalition
Pastor
Jim
Garlow,
Skyline
Church,
San
Diego,
Calif.
During the
webcast, you
will hear
the latest
on the
threats to
the
God-given
right to
human life
through
government
funding of
abortions,
our health
from
rationing,
our family
finances
from higher
taxes, and
our general
freedom
posed by the
government
plan to take
over
healthcare.
We will
enter into a
time of
prayer for
the nation,
and our
leaders.
Your
engagement
and urgent
prayer is
more
critical
than ever as
Congress
will very
soon vote on
a final
health care
bill.
Register
today!
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
April 28, 2009
We've written
several posts
over the last
few month about
how Sen. Sam
Brownback's
standing
among the
Religious Right
has
fallen
due to his
support of
Katheleen
Sebelius'
nomination to be
Secretary of
Health and Human
Services,
leading many
right-wing
activists to
distance
themselves
from him.
Today, Dave
Weigel has a
good piece in
The Washington
Independent
noting how,
despite
seemingly no
help from anyone
in the Senate,
the Religious
Right has
managed to make
the vote on
Sebelius'
nomination into
a "controversy"
all on its own:
The battle
against Gov.
Kathleen
Sebelius
(D-Kans.),
President
Obama’s
nominee to
lead the
Department
of Health
and Human
Services,
has gone
better than
many
pro-life
activists
had hoped.
Yes, it’s
true that
Sebelius is
expected to
be confirmed
after an
eight-hour
debate and
cloture vote
are held in
the Senate
today. It’s
also true
that
activists
have not
managed to
dislodge the
support of
Sebelius’s
home state
senators,
Sam
Brownback
and Pat
Roberts,
both
Republicans
— an
embarrassing
setback that
has
prevented
the Sebelius
nomination
from
becoming
quite the
abortion
rights
showdown
that they
had hoped
for. But
they can
count some
small
victories.
“Going into
this, there
didn’t seem
to be any
opposition,”
said Wendy
Wright, the
president of
Conservative
Women for
America. “I
was at her
hearing, and
that
morning, I
was reading
news reports
about how
she was
going to
’sail
through’ the
Senate. Now
I’m reading
reports
about the
‘controversy’
around
Kathleen
Sebelius.
You can
attribute
that to what
the
grassroots
have done
here.”
The vote on her
nomination is
scheduled for
today and she is
expected to be
confirmed and
conservative and
Religious Right
leaders are
basically saying
it is all
Brownback's
fault:
Before that
vote, the
anti-Sebelius
coalition
will hold a
press
conference
on the Hill
making the
case against
her. Rep.
Doug Lamborn
(R-Colo.)
will make
public a
letter of
opposition
to the
nomination
that, as of
press time,
eight other
conservatives
had signed.
Still,
opponents of
the governor
have been
frustrated
by the early
and
consistent
support for
Sebelius
from Sen.
Sam
Brownback
(R-Kans.), a
social
conservative
who is
retiring in
2010 to run
for governor
of Kansas.
“This
nomination
should be
more
unpopular
than it is,”
grumbled one
GOP Senate
aide.
“Brownback’s
hesitation
and his
months of
holding off
on
substantive
criticism of
Sebelius has
basically
frozen the
ability of
pro-life
senators to
fight as
hard as they
would like
to. It’s
tough. It’s
very
difficult
for the
pro-life
leader in
the Senate
to mobilize
his allies
when he’s
moving in
the other
direction.”
Although
recently
Brownback has
been
hinting
that he might be
rethinking his
support for
Sebelius'
nomination, his
explanation for
supporting the
nomination has
been that
installing her
at HHS will get
her out of the
state and away
from a possible
run for
Brownback's open
Senate seat in
2010 and that
whomever heads
HHS will be
pro-choice, so
it
may as well be
someone from
Kansas.
Needless to say,
right-wing
activists aren't
buying his
excuses, with
one local
activist saying
its like
justifying
support of
Hitler:
“We’ll be
extremely
disappointed
if Sen.
Brownback
doesn’t
change his
mind,” said
Tom McClusky,
vice
president of
government
affairs for
FRC. “That
will play a
role in any
of our
future work
with him.”
It’s all a
bit much for
Kansas
activists to
stomach.
“Those guys
in
Washington
don’t think
like we do
in Kansas,”
said David
Gittrich,
the
long-serving
state
development
director of
Kansans for
Life. “It
might be
smart
politically
to get the
governor out
of Kansas,
but it’s
really hard
for me to
wish her on
the nation.
I’d rather
have Hillary
Clinton
running
health care
than
Kathleen
Sebelius.”
According to
Gittrich,
when
Brownback
turns his
sights on
the
governor’s
race he’ll
gave to
“reestablish
his
credentials
as a
pro-lifer”
and explain
his vote.
“All the
pro-life
votes in the
world don’t
make up for
supporting
Kathleen
Sebelius,”
said
Gittrich.
“This is
like saying,
‘I’m against
the
Holocaust
and Nazi
Germany but
I’d like
Hitler to be
in charge of
the health
care
center.’”
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org
on April 10,
2009
Republican
Kansas Senator
Sam Brownback
has
received
a lot of
flack
for his support
of fellow Kansan
Kathleen
Sebelius's
nomination to be
the next
Secretary of
Health and Human
Services - it
even caused the
Family Research
Council to
pull out
of "Values
Action Team"
that Brownback
leads.
To date,
Brownback hasn't
offered much in
the way of
explanation for
his stance, much
to the dismay of
anti-choice
activists who
once viewed him
as a solid ally.
Other than
saying that
getting Sebelius
confirmed to HHS
will get her out
of the Kansas
and thus away
from a possible
run for
Brownback's open
Senate seat in
2010, Brownback
has been rather
quiet about the
whole thing ...
though today he
admitted to the
Topeka
Capital-Journal
that his stance
has hurt his
reputation among
anti-choice
activists:
Sen. Sam
Brownback is
aware
anti-abortion
forces in
Kansas
remain
baffled by
his
unwillingness
to be the
catalyst for
a campaign
against Gov.
Kathleen
Sebelius’
nomination
to lead the
federal
agency
guiding
abortion
policy.
Brownback, a
prominent
national
voice
against
abortion,
said
pragmatism
guided his
decision not
to sound an
alarm upon
nomination
of the
abortion-rights
Democrat as
secretary of
the U.S.
Department
of Health
and Human
Services.
“People have
been pretty
upset,” the
GOP senator
said. “I’ve
been saying
to them
there’s a
practicality
to this.”
He said any
HHS nominee
put forward
by President
Barack Obama
would be
someone who
believes
abortion
should
remain a
legal option
for women.
“If you’re
going to
have a
pro-choice
person in
that
position,
it’s better
to have a
Kansan,”
Brownback
said.
That is
essentially
Brownback's
entire
explanation: since
whomever becomes
HHS head is
going to be
pro-choice, it
may as well be
someone from
Kansas. Why
that matters or
how it is
supposed to
justify his
stance on her
nomination, he
doesn't say.
I have to say
that this has to
rank among the
single lamest
explanations
I have ever seen
- it is almost
as if he knows
that he can't
square his
support of
Sebelius with
his
well-establish
anti-choice
views and has
just decided
that he's not
even going to
try.
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
March 10, 2009
It has been a
rough couple of
weeks for Sen.
Sam Brownback.
Since
he announced
that he was
supporting
Kansas Gov.
Kathleen
Sebelius'
nomination to be
Secretary of
Health and Human
Services, he has
watched the
Family Research
Council
pull out
of the Values
Action Team
meetings he
oversees and his
reputation as a
pro-life
champion
has taken a
beating.
Burglars
made off
with
thousands of
dollars
worth of
property
stolen from
the Topeka
home of U.S.
Senator Sam
Brownback
last week
... The
Senator's
wife Mary
Brownback
returned
home around
1:30 p.m.
Thursday to
find the
items
missing.
Officials
say a
computer, a
television,
a video
game, a
check book
and
100-pieces
of jewelry
were taken.
At least there
is some good
news on the
horizon for
Brownback,
coming in the
form of this
admission by one
of his biggest
critics that
pro-life
activists have a
very short
memory and
probably won't
hold his current
heresy against
him
when he runs for
governor next
year:
A pro-life
activist
predicts
that if
Senator
Brownback
(R-Kansas)
runs for
governor in
his state,
he will
still
receive the
support of
the pro-life
movement
despite his
controversial
decision to
support the
nomination
of
pro-abortion
Democratic
Governor
Kathleen
Sebelius for
Health and
Human
Services
secretary.
Mark
Crutcher,
the
president of
Life
Dynamics,
Incorporated,
says
pro-life
Republicans
know they
can "pull a
stunt" like
Brownback
did because
pro-life
activists
often have
short
memories.
"Right now
there's
probably a
lot of anger
in Kansas, I
would
assume, and
a lot of
people are
sickened by
Brownback's
sell-out,"
Crutcher
shares. "But
let's say
that he runs
for governor
and he
continues to
tell people,
'Oh, I'm
pro-life. I
did that for
some other
reason' --
or whatever
excuse he
uses for his
sell-out."
According to
Crutcher,
that
explanation
may just
work on the
voters. "The
thing that
bothers me
[about] the
history of
the pro-life
movement is
that once
the initial
anger and
fervor of
the moment
goes
away...if he
runs against
some
pro-abort
Democrat,
we'll...rally
behind this
guy."
Last week,
Crutcher
was blasting
Brownback for
his willingness
to "throw the
unborn under the
bus for some
political
advantage" and
saying that the
pro-life
movement has
been "stabbed in
the back by
people like Sam
Brownback so
many times" that
it should have
learned its
lesson by now.
But apparently
the only lesson
to be learned
from this entire
ordeal is that
Republican
politicians can
stab pro-life
activists in the
back whenever it
suits their
needs and fully
expect to
maintain their
political
support.
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
March 6, 2009
Yesterday
we highlighted
a paragraph from
a World Magazine
article noting
that the Family
Research Council
had pulled out
of Sen. Sam
Brownback's
"Values Action
Team" due to his
support of
Kathleen
Sebelius'
nomination to be
Secretary Health
and Human
Services.
Today,
CBN's David
Brody got FRC to
go on the record
about the
decision
and Tom McClusky
explained that
it was more of a
"temporary leave
of absence" that
will be
re-evaluated
once this
nomination is
over rather than
an outright
withdrawal,
saying that it
was done not
just to send a
message to Sen.
Brownback, but
to all
Republicans
senators about
how important
this is to the
Religious Right
and their
grassroots
activists:
The Brody
File has
learned that
the Family
Research
Council is
taking a
“temporarily
leave of
absence”
from the
socially
conservative
“Values
Action Team”
meetings on
Capitol Hill
because of
Senator Sam
Brownback’s
support of
pro-choice
HHS
Secretary-Designate
Kathleen
Sebelius.
FRC says
they may
rejoin the
meetings
AFTER the
Sebelius
nomination
is finished.
Senator
Brownback
chairs those
“VAT”
meetings
every week
on Capitol
Hill and he
is one of
the biggest
pro-life
defenders in
the Senate.
However, he
issued a
statement
this past
week in
support of
Kathleen
Sebelius.
Pro-Life
groups
believe her
record on
abortion is
extreme and
have been
very
disappointed
that he has
not come out
against her.
A source
inside the
meeting
tells the
Brody File
that FRC
explain to
Brownback
its’
intentions
to no longer
attend the
meetings. At
that point,
Senator
Brownback
actually
offered to
step down
from leading
the VAT
meetings
though
nobody in
the room
asked him to
do so. In
addition,
this source
says when
Brownback
was asked by
a meeting
participant
how he would
vote on
Sebelius,
the Senator
remained
uncommitted.
The Brody
File
interviewed
Tom
McClusky,
Senior
Vice-President
of FRC
Action about
FRC’s
decision to
leave the
VAT
meetings:
“It was a
very tough
decision
except the
Family
Research
Council
thought that
while we try
to fight
against this
Sebelius
nomination
and to bring
her record
to light
that it
would be
better if we
took a
temporary
leave of
absence from
the values
action
team...
“We will
re-evaluate
after the
Sebelius
nomination
if we should
go forward
with the
values
Action Team.
It’s just
that right
now we feel
somewhat
compromised
in trying to
use that as
a vehicle to
get our
message
across.”
On a related
note,
Dan Gilgoff
reports
on the
explanation the
Brownback camp
is giving for
its support of
Sebelius,
claiming to be
doing so in
order to get her
out of the state
and away from a
possible run for
Brownback's open
Senate seat in
2010 ... but
FRC isn't buying
that either:
[S]ources
tell me that
Brownback's
people have
been making
the case to
antiabortion
groups—especially
those in
Kansas—that
there's a
strong
political
rationale
for
installing
the Kansas
governor in
Washington.
The move
gets her out
of Kansas,
Brownback's
argument
goes,
heading off
her expected
run for the
Senate in
2010. Which
means the
Sunflower
State Senate
seat that
Brownback's
vacating for
a
gubernatorial
run is
likely to
stay in
Republican
hands, since
the Kansas
Democratic
Party
doesn't have
another
candidate
who is half
as popular
as Sebelius.
And that's
good for the
antiabortion
cause,
according to
the
reasoning.
"It was much
more
important
that the
Senate seat
remain red
than it was
that
Brownback
directly
oppose
Sebelius at
HHS," says
one person
familiar
with the
situation
who would
only speak
anonymously,
"given that
Obama is
going to be
driving the
HHS agenda
regardless
of who's in
charge."
A second
source,
Family
Research
Council
Action
lobbyist Tom
McClusky,
told me
today that
he's now
heard
Brownback's
argument for
backing
Sebelius
from a
half-dozen
Republican
senators.
But that
doesn't mean
antiabortion
groups
support the
plan. "It's
wrong on two
counts,"
McClusky
tells me.
"They're
putting
politics
before
policy. And
secondly,
the
Republicans
are trying
to predict
an election
two years
out, which
is
impossible."
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
March 6, 2009
Over the last
few days we
noted that Sen.
Sam Brownback
has been
pilloried by
various
anti-choice
activists for
his decision to
support the
nomination of
Gov. Kathleen
Sebelius to be
the next
Secretary of the
Health and Human
Services, which
culminated with
the Family
Research
Council announcing
that it was
withdrawing
from his "Values
Action Team"
over his stance.
And frankly, it
doesn't look
like the outrage
is going to
dissipate any
time soon as
more and more
activists
continue to pile
on and
ratchet up their
rhetoric:
Mark
Crutcher,
president of
Life
Dynamics,
Incorporated,
says
Brownback --
a
self-professed
pro-life
Catholic --
"abandoned"
the unborn
by backing
Sebelius.
"I think
it's typical
of what
we've seen
over the
years when
somebody's
commitment
to the
unborn is
political
rather than
a core value
with them,"
says the
pro-life
leader.
"It's like
the
difference
between a
politician
and a
statesman."
Crutcher
says
Brownback's
desire to
become the
next
governor of
Kansas may
be driving
his support
of Sebelius.
"All of
Brownback's
flowery
words in the
past don't
really mean
much," he
says. "When
push comes
to shove,
he'll throw
the unborn
under the
bus for some
political
advantage --
and that's
what's
happened
here."
In addition,
Crutcher
says the
pro-life
movement has
been
"stabbed in
the back by
people like
Sam
Brownback so
many times"
that the
movement
should have
learned the
lesson that
the measure
of a
pro-life
lawmaker is
not what he
tells you he
believes,
but rather
what he will
do to
protect the
life of the
unborn.
On a related
note, Archbishop
Joseph Naumann
of Kansas City,
who last year
said that
Sebelius should
stop receiving
Communion
until she
publicly
repudiated her
stance on
abortion and
made a "worthy
sacramental
confession," has
weighed in on
her nomination,
calling it
"particularly
troubling."
He also sat down
with Our Sunday
Visitor for a
discussion about
the nomination,
saying that he
"personally
[finds] it
offensive that
[Obama] would
choose a
pro-legalized-abortion
Catholic to head
this office" and
faulted
Catholics who
are supporting
her, saying that
"they certainly
can’t support
her because
she’s faithful
in living the
teaching of the
Church on the
life issues."
Asked by the
Kansas City Star
if that position
meant that
Neumann would
now be telling
Sen. Brownback
that he too
should not be
taking
communion, a
spokesperson
said it was
unlikely:
A spokesman
for the
Kansas City,
Ks.
archdiocese
said
Thursday
that
Archbishop
Joseph
Naumann is
unlikely to
suggest to
Sen. Sam
Brownback
that he not
take the
sacrament of
communion,
as he has
for Kansas
Gov.
Kathleen
Sebelius.
"I don't
think he's
(the
Archbishop)
going to
have a
position on
him
(Brownback),"
said Carroll
Macke,
spokesman
for the
archdiocese.
Asked if the
Archbishop's
views on
Brownback
constituted
a double
standard,
Macke said:
"I don't
know."
That is about
the only good
news Brownback
has gotten on
the Sebelius-front
since he
announced his
support for her
confirmation ...
and when not
getting barred
from receiving
communion is the
best thing to
happen to you,
you know times
are tough.
Excerpt of an
article posted
by Kyle Mantyla
at
rightwingwatch.org on
March 5, 2009
Yesterday
we noted
that Sen. Sam
Brownback was
losing his
pro-life
credentials
because of his
support of
Kathleen
Sebelius'
nomination to
become Secretary
of Health and
Human Services.
It was pretty
obvious that
this is going to
become a
contentious
issue for the
Religious Right
... but we never
would have
predicted that
it
would get this
bad this quickly:
While
Brownback’s
decision to
back
Sebelius may
prove
advantageous
for
Republicans
in the
Senate
chamber, he
frustrated
some of his
closest
allies among
Washington’s
pro-life
groups, such
as the
Family
Research
Council and
Concerned
Women for
America.
Tuesday,
Brownback
hosted his
weekly
“Values
Action Team”
meeting in
one of the
Senate
office
buildings,
where
pro-family
groups
gather to
coordinate
with
legislators.
A
representative
from the
Family
Research
Council
stood and
told the
senator they
were
withdrawing
from the
group
because of
his support
of Sebelius.
But
Concerned
Women for
America
President
Wendy
Wright,
while
“disappointed”
in
Brownback’s
support of
Sebelius,
said the
focus now
should not
be on
Brownback
but on
preventing
Sebelius’
confirmation.
“I don’t
want this to
be a Rush
Limbaugh–Michael
Steele,” she
said. “We
are focused
more on
infighting
and our
opponents
slip right
by.”
Women
deserve
better,
patients
deserve
better --
all
Americans
deserve
better. It's
clear that
President
Obama has
chosen to
put a
radical
abortion
agenda ahead
of the
desire for
reforms
everyone can
agreed upon.
Click here
to contact
your two
U.S.
senators and
let them
know that
women and
all families
deserve a
better
choice for
Secretary of
Health and
Human
Services.
This
nomination
is moving
quickly, so
please --
act now. And
forward this
email to
friends and
family so
they can
weigh in
too.
Koch Bros. Lawyers Defend Move To
Defund Planned Parenthood
Excerpt of an article
posted on care2.com by Jessica P. on July 17, 2011
Kansas is
serious about permanently defunding Planned Parenthood. So
serious, in fact, that it is prepared to spend hundreds of
thousands of tax-payer dollars on lawyers to do so.
Last month the
state passed a measure stripping Planned Parenthood of all
funding over the straw-man argument of “taxpayer-funded
abortions.” Planned Parenthood struck back, suing the state for
improperly blocking the $334,000 in Title X family planning
funds.
“This is a
state whose budget is in bad shape, run by Republicans who
campaigned on fixing budget problems, and they’re spending
thousands of dollars on outside counsel to keep Planned
Parenthood from getting federal family planning funds,” said
Peter Brownlie, executive director of Planned Parenthood of
Kansas and Mid-Missouri.
Planned
Parenthood is represented by a team of pro-bono attorneys in
Washington, D.C. with one local Wichita attorney.
The economic
waste generated by the Brownback administration’s assault on
poor women is simply mind-boggling, especially in such bleak
economic times. Brownback and other hard-right conservatives see
no problem in wasting millions of tax-payer dollars on advancing
a social agenda that is fueled by nothing more than a disdain of
poor women and, in this latest move, have proven they no longer
even care about keeping up appearances that these assaults are
somehow tied to a legitimate fiscal agenda.
After college, Brownback spent
approximately a year working as a
broadcaster;
he hosted a weekly half-hour show.
He is married to the former Mary
Stauffer, whose family owned and sold
a successful media company
in 1995. They have five children, including an adopted son and daughter. One
of his daughters, Jenna, was adopted from
China
when she was two years old.
Raised as a
Methodist, Brownback
later joined a nondenominational evangelical church, Topeka Bible Church,
which he still regularly attends, even though in 2002, as
stated above, he converted to
Catholicism. He
joined the Church through
Opus Dei priest
Father
C. John McCloskey in
Washington DC. Brownback himself, however, is not a member of the Opus Dei
organization.
Brownback was a cosponsor of the
Constitution Restoration Act,
which would have limited the power of federal courts to rule on church/state
issues. Brownback told Rolling Stone that he chairs the Senate Values
Action Team, an off-the-record weekly meeting of representatives from
religious conservative organizations.
Early
Career
Brownback was an attorney in
Manhattan, Kansas
before becoming the Kansas secretary of
agriculture in 1986.
In 1990, he was accepted into the
White House Fellow
program and detailed to the
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
from 1990 to 1991. Brownback then returned to Kansas to resume his position
as secretary of agriculture and remained in that position until 1993. He was
elected to the
United States House of Representatives
in 1994, and next ran in the 1996 special election to replace Senator
Bob Dole, who had
resigned his seat during his presidential campaign, beating appointed
Republican
Sheila Frahm.
Senate Career
Sheila Frahm
was appointed to fill the seat of U.S. Senator
Bob Dole when Dole
resigned in 1996 to campaign for president. Brownback defeated Frahm in the
1996 Republican primary and went on to win the general election against
Democrat Jill
Docking. In 1998 Brownback was elected to a full six-year term, defeating
Democrat Paul Feleciano. He won reelection in the
2004 Senate election
with 69% of the vote, defeating his Democratic challenger, Lee Jones, a
former
Washington, D.C.
lobbyist.
In 2001 Brownback submitted
S.1465[107], which authorized Presidential waivers for foreign aid to
Pakistan. S.1465[107] passed by a unanimous unrecorded vote of Senators
present. The Pakistani Government utilized the U.S. Foreign Aide, when
received from the U.S. Government, in an attempt to bribe Mujahideen and
Taliban Militants inside that country. Taliban Commanders and Mujahideen
Commander Nek Mohammed openly admitted that they intended to use the foreign
aid money to repay loans, which they had received from al Qaeda.
As of August 12, 2007, in the
110th Session of Congress,
Brownback has missed 123 votes due to campaigning (39.7 percent) — surpassed
only by
Tim Johnson (D)
of
South Dakota who due
to a critical illness has missed 100% of the votes of the 110th Session, and
John McCain (R) of
Arizona
with 149 votes missed due to campaigning (48.1 percent).
As of 8-31-2009, Brownback has an
approval rating of 54 percent, with 36 percent disapproving.
Positions
Health Care
Brownback opposes a single payer,
government run health care system. He supports increased health insurance
portability, an elimination on insurance rejection due to pre-existing
medical conditions, a cap on frivolous malpractice lawsuits, the
implementation of a
electronic medical records
system, an emphasis on preventative care, and tax benefits aimed at making
health insurance more affordable for the uninsured and targeted to promote
universal access. He opposes government funded elective abortions in
accordance with the
Hyde Amendment. He
has been a strong supporter of legislation to establish a national childhood
cancer database, and an increase in funding for autism research. Brownback
supports negotiating bulk discounts on Medicare drug benefits to reduce
prices. In 2007, Senators Brownback and
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
sponsored an amendment to the
Food and Drug Administration
Amendments Act of 2007. The amendment created a prize as an incentive for
companies to invest in new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical
diseases. It awards a transferable “Priority
Review Voucher” to any company that obtains
approval for a treatment for a neglected tropical disease. This provision
adds to the market-based incentives available for the development of new
medicines for developing world diseases such as
malaria,
tuberculosis and
African sleeping sickness.
The prize was initially proposed by
Duke University
faculty Henry Grabowski, Jeffrey Moe, and David Ridley in their 2006
Health Affairs paper: "Developing Drugs for Developing Countries."
Brownback supports a bill that will
introduce
price transparency to
the U.S.
health care industry,
as well as a bill which would require the disclosure of
Medicare payment rate
information.
On December 16, 2006, Brownback gave an
interview to the
Christian Post,
stating: "We can get to this goal of eliminating deaths by
cancer
in 10 years."
Immigration
Brownback has a voting record
tending that has supported higher legal immigration levels and strong
refugee protection. Brownback was cosponsor of a 2005 bill of
Ted Kennedy and
John McCain's which
would have created a legal path to citizenship for millions of
illegal immigrants
already present. He has been criticized by
Tom Tancredo for his
support for Kennedy and McCain's latest immigration reform bill. Brownback
responded that politicians "must protect our borders, enforce the law,
provide legal means for people to work in the United States, and fix a
broken system." On June 26, 2007, Brownback voted in favor of S. 1639, the
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act. Brownback supports increasing numbers
of legal immigrants, building a fence on Mexican border, and the reform bill
"if enforced." While he initially supporting giving guest workers a path to
citizenship, Brownback eventually voted "Nay" on June 28, 2007. Brownback
has said that he supports immigration reform because the
Bible says to welcome
the stranger.
Tax reform
In December 2005, Brownback advocated
using Washington, DC as a "laboratory" for a
flat tax. He was
rated 100 percent by the US COC, indicating a pro-business voting record. He
voted Yes on a Balanced-budget constitutional amendment, has expressed
support for a low tax and spend approach, opposes the
Death Tax, and was
rated 100 percent by
CATO, indicating a
pro-free
trade voting record. He
supports two-year limit on welfare benefits.
Iraq
Brownback posing with U.S.
troops in Iraq.
Brownback has stated that he
supports a political surge coupled with the military surge of 2007 in
Iraq and opposes the
Democratic Party's strategy of timed withdrawal:
It does mean that there must
be bipartisan agreement for our military commitment on Iraq. We cannot
fight a war with the support of only one political party. And it does
mean that the parties in Iraq —
Sunni,
Shi’a and
Kurds — must get
to a political agreement, to a political equilibrium. I think most
people agree that a
cut and run
strategy does not serve our interest at all, nor those of the world, nor
those of the region, nor those of the Iraqi people. So I invite my
colleagues, all around, particularly on the other side of the aisle, to
indicate what level of commitment they can support.
–
Senator Sam Brownback, U.S. Senate floor
speech, January 16, 2007
In May 2007 Brownback stated, "We have
not lost war; we can win by pulling together" He voted Yes on authorizing
use of military force against Iraq, voted No on requiring on-budget funding
for Iraq, not emergency funding and voted No on redeploying troops out of
Iraq by July 2007. He has also condemned anti-Muslim bigotry in name of
anti-terrorism.
Brownback visited refugee camps in
Sudan in 2004 and
returned to write a resolution labeling the
Darfur conflict as
genocide, and has
been active on attempting to increase U.S. efforts to resolve the situation
short of military intervention. He is an endorser of the
Genocide Intervention Network,
which called him a "champion of Darfur" in its Darfur scorecard, primarily
for his early advocacy of the
Darfur Peace and Accountability Act.
Israel and the
Palestinians
In October 2007, Brownback announced
his support for
a plan designed by
Benny Elon, chairman
of
Israel's rightwing
nationalist
NU -
NRP party. Elon's
positions include dismantling the
Palestinian National Authority
and
Hamas and refusing a
two-state solution.
Instead, the
West Bank will be
annexed by Israel in its entirety. Elon argues that this would complete the
1948 Palestinian exodus
begun in the
1948 war.
Brownback has stated that he is committed to the cause of the Palestinian
people and supports their possession of civil and political rights.
Intelligent Design
Brownback has stated that he is a
devout believer in a higher power and that this is consistent with his
belief in evolution. Brownback favors giving teachers the freedom to use
intelligent design to
critique evolutionary theory as part of the
Teach the Controversy
approach:
There's intelligence involved in
the overall of creation. . .I don't think we're really at the point of
teaching this in the classroom. I think what we passed in the U.S.
Senate in 2002 the
Santorum Amendment
is really what we should be doing, and that is that you teach the
controversy, you teach what is fact is fact, and what is theory is
theory, and you move from that proceedings, rather than from teaching
some sort of different thought. And this, I really think that's the area
we should concentrate on at the present time, is teaching the
controversy.
–
Senator Sam Brownback, Larry King Live, CNN, August 23, 2005''
In accordance with his Catholic
faith, Brownback is
Pro-Life in all cases
except when the life of the mother is in danger. He has a 100 percent
Pro-Life voting
record according to the
National Right to Life Committee.
Brownback also supports parental notification for minors who seek an
abortion and opposes
Partial Birth Abortion.
In the early days of Brownback's political career, Sam while personally
pro-life, was politically pro-choice. Brownback has more recently stated, "I
see it as the lead moral issue of our day, just like
slavery was the lead
moral issue 150 years ago." On May 3, 2007, when asked his opinion of
repealing
Roe v. Wade,
Brownback said, "It would be a glorious day of human liberty and freedom."
Brownback also stated he "could
support a
pro-choice nominee"
to the presidency, because "this is a big coalition party." Brownback has
stated that he supports a human life amendment or federal legislation ending
abortion.
Stem cell research
Brownback supports
adult stem cell research
and
cord blood stem cells.
Brownback appeared with three children adopted from
in vitro fertilization
clinics to coincide with a Senate debate over the Cord Blood Stem Cell Act
of 2005 to show his support for the bill and adult stem cell research. The
Religious Freedom Coalition
refers to children conceived through the adopted in vitro process as
"snowflake
children." The term, as proponents explain,
is an extension of the idea that the embryos are "frozen and unique," and in
that way are similar to
snowflakes.
Brownback supports the use of cord blood stem cell research for research and
treatment, instead of embryonic stem cells.
Death penalty
Brownback said in an interview,
"I am not a supporter of a
death penalty, other
than in cases where we cannot protect the society and have other lives at
stake." In a speech on the
Senate Judiciary Committee,
he questioned the current use of the death penalty as potentially
incongruent with the notion of a "culture
of life", and suggesting for its employment
in a more limited fashion. However, he voted YES on making federal death
penalty
appeals harder and
voted NO on maintaining right of
habeas corpus in
death penalty appeals. These two votes, on the other hand, occurred before
his conversion to Catholicism in 2002 — since his conversion, he has echoed
Pope John Paul II's
remarks against the death penalty.
On June 15, 2006, Bush signed into law
the
Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005
sponsored by Brownback, a former broadcaster himself. The new law stiffens
the penalties for each violation of the Act. The
Federal Communications Commission
will be able to impose fines in the amount of $325,000 for each violation by
each station that violates
decency
standards. The legislation raises the fine by tenfold.
On September 3, 1997, Meredith
O'Rourke, an employee of Kansas firm
Triad Management Services,
was
deposed
by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs regarding her activities and
observations while providing services for the company relative to fund
raising and advertising for Brownback. The deposition claims that Triad
circumvented existing campaign finance laws by channeling donations through
Triad, and also bypassed the campaign law with Triad running 'issue ads'
during Brownback's first campaign for the Senate.
Brownback is a lead sponsor of the
International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 and frequently speaks
out against the
mail-order bride
industry.
Brownback's voting record on
civil rights was
rated 20 percent by the
ACLU. He voted "yes"
on ending special funding for minority and women-owned business and "yes" on
recommending a Constitutional ban on
flag desecration.
He opposes quotas in admission to institutions of higher education. He voted
"yes" on increasing penalties for drug offenses and voted "yes" on more
penalties for gun and drug violations.
Brownback voted "no" on banning
chemical weapons. He
voted "yes" on reauthorizing the
PATRIOT Act and voted
"yes" on extending the PATRIOT Act's
wiretap provision. In
May 2007, Brownback stated that "Iran
is the lead sponsor of
terrorism around the
world." He supports talks and peaceful measures with Iran, but no formal
diplomatic
relations.
Environmental Record
In 2005, the organization
Republicans for Environmental Protection
("REP") gave Brownback a grade of 7 percent for the
107th United States Congress,
but in 2006, increased the rating to 26%. Senator Brownback supported an
amendment to the
Energy Policy Act of 2005,
offered by Senator
Jeff Bingaman, (D-NM),
requiring at least 10 percent of electricity sold by utilities to originate
from renewable resources. He has also supported conservation of rare felids
& canids. He has voted for increased funding for international conservation
of cranes. Brownback has supported
oil drilling in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
and in the
Gulf of Mexico, as a
way to reduce dependence on foreign oil. He has promoted the use of
renewable energy such
as nuclear, wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources to achieve energy
independence.
2008 Presidential
Campaign
On December 4, 2006, Brownback
formed an
exploratory committee,
thus taking the first steps toward candidacy. He announced his Presidential
bid as of December 5, 2006 on his website. His expressed views position him
in the social conservative wing of the Republican party. He has also
stressed his
fiscal conservatism.
"I am an economic, a fiscal, a social and a
compassionate conservative,"
he said in December 2006. On January 20, 2007, in Topeka, Brownback
announced that he was running for
President in
2008.
On February 22, 2007, a poll
conducted by
Rasmussen Reports
held that three percent of likely primary voters would support Brownback.
Brownback's close advisors for
his presidential bid, as listed by the
Washington Post,are
David Kensinger, a political consultant who is a former executive director
of
GOPAC and former
Brownback chief of staff, Rob Wasinger, Brownback's chief of staff in 2005,
and Paul Wilson, a media consultant with Wilson Grand Communications. Also
listed as "playing a key role" was
Tom Monaghan, founder
of
Domino's Pizza. Also
mentioned as a member of Brownback's exploratory committee was
Bowie Kuhn, former
Major League Baseball commissioner,
before his death on March 15, 2007. A conservative Catholic, Brownback
enjoys support among the religious right, and focuses his campaign towards
this element of society. However, a scandal broke in August 2007 when Pastor
Tim Rude of Walnut
Creek Community Church, working for the
Huckabee campaign,
attempted to undermine support from
Evangelical Christians
with
anti-Catholic
comments. Rude sent an email to two evangelical supporters to emphasize that
Huckabee was "one of us."It has been noted that the campus director for
student ministries at Walnut Creek Community Church,
Nick Bal, was an
outspoken supporter of the Brownback campaign.
On August 11, 2007, Brownback finished
third in the
Ames Iowa straw poll
with 15.3 percent of all votes cast. Fundraising and visits to his website
declined dramatically after this event, as many supporters had predicted
Brownback would do much better, and speculation began that the candidate was
considering withdrawing from the campaign. This sentiment increased after
his lackluster performance in the GOP presidential debate of September 5,
broadcast from
New Hampshire by
Fox News Channel.
Brownback had stated that if he came in
lower than fourth place in the
Iowa Caucuses,
he would drop out of the Presidential campaign.
Brownback dropped out of the 2008
presidential race on October 18, 2007, citing a lack of funds. He also
commented that he wouldn’t debate immigration in the middle of an election
cycle. He formally announced his decision on October 19. He later endorsed
John McCain
for president.
2010
Gubernatorial Campaign
Brownback has announced he will not run
for reelection in 2010 due to self-imposed term limits. Early candidates to
succeed Brownback include current Republican Representatives
Jerry Moran of
Hays and
Todd Tiahrt of
Goddard. Former
Democratic
Governor
Kathleen Sebelius was
also thought to be a likely candidate, but talk of her candidacy has died
down since she became the
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
In 2008, Brownback publicly
acknowledged he was considering
running for Governor in 2010.
In January 2009, Brownback officially filed the paperwork to run for
Governor.
Welfare King
Sen. Brownbacks
family has been on the government take for at least the past 11 years,
pocketing some $500,000 in Agriculture subsidies.
The senator recently held a “prayercast” with Michele Bachmann to beseech
God to kill health care reform as soon as possible because it would bring an
evil socialist spirit into America. Like Bachmann, Brownback has a fierce
belief in God, the free market and a two-year limit on all welfare
benefits—unless it’s welfare to rich Republicans who don’t need it.
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