The evangelical group Faith and Freedom Coalition, ran by former head of the Christian Coalition and recipient of money from convicted felon Jack Abramoff, Ralph Reed, has been sending out inflammatory mailers to conservative christians, trying to get them to vote for Mitt Romney. The mailers include gems like this:
That Faith and Freedom Coalition mailer also included 10 more pages of inflammatory, debunked, and malicious rhetoric, a right-wing grab bag of Obama hatred. In this letter to potential voters, Reed claims that Obama wants an America where “government bureaucrats micromanage every aspect of your life,” the taxman “seizes most of what you earn,” and death panels—yes, those fictional death panels—determine whether you live or die. Reed insists that Obama will destroy capitalism and replace it with “Socialistic economic theories.”
Here’s the most inflammatory line: If Obama wins reelection, “he can complete America’s destruction.” This warning, naturally, is presented in bold print.
And of course, “Obama wants every American to depend on the government for healthcare just as he wanted every American to depend on the government for food, housing and even transportation.”
And what does Mr Reed hope to achieve through this?
As the New York Times reported, the Faith and Freedom Coalition hopes to contact some 17 million conservative voters before Election Day. FFC will deploy more than 5,000 volunteers and will distribute 25 million voter guides to members of 117,000 churches nationwide. The Faith and Freedom Coalition is one of many groups funded by “dark money” and active in the 2012 presidential race; as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, Reed’s outfit does not have to disclose its donors.
As a non-profit, they don’t have to disclose their donors, but seemingly they can get away with politicking and lying.
But it is time for secularists to fight back against these juggernauts.
