{"id":4535,"date":"2005-06-25T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4535.html"},"modified":"2005-06-25T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-25T13:35:00","slug":"focus-on-the-family-presents-great-leaders-in-christian-history-jesus-christ-martin-luther-cs-lewis-john-hostettler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/focus-on-the-family-presents-great-leaders-in-christian-history-jesus-christ-martin-luther-cs-lewis-john-hostettler\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the Family presents great leaders in Christian history: Jesus Christ, Martin Luther, C.S. Lewis, John Hostettler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"mailto:morbomorboson@hotmail.com\">Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine how the Religious Right would react if a Democratic member of the House got up and called all Republicans a bunch of zombie-like, snake-handling religious fanatics. They would be outraged, right?<\/p>\n<p>So why is it okay for a guy like U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.) to get up and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/20\/AR2005062001194.html\">accuse all Democrats<\/a> of being extremists who hate Christianity? Why is it okay for him to say, &#8220;The long war on Christianity in America continues today on the floor of the House of Representatives&#8221;? Why is it okay for him to charge that this alleged war &#8220;continues unabated with aid and comfort to those who would eradicate any vestige of our Christian heritage being supplied by the usual suspects, the Democrats&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it okay for Hostettler to add, &#8220;Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can&#8217;t help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, it&#8217;s all right by the Religious Right that Hostettler said these things. Days after the gun-toting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.capwiz.com\/fof\/bio\/?id=244&#038;lvl=C&#038;chamber=H\">Eddie Munster look-alike<\/a> uttered those infamous comments, accusations so vile he was forced to withdraw some of them from the Congressional Record, James Dobson&#8217;s Focus on the Family swung into action. No, FOF did not attack Hostettler for engaging in crude stereotypes and religious bigotry. Instead, it issued an e-mail alert asking its supporters to send Hostettler a message <em>thanking<\/em> him for his brilliant defense of Christianity on the floor of the House.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought you&#8217;d want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Morbo Imagine how the Religious Right would react if a Democratic member of the House got up and called all Republicans a bunch of zombie-like, snake-handling religious fanatics. They would be outraged, right? So why is it okay for a guy like U.S. Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.) to get up and accuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}