“This is not going to be your daddy’s Christian Coalition,” Reed said in an interview to describe his new venture, the Faith and Freedom Coalition. “It has to be younger, hipper, less strident, more inclusive and it has to harness the 21st century that will enable us to win in the future.”
Here’s a question: why are these right-wing conservative Christian groups always “coalitions”? Who are they coalescing with?
I visited the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s website and here’s what a found: a picture of a happy white family and this message:
We are advocating time-honored values, protecting the dignity of life and marriage, reducing taxes, and insuring [sic] fiscal responsibility in Washington.
Oh. So in other words, the same old shit, complete with grammatical error. So much for that “less strident” and “more inclusive” stuff.
There’s no coalition here, just a scandal plagued homophobe peddling the same crap we’ve already decided we don’t want. Hey Ralph, I’ve got a steaming cup of STFU and it’s got your name on it.
Here’s Reed again:
“You have to reinvent it,” Reed said. “It’s the political analog to the iPod and the iPhone. It would be cool. It would be transformative. It would transform our politics and bring younger people to our ranks. All of those are critical imperatives.”
You know you’re doing this religion thing wrong when:
• “faith” means you have to be a member of one particular political party;
• “faith” has anything to do with consumerism;
• you need your “faith” to be “cool.”.
If you’re describing your movement as “the new iPod” then you’re not talking about faith, but a product. And that’s just wrong.
Faith is not a product. It is not a political party. And it is not a trend that is “cool” or “uncool,” “in” or “out.”
Ralph Reed is a first-class huckster and charlatan. Anyone who gives him a dime has been duped.
