Religious Right Leaders In Bed With Lobbyist Abramoff

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America's most pious religious leaders want us to believe they are god's warriors who are trying to bring back morality to a godless nation. Not surprisingly, it turns out they are using their considerable power to make themselves wealthy and to aid their friends. Several are involved in the latest scandals revolving around disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. One organization is attempting to humiliate them for these actions (see quote below). Good luck.

 

HELP EXPOSE RELIGIOUS RIGHT TIES TO ABRAMOFF'S DIRTY WORK

 

Top leaders of the religious right have a serious gambling problem. They played critical roles in schemes hatched by lobbyist Jack Abramoff on behalf of his gambling clients:

Former Christian Coalition Director Ralph Reed made millions from Indian gambling interests, rallying religious conservatives to oppose competing casinos.

 

James Dobson of Focus on the Family recorded anti-gambling ads that a casino-operating Indian tribe paid to air.

 

Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition was paid $25,000 by online gambling outfit eLottery to lobby congress on its behalf.

 

As you know, leaders of the religious right -- including Reed, Sheldon and Dobson -- have formed an unholy alliance with the Bush Administration to wage war against our Constitution and to intrude on our personal lives. They led the fight to involve the government in the Terry Schiavo case. They're among the leading opponents of stem cell research. All that time, they must have been betting they wouldn't get caught taking their thirty pieces of silver and selling out the millions who believed in them.

 

Millions of Americans have taken their moral cues from these men, only to find out now that they are in bed with the very interests they've earned their living condemning.

 

It's time to stop the hypocrisy. Tell these men to start practicing what they preach!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jessica Smith

DefConAmerica.org

 

Click the link within the quote to sign the petition (shown below) that will be sent to these hypocritical religious right leaders. Not that it will do any good.

 

Dear Mr. Reed, Rev. Sheldon, and Mr. Dobson,

 

For years, you've attacked the freedom of women to control their own bodies, waged war on gay marriage, and fought to erode one of the most central tenets of our Constitution: the separation between church and state.

 

You've always claimed the moral high ground, asserting the right to tell people how to live and condemning millions of Americans for actions you deemed immoral. But your high ground is washed away. After years of condemning gambling as a social ill, you're caught knee-deep in pro-gambling campaigns hatched by indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

 

It's time to stop telling others how to act -- and start practicing what you preach.

 

End your hypocrisy.