Republican Gomorrah

by Max Blumenthal

  126 Robison on Christians “coming out of the closet”: “God’s People” speech, posted to YouTube March 27, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVn3SEHYU2o.

  126 Robison submitted to an exorcism: Edmond Cohen, “The Religiosity of George W. Bush,” Free Inquiry, 24, 4 (2004).

  127 Evangelical minister from Arkansas named Mike Huckabee: Michael Kranish, “Huckabee’s Views on Gays Under Greater Scrutiny,” Boston Globe, December 12, 2007, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/12/huckabees_views_on_gays_under_greater_scrutiny/?page=2.

  127 Davis’s sins: David Gates with Nikki Finke Greenberg, “Mockingbird Lane’s Born-Again Baron,” Newsweek, October 17, 1983.

  127 Woody Jenkins made a bold prediction: Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers.”

  127 Bush’s pledge to CNP: Marc Ambinder, “Inside the Council for National Policy,” ABC News, May 2, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121170.

  128 Tony Perkins’s Washington Post op-ed: “It’s About Religious Belief,” Washington Post, May 14, 2005. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/13/AR2005051301389.html.

  128 Perkins and the “Summer of Purpose”: Max Blumenthal, “Good Cop, Bad Cop,” The Nation, May 23, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050606/blumenthal.

  130 Jenkins’s quixotic 1996 campaign for the U.S. Senate: Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers.”

  131 CofCC “Statement of Principles”: Sam Francis, adopted 2005, http://cofcc.org/?page_id=71.

  131 Lott and the CofCC: Anthony York, “A Whole Lott of Trouble,” Salon, December 12, 2002, http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/12/12/lott/index.html.

  131 Barbour and the CofCC: Max Blumenthal, “Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen,” The Nation, Aug 29, 2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060911/george_allen/1.

  132 Yet Perkins remained unable to explain: Max Blumenthal’s blog, June 05, 2005, http://maxblumenthal.com/2005_06_01_maxblumenthal_archive.html.

  133 Christian right concerns about Bauer’s alleged behavior: “Eavesdropping: An Open Door Policy,” Christianity Today, November 1, 1999. http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/1999/novemberweb-only/41.0a.html.

  133 Bauer and the FRC: Tony Carnes, “Gary Bauer Can’t Go Home Again,” Christianity Today, February 1, 2000, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/februaryweb-only/21.0.html.

  133 Dobson . . . was livid: Thomas Edsall and Hanna Rosin: “Bauer Says He Did Not Have Affair,” Washington Post, September 30, 1999, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-09/30/012r-093099-idx.html.

  133 broke off all contact: Buss, Family Man, p. 171.

  134 “America’s increasing decadence”: Charles Colson and Anne Morse, “The Moral Home Front,” Christianity Today, October 1, 2004, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/october/18.152.html.

  134 St. Augustine’s Just War doctrine: “US Bishops Say Preemptive Strike on Iraq Not Justified,” January 29, 2003, www.nds.edu/NDS%20Documents/U.S.%20bishops%20say.pdf.

  134 Stanley attacks anti-war movement: Max Blumenthal, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” Salon, April 15, 2003, http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/04/15/in_touch/index.html.

  135 Christian-right leaders shrank into the shadows: Wolf Blitzer, “The Republican National Convention,” CNN.com, Aug 30, 2004, http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/08/30/rnc/index.html.

  135 “Lining up with Hitler”: Sheri Dew, adapted from a February 28, 2004 address, “Defenders of the Faith,” which appeared in Meridian magazine, March 10, 2004, posted to FreeRepublic.com, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1095244/posts.

  136 The destiny of the nation: David Kirkpatrick, “Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy,” New York Times, August 28, 2004, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DA1E3EF93BA1575BC0A9629 C8B63.

  136 Donation was made two years after Perkins’s campaign: Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers.”

  136 Bush’s filibuster strategy: “Bush to Resubmit Blocked Judicial Nominees,” CNN.com, December 24, 2004, http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/23/bush.judiciary/index.html.

  136 Perkins recruited Frist to rally: “Frist speaks to Christian anti-filibuster rally,” CNN.com, April 25, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/24/justice.sunday/index.html.

  136 “Liberal racism”: “Perkins Accused Opponents of Bush’s Judicial Picks of Anti-Christian bigotry,” April 22, 2005, http://mediamatters.org/items/200504220005.

  CHAPTER 15: BOLDLY AFFIRMING UNCLE TOM

  137 California bar opposed Rogers-Brown: “Perkins Accused Opponents of Bush’s Judicial Picks of Anti-Christian bigotry,” Media Matters, April 22, 2005, http://mediamatters.org/items/200504220005.

  138 “It is the opiate” Janice Rogers-Brown, “Fifty Ways to Lose Your Freedom” speech, Institute for Justice, August 12, 2000, The Best of Janice Rogers-Brown, NeoPerspectives.com, http://www.neoperspectives.com/janicerogersbrown.htm.

  138 “the liberal plantation”: Judicial Race,” Mother Jones, October 24, 2003, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2003/10/judicial-race.

  138 “too qualified—and black”: “Brown Gets Borked,” Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2003, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110004235.

  138 “race-traitor, Uncle Tom sellout”: Sean Rushton, “Inaccurate Radio,” NPR.org, October 30, 2003, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/rushton200310300857.asp.

  138 Allen on “the queers”: Siobhan Roth, “Lost in the Mix: Who Is Claude Allen?” Legal Times, November 5, 2003, http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1067350986917.

  138 Allen and Clarence Thomas: Michael A. Fletcher and Joshua Partlow, “Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide Shocks Associates,” Washington Post, March 12, 2006.

  139 ordered the removal of information about condoms: “Dems Slam HHS for Selective Information-Sharing,” Associated Press, October 22, 2002, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,66359,00.html. Also see Doug Ireland, “Bush’s War on the Condom,” L.A. Weekly, December 12, 2002, http://www.laweekly.com/2002-12-12/news/bush-s-war-on-the-condom/1; and Doug Ireland, “Condom Wars,” L.A. Weekly, June 24, 2004, http://www.laweekly.com/2004-06-24/news/condom-wars/1; and Henry Waxman, Representative, Los Angeles, to Claude Allen, domestic policy advisor, Washington DC, October 12, 2005, oversight.house.gov/documents/2005101216022241619.pd.

  139 “I love you and appreciate you”: Focus on the Family “stem cell” interview, August 4, 2005, posted on Media Matters, “White House Adviser Allen Appeared on Dobson Show, Failed to Repudiate Stem Cell/Nazi Comparison While Joining in Frist Attack,” August 4, 2005, http://mediamatters.org/items/200508050001.

  139 he nominated Charles Pickering Sr: Sean Wilentz, “The Racist Skeletons in Charles Pickering’s Closet,” Salon, May 12, 2003, http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/05/12/pickering/index.html.

  139 Pickering’s son, Charles Jr., dispatched campaign staffers: The Citizens Informer, 33, 3 (May-June 2002) notes that Pickering Jr. and Ronnie Snow sent representatives to a July 25 CofCC meeting at Bo-Don’s seafood restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi. See Edward Sebesta, http://newtknight.blogspot.com/2008/01/chip-pickering-and-council-of.html.

  139 “a radical minority in the U.S. Senate”: “Perkins Accused Opponents of Bush’s Judicial Picks of Anti-Christian Bigotry,” Media Matters, April 22, 2005, http://mediamatters.org/items/200504220005.

  140 A flier for Justice Sunday: Jill Lawrenson, “Dems’ Filibusters Cast as Attack on ‘People of Faith,’” USA Today, April 17, 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-17-filibuster_x.htm.

  140 On Justice Sunday: Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers.”

  141 he grew despondent: Focus on the Family radio, May 25, 2005, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

  143 “the most brilliant man”: David Frum, “Justice Miers?” National Review, September 29, 2005, http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjliZWZlOWJhNjQ0ZjA0MmQyYThiMTBlNjhjYmE3ZTg=

  143 “
Miers is more a leap of faith”: Gilgoff, The Jesus Machine, p. 273.

  143 Dobson hyped her to his radio audience: David Kirkpatrick, “Endorsement of Nominee Draws Committee’s Interest,” New York Times, October 10, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/politics/politicsspecial1/10confirm.html?_r=1.

  144 “increasingly concerned about her conservative credentials”: “Harriet Miers calls it quits,” WorldNetDaily, October 27, 2005, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47080.

  144 “relied on the word of Karl Rove”: Gilgoff, p. 273.

  144 Alito and CAP: Eyal Press, “Alito’s CAP Connection,” The Nation, November 22, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/press.

  145 a subpoena for Concerned Alumni’s records: Transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing of Alito’s nomination, Washington Post, January 11, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011101335.html.

  145 Congressional Black Caucus statement: Norton Explains Strong Opposition to Alito, Norton.House.gov, December 8, 2005, http://www.norton.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=79.

  145 masterminded by a white Republican operative: Joshua Holland, “Blackwashing,” AlterNet, July 26, 2004, http://www.alternet.org/story/19331/.

  145 Project 21 press release: David Almasi, Black Activists Criticize Congressional Black Caucus Rush to Judgment on Alito Nomination and CBC’s Call for Filibuster, National Leadership Network of Conservative African-Americans, December 9, 2005, http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRCBCAlitoFilibuster1205.html.

  146 “no factual or logical bases”: Peter Kirsanow, “Alito Accuracy,” National Review, January 6, 2006, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kirsanow200601060712.asp.

  146 “Kirsanow had shocked an audience of Arab Americans”: Max Blumenthal, “Alito’s Pro-Internment Witness: ‘You Can Forget About Civil Rights,’” Huffington Post, January 12, 2006, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/alitos-prointernment-wi_b_13670.html.

  146 “Colson, who once burned a cross”: Jonathan Aitken, Stan Guthrie interview, “From Disgrace to Sage,” Christianity Today, August 8, 2005, https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/augustweb-only/132-22.0.html?start=1. Also see Max Blumenthal, “Born Again, Again,” Washington Monthly, July/August 2005, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0507.blumenthal.html.

  146 Colson on MLK: “Colson Misrepresented Martin Luther King Jr. As ‘a Great Conservative’ Who Would Have Supported Alito Nomination,” Media Matters , January 18, 2006, http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180011.

  146 “We need to boldly affirm Uncle Tom”: Wellington Boone, Breaking Through (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman [Bible] Publishers, 1996). Also see Max Blumenthal, “Who Are Justice Sunday’s Ministers of Minstrelsy?” Huffington Post, January 6, 2006, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/who-are-justice-sundays-_b_13348.html.

  147 “we’re making funeral arrangements”: Michelle Goldberg, “We Shall Overcome . . . Liberals,” Salon, January 9, 2006, http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/09/justice_sunday/.

  147 Lusk’s faith-based federal grants: Laurie Goodstein, “Minister, a Bush Ally, Gives Church as Site for Alito Rally,” New York Times, January 5, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/politics/politicsspecial1/05church.html.

  147 yet another historical revisionist: William Martin, With God on Our Side, p. 57.

  147 Her appearance at Justice Sunday III: Michelle Goldberg, “We Shall Overcome . . . Liberals.”

  147 A. D. King drowned: Ester Kaplan, “Justice Sunday, All Dressed Up,” Talk to Action, January 2, 2006, http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/2/181050/5012.

  148 A self-described post-abortive mother: Alveda’s Testimony, Silent No More, undated, http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/testimonies/alveda-king.html.

  148 Alveda King’s speech: Kyle-Anne Shiver, “What Would MLK Do?” National Review, August 22, 2008, http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZmNmNzg2M2QzMzkzZjQ2OTY2ZWI4ZjMyNTJjNWJhZWI= .

  149 Alito personally thanked Dobson: Max Blumenthal, “Alito Sends James Dobson a Valentine,” Huffington Post, March 1, 2006, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/alito-sends-james-dobson-_b_16596.html.

  149 Thomas remarked bluntly in his majority opinion: Bill Mears, “Divided Court Rejects School Diversity Plans,” CNN, June 28, 2007, http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/28/scotus.race/index.html?eref=rss_topstories.

  149 Justice Steven Breyer’s dissent: Linda Greenhouse, “Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration,” New York Times, June 29, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/washington/29scotus.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all.

  150 Allen liked to go shopping: Mike Allen, “Former Bush Adviser Arrested in ‘Theft Scheme,’” Time, March 11, 2006, http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1172159,00.html.

  150 the president’s sensitive side: William Douglas, “10th Anniversary of March Marked,” Knight Ridder, October 16, 2005, http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051016/news_1n16rights.html.

  151 Allen wept to the judge: “Ex-adviser to Bush Gets 2 Years Probation, Fine,” Associated Press, August 4, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14189452.

  151 “The masochistic ‘solution’”: Fromm, Escape from Freedom, p. 152.

  CHAPTER 16: FEEDING BABY MONSTERS

  153 we have aborted more than a million people: Max Blumenthal, Theocracy Now!

  154 “women whose husbands were hooked on pornography”: Buss, Family Man, p. 256.

  155 Let’s Talk!: Danae Dobson, Let’s Talk! Good Stuff for Girlfriends About God, Guys, and Growing Up (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2003).

  155 “ski on one day and drink the next”: Danae Dobson, “God Is Cool!” Spiritual Health, Brio, 2004, excerpt from Let’s Talk!, 2003, http://www.briomag.com/briomagazine/spiritualhealth/a0005186.html.

  155 Danae Dobson’s letter and Thomas’s column: “Danae Dobson Letter About Mel Gibson Movie ‘The Passion,’” http://www.real-world-solutions.org/calvin/html/danae.htm.

  155 “or passing his muster”: Buss, Family Man, p. 257.

  155 “she wants to go on with her life”: Ibid.

  156 “their system of double standards”: Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World (New York: Routledge, 2002), Introduction.

  157 “Purity balls”: Neela Banerjee, “Dancing the Night Away, with a Higher Purpose,” New York Times, May 19, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/us/19purity.html.

  157 The fathers rise and read a pledge: Randy Wilson and family, New Horizon Foundation, Colorado Springs, Colorado, http://www.generationsoflight.com/html/ThePledge.html.

  157 highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases: Peter Bearman and Hannah Brückner, “After the Promise: The STD Consequences of Adolescent Virginity Pledges,” Journal of Adolescent Health, 36 (2005): 271-278, www.yale.edu/ciqle/PUBLICATIONS/AfterThePromise.pdf.

  157 the rate of gonorrhea has risen: Ceci Connolly, “Texas Teaches Abstinence, with Mixed Grades,” Washington Post, January 21, 2003, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A19148-2003Jan20?language=printer.

  157 lose their virginity on average at age sixteen: Margaret Talbot, “Red Sex, Blue Sex,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2008, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/03/081103fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all.

  158 “Once you begin feeding baby monsters”: Shannon Ethridge and Stephen Arterburn, Every Young Woman’s Battle (Colorado Springs, CO: WaterBrook Press, 2004), p. 46.

  158 Leslee Unruh, a leading female culture warrier: Myra Batchelder, “Who Is Leslee Unruh?” Planned Parenthood, May 10, 2006, http://www.plannedparenthood.org/issues-action/sex-education/leslee-unruh-6248.htm.

  158 “You carry an empty crib”: Unruh to Maria Hinojosa, PBS, “No Right to Choose?” April 14, 2006, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW215_full.html.

  158 “allegations about improper adoptions”: Cristina Page,
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America (Jackson, TN: Basic Books, 2006), p. 74.

  159 a bill she authored banning abortion: “South Dakota Bans Most Abortions,” CNN.com, March 06, 2006, http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/06/sd.abortion/index.html.

  159 a “pesticide,” she called it: Unruh to Neil Cavuto, Fox News Channel, “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” posted to YouTube, May 23, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVhyXHmuS4.

  159 “This is true feminism”: Unruh to Maria Hinojosa, PBS, “No Right to Choose?” April 14, 2006, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW215_full.html.

  159 Unruh’s abortion ban was overturned: “South Dakota Abortion Ban Rejected,” USA Today, November 8, 2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2006/SD/2006-11-08-abortion-ban_x.htm.

  159 Men’s versus women’s success: Cristina Page, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, p. 74.

  159 80 percent false or misleading: “The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs,” prepared for Henry Waxman, House Committee on Government Reform, December 2004, oversight.house.gov/documents/20041201102153-50247.pdf .

  160 Judith Reisman has affected my life personally: Max Blumenthal, “Her Kinsey Obsession,” AlterNet, December 15, 2004, http://www.alternet.org/story/20744/her_kinsey_obsession/?page=entire.

  161 Reisman recalled in a short memoir: Judith Reisman, “A Personal Odyssey to the Truth,” DrJudithReisman.com, http://www.drjudithreisman.com/about_dr_reisman.html#journey.

  161 the grant was a mistake: Max Blumenthal, “Her Kinsey Obsession,” AlterNet, December 15, 2004, http://www.alternet.org/story/20744/her_kinsey_obsession/?page=entire. Also from interview with Al Regnery, CPAC 2009, Washington DC, February 12, 2009.

  162 Regnery retreated into his conservative publishing empire: Murray Waas, “Al Regnery’s Secret Life,” The New Republic, June 23, 1986, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=5d5ed82c-aa0d-4cac-b514-efdb892649c8. Also see Nobile and Nadler, United States, p. 266.

  163 a proselytizing homosexual movement: Max Blumenthal, “Her Kinsey Obsession.”