Kudo's to Ethics Daily for exposing the incendiary rhetoric and tone of Rick Scarborough's latest fund-raising letter. Scarborough, a former fundamentalist candidate for President of the Baptist General Convention of Texas -- now a full-time organizer for the Religious Right -- blasts the "Clinton-Carter Baptist Confab" as a means of raising funds for his Dominionist Vision America organization.
Initially an organizer of young pastors for the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC, Scarborough once took credit on the front page of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Journal for organizing his Pearland Church politically to get former Republican U.S. Representative Steve Stockman elected to Congress. Scarborough's church was investigated by the I.R.S. for that boast.
Stockman, a one-term Congressman, had strong ties to militia movements and reportedly received advance notice by fax that the federal building in Oklahoma would be bombed. Stockman was defeated for his House seat by Conservative Democrat Nick Lampson, a Roman Catholic.
Lampson recently was elected to fill indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's redistricted seat. DeLay was a member of First Baptist Pearland when Scarborough pastored the church.
No comments:
Post a Comment