Bankrupting the Religious Right

A lot of the religious right organizations send out monthly mailings, newsletters, requests for donations, etc... Mass mailings are not cheap to do, by the way. I received one envelope from the Christian Coalition that cost them $1.25 to mail, not to mention all the stuff inside they had to pay for printing!

I signed up for a couple of these organization's mailing lists and it gives me a good feeling every time I get something from them and I get to throw it away. Though some of it is kind of useful.

You would not believe the stuff I get every week. Almost every day, I get something (usually asking for money). Those prepaid return envelopes are handy for dropping in the mail empty. One or two of the congressional voting record pamphlets was actually quite useful as it told me how my senator and congressperson were voting. And, they were even kind enough to give me the address for Disney so I could send them a note of support.

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Every little dime I drain out of their pockets makes me feel a little better. I thought I would share their URLs and see if anyone else was interested in getting on their mailing lists.

It is not a big drain on their resources, but it is a small one and every little bit helps!

Please pass this along to as many people as you can think of and get your friends to sign up as well. I signed up my parents, brother, sister and neighbors because I know that they will all throw the stuff in the trash! Just remember not to give them your real telephone numbers. (evil grin)

You can sign up for these things on the web, here are the addresses:

American Family Association:
www.afa.net/journal/index.shtml

Family Research Council:
www.frc.org/subscribe
(Ask the FRC to send you all their free stuff via USPS!)

Christian Coalition:
www.cc.org/join.html

Focus on the Family:
www.family.org/welcome/guestbook2.cfm

Christian Defense Fund:
www.christiandefensefund.org/menus/contact.html

Foundation for American Christian Education:
spritessl.netnation.com/~face/form1.html

Now, get out there and sign up! Thanks my friends.

Mahalo,
Regina, Hawaii

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Hope this translation pleases you.

Carol, Florida

As other terrorized gay men who had escaped these same captors told their stories, I sat in that almost empty courtroom and wept. One young man, a Wal- Mart clerk, had been kidnapped, held at gunpoint, and terrorized with repeated games of Russian Roulette. Before they could kill him, the naked boy managed to dive into a nearby, nearly frozen lake where he stayed for five hours with his tormentors shooting bullets into the darkness hoping to kill their prey.

In 1994 alone, we buried 12 gay Texans who were murdered by gay bashers who felt that were doing God's business to eliminate our innocent brothers.

In July, 1994, Benny Hogan was picked up in a San Antonio Park during a "sting" by police and charged with "loitering." He was talking to other gay men on a park bench at the time of his arrest. The Christian Coalition in San Antonio took out an ad in the paper publishing the names of men picked up in that "sting" including Benny Hogan.

On Pride Sunday, feeling "ruined and shamed" by this public "outing", Benny hanged himself in his grandmother's garage. Benny's brother asked me to conduct a memorial service for Benny on the steps of the newspaper that published his name.

Nicholas and Benny are just two of the uncounted millions of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders who face suffering every day of their lives.