I can’t believe that I am actually listening to LGBT/T folks rationalize not supporting the Democratic Party in this fall’s elections.  Granted I’m mainly hearing this from conservative gay white men who are way too often blinded by both their class and skin privilege or their worship of strong powerful men to actually get up off their asses and support much of anything other than another party. (not the political sort)

Too often the heavy lifting has fallen on the political LGBT/T folks.  The activists who get abused by the do-nothings for not getting things done that might have gotten done had more people been willing to do the work.

You have to support the Democratic Candidates this fall.

Your lives may depend on it.

From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/story/148037/newt_gingrich_teams_with_anti-gay_zealot_lou_%27uganda%27_engle_for_u.s._cyber-%27revival%27#disqus_thread

By Frederick Clarkson, Talk To Action
Posted on September 1, 2010, Printed on September 2, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148037/

The Christian right has often sought to stay the hand of God, angry with our failings as a nation, by “standing in the gap” at large prayer rallies and pleading for mercy. They have made a special point of doing so in the run-up to national elections since 1980, praying for “Godly” government and righteous candidates, and this year is no exception. The beneficiaries are almost always Republicans — and this year is probably no exception in that regard as well. But there is also an ominous element that mostly transcends parties and is on vivid display as we enter the fall campaign season.

On Labor Day weekend, Lou Engle, head of the fiery neo-Pentecostal group, The Call, is leading a worship service in a sports arena in Sacramento, California, and a “solemn assembly” at the state Capitol the next day. These events were initially billed as a 10th anniversary of The Call’s first youth rally on the National Mall which drew, according to the organization, 400,000 people. Since then, the Sacramento event has been repositioned as the kick-off of a major Christian right fall political campaign initiative. Engle says it will be the “hinge of history” opening the door to “the greatest awakening” and “returning our nation to its righteous roots.”

There are several important dimensions of this effort. One is that this is an effort at reaching and mobilizing evangelical young people into Republican politics, particularly in California; another is that it represents a new stage in the long-term cooperation between conservative Catholics, fundamentalists and the neo-Pentecostals. And finally, the militant rhetoric of Engle’s armies of activists is escalating, and their organizational infrastructure seems to be increasing, especially in cyberspace.

Before we discuss these, there is one additionally remarkable aspect of this. The eminence grise of this initiative appears to be former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, whose organization Renewing American Leadership (ReAL) is apparently the force behind a series of Christian right events being organized under the rubric of “Pray & Act.” This is politically important, but as Gingrich’s role becomes more public, it may also become morally dissonant, since Gingrich is well-known (and has been recently highlighted in the news) as a thrice-married serial philanderer (his recent conversion to Catholicism not withstanding). This certainly makes him an unlikely guide for a religious political movement whose leaders believe that the fate of America hinges on the health of heterosexual marriage.

Continue reading at:  http://www.alternet.org/story/148037/newt_gingrich_teams_with_anti-gay_zealot_lou_%27uganda%27_engle_for_u.s._cyber-%27revival%27#disqus_thread