More from the Texaliban

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040604_1713.html

Anti-Porn Pastor Elected Mayor in Texas

KENNEDALE, Texas June 4, 2004 — Patrons of the XXX Super Store and the Fantasy Foxx strip club have been getting a souvenir in the mail recently: an I-know-where-you've-been postcard emblazoned with a photo of the customer's car parked outside one of the adult businesses.

The card reads: "Observed you in the neighborhood. Didn't know if you were aware there is a church in the area."

Oakcrest Family Church pastor Jim Norwood and his followers have been snapping the pictures and mailing out the cards over the past six months or so a campaign that helped Norwood get elected mayor of this Fort Worth suburb last month with 66 percent of the vote.

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He and a few church members, digital camera in hand, take turns staking out the businesses about once a week. Then they go online to find the owner's name and address from license plate records, which are public in Texas.

Boy, I love Brazil. I really do.

[efhmc]

1. Where is the ACLU when you need them?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Oh, but it's all right because it's for JEEBUS! (nt)

[BayCityProgressive]

4. the Texas

GOP is completely psychotic.

[oldshoe]

6. Kansas has a similar nut

by the name of Philips. Pain in everyone's ask, protesting life itself in Christ's name.

[Texican]

3. Asshole Preacher

that is responsible for this just won the mayor's race. He is to trying to close the only real business in Kennedale and he is going around saying that he will cut taxes. The cops hate him, since they have zero problems with them and are afraid that these nuts will get someone hurt.

[GOPisEvil]

5. What are they gonna do, write my mommy?

Please, I'm single and over 21. If I want to go to a strip club, I will. I don't meddle in your affairs Norwood, extend me the same courtesy. By the way, have you heard of "separation of church and state"? I'm wondering if Tarrant County should slap a tax note on your church...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. What they want is to break your marriage

Because, you know, they are defenders of Family. :eyes:

[checks-n-balances]

8. Great. The RW has created another monster, whose followers evidently

get off from making sure that others don't (sort of gives the "Don't Mess With Texas" slogan a new twist).

Whether it's been GLOBAL (like meddling in Iraq under false pretenses) or, in this case, extremely PERSONAL (meddling into people's privacy/sex lives to increase church attendance through one's political office), it's yet another sickening example of RW overreaction becoming vast overreach. Using God to justify these power grabs goes even beyond arrogance and into sheer blasphemy.

Is this still the United States of America?

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