Today's Mayor of Crazytown is Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America.
Christian Newswire:
Operation Save America will be storming the gates of hell at Wal-Mart Headquarters this Friday, December 15, 2006, in Bentonville, Arkansas. "The Church of Jesus Christ is coming out of the closet in an attempt to save an old friend. Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world and the favorite store of the American Christian family, has become an enemy of God," states Rev. Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America.
[Rev.Flip said,] "Wal-Mart took a huge hit in November as hundreds of Christian families took to the streets of their local Wal-Mart stores, but not to purchase any items. They came to expose an ugly truth about this once 'God fearing' corporation. Wal-Mart has been blackmailed by the radical homosexual agenda and the abortion industry. Rather than honoring God, Wal-Mart is now promoting homosexual sodomy and the killing of His children.
Here's where things get really fun...
"Every executive at Wal-Mart Corporate that has allowed this hostile take-over needs a good old fashioned tongue lashing in Jesus' Name and a spanking! What Wal-Mart has done is sin! It is a betrayal of our Lord Jesus. It is a betrayal of Sam Walton (the founder of Wal-Mart) and his powerful Christian legacy. It is a betrayal of Christian families everywhere. Wal-Mart must bear the fruit of repentance."
Rev. Flip doesn't really sublimate the gay very well, does he? All this talk about spanking and lashing -- it's kind of creeping me out. Once these guys get rolling, their psyches are right out there.
Operation Save America isn't so much an organization of people concerned about issues, as it is an organization of people with issues. And excessive intelligence isn't one of them. I've written about these guys before, during a summer abortion protest in Mississippi.
Clarion Ledger:
Anti-abortion activists [from Operation Save America] over the last week have trotted out an aborted fetus in a vacuum-packed bag, torn up then burned a Quran, shredded a gay pride flag, and preached Jesus' message over loudspeakers in the street.
They can't really figure out what the hell they're supposed to be protesting here. Is it still abortion? Because, here's the thing, Muslims are mostly pro-life and gays... Well, they don't actually get abortions. Someone needs to explain to them where babies come from.
Back to Rev. Flip. He get's his message as muddled as he can. "We are not a protest. We are a proclamation that Jesus Christ is Lord!" he tells us. "We are calling an 'old friend' back to its Godly roots. Wal-Mart can be saved and so can America. It begins with God's Church!"
Here, I thought it was about the 'homosexual agenda' and abortion. What the hell Wal-Mart has to do with abortion is never really made clear, but there ya go.
And Wal-Mart can't win for losing. They've got the crazies mad at them for imagined baby killing and everyone else mad at them for selling a video game based on the Rapture Right themed 'Left Behind' novels where christians kill the unsaved.
It says a lot about Operation Save America that not even virtual crusades are enough to win them over.
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