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Specifically, w e want all people in the United States to enjoy the
same legal rights as everyone else, unless they have forfeited them by
violating the rights o f others. We believe this should include some
things that are, apparently, very controversial.
They include the right to serve, fight, and even die on behalf o f our
country in the military; the right to earn a living by working hard and
being judged wholly on the quality o f our work; the rigjit for
teenagers to attend high school without being shoved, punched, or
otherwise attacked; and, yes, the right to express not o ^ y love for
another person but a willingness to be leg d ly as well as morally
responsible for his or her well-being.
^ The entire article is available at http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=
16959& repository=000larticle.
^ On January 27, 2005, Focus o f the Family’s web site offered its own “pledge” . . . to
slavery. The “Teens” section o f the web site featured an article by Susie Shellenberger
that had been resurrected from FOF’s Breakaway magazine (which is aimed at male
teens) and other FOF venues. On the family.org web site, the piece was titled “Bought,
Branded, Bonded.” The promo read: “Slavery is a bad thing, unless you’re enslaved to
Jesus. But what does it mean to be a slave to Jesus?”
What it means is that since Yeshua o f Nazareth long ago departed this mortal plane,
what Susie advocates is becoming a slave to the dogma o f the perverted form o f
“Christianity” espoused by politically motivated “religious leaders” like Dobson and
Sheldon.
Think about it. “Jesus” is definitely not a name that comes to mind with “slavery,”
even metaphorically. A “slave to Jesus” seems the quintessential oxymoron and a
distortion o f what his philosophy taught before “religious leaders” distorted it to create
stereotypes and myths that could be used as weapons o f mass destruction against anyone
vriio chdlenged them. The Crusades. The Holy Inquisition. The genocide perpetrated by
“Christians” against the peoples o f the N ew World. The Salem witch hunts. The horrors
o f slavery. How many millions o f human beings have suffered and died as a result o f
vriiat politically-motivated so-called “Christian” leaders claimed was “God’s Will”?
^ “About FRC” fi’om their web site, www.frc.org: “Believin