Christian Coalition Catfight
Well, not exactly, but I liked the alliteration. I missed this story yesterday (elementary school track meet, migraine — hmmm, could one be related to the other?), but Danny didn’t.
When John Giles was head of the Christian Coalition of Alabama, he was famously secretive about its membership and funding sources. Maybe because he took money from gambling interests to fight a proposed Alabama lottery. And he had plenty of help from his right-wing Christian buddies: I had to listen to my former Representative go on a tear a couple of years ago about the poor, persecuted Christian Coalition, and the mean ol’ legislators who were proposing a bill that would require non-profit lobby groups to disclose their donors.
He’s still trying to keep secrets. Even though he resigned from the Christian Coalition and formed a new organization, he refused to turn over membership lists or the website. Now Randy Brinson, the new head of the CCA, is suing him.
Danny speculates, as have others, that the CCA under Giles had no real membership but was simply a political voice for religious right donors. Is that what Giles wants to cover up, or is there something else? Or is he just a jerk? I vote for all three.
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
The innocent have nothing to hide, Mr. Giles. Don’t you know that?
Didn’t Ralph Reed claim innocence, and no wrongdoing, too?
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Ralph likes to operate in the shadows. Or something.
May 23rd, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Kathy,
It seems there are more than a few “professed” notorious christians which prefer dark shadows to light. Ralph Reed is a schmuck along with a few other ones out there.
Kimberly