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DEL.ICIO.USNational Christian Coalition leader to Sadie Fields: You’ll be replaced
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One day after the Christian Coalition of Georgia announced it would go its own way, the president of the national organization on Tuesday said she’d establish a new state chapter with a new leader.
Sadie Fields, the well-connected chairman of the Georgia group, said the split with the 17-year-old Christian Coalition of America was due to the national organization’s liberal “drift.”
Three other states chapters — Alabama, Iowa and Ohio — have also left the once-powerful group founded by the Rev. Pat Robertson and organizer Ralph Reed.
“I wish Sadie well in her future endeavors,” said Roberta Combs, president of the national Christian Coalition. But Combs said her organization would quickly select a new Georgia leader to create a replacement chapter — though she did not say when that would occur.
“The Christian Coalition — or any group — is not about individuals. Maybe we can work together in the future,” Combs said.
Like the leaders of other state chapters, Fields said she was concerned by the changing direction of national organization — which had recently become involved in such issues as global warming, an increase in the minimum wage, and control of the Internet.
Combs agreed that the Coalition had begun broadening its agenda. “Family values reach beyond abortion and gay marriage,” she said.
But Combs said another reason for the breach with state chapters was the national organization’s settlement last year of a lengthy dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over the group’s tax-exempt status.
Under the agreement, the national Christian Coalition — accused of having Republican leanings — agreed to allow candidates to write up to 25 words explaining their positions in the coalition’s influential voter guides, which are sent to churches the Sunday before election.
State chapters were told their voter guides would also be subject to the new guidelines, and would have to be approved by the national coalition.
Fields denied that the oversight played any role in the split.
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By Captain Freedom
September 26, 2006 9:45 PM | Link to this
Sadie Fields is a Godly woman doing the Lord’s work every day. Some would say that she ignores the Good Book’s admonition that women should serve as housekeeper and servant to the man of the house, but that would be snotty and beside the point.
Instead, I cheer Mrs. Fields in her battle with the wayward Christain Coalition, which clearly has lost the thread by venturing away from the Biblically critical issues of abortion and gay marriage. She is right to withdraw from the national organization, and owes the strumpet Roberta Combs no more respect or courtesy than she showed her own daughter in the face of her blasphemous homosex deviance.
Would that more good Christians had the consistency and constancy to act as Sadie Fields. There would be far less confusion about where we stand. Even now, there are leftist bedwetters who invoke the name of our Saviour in their attempts to deny Our Leader the right to beat the living snot out of anyone he deems a threat. No, the Captain believes, along with Mrs. Fields, that we need to reclaim the moral high ground, and demostrate the intolerance and fortitude that defines good Christianity.
A strong statement from Mrs. Fields in support of Our Leader’s plan to not-torture people in acceptable and non-scarring ways would be a good place to begin setting herself apart from the weak sisters of the Religious Right.