Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

[PoliticalTiger]

What does Invisible Children share in common with the Discovery Institute, the leading organization promoting “Intelligent Design”, a pseudo-scientific theory created to insinuate creationist ideas into public schools — or with The Call, whose leader Lou Engle claims homosexuals are possessed by demons, calls God an “avenger of blood” and a “terrorist”, and in May 2010 staged a rally in Kampala, Uganda, at which Engle warned of a gay menace to society and shared a stage with one of the authors of Uganda’s notorious Anti Homosexuality Bill ?

990 IRS tax forms and yearly reports from Invisible Children, and 990s from its major donors, tell a story that’s jarringly at odds with the secular, airbrushed, feelgood image the nonprofit has cultivated.

What does Invisible Children share in common with James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council (pegged by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group”), or the Fellowship Foundation — one of the nonprofit entities of the Washington-based evangelical organization also known as “The Family” (covered in two books by journalist Jeff Sharlet) whose leader Doug Coe has been captured on video celebrating the dedication inspired by Hitler, Lenin, and Mao ?

The answer? — all of these ministries – the Discovery Institute, Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, The Fellowship Foundation, The Call, Ed Silvoso’s Harvest Evangelism, and Invisible Children – received at least $100,000 in 2008 from what has emerged in the last decade as the biggest funder of the hard, antigay, creationist Christian right: the National Christian Foundation.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012...ian-right/

[jaxx]

The insidious march for the religious takeover of the country. Good article with lots of info....and the names of the orgs and people who are not above using kids for their propaganda.

I found this on wiki...........

<..> Kony 2012
Main article: Kony 2012

After the film, Invisible Children Inc initiated a successful campaign, petitioning the United States Government for support, Invisible Children Inc in 2012 started a social media campaign to garner support and awareness of the LRA and Joseph Kony. The campaign focuses on the website[8] that features a roughly 30 minute video and sharing tools, and a plan for encouraging activism and bringing public awareness for the end goal of capturing Kony in 2012. The 30 minute video was uploaded to YouTube on March 5, 2012 and went viral immediately. After four days, the video received over 55 million hits on YouTube. As part of the campaign, 20 celebrity "Culturemakers" and 12 Policy makers were selected as individuals to pressure to publicize the campaign[8]. Among those selected were Mark Zuckerburg, Lady GaGa, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Harry Reid, and Oprah Winfrey. Musicians Rihanna and Justin Bieber have tweeted about the issue. [9] Criticisms came from people of Uganda, stating that situation wasn't even present anymore. “What that video says is totally wrong, and it can cause us more problems than help us,” said Dr Beatrice Mpora, director of Kairos, a community health organisation in Gulu, a town that was once the centre of the rebels’ activities.

Quote:“There has not been a single soul from the LRA here since 2006. Now we have peace, people are back in their homes, they are planting their fields, they are starting their businesses. That is what people should help us with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Children

[janedrake]

Invisible "Sponsors," too, apparently. What a sophisticated operation. The pain of the stories are so real, but this is so fake... staggers the mind.

[Born_A_Truman]

PT, see my thread I just posted about Russel's arrest:

By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
SAN DIEGO – A co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the “KONY 2012” video on alleged atrocities by an African warlord, has been arrested for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Jason Russell, was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, said Lt. Andra Brown, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

[PoliticalTiger]

(03-16-2012 02:37 PM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  PT, see my thread I just posted about Russel's arrest:

By NBC News and msnbc.com staff
SAN DIEGO – A co-founder of Invisible Children, the group behind the “KONY 2012” video on alleged atrocities by an African warlord, has been arrested for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Jason Russell, was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, said Lt. Andra Brown, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

I just saw that and was going to cross post this post there - it seems these anti-gay, fundamentalists organizations always ending up being plagued by scandals like this. I guess they are so sexually oppressed and/or obsessed they eventually end up acting out - and in public! Strange indeed.

[sandnsea]

Well that's weird since Kony has been supported by Fox News as an example of Christians being attacked by Muslims supported by the Obama Administration.

[sandnsea]

I still don't believe this. The Christian groups do not oppose this Kony guy and the LRA. This guy screwed up when he made that video and got taken out of the picture. This is not the kind of scandal the right gets caught up in. It's the kind the left gets caught in, Scott Ritter and Anthony Weiner come to mind. It's very bizarre and I don't buy all these grown men going absolute batshit sex crazy out of nowhere like this.