By Keith Powell
People can justify any action. Let me say that once again. People can justify any action.
ISIS justifies throwing gays from roofs and stoning women whom they deem to be worthy of death (well, whom Mohammed and Allah deem worthy). Mao and Stalin justified the organized murder of tens of millions. Judas justified his betrayal of Jesus.
Judas was close to Jesus. Judas was chosen by Jesus. Judas was known by Jesus. Make no mistake, the betrayal of Judas was no surprise to Jesus. Read the account in John 11-13.
Most of us who have worked in “ministry” or in “a Christian organization” have had our own “Judas moments”.
I know I have.
Phyllis Schlafly has, for the past 50 years, served as a beacon of conservative politics. It would be safe to call her a bell-weather or as we say today, a thought leader.
Now, the board of Eagle Forum, including Mrs. Schlafly’s daughter, are trying to wrest control of the iconic organization from Mrs. Schlafly. Breitbart News unpacks the current struggle at this link http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/04/25/phyllis-schlaflys-last-stand-inside-story-conservative-icons-internal-battle-survival/
Let’s get down to it, shall we?
Mrs. Schlafly is 91. The sharks sense blood (money and power) in the water. An aging leader. A hand-picked successor which the board despises. A daughter who is a member of the board and walking around with a huge chip on her shoulder because Mommy didn’t give her the keys to the board room. The board members (sensing their window to act) stir up baby-girl even more by feeding her delusion to think that she (despite low leadership ability) has been ignored and passed over unjustly – that the crown should have been passed in succession (notice the other children aren’t complaining about Ed Martin).
Enter the Cruz/Trump issue! Now, here we have a winner!
These board members of a major conservative/evangelical organization, seeing that many “Christian Conservatives” have jumped on the #NeverTrump bus, are staring major money in the face! They were already plotting. Now, they have THE ISSUE to force their agenda.
I can just hear it now!
“If we take the Forum from Phyllis, we can dump Ed Martin (a man! How dare Phyllis choose a MAN over one of us!), install a figure head in Cori, get control of the money and we will have the GOPe as our forever ally! Just think how much the GOPe will owe us once we show the world what real conservatives *hack*cough*snort believe! She will be ousTED , we will be vesTED, and celebraTED as the warrior queens of the right!”
And, in true Cruz fashion, his minions have their sticky little fingers and snotty little noses in the middle of something that is none of their damn business. Leaked emails, false shock with “I didn’t think it was a confidential communication”, and Cruz’s very on consigliere, Roe, calling Ed Martin to get a meeting because he has to take the leaked info to “TC”.
Each of these board members are drunk on the possibility of power and care not a tinker’s damn about Eagle Forum, conservatism, Christianity or Phyllis Schlafly. I want to puke reading the interview with Adams and Cori.
May 2nd will be the day Phyllis Schlafly will be removed from her post. Why? Because she dared to go against the GOPe. Read the interview with her daughter, Anne Cori. Reading that interview is like listening to Fredo telling Michael he had never met Johnny Ola! Anne Cori knows good and damn well they intend to dump Phyllis and install her. She also knows this whole plot was hatched with GOPe and board members Cathie Adams of Texas, Eunie Smith of Alabama, Shirley Curry of Tennessee, Rosina Kovar of Colorado and Carolyn McLarty of Oklahoma.
It’s a mob hit. It’s thuggery at it’s worst. If Mrs. Schlafly is removed, every single person who donates to Eagle Forum should pull their dollars and every organization that has scheduled a Forum speaker or agreed to sponsor anything with Eagle Forum should call the offices and tell them to stick it up their pretentious Protestant poop shoots!
Adams and whole “gang of 6”, if they had a shred of decency, would have resigned their positions quietly and allowed Eagle Forum to continue on as Mrs. Schlafly wished. She earned it. Ed Martin was her carefully-chosen successor and Donald Trump is her carefully-chosen candidate.
Like her son, Andy said, Phyllis Schlafly has been shown to be right despite “the established wisdom” more than once.
These Judas-spirited ner-do-wells are doing nothing but running the play handed down to them by the GOPe and collaborating with the Cruz Campaign to damage the legacy of a real lady, Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly.
God bless you, Phyllis!
Shame on you, Adams, Cori, et al. You are little people who have shown what 30 pieces of silver can do in 2016. Enjoy your spoils. You’ve sold your souls to the GOPe. Remember the guilt of Judas as your greedy hands catch all that this sneaky Sanhedrin court has promised.