Values Voter Summit: Oh Please Someone, We Have To Attend!
How could anyone not want to go to this absolutely lulz-filled weekend of wingnuts, whackjobs, blowhard bloviators, bigots, hypocrites and high-horsed, narrow-minded numbskulls known as the Values Voter Summit?
It’s a tea party on acid, beyond Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Oh won’t someone send me, pleeeeeease? (Sadly though, my Values Voter heroes, John Ensign, Mark Sanford and Paul Stanley weren’t invited….)
Along with guests like the obvious (Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachman, Bill O’Reilly, Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, Jim DeMint, Don Wildmon, Glenn Beck, Bobby Jindal) and party fossil celebs Fred Thompson, Ben Stein and Phyllis Shlafly, plus actor Gary Sinise and former teen star turned-uber-freaky Jesus dude/Way of the Master pitchman Kirk Cameron, there will be the new illiterati of the theocons: Those multi-media stars Sarah Palin, Carrie Prejean and Stephen Baldwin! Wow, there is part of me that wishes Baldwin would pull a Rob-Lowe-at-the-1988-DNC-Convention video moment with the two former beauty queens. Now that would have some value!
Check out these rocking breakout sessions! It’s gonna be so hard to decide which ones to attend!
- SPEECHLESS – SILENCING THE CHRISTIANS
- THUGOCRACY – FIGHTING THE VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY
- DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD
- ACTIVISM AND CONSERVATISM: FIT TO A TEA (PARTY)
- THE THREAT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
- OBAMACARE: RATIONING YOUR LIFE AWAY
- MARRIAGE: WHY IT’S WORTH DEFENDING AND HOW REDEFINING IT THREATENS RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
- THE NEW MASCULINITY
- WAIT NO MORE: FINDING FAMILIES FOR WAITING KIDS
- TURNING THE TIDE IN YOUR GENERATION
And you betcha, the Values Voter Summit is a real value! It’s only $99 for the whole weekend (special event meals not included), $200 for the weekend plus the Saturday Evening Faith, Family and Freedom Gala Dinner Honoring Phyllis Schlafly (black tie optional).
There’s also a $550 package that includes:
Briefing and Exhibits Pass; Friday Breakfast Sponsored by American Values; Friday Luncheon Sponsored by Focus on the Family Action; Saturday Breakfast Sponsored by The Heritage Foundation; Saturday Luncheon Sponsored by American Family Association; Private Reception and Faith, Family & Freedom Gala Dinner Honoring Phyllis Schlafly on Saturday Evening
but I’m not sure I could stomach all that food for thought.
Sadly, Palin and Prejean haven’t confirmed, nor have Mitt Romney, Maggie Gallagher, Sean Hannity, or over half the names on the invited speakers page which reads like a C Street spank bank list, but even if they don’t, it’ll still be hoot with sixteen exhibitors like Let Freedom Ring, Watchmen on the Wall, Chalcedon, the very Catholic group American TFP (Tradition, Family, and Property), The American Civil Rights Union, Liberty University School of Law, and of course Americans United for Life, plus sponsors American Family Association, the Family Research Council (plus FRC Action, their legislative action group) and The Heritage Foundation.
And gosh, for a a bunch of folks who want to uphold the Constitution, it seems they are a little teeeny bit confused on this part of the First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
since the Values Voter Summit (which by virtue of the word "voter" and the presence of legislative action groups has to do with getting Congress to enact laws) are urging churches to get involved in the political process:
Accept our personal invitation for pastors to attend the Values Voter Summit.
We believe this event will be a blessing to pastors and their ministry and will further equip pastors to speak boldly on the critical moral issues of our day.Promote the Values Voter Summit in your church.
Promotional materials that you can use to inform your congregation about this important event will be available for downloading in the next couple of months. Among these promotional materials will be a bulletin insert. We are asking churches across the nation to put the insert into your bulletin…
There’s the implication that pastors speaking will lead to voters voting–and voting along lines that are church sanctioned, thus muddying the separation of church and state, as the pressure will be on Congress from these voters to enact laws that reflect narrow and specific religious values.
Also, it seems a little tacky to promote stuff like this in the churches, as it a political event, not a charity walk for cancer research.
But the Values Voter Summit still look like the trippiest weekend ever! So are we going?!
[H/T Theopalinism.com]





Gary Sinise?!
OK, that’s it. I’m officially boycotting CSI:NY!
Values, my fat white A$$ets.
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