"Bye Bye Blackwell"
By Sibley Arnebeck Posted on Mon Dec 11, 2006 at 03:33:31 PM EST
This original song, www.bobforohio.com, by local bard and voting rights activist, Victoria Parks, outlines some of the foibles that brought down SOS Kenneth Blackwell. An article in "Christianity Today Magazine," www.christianitytoday.com/ct/article_print.html?id=39216, shows a more foreboding side of his candidacy and the religious right movement in Ohio that supported him. A group called the "Ohio Restoration Project" launched a movement on the Statehouse steps in October 2005 to recruit 1,800 "Patriot Pastors" who in turn would draft new "values voters." I witnessed this spectacle which included bused in church groups, entertainment, televangelist Rod Parsley and candidate Ken Blackwell. I was horrified as were many others. Almost immediately an ecumenical group of mainstream religious leaders was formed to counter what they considered a dangerous mixing of church and state in this political movement. Some filed IRS complaints, others, "We Believe Ohio," formulated a counter message of political action focused on social justice
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