Filled out the MoveOn survey today, got it in email after donating $25/mo toward their latest commercial campaign. Here's what I told them in the “Anything else you'd like to tell us?” section:
How about a line of commercials using religious values to underscore the hypocrisy of some of the far-right 'religious' candidates? See NYT article from Nov 7 2005, titled “When Cleaner Air is a Biblical Obligation”. If far-right religious folks can be made to see how 'their' candidates are in fact not supporting their values, there's no end to what can be accomplished. “[candidates in 2008 will have to deal with] the emergence of evangelicals on creation care.” The article stressed that the evangelical community associates Sierra-Club type environmentalism with people with alternate religious values, and doesn't want to be tied to them, but that they also feel a strong obligation to environmental issues as part of their religious values.
1) commercial based on the biblical verse about being good stewards of the earth, and detailing anti-environmental laws folks have passed, not signing onto the kyoto accords, pushing for drilling in the arctic refuge, etc etc
2) “…whoso shall offend one of these little ones … it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck…” and voting for laws that are anti-child, eg taking money from schools, screwing up the 'no child left behind' promise, etc
The senior citizen commercials are BRILLIANT, more of the same, please, just widen the topic net.
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