"Televangelist James Robison told listeners on last week’s Tea Party Unity conference call that the country is about to witness a merger of the Religious Right and the Tea Party that will bring God’s blessing back to America. Robison said that the Tea Party doesn’t have “the numerical support” to win elections without the social conservatives, and “God is going to do something very great” to build a new “communications stream” that will unite the conservative movement and attract a bigger audience than the Drudge Report. " So reports Right Wing Watch.
Robison later revealed that he’s working to “influence the influencers” by meeting with religious figures and “free market leaders like Foster Friess and many others of that caliber,” referring to the GOP mega-donor. “They cannot win – the whole Tea Party has got to understand this – they cannot win, they cannot change legislation, they cannot correct our nation’s perilous course without the numerical support of the faith community,” he said
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The Wilks family patriarch, Voy Wilks,, was a factory worker who dreamed of owning his own home in Cisco Texas. To make his dream happen, he mastered the art of masonry and moved his large family into a home of their own. He formed a small masonry business and soon built dozens of Texas and Oklahoma area high schools, municipal buildings and even OSU’s Boone Pickens Stadium
Farris and Dan followed in their father’s footsteps as professional masons, plying their trade across Texas and Oklahoma before coming together to found Wilks Masonry in 1995. Less than a decade later in 2002 the entrepreneurial pair entered the energy industry with the founding of hydraulic fracturing and oil field services firm Frac Techin 2002.
These men, some might say, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. But they are not your typical rags to riches local success story. They are billionaires worth an estimated 1.4 billion each and are on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans with ambition, much like the Koch brothers to "own" the USA by merging the Tea Party with the religious right in pursuit of their selfish goals.
According to AlterNet:
What are those goals? They’ve embraced both the anti-government politics of the Koch brothers and the religious right’s anti-gay, anti-choice cultural warfare. The Wilks brothers belong to Pastors and Pews, an organization connected to Christian-nation extremist David Lane, who wants to make the Bible a primary public school textbook.
Dan Wilks told Brody that we need to “bring the Bible back into the school, and start teaching our kids at a younger age.” Adds brother Farris: “They’re being taught the other ideas, the gay agenda, every day out in the world so we have to stand up and explain to them that that’s not real, that’s not proper, it’s not right.”
The brothers and their wives have followed in the footsteps of other far-right funders and set up foundations. Together they’ve funded them to the tune of more than $200 million. In 2011 and 2012 they gave away millions, both to churches and to culture-war political groups. More than $5.5 million buttressed groups in the Koch brothers’ political networks.
Another $4 million or so funded leading organizations in the religious right political movement, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council. Another big chunk — more than $4 million — enriched anti-abortion groups. The brothers support a network of “pregnancy centers” that refuse to talk to single women about contraception and require married women to check with their husbands and pastors before discussing birth control.
Not surprising that they support far right radical politicians. AlterNet continues.
The Wilks family also backs conservative politicians. They made a splash in Montana, where they own a lot of land and gave more to Republican legislative candidates than anyone else in 2012. In Texas, they’ve backed both Governor Rick Perry and Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican aiming to replace him. At the federal level, the brothers and their wives together contributed $125,000 to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
The brothers’ worldview seems to draw heavily on the teachings of a church founded by their father, which combines biblical literalism with a heavy emphasis on the Old Testament. According to church doctrine, abortion is “murder,” including when it ends pregnancies resulting from rape and incest. And homosexuality is “a serious crime — a very grievous sin.”
Farris is a pastor of the church. In his sermons, he decries “socialism” and argues that the Bible was grounded in the free market. He urges congregants not to vote for candidates who promise “free this, free that,” saying “Yahweh never intended for us as a people to be afraid and reliant on government.” He has suggested that the melting of the icecaps might be punishment for sin, and that President Barack Obama’s re-election may be a harbinger of the “end times.”
There is a far right conspiracy indeed, and the recent Supreme Court ruling on Hobby Lobby is only going to make it worse. These crazies can not increase their numbers in the congress and the Presidency in 2016. We must prevail, because the alternative will be bone chilling to experience.