Bush's Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Charged With Conflicts Of Interest - Funnels Millions From Church
By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 31, 2007 11:01am
Via Talk2Action:
George Bush's nominee for Surgeon General has drawn a lot of heat for among other things, his crack-pot anti-gay views as a leader in the United Methodist affiliate of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. But a new report may finally sink his already controversial nomination in a sea of conflicts of interest that have marked his career.
Dr. James Holsinger has also been a longtime leader of the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church. The Confessing Movement is a rightwing "renewal group" affiliated with the Washington, DC-based Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD), whose purpose for a generation has been to divide and disrupt the historic churchs of mainline protestantism in the interests of advancing neoconservatism and the religious right.
Holsinger was elected to the highest court in the Methodist Church a time when the IRD-affiliated church "renewal" groups had launched efforts to use church judicial systems to enforce their notions of orthodoxy, particularly on matters related to homosexuality.
Now, an investigation Rev. Andrew J. Weaver, Ph.D. and Lawrence H. McGaughey, Esq., and published at Media Transparency, shows that Holsinger used the sale of a United Methodist Church-owned hospital in Kentucky, as a cash cow for his personal ambitions. It took years of litigation by the church to find out what had happened to its money, only to learn that Holsinger had diverted millions to endow professorships at the Chandler Medical Center at the University of Kentucky where he served as Chancellor and fundraiser-in-chief. Read more...
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Another shepherd shears his sheep.
Looks like we've found our next Tearoom Bust.
From now on, we should assume that anyone in politics or religion with crack-pot gay views
is gay.
So let me get this straight, he stole money from a church? What will those in the Bush administration do next steal candy from babies?
you mean he is a corrupt republican? Why...that is almost unheard of...
this must be some kind of mistake!............BWWWWWAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
BIG Surprise? Another holier-than-thou, gay-bashing POS gets hoist by his own petard.
It's been quite a week ain't it folks. This usually quiet week before the return of Congress has been chock full of juice.
I'll bet the GOP members of Congress would like still another month off.
FOX has been saying it was shameful how the Dems have been so quiet about the Craig business, making remarks about how dems "condone" Bathroom trysting. When actually the Democrats are doing ok just sitting back and letting the GOP implode on itself.
Does bush know ANYONE that is not a crook or an incompetent ass?
Cheating, Corruption, criminality and immorality is the standard Rethug. sworn oath on the bible.
Janet @ 7:
if he did, he fired them in the beginning. ala kricicki
Janet @ 7:
His mailman's pretty cool. Gave me a quarter once for the payphone.
Is Holsinger the next Rethug. closet Gay to come out??
Tony Snow @ 9:
You prolly needed it since you only make $168,000 per year. How can you get by on that?
►Runs-With-Dog◄ @ 10:
Cut Mr. Snow some slack. Maybe his health insurance policies sucks as much as mine does and all his cancer treatments are being denied coverage. It'd hate for the guy to fall victim to the stuff only us common folk are supposed to suffer from.
►Runs-With-Dog◄ @ 10:
It's a nightmare. One of my yachts sprung a leak and I had to wait till payday to have it fixed. My dinner party was absolutely ruined. I don't think that Rupert Murdoch's going to come back again.
Speaking of outted gay republican hypocrites does anyone have more names to add to the list?
Ted Haggar
Jim West (R-Spokane mayor)
Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Jeff Gannon
Patrick McHenry
Matt Drudge
►Runs-With-Dog◄ @ 6:
Will McHenry be the next Closeted GOP hack to be outed?
Frankly I don't care about their proclivities, that is as long as they don't continue to spout anti-gay rhetoric, or steal from the gullible supports.
Faith based initiative.
Curtilingus @ 15:
FBI?
Bush liked his initiative to swindle faith-based organizations.
Part of George's Faith Based Initiative Program.
BREAKING NEWS: Larry Craig says he's sorry and that he's rather be blown in a bathroom stall by a strange male than serve in the United States Senate.
I guess that doesn't say much for the senate.
Where do they find these people? I know many conservatives who are good people, don't have any public gay sex tendencies, and don't steal money. I may not agree with their stances on many issues, but at the end of the day, they aren't involved in any of this garbage. You would think that an administration that has been involved in so many scandals would make sure that the people they align themselves with aren't linked to additional scandals, unless the only people they know are dishonest, self-hating crooks. If that is the case, then keep it coming W. You are only making it easier for a
liberalprogressive candidate to take office after you.David Ehrenstein @ 2:
Right On! My Gaydar is registering a 10!
This is a sister.
Not sure W and crew are Conservatives, Kay. The sure seem to be taking advantage of them though.
How much you want to bet the Dem congresscritters will confirm him?
Otay @ 23:
No bet. The "Go Along, Get Along Party" has confounded its supporters.
Curtilingus @ 18:
In celebration Larry Craig did a strip tease in a downtown Boise gar bar while exclaiming Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty, Free at Last!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=651beWMvTd0
Wow - that guy looks like he's just one pill away from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Holsinger is "one seriously disturbed 'toon"
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5 seconds was enough for that link, but he does look like Mr Craig.
Stupid Git @ 11:
Tony Snow has the same health insurance as Cheney. 'nuff said.
Looks like the Surgeon General nominee's moral turptitude will put his license at risk.
Another perfect Gooper pick - perfect exemplar of GOP values.
Curtilingus @ 19:
All it says is that the other Repiglican Senators haven't been caught yet.
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Janet @ 7:
The Republicans Bush knows all seem to have competent asses.
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The Democrats aren't making a fuss of Craig's arrest because his sexual orientation is not the issue (besides, if there was a morals clause for being elected to Congress/Senate, the lot of 'em would be out on their kiesters) ... but the utter stupidity of pleading guilty to a charge he was innocent of 'in the hopes it would go away'. It's called a fundamental misunderstanding of how our courts work, but he was probably afraid some 'activist judge' would sentence him to a lead role in La Cage Aux Folles or something.
As for this idiot, anybody who says 'gay can be cured through prayer' should be rejected on the spot. It's just another flimsy excuse to cover non-existant morals. Oh, you sinned? Say a prayer. Committed adultery (Hi, Congressman Vitter! How's the wife?)? Say a prayer.
I don't dispute the power of prayer, nor forgiveness ... but it's supposed to be an exercise in honesty, not deceit.
kirk james murphy, m.d. @ 30:
Republican family values create perverts and pedophiles ~
Stupid Git @ 13:
Matt Sanchez favorite of Faux and the Coltergiest...
Soon we can officially add ol' Tucker "I Went and Got My Friend" Carlson
That's Bush for you... notice Bush only hires criminals, liars and scumbags, oh and republicans - same thing.
i think it may be because in republican circles, there seems to be an air of if "you stick with us, you will be rewarded or rich", and with that i think it must bread an air of entitlement, or envy, greed etc. In short, i think republicans really care about nothing but themselves, and their polices are a reflection of that; taxes, security, energy, gun control, fox news, even social polices on abortion, school prayer, i think are infantile projection of that. Infantile be key word. Never is social well being ever really taken into account. its all about "help me and screw my neighbor, and especially screw him if he is liberal, black, Hispanic, gay, different than me in my beliefs or lives in state where people like that our from. If your gay, i might be gay, I want to pray in school, you must too". And when one looks at response to where money was spent after Katrina and 9/11 helps prove my point. And as rethugs have said for decades, "if you dont love it (it being any policy they are for), leave it".
Funny, how reverse is never true or said to them by liberals. End of rant.
Kay @ 20:
There are a few things that may tie in together here. Whether or not the Greek style man/boy club actually exists in DC as rumored - and whether or not former runnaways like Jeff Gannon are actually a product of such rumored DC cultural events (as was also rumored). Would the exploited in this circle then be funneled into public service on behalf of the party? This theoretical - if true - might explain part of the problem.
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The wingnuts are trying to split all the mainline churches over the issue of acceptance of gay people and seize sizable amounts of their property in the process. They've already done it to the Episcopal Church. The schismatics are now following a lunatic Nigerian bishop who wants to imprison gays in his own country. The chutzpah of the Methodist schismatics of calling themselves the "confessing movement" goes beyond hubris. The Confessing Church was the portion of the Protestant Church in Germany that resisted Hitler. I'm so glad that this posturing thief got caught with his hand in the till. I hope this gets wide press coverage and I hope he goes to prison for embezzlement.
I wonder how he is able to find these theocratic nazis in the first place. There is NO mainstream republican that would have been a better candidate? I think shrub is actually a anarchist trying to bring down the govt by loading with escapees from some assylum.
The Institute on Religion and Democracy is basically evil.
They try to force churchs to change to suit outsiders.
Bush's nominee = Bush's crony
Bush's crony = incompetent, corrupt, closet gay
OR TWO OR ALL THREE of the above.
I can no longer resist the mantra:
Worst. Administration. Ever.
Kay @ 20:
I once took a class in communications given by a psychiatrist that was also a reserve Admiral. His belief was that ambition was a clear sign of mental illness. For anyone to give up a happy life with friends and family, leisure time, and a stress free lifestyle to pursue fame or power was not natural. I'd have to say that Craig has conflicts that induce mental illness, but Cheney is a poster child of that.
I'd guess Bush also organic brain damage from alcohol and drug abuse, illustrated by Wernicke's aphasia, explaining his often rambling speech pattern.
Just another crime of a thug of the crime family...when will the American people stand up and say enough? When do we drag these worthless bastards from our White House and string them up? They hate America and they hate our form of government.
CD @ 41:
It's worse than that - they try to permanently splinter the various protestant denominations in order to control their assets and also their social agenda of helping the indigent and poor - which IRD perceives as being too "liberal" - all part of an overall Reconstructionist agenda to try to infiltrate the education system in general and the colleges in particular. This also includes their goal to control government, and the courts.
They aim to destroy a perceived liberal "agenda" in schools, government and religion - all of it. It's very insidious and is funded by people like Ahmanson and Scaife.
All in a day's work of destroying America forever.
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One more reason he should get voted down.
Another Corrupt Republican?!???!??! Say it isn't so!
The sanctimonious bible thumping hypocrites should be treated as the minority they are...the GOP has used them to sway the illinformed to follow their crime family. All these outings should point to the closeted lying hypcrites in the corner of the GOP. The GOP has always hated government...they should never be entrusted a job in government because their ambition is to destroy government. Look at their track record the past twelve years. Lying, cheating, closeted hypocritical, cowards.
Jeff @ 3:
I agree, this guy looks like a real nut job.
Trittydi @ 45:
For me it's not that I dispute their right to their opinion.
But to accept money from Richard Scaife Mellon to influence a Church is inexcusable.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife
Trittydi @ 45:
I forgot to mention that the stated goal is to bring America under "biblical rule"
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Jeff @ 3:
Makes me wonder about those guys who carry "GOD HATES GAYS" signs.
Wonder what men's room James Holsinger hangs out in?
Kay @ 20:
It's not so much that they only know dishonest, self-serving crooks. It's that they need people who are crooks to do the things that they need to have done. You'd have a hard time finding a non- war criminal politician who would have supported to the invasion of Iraq or decided to award so many vital reconstruction contracts to foreign countries instead of to Iraqis so they just go for the criminal.
Gee, what a surprise. Stick a fork in him too, he's done. Will our country ever survive the chronic dishonesty of our leaders and persons in power?
Using the ends to justify the means should mean the end of you.
Give time. He'll me in the news one day having been caught on his knees in the mens room.
It's Faith-Based cocksucking.
Paula Says: Stupid Git @ 13:
Speaking of outted gay republican hypocrites does anyone have more names to add to the list?
Ted Haggar
Jim West (R-Spokane mayor)
Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Jeff Gannon
Patrick McHenry
Matt Drudge
Matt Sanchez favorite of Faux and the Coltergiest…
Soon we can officially add ol’ Tucker “I Went and Got My Friend” Carlson
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We have Congressman David Dreier of CA. Check out his website, he screams, QUEEN.
Senator Mitch (the bitch) McConnell R. Minority Leader of the Senate
Also we can not forget President Bush's bestest buddy, Victor Ashe, Ambassador to Poland and old sex partier.
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida is as gay as they come.
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has ties to gay clubs in Austin.
Rep. Denny Has-a-turd R. IL, former speaker of the House lives with his gay chief of staff at a condo in Washington, DC.
So as you can see, so many to out, such little time. Nothing is wrong with them being gay but they are ALL RepubliCON hypocritical idiots.
Trittydi @ 51:
Do you have a link to that Quote?
I didn't know this guy is a fag hater. They need to get rid of him. Damn fag haters.
That man is gay.
I would bet my house on that!
My own experience with Methodists is that they are for the most part moderately conservative in manner and appearance but are socially liberal and tolerant at heart. Although the Methodist Church is a big tent, there is no room in it for the likes of the IRD and its theocratic fellow travelers. If they think they can subvert the Methodist Church and its doctrine of social justice they're in for a very rude awakening.
The science of medicine does not need self-righteous religious wingnuts like Holsinger. He would be a total disaster as a SG, given his politics and his faith-based sense of the world. We need a pragmatic reality-based person in that high-level position. Hope this latest revelation gets him taken out of consideration.
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Kay @ 20:
Two things come to mind:
1) The RNC picks the ones with skeletans in the closet - kind of like the KGB would go after agents who have something to hide. That gives them total control over them.
2) When the republican party decided to scoop up the evangelicals by claiming to be the 'family values' party, many of these men were already in Congress. I would imagine the republican leadership warned them that to avoid suspicion they should loudly and often proclaim how much they 'hate' homosexuals, pedophiles, etc.
Wow. bush wants a real doctor, AND a military man as the Surgeon General so he found Charles Emerson Winchester (the third)!
Compare. Contrast. Discuss.
http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=Charles+wincheste...
Gotta' give Bushco credit, he really digs deep to find these
eight-balls ass#holes to nominate!
Thieves are okay. Big thieves are even more better okay. As long as they're not gay, fer chrissake.
Seriously, thank you for the link to PublicEye.org.
Tim in Japan @ 67:
Hey, I liked Charles Emerson WinchesterIII! Once in a while he did show a trace of humanity. Which is more than you can say about anybody in this administration.
As for the candidate for surg gen; he scares the shit out of me!!! I wouldnt let him touch my dead dog!!!
sulphurdunn @ 63:
Most of the Methodist Ministers I've spoken to would sooner eat glass than see their Church cowed by theocrats.
[...] http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/01/bushs-homophobic-surgeon-genera...... [...]
maybe we'll see him get busted in an airport bathroom next
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