Frank Schaeffer Endorses Velvet Revolution's Stop Domestic Terrorism Campaign - Have You Signed?

Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy About God, wrote:

I quit my leadership role in the far right religious movement when it began advocating violence against those who had a different political or moral view. Now I am speaking out, and have joined with Velvet Revolution to organize a movement to stop far right violence. We’re doing this because more and more of us see that if unchecked, the inflammatory garbage spewing from the Right’s hate machines will result in tragedy — in other words violence.

I started pondering the question of what we could do right after the assassination of Dr. Tiller by a religious extremist. I felt that it wasn’t enough to call for boycotts of right wing commentators who spew their hate, because that did not really address the core problems. In fact as a former right wing religious “pro-life” leader I felt compelled to publicly apologize for the “America-is-like-Nazi-Germany” rhetoric that my late Evangelical leader father and I helped create in the 1970s and 80s that inexorably led to justifying violence in the Tiller case.

Now I want to endorse a campaign to address these issues. It was launched last week at StopDomesticTerror.com by VR. On Tuesday, I posted this article in Huffington Post asking everyone to join this important campaign.

The campaign includes letters from attorney Kevin Zeese and myself to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that he take the issue of domestic terror seriously by investigating and prosecuting threats and acts of violence. I’m working with others on a campaign to reach religious leaders who enable and encourage this violence, and asking for the launching of investigations into the use of the media and web organizations by the right wing to foment violence. It is time to combat speech advocating violence.

We have a long horrible legacy of violence against public figures. The worst chapters in our history have been written in blood by extremists when they felled our moral and political leaders. We must act now to avert another tragedy.

Thousands have already signed on but we can only make a change through massive collective action. Join us and help build a wall of tolerance to contain the hate. If you have not yet signed on, please do so at StopDomesticTerror.com And forward this to your friends and ask them to sign on.

Finally, help us spread the word outside the blogosphere with a donation so VR can make ad buys, issue press releases and mobilize the masses to pressure Congress, the Attorney General and others to take action against these threats.

Sincerely,
Frank Schaeffer

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