End Sock Cruelty! Move to Sockitopia or something (487 hits)
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Submitted by Socky <master_socky.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-08-16 05:14:17 EDT
NEW YORK — Nearly 140 years after the Civil War, another group of Americans wants to secede from the union.
Christian Exodus (search), a California-based group, wants God to be its commander in chief. Decrying what it perceives as the unjust secularization of the United States, it wants a sovereign state of its own.
But rather than eye the Golden State — a "lost cause," says the group's founder — it'll settle for South Carolina (search).
Cory Burnell (search), Christian Exodus' founder and president, told FOX News that the group narrowed its focus to the Bible Belt state based on an electorate that is already "Christian-leaning," has its own ports and — unlike its neighbor North Carolina — is no hub of liberalism.
Christian Exodus' mission, according to its Web site, is to scrap the "tyrannical authority" of federal government in favor of a constitutional republic, with the Ten Commandments rather than the U.S. Constitution as government's guide.
Phase One of the group's "plan of action" in breaking down the wall between church and state is to enlist groups of 1,000 members to move into 12 designated House districts in South Carolina, with the goal of voting 12 "Christian sovereigntists" into the state government by 2008.
Subsequent similar phases will then go into effect. If by 2016 group leaders have not achieved the kind of government they want, Christian Exodus will throw down the gauntlet and seek independence.
The group comprises "mainstream evangelical Christians" who oppose abortion under all circumstances, want prayer in schools and hope to live far from "sodomites."
But don't call them isolationists.
"We want to use the existing apparatus [of the United States] to put us in a position to protect our liberties, but we don't want to wall ourselves off from the rest of the world," Burnell told FOX News.
"We have to look at the great mission posed to us by Jesus Christ: Go as a disciple to nations," he said. "We want to go into the rest of the world."
Burnell's effort is viewed with skepticism by not only expected critics but also by some who share his general religious convictions.
A spokesman for Bob Jones University (search) — a nondenominational Christian university that "stands without apology for the old-time religion and the absolute authority of the Bible — said the school would not be part of the campaign.
"As Christians, it's not our job to start a new country," Jonathan Pait, a spokesman for the university, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "It's our job to spread the kingdom and the kingdom is not of this world. It's of the heart."
Courtesy of FOX News.
I would like to take this special time to announce that I am running for President. Well, President of the Rogue Nation of Sockitopia. AKA Illinois. I think if we can get a few socks into seats of power by 2008, we can create our own nation for socks who feel oppressed in what is currently Illinois. Who to be a better candidate than me, SOCKY?
What? What's that you say? Socks shouldn't have their own special countries? Neither should Christians.
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User Reviews
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2004-08-18 09:04:44 EDT (#)
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South Carolina...geez, what a bunch of rednecks.
Submitted by RideJohnnyRide (user info) at 2004-08-16 11:15:06 EDT (#)
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Go socky woo!
Submitted by RyuFu (user info) at 2004-08-16 11:07:29 EDT (#)
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Ah, Socky, creator of fine work reading.
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2004-08-16 10:59:17 EDT (#)
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You socks already get your own draws! Is there no end to your demands! Darn Socks! <ha ha>.
Submitted by Chief_Rugger (user info) at 2004-08-16 09:59:12 EDT (#)
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love socky, but I can't help but wonder if he has an evil twin, possibly with a goatee? I think a small war between the two would be quite interesting.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-08-16 09:47:15 EDT (#)
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Isn't there already a state filled with and ran by religious nuts? I believe it's called Utah.
Submitted by wazzawazzayo (user info) at 2004-08-16 09:46:42 EDT (#)
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I'll kill you Socky, you fucking little bastard!
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-08-16 09:00:05 EDT (#)
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I love you Socky. But I am rather cranky that this post has a better rating than what I posted last night.
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2004-08-16 08:50:24 EDT (#)
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I've got a nice ankle sock to be your running mate.
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-08-16 06:33:06 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by gibberish (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:29:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:16:43 (#)
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Socky, you are the best. And also not me.
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Hahahaha...
Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:28:38 EDT (#)
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My name is Beer_bong and I approve this message.
Submitted by Socky (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:21:03 EDT (#)
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And to be frank, I'd declare war on South Carolina for even suggesting that they break off into their own country. We socks are an elite race, you know. Kind of like Germans, only even more eliter.
I think I've been politically incorrect enough for one night.
Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:16:43 EDT (#)
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Socky, you are the best. And also not me.
Submitted by Socky (user info) at 2004-08-16 05:14:40 EDT (#)
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I may be a sock but I'm not stupid.