Christian Coalition - Bankrupt?

Article on the Christian Coalition from local Virginia paper, Hampton Roads:

"The group'’s annual revenue has shrunk to one- twentieth of what it was a decade ago - from a peak of $26 million in 1996 to $1.3 million in 2004..."

"It has even come to this: The company that moved the group out of its Washington headquarters in 2002 went to small-claims court Friday in Henrico County trying to collect $1,890 that remains unpaid on its three-year-old bill."

They didn't even pay the people who moved them out of their D.C. office- which they had to move from because they couldn't afford it!

Tammy Farmer, who worked at the coalition as a bookkeeper in 2001, said she found the group'’s financial affairs in disarray.

"I witnessed a very consistent and chronic pattern of Roberta Combs intentionally refusing to pay valid debts, salaries and accounts for no discernible reason,"” Farmer said.

As the overdue bills piled up, Farmer said, telephone service would be cut off occasionally and vendors would refuse to do further business with the coalition.

Farmer said Combs frequently told her, '“Don'’t pay... they'’ll never sue.'”

Debt is nothing new for the coalition, Combs said Friday.

I think I have a way to get them out of debt- start charging for the porn trackbacks on their blog!

***** UPDATE *****
Talk about 'Framing The Issue'...

Today's entry is titled:

"UK Christians in Last Ditch Bid to Block Religious Hatred Law"

British Christians on Sunday kicked off three days of eleventh-hour protest, hoping to defeat a government attempt to outlaw religious hatred.

They begin the entry with, "Be thankful we have a written Constitution and the First Amendment in this country."

Yes, that's right- they are thankful that constitution allows them to legally espouse religious hatred! God Bless the USA!