Homeless Cons and the Religious Right

Dave — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:04:07 +0000

For the last few weeks, social conservatives in Canada, the U.S. and Britain have had a new (potential) home on the Internet: Homeless Cons. Greeting this new phenomenon, Unrepentant Old Hippie observed that the “homeless cons” in this case were really, more specifically, social conservatives.

To that end, Benediction Blogs On added some of the context regarding personalities on the site:

And the usual Canadian crowd is signing up, trashing Stephen Harper and David Frum while praising the Manning Centre, um, the usual you can read elsewhere.
CFRB gave the site some attention today.
Two members who jumped out were Focus on the Family employee Andrea Morzek and former National Citizen Coalition employee Gary Nicholls whose book: Loyal to the Core is being carried by Freedom Press, a niche marketing publishing house run by Tristan Emmanuel, formerly a columnist with World Net Daily, and formerly of Equipping Christians for the Public Square.
Nicholls has been plugging the new site at The Western Standard blog.

Are you a homeless con, or have you written about Homeless Cons? Drop us a line and let us know.

Further reading:

Brian Lilley, “Stephen, Meet the Homeless Cons,” March 29, 2009.

Prairie Wrangler, “Throw Them Under the Bus,” March 30, 2009.

Daily Salt Shaker, “Homeless Cons = Voteless Cons,” March 31, 2009.

Religious Right Alert » John Robson

Homeless Cons and the Religious Right