Now Indicted For Child Abuse, Adrian Peterson Was Lauded By Religious And Anti-Gay Groups

NFL Vikings’ running back Adrian Peterson was recently hailed by NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, and by the “700 Club” for his Christian values and support of “traditional marriage.” Yesterday, a grand jury indicted him for child abuse after he allegedly beat his 4-year old son.

Peterson reportedly has at least five and possibly seven children by seven different women. He married for the first time just this year.

In court documents that were unsealed two years ago, the world learned that NOM’s Board of Directors approved plans that include race-baiting in attempts to divide the Democratic Party. 

As The New Civil Rights Movement reported back in March of 2012, the “documents reveal a shocking and sickening corporate strategy of using race to divide Americans, creation of false positioning between Christians who do and do not support equality, and identifying ‘beautiful’ people to embody their messaging, among other strategies, like ‘sideswiping Obama,’ and painting him as a ‘social radical.'”

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An excerpt from the unsealed NOM document:

“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies. Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”

Last year, NOM used NFL Vikings’ Adrian Peterson in their corporate-approved plan to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks.”

In a May, 2013 blog entry, NOM wrote:

NFL MVP Adrian Peterson: Gay Marriage “Not Something I Believe In”

That was followed up by a tweet lauding Peterson:

Peterson was indicted by a grand jury, arrested, and then released from jail on bond yesterday.

Pat Robertson’s “700 Club” lauded Peterson for his deep Christian faith and devotion to Jesus.

In 2012, Peterson sent out this tweet:

 

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