Blogs

Likes: "Reclaiming traditional morals in society" (according to an opinion piece on the National Review), breeding (Giroux has nine children), God, Pat Buchanan (Giroux met her husband at a 1992 Buchanan rally), Phill Kline's anti-abortion crusades, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (Giroux started See The Passion.com in 2004 to promote the film) and "merry Christmas."

Dislikes: "Abortion, unreported rape of minors at abortion clinics, separation of parents from decisions of their teens [sic] homosexuality, euthanasia, gay adoption, sex outside of marriage," activist judges and separation of church and state (so says Women Influencing the Nation's Web site). Also, atheists, the National Organization for Women, birth control (just a guess) and people who say "happy holidays."

Women Influencing the Nation's Web site says the organization wants "to re-ignite a desire in young women, especially, to have large families again. Truly, we must spread the word that 'the greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.' ... Sadly, most young people believe they should only have one or two children."

Giroux has a history with Kline. She organized a trip to Kansas for Paul McHugh, who reviewed the abortion records for Kline when he was Kansas Attorney General, to talk about the medical records.

More recently, Giroux developed Stand With Truth, a Web site to book speaking engagements for Kline and solicit money to pay Kline's legal bills. A Kansas City Star editorial questioned Kline's ethics for accepting financial help from an anti-abortion group while prosecuting Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. Before the editorial ran, the site claimed contributions "may be tax deductible" even though Stand With Truth wasn't a registered charity in Kansas. The statement has since been removed.

Giroux has been a frequent guest on Joe Scarborough's old prime-time MSNBC talk show Scarborough Country. On Scarborough, Giroux often engaged in heated debates with a rabbi while defending Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ against cries of antisemitism. On a December 2004 episode -- guest hosted by Pat Buchanan -- Giroux insisted that Jews killed Jesus. "We cannot go back and make it that the Hawaiians killed Christ," she said.

In January 2005, Giroux was on Scarborough on consecutive nights to talk about God's role in the 2004 tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia. Giroux basically said that God punishes people with weather and the people had it coming. And she blamed "cloning, homosexuality, trying to make homosexual marriages, abortion, lack of God in the schools, taking Jesus out of Christmas" in the United States.

"I can‘t pretend to know the mind of God," Giroux said. "But, historically, there have been warnings. And God, who is all-loving and all-good, and he will not be mocked."

Scarborough asked Giroux if she was saying God killed the people for Americans' sins.

"No," Giroux said but then expounded with an answer of basically yes. "What I‘m saying is that God does allow natural disasters to happen" and later adding, "And we as individuals and as a country need to turn to God again, ask for forgiveness and mend our ways."

The next night, Giroux kept going.

"As part of this discussion, who knows if all of the heinous things that went on over there in Thailand could have opened the door to what happened," Giroux said. "And I know this is a very, very delicate subject here, because it’s not to say the poor people, the good people that died and suffered over there along with those that were not so good do not deserve that any more than you or I do. But the fact of the matter is, eight of 11 of those countries hit over there were listed among the top 50 that persecute Christians around the world."

Speaking of Christian persecution, Giroux and her husband, Dan, were warriors in the fictional "War on Christmas." The couple started Operation: Just Say "Merry Christmas" in 2005 and sold rubber wristbands with the phrase "Just say 'merry Christmas'" for $2 each.

Now, Giroux is running the Kline campaign. It's another Christian crusade for Giroux. In her eyes, Kline is just like Mel Gibson -- another persecuted Christian.

Update: Giroux wasn't being honest when she said Women Influencing the Nation had nothing to do with Kline's campaign. Earlier this morning, Giroux sent this e-mail soliciting campaign donations for Kline.