Your comparison of my post to the controversy surrounding Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright is flawed. Wright was not an active political player in several arenas, and Obama didn't appear at his church to fire up the base for votes using shades of Wright's beliefs. This post was not about smearing Brownback using "tenuous connections", but that he used those events to appeal to fundamentalist voters while foolishly pulling photo-ops with hatemongers. It stuck out to me that you ignored my bit about Brownback writing bills with Kansans for Life, despite it being a more "direct route".
I'll respond to your numbered criticisms using the same format:
1) Brownback gave an unscheduled talk at a hate group's event to activate the base for votes. The group was classified as a hate organization for regularly casting homosexuals as pedophiles. Duggar's history of molestation was thrown in to tie up the rest with my last line.
2) Your interpretation of Lou Engle and Mike Bickle's association with Brownback is reductive. I said that IHOP was integral because that's what news outlets reported. I could not find out whether they sponsored or ran it, but if more than one reliable source uses a certain phrasing, I don't find it necessary to strip that away because of a slight vagueness. Bickle's views are on the record, and they were despicable long before Brownback showed up at the event. And again, Brownback and Engle are former roommates. Please do not act as though I am the first to rake Brownback over the coals for their association. The most I've seen Brownback say on the matter is that they don't agree on everything, but he stopped short of pointing to specific examples. That would have undone the votes he received from IHOP's congregation.
3) Affiliated with? Every Nation is Maranatha; same leaders, same charter. Rose from the ashes sounded rather appropriate.
"...but I find this kind of specious reasoning more objectionable than I his policies."
What you find to be faulty reasoning offends you more than a policymaker actively chipping away at reproductive rights and disparaging marriage equality? What a wonderful sense of priorities.
"Kansas needs rational debate, and this kind of argument (from both sides) is the problem."
I'm going to go on a limb and suggest that you have never participated in any activism in Kansas with groups like KanVote, Sunflower Community Action, or any number of LGBTQ groups. I have. Please do not call me part of the problem when your own activism in this state is probably limited to good-faith debates on the sidelines.
As for your ninja edit, I do hope you'll excuse me for putting a post on multiple subreddits. I know that's simply unheard of.