Wednesday news briefs
Attacks on faith are an opportunity, says Cameron - This is the actor Kirk Cameron, not my favorite phony researcher Paul Cameron. But this Cameron seems to have taken a tip from that Cameron. He claims that assaults on Christian faith is increasing in the public square, but he offer no proof of this.
If anything, it's that self-righteous claim of victimhood that's slowly but surely giving Christianity a bad name in this country. Pretty soon, when people hear the word "Christian," they aren't going to think of individuals who let their faith and love of God show in their daily lives . They aren't going to think of the Good Samaritan. And they are not going to think of Jesus.
They are going to think of a bunch of hypocrites whose talk of religious liberties only mean them and them only. They are going to think of a man like James Dobson in pictures where he holds the Bible like the hammer of Thor.
And they are going to think of intolerant boobs who use the government to hold back the rights of lgbts and ignore the needs of the homeless, hungry, and truly spiritually destitute while they themselves give aid and comfort to the forces of corruption (i.e. Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, and Charles Keating) in pursuit of some bullshit idea of conquest in the name of God.
Okay, enough of my soap box.
Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to PM post - And here we are supposed to be the first in things like this.
Big trouble for Obama nod - Not necessarily a gay issue, but to me, it's taking anti-Obamaism to the extreme.
Anti-Gay Arguments We Don’t Bother With (And Should): Part 1 - The beginning of an excellent series by Box Turtle Bulletin and should be required reading for all lgbts.
Dumbass anti-gay comment of the week:
"Certainly there would be a mass exodus of normal men from a homosexualized military," said Lively, "probably leading to the reinstatement of compulsory service. . . . And yes there would be severe morale problems for normal men forced to live as the objects of sexual interest of other men with whom they share close quarters. However, the much bigger, longer-term problem is the threat of a homosexual takeover of the military branches." - Scott Lively, 'Gays' in the Military: A Revival of The Pink Swastika?
The stupidity of the "Pine Swastika" myth never ceases to amaze me.
ReplyDeleteWell you know the religious right. Something being discredited doesn't really matter to them.
ReplyDeleteHey! If you're going to throw around words like "discredited" -- SHOW YOUR WORK! How am I supposed to make use of this information without a link here? (Seriously, just today someone used the "Pink Swastika" defense and it would be great to have good info to fight back.)
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This is true and I apologize for not going into detail about the Pink Swatiska. It will be the subject of my next post.
ReplyDeleteI notice he doesn't provide any examples whatsoever. (And of course if he did, there would be no links to valid news stories because ONN never provides such things.) We're just supposed to take him at his word. But that's the way it is with them. They say "we're being persecuted all over the place" and the flock believes, and starts rending it's garments.
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