Even as we enjoy the leisure of a Saturday, religious right talking heads are gathering for something they call The Awakening.
Personally, the event sounds like some God-awful horror movie I once saw starring Charleton Heston. We would all be so fortunate if it actually was that. But it's worse.
Apparently The Awakening is when various religious right spokespeople and heads gather together to simultaneously pat themselves on the back for their deluded belief that God favors them most of all and also to whine about the "secularlists" and "gays."
While I can't give you a report of this dreary affair, People for the American Way's Right-Wing Watch has a twitter feed which details thehighlights lowlights of this monstrosity complete with the usual cast of characters spewing their hatred:
Personally, the event sounds like some God-awful horror movie I once saw starring Charleton Heston. We would all be so fortunate if it actually was that. But it's worse.
Apparently The Awakening is when various religious right spokespeople and heads gather together to simultaneously pat themselves on the back for their deluded belief that God favors them most of all and also to whine about the "secularlists" and "gays."
While I can't give you a report of this dreary affair, People for the American Way's Right-Wing Watch has a twitter feed which details the
Right Wing Watch Matt Barber says pro-choice and pro-gay rights advocates will "be remembered akin to those who supported slavery" #Awakening2012
Matt Barber says it is "an act of hate" to affirm gay people's sexual orientation #Awakening2012
Matt Barber: "homosexualists" and "sexual anarchists" using "Glee" to "indoctrinate" kids #Awakening2012
Greg Quinlan: "There is zero scientific evidence that anyone is born a homosexual" #Awakening2012
Mercy! It's going to be a wild day! The irony is that these are the same folks who whine about the gay community doesn't show the tolerance. You should never tolerate someone who kicks you in the ribs, whether it be literal or rhetorical.