Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
Therefore I think a little humor is in order and it begs the question how long will it be before Linda Harvey, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, and the rest declare war on Bugs Bunny because of his penchant for crossdressing:
Editor's note - let me say right now that I apologize in advance to anyone who may be offended by the above montage.
Say what you will about the "chicken unpleasantness," it is empowering some interesting folks to send emails "educating" me on the situation. For example, read this email which I received last night:
The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !
(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time "days of Lot" - coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings - that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)
Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco's underground saint - San Andreas - will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in "Madam" Nancy Pelosi's brothel district in front of children!
Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It's far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted "days" of "Lot" and "Noah" in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads - no, not the Sears catalog - and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google "Obama Fulfilling the Bible.")
Gays like to say that Jesus didn't explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don't talk about all the things they don't want. Instead they speak positively about what they'd like to receive.
In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of "thou-shall-nots" and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same "days of Lot," gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends - including Brown and Pelosi - did NOT approve of this message.)
The more I think about it, the more I am starting to realize that after the immediate reaction of the "Chick-Fil-A" Appreciation day goes over, the restaurant is going to realize just how deep of a mess it got itself into.
I don't envision seeing crowds lining up to support Chick-Fil-A on a daily basis, but I DO envision seeing members of the gay community withholding their dollars from the company.
One thing I can tell you about us gays is that when we hold a grudge against a company which has wronged us, we DO NOT let it go.
I know of some gay men who STILL will not drink orange juice because of Anita Bryant.
Seriously though, while this "chicken unpleasantness" has become a cultural moment, let's not get discouraged with the thought of those companies who will not support us and gives money to groups wanting to take away our equality.
Let's remember the companies who do support us:
Feel free to give your dollars to those businesses.
Editor's note - I may or may not be posting intermediately today due to a dentist's appointment.
Okay, I know after yesterday, everyone is all "chickened out." So let's talk about another subject while bearing in mind that the Chick-Fil-A situation is NOT over yet. The restaurant seems to have approached Anita Bryant status . . . and we all remembered what happened to HER.
On Tuesday, the Coalition of African-Americans Pastors (CAAP) held a press conference announcing plans to speak out against President Obama's support of marriage equality.
I'm sure we will be hearing more about this group, including the fact that the president, Rev. William Owens, is the "black church liaison with the National Organization for Marriage and that NOM has already endorsed Obama's appointment Mitt Romney.
For those not familiar with two plus two, add in the fact that NOM has already been called to the carpet because of its wedge strategy, i.e. the group's plan to play gay and black America against each other on the subject of marriage equality.
The following clip is another reason why NOM's race-wedge strategy won't work.
Let me preface by saying that I've always found it interesting how the religious right in general are so chilvarous to the black community when it seeks "defend" the legacy of the civil rights movement against the supposed unfair comparison to the gay equality movement.
However, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association shows us what some members of the religious right think about black folks when they aren't faking their chivalry:
Transcript:
The Democrats as a party, I believe, they want slaves, they want Americans to be as slavishly dependent upon the central government as slaves were upon their masters in pre-Civil War days, that’s what they want. That’s why they’re trying to hand out goodies and dish out goodies to get them completely dependent because then they’ll know that they can count on them and count on their votes, they’re going to vote for whatever party is promising them the most goodies. We were talking this morning about how in the world is it that African Americans still support the Democratic Party? How can you explain that, when the Democratic Party is the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, lynch mobs, the party that filibustered the Civil Rights Act, how can you explain this?
. . . The only reason we can see why the Democrat Party still has support in the African American community is because the Democrat Party promises them more goodies, the Democrat Party is handing out stuff, basically getting them addicted. It’s like the government is one big giant methadone clinic and they’re just handing out these injections to people in the form of welfare benefits to get them hooked, so they got to hook up with their supplier once a month, they got to get their fix, they got to hook up with their dealer on a street corner once a month and get their fix from the federal government. They’re like drug-addled addicts and the Democrat Party has gotten them addicted to welfare benefits. That apparently is the only reason they continue to support this party.
. . . I think what keeps the African American community in the Democratic and on the Democratic plantation is the promise of goodies, it’s the promise of welfare, it’s the promise of benefits. That’s what keeps them on the Democratic platform as much as anything. So that’s just a form of idolatry, they put money ahead of principle. If they’re going to give me stuff, that’s materialism, that’s greed, that’s a violation of the Ten Commandments, they’re going to stick that in front of me I’m going to vote for them no matter what.
Now some folks will say that Fischer not a part of NOM. However, Fischer is a prominent voice in the religious right as a spokesman for the American Family Association. And AFA and NOM have joined forces before, particularly during this recent "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day."
So at the very least, NOM (or at least CAAP) should say something about Fischer's words.
Of course they won't and THAT is the point.
Seems to me that if NOM wants to siphon the black vote away from President Obama, muzzling one of its allies would be more effective than using astroturfed black groups.
While members of the religious right are patting themselves on the back on a successful Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day (while totally oblivious to how they helped US get the information out on the evil that Chick-Fil-A supports), the following has been happening in the real world:
As part of an effort to market its standard discounted family travel program, for the first time, the national passenger rail company included gay families in its materials. In an online ad sent by Instinct magazine to its email subscribers, a photo of same-sex parents with their child is featured.
Two version of the ad, one with a picture of a male couple and another with a female couple, were distributed. Both versions include the headline: Priceless Family Moments Are Now Affordable. The ad goes on to promote Amtrak's 50% off campaign for children age 2 to 15 who are traveling with an adult, and directs readers to its gay travel website www.AmtrakRideWithPride.com.
Also, Judith Arndt has become the first openly gay athlete to medal at the Olympics in London by winning the silver in Women’s Cycling Time Trials.
This is the third Olympic medal for Judith Arndt, who, as a 20-year-old, won silver for the 3000 Meter Pursuit at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She also won a bronze in Road Race at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Concerned Women For America vs. Amazon - Only a religious right group - in this case, Concerned Women for America - can contradict itself in its own writings and think that gay folks won't notice.
