Pam’s been whoop-assing the radical religious right since … well forever
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Pam Spaulding has once again broken out the tiny violin. It seems the religious right is raising a stink about being called the religious right — a term, in fact, coined by homo-hating, religious zealot Jerry Falwell. Pam points to an article in Christianity Today, in which the leading dim bulbs of the radical religious right kick up a tempest about being slapped with the phrase in a pejorative manner.
Gary Bauer, the diminutive President of American Values, whines, ”It amazes me how often in public discourse really pejorative phrases are used, like the ‘American Taliban,’ ‘fundamentalists,’ ‘Christian fascists,’ and ‘extreme Religious Right.’”
It amazes me how frequently these Talibanistas, who rail against anti-bullying initiatives like No Name Calling Week, trot out hate-motivated, hack rhetoric they’ve manufactured to attack GLBT citizens — not to mention the so-called “homosexual agenda,” which seems to exist only in their closed little minds.
Richard Land, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission for the Southern Baptist Convention, insists journalists do away with a number of perfectly applicable expressions. Says Land, “Until Tony Perkins or Jim Dobson puts a pistol on the table and threatens to kill someone, they shouldn’t be called ayatollah of the Right or the Jihadists of the Right.”
Pam reminds us of the violence these jihading ayatollahs of the radical religious right have perpetrated:
They cannot wash their hands of this; people have died because of the bigotry fomented and justified by Perkins, Falwell, Dobson, Sheldon and the rest of the professional “Christian” set. It could be argued that they need to retire the word Christian when referring to themselves because they have destroyed the word’s meaning.
When these usurpers of the term Christianity change their evil ways and start doing that whole love-thy-neighbor-do-unto-others thing, then perhaps expressions like radical religious right will no longer apply, but as long as these hateful haters are raking in the cash with their focus-on-the-homos message, don’t expect enlightenment anytime soon.
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I did that quite awhile ago. Pam’s Whoop-Ass comes in two “flavors:” Regular for whooping right-wing politicos, and Hot-and-Spicy for the asses that make up radical religious right.