“Here in America we’ve had what maybe three known real big terrorist attacks on our nation. But every day our young people especially, all of us, but our young people especially are in a sense bombarded with the message that homosexuality is normal and natural.”
— Sally Kern, Oklahoma state legislator and Christian, following up
on her claim that “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so
than terrorism or Islam”
(tip: Truth Wins Out)
AC360 – Focus On The Family: Anti-Bullying Efforts Promotes Homosexuality In Kids
(video: Anderson Cooper’s AC360º via SuchIsLifeVideos at YouTube)
Imagine the passionate arguments that Focus on the Family’s Candi Cushman would be making if it were, instead, Christian children who were being ruthlessly and brutally bullied.
They’d probably be the usual Poor Oppressed Christians™ arguments the extreme Christian right makes anytime a judge rules against them, or a Christian missionary in a non-Christian country gets thrown in the slammer, or they’re contradicted or asked to provide empirical evidence of their preposterous claims. At a minimum, they’d be calling for schools to educate children that it’s wrong to beat the crap out of kids just because, in addition to the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus, some kids believe in invisible sky fairies and magical kingdoms in the clouds.
Not unexpectedly, Cushman demonstrates that the Christian right believes reality — hard facts and data — shouldn’t be taken into consideration if they favor a “political subgroup.” Well, where in the good book does it say: Thou shalt not shelter kids from anti-gay bullying if they happen to belong to a political subgroup?
Candi Cushman: Well, I would be in favor of a teacher directly confronting a child bullying another child that’s identified as gay. I think that should be stopped. But our viewpoint comes from the belief that all human beings, all students are created in God’s image, and they deserve to be protected because they are a human being, uniquely created by God, with innate dignity and worth, and not because of the political subgroup they — they identify with or how they identify sexually.
That’s how we think these bullying policies should be based: widespread, neutral protection.
Rosalind Wiseman: Anderson, can I say, but in all respect — in all respect, it does not in any way reflect the reality of what schools are like. So we can have policies that are about ideal reality or we can have policies that are about concrete reality and reflect what children are experiencing. And that’s when we become relevant to young people. If you don’t, it doesn’t work.
(emphasis: mine)
Find the compete transcript at the link.
“You want to know who the biggest hypocrite in the world is? The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers and not for homosexuals. Hypocrite. The same God who instituted the death penalty for murderers is the same God who instituted the death penalty for rapists and for homosexuals — sodomites, queers! That’s what it was instituted for, okay? That’s God, he hasn’t changed. Oh, God doesn’t feel that way in the New Testament … God never “felt” anything about it, he commanded it and said they should be taken out and killed.”
— Steven Anderson, the Christian pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church
in Tempe, Arizona, advocating the extermination of gay Americans
Say Cheese! Glee ‘Vogue’ Flash Mob At Sydney QVB
(video: RockYourBox at YouTube)
This world needs two things: more gay kiss-ins and more flash mobs. Click here to watch lots more of each.
NPR has a piece up on Jeff Sharlet, the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, who talks about his encounter with the author of Uganda’s infamous exterminate-the-gays bill, Christian MP David Bahati: “Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that he wanted ‘to kill every last gay person.’” Bahati is connected with the American conservative Christianist cult, The Family. That organization is a veritable who’s who of America’s political and religious right.
The Fresh Air Interview: Journalist Jeff Sharlet — ‘Finding Roots Of Anti-Gay Sentiment in Uganda’.
National Public RadioUganda’s anti-homosexuality bill was introduced by parliament member David Bahati in October 2009. The bill seeks to eradicate homosexuality from Uganda and become a model for the rest of Africa.
Among the proposals in the bill: prison terms for Ugandans who fail to report a homosexual within 24 hours; lifelong prison sentences for a single homosexual act; and the death sentence for a range of acts, including having gay sex while HIV-positive, having gay sex with a disabled person or being classified as a “serial offender” — that is, someone who has gay sex more than once.
“It had overwhelming popular support in Uganda. You could hardly imagine a more popular initiative,” says investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet. “It just sort of seized this frenzy — and then there was a lot of international pressure against it. You had Sweden threatening to cut off foreign aid, you had Germany saying, ‘We’ll give you a lot more money if you don’t pass it’ — and it’s now gone into this holding pattern. … [But] it remains incredibly dangerous.”
Sharlet says of the international response:
“There is some hope because the international outcry did have an effect. Not only in scaring [Ugandan President Yoweri] Museveni, but in waking up a lot of Ugandan Christians — devout Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians — who at least turned against the death penalty because of this. And also, building support for Ugandan gay activists — gay groups all over the world are saying: ‘You’re in the firing line there. How can we help?’ It’s not a done deal. The violence has already started. It will probably get worse, much worse. But there is some hope.”
Read my earlier posts on Uganda dating back to March 2009 at the link.
NOM-funded mailers are flooding DC with BS
(graphic: The National Organization for Marriage)
The National Organization for Marriage’s modus operandi is spending oodles of mystery manna from their Mormon and Catholic financiers while blitzkrieging from state to state, meddling in local political affairs, targeting gay-friendly politicians, suing state-level election ethics boards, and influencing elections with half-truths, red herrings and outright lies.
Now, here they are warning residents of Washington DC to be on the lookout for “outside special interests” trying to influence a local election:
Thousands of dollars from homosexual activists outside Ward 5 are attacking Delano Hunter because he supports our right to vote on whether the District legalizes ‘gay marriage.’
Radical, gay marriage activists are flooding Ward 5 with money to defeat Delano Hunter, not because they don’t like his plan to improve our community, but only because he supports the Biblical definition of marriage.
The outside gay activists don’t care about our right to home rule and right to vote on gay marriage. They only care about their agenda to redefine marriage. Don’t let them target Delano Hunter.
NOM’s point man in DC is non other than Bigot Harry Jackson, who, by the way, is not a resident of Washington DC. He’s what they used to call an “outside agitator’ back in the 1960s. Jackson is all over DC with his attempts to spark a race war between DC’s black community and the gays and his threats of “bloodletting.” Jackson told US News & World Report: “You’re going to see a bloodletting that is going to mark a new style of engagement for people who are against same-sex marriage.”
Right Wing Watch covers in detail NOM’s financial chicanery in DC at the link.
(tip: Right Wing Watch)
Poor oppressed Christian Gary Bauer:
“Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable.”
Only, that’s total bullshit. Wake me when we start beheading Christians in the public square for the crime of being Christians. Secularists and other believers in the constitutional separation of church and state are doing nothing more menacing than simply attempting to halt publicly-funded religious displays and prayers at government meetings. I’ll bring the popcorn.
Bauer: Obama, The Left, and Islamic Terrorists All Share The Same Agenda ~ Right Wing Watch
In a new column in Human Events, Gary Bauer explains that, at heart, President Obama, progressives, and Islamic terrorists all have the same agenda, which is to destroy America and its Judeo-Christian values [ ... ]
More fundamentally, left-wing progressivism and Islamism both hold that religious belief and reason are at odds. Of course, Islamists embrace faith and reject reason, while progressives value reason to the exclusion of faith. Eventually these groups may have to address their basic differences.
Right. Kyle, at Right Wing Watch, remind us that in Bauer’s mind Islamist and terrorist are synonymous.
Further, Bauer claims:
There’s a reason Obama won the Muslim American vote by more than nine to one, and why it is suspected that he received millions of dollars in contributions to his presidential campaign from Muslims abroad.
Could that reason be that the GOP fielded, as Obama’s opposition, a doddering, saber-rattling fool with a kooky Christian sidekick with a mobile blessed by her witch-hunting loon of a pastor?
(tip: Right Wing Watch)
Takedown of NOM’s Lies About Prop 8 (video: stop8org at YouTube)
Well done, Matt.
Over at http://stop8.org, we see a lot of silly claims about Prop 8, but the new radio ad put out by the National Organization for Marriage last week is just out-and-out deceitful. It’s packed full of lies and misrepresentations, so we decided to set the record straight, as it were, by going point by point through their bizarre claims and explaining why they are wrong, wrong, wrong.
Says Porno Pete‘s toady little sidekick Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel: “This is an unfortunate testament to the level with which the government at nearly every level is completely out of touch with the very people that it purports to represent.”
Right. That or it’s a fortunate testament to the people doing a proper job electing those who represent them, because the evening of 23 August passed with nary a report of a torch or pitchfork sighting.
CA lawmakers hope to repeal DOMA
One News Now
California’s legislature has officially endorsed repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
On August 23, the California State Senate approved joint resolution AJR 19 in a bipartisan vote of 22-12, calling on Congress to immediately repeal DOMA — the federal law that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
He explains that Congress passed DOMA by a wide margin in 1996, and that the definition still has popular support among voters today. “It’s still lopsided, despite a vigorous propaganda campaign by the homosexual activist lobby,” Baber notes.
What part of representative democracy do these fringie cons not actually get? Is this why they back the idea of corporate citizenship and corporations being in a position to buy elections? If so, they, who seem to have spent very little of their lives in business, will be in for a very rude awakening. To paraphrase an old line from early days of the fight against AIDS: A corporation knows no morals. Sorry, cons. It’s all show me the money all the time.
These Christian wing nuts are all for states’ rights until it turns out the states aren’t doing their theocratic bidding. Then they show up like the New Jersey-based NOM and the Salt Lake City, Utah-based Mormons did in 2008 to use their mammon, influence and prevarications to swing an election.
DOMA is soon to be relic on a par with the country’s Jim Crow Laws. So, put that in your alimentary canal and smoke it, Matt Barber.
No, Alveda King, Our Founders Did Not Put “God” On Our Money
(video: ChrisRodda2 at YouTube)
“They [the founders] had enough sense to put on the back of that money ‘In God We Trust.’ You can’t eat a piece of bread in America without remembering that you have to trust God to get it.”
— Alveda King, not the heir to her uncle Martin Luther King’s legacy and,
apparently, dumber than a box of rocks, claiming America’s founding fathers
placed the expression “In God We Trust” on American currency
Alveda King obviously needs a little history lesson — from somebody other than David Barton.
The national motto chosen by our founders was “E Pluribus Unum.” The changing of our national motto to “In God We Trust” and the placing of this motto on our money didn’t happen until the 1950s. Like adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, putting “In God We Trust” on our money was the direct result of the “red scare” fears of “godless” communists infiltrating our society and government — the same fears being revived by Glenn Beck.
Trust me. From now on, you won’t be able to buy a piece of bread in America without thinking Alveda King is a moron.
