“It’s more important than the presidential election.”

Those words were uttered by the fucktard known as Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. A real sweetheart group of Theocrats and religious wingnuts. It was said about Proposition 8 here in Cali, the gay marriage amendment they want to put into the Cali Consitution November 4th.

It just shows how sick and desperate these freaks are. It’s pathetic no? Check out these memorable quotes as well from a NYT writeup on the subject:

“This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” said Charles W. Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and an eminent evangelical voice, speaking to pastors in a video promoting Proposition 8. “We lose this, we are going to lose in a lot of other ways, including freedom of religion.”

“We’ve picked bad presidents before, and we’ve survived as a nation,” said Mr. Perkins, who has made two trips to California in the last six weeks. “But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

Colson’s horseshit really chaps my ass. Its all bullshit and bravado for Christs sake. The world will not end, our society will not come crashing down around us, religion will not be outlawed and furthermore:

You hate-filled bags of batshit are disgusting in your self-consuming hatred. May you all rot in hell very soon.

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Evolution: Scapegoat of the Right

by PraetorOne

When the far right goes looking for a scapegoat it doesn’t go halfway. The same people who talk about personal responsibility are the same people who blame evolution and the teaching of evolution in our class rooms for America’s social problems. That’s right friends and neighbors. The far right claims that if you teach children they are mammals they will somehow devolve into violent brutes and thugs. Additionally, many on he far right blame evolution for the eugenics and brutality of the the Third Reich and fascist Italy but that ignores the fact that those governments had hundreds of years of experience with conservative Christianity. In a similar vein those governments never completely rejected Christianity and merely adapted their versions of Christianity to adapt to the fascist regimes. In other words these were essentially Christian regimes

So what’s wrong with the far right’s take on evolution?

Well, to be perfectly frank it actually undermines the far right’s ideas about personal responsibility. Why should children bother to control themselves when the adults in their world are handing them a custom made excuse for bad behavior? “I can’t help being a violent, over-sexed thug–Charles Darwin made me do it.” Children need guidance, not excuses, and the far right, in its eagerness to blame evolution from everything from tooth decay to social decay, has managed quite nicely to provide a convenient excuse for violence and sexual promiscuity.

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GOD STEPS OUT OF CLOSET

GOD STEPS OUT OF CLOSET:
STUNS FUNDAMENTALISTS OF ALL FAITHS

From the Not So Anal Retentive Press

By SweetPea and PraetorOne

CHAPEL HILL–Religious leaders across the world were shocked and horrified when the Lord God admitted that he is a practicing homosexual. Speaking during a live interview on the March 24, 2008 broadcast of the 700 Club, the Lord God, AKA Jehovah, stunned the monotheistic world when he officially came out of the closet during the now controversial Christmas Eve interview.

According to the Lord God, age undetermined, he began to experience “homo erotic thoughts” in the Garden of Eden only moments after the creation of Adam and Eve.”I always wondered why I created a male first,” God told Robertson. “I could have created a woman, but for some odd reason I just wasn’t interested in the female gender Now I understand. Now I know why.”

In God’s official revision of the Old Testament mythology, Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise in a fit of jealousy because Adam took took a sexual interest in Eve, not because Adam and Eve picked and tasted the forbidden fruit as often repeated in monotheistic fairy tales.

“I did everything for him, ” God complained, his voice raw with emotion. “I molded him out of clay, I breathed air into his lungs, I gave him a soul. And then he didn’t even write. He didn’t even call. He didn’t even send flowers! I feel so cheated! I feel so used!”

Considering God’s most recent confession, much of the Old Testament insanity against gay relationships must be considered in a new light. In a similar vein, those writings which delegate women to second class ciizenship or even property must be viewed in the proper context, that context being the Lord’s envious nature. According to psychiatric literature, many of the most rabid homophobes are those individuals who are either uncomfortable with, or trying to deny their own homosexual inclinations. As a result of the Lord God’s emergence from the closet we now have a more thorough understanding of the incidents in Sodom and Gomorrah.

“Dad was in classic denial, and it made him a little flamboyant.” said Jesus, the Prince of Piece. “He couldn’t exactly cross dress–that would never have gone over well with the Celestial Choir. But times have changed and now that he has discovered his true self we should be able to enact a true policy of love and forgiveness.”

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Conservative religious Leaders and their culture of death

Please welcome Rachel and Karen from the Coalition for a Democratic America~Dusty
By Rachel and Karen

Edited by BibleBelted and Donatra

In his wonderful article, “Pro-Death Conservatives Are Responsible for High Abortion Rates,” George Monbiot openly places the blame for high abortion rates on the Catholic Church as well as other conservative religions which ban contraception and which seek to reduce women to the positions of second class citizens.

According to Monbiot as societies modernize their medical practices, as they gain a better grasp on medical technology, there is a brief period when both, abortion and the use of contraception rise together. But a study in Family Planing Perspectives reveals that once birth rates stabilize, the use of contraception will continue to increase while the abortion rate falls. In other words there is a direct relationship between the use of contraception and falling abortion rates. Once 80 percent of the population is using contraception the incidents of abortion drop off dramatically. As the modernizing society advances medically the need for abortion steadily decreases with the increase in contraception; and yet for some bizzare reason or reasons, the male leaders of conservative religion–most notably those in the Catholic Church–cling tightly to their preconceived fantasies about contraception, insisting that both contraception and abortion a culture of death, when in fact it is male-dominated conservative religion which is producing a culture of death.

As proof Mister Monbiot offers the following evidence:

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THE LATEST IN HYPOCRISY: PRAYING FOR THE DEATHS OF YOUR RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL OPPONENTS

“Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any favor to his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water , and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord and of them that speak evil against my soul.” Psalm 109, verses 6 through 20

When the staff members of Americans United For Separation of Church and State asked the IRS to investigate the Reverend Wiley Drake, Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention for what they believed were Drake’s violation(s) of federal tax law, Americans United had no idea that they would soon find themselves on the receiving end of Imprectatory Prayers in which Drake and his ilk were openly praying for the physical harm and even deaths of American United Staff members. For those of you who missed this twisted imbecility-and we’re bound and determined that you won’t–Mister Drake and his demented followers went right to the Book of Psalms to find violent imagery which they promptly transformed into the Christian versions of death curses. Among the verses that they bantered about were:

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DISGUSTED

By PraetorOne and BibleBelted

I always thought that the far right, so called “religious right” (I just can’t bring myself to call them Christians anymore) were dead set against social programs and social spending. Well, as it turns out, it appears as if they don’t mind social spending as long as they’re the beneficiaries of those social programs. And I am not talking about the way in which they want to eradicate the wall between Church and State which prevents the government from favoring one faith over the other. Although I am certain that is their idee fixe.

No, I am talking about right wingers who complain about social spending by established programs when it benefits the lower classes and racial minorities but who have no problem when it comes to playing the system for their own ends. I recently had the dubious pleasure of encountering people such as these, and the lengths to which they will go to play the system are astounding. One of the individuals who I encountered is a dyed in the wool Republican, a member of he Religious right, who is currently attempting to apply for Medicaid. This comes after an extended use of Medicare. Having bilked that program for God only knows how many thousands of dollars, he is now attempting to apply for Medicaid and the length to which he will twist the system are nothing less than amazing. Assets are being shuffled from family member to family member. Possessions are being purchased in family members’ names so that he won’t have too many. Luxuries are being Orwellianized into necessities, ad nauseam. To make the situation even worse, this same individual sees no contradiction in his attitudes and behavior as he issues veiled remarks which demonize and blame the poor and minorities for their own poverty and inequality. Read more

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EVANGELICAL NAVEL CONTEMPLATION:How Radical Religious Right theology Embraces Republican Social Darwinism

By PraetorOne

Sometimes I’m a little slow but it finally dawned on me–there are very real theological reasons why the Christian Right is so attracted to the Republican Party, and I suspect that part of it has to do with the fact that the Evangelical belief in “faith only” salvation goes hand in glove with Republican economic policies. In the past I have referred to Republican economic policies as “the law of the jungle,” “social darwinism,” and survival of the fittest, etc. Little did I realize that the right wing, evangelical belief in faith only theology is a suitable companion to Republican economics.

When you think about it the whole thing makes a certain degree of sense. Not only do many right wing evangelicals believe in faith only salvation, they also try very hard to keep the idea of works, good deeds if you will, out of their religious paradigm. Now why, one must wonder would THAT be the case? The answer is rather simple when you get right down to it. Once you place all of your emphasis on faith and eliminate acts of humanitarianism, it becomes much easier to excuse the greed and graft which has become the current incarnation of the Republican Party. Never act, never worry! If you emphasize faith over acts you find yourself in a position where it becomes easy to forgive–or worse yet–condone the idea of transferring wealth away from the lower classes while handing it to th nation’s wealthiest elite who clearly have no need for additional wealth. Worse yet, it becomes easier to blame the victims for their poverty–a tactic which many Republicans, both economic and evangelical, have become quite accustomed to. It works out very nicely for the right wing evangelical who wouldn’t lift a finger to help someone who he considers anti-christian anyhow. Why help all those non evangelicals out there who are so clearly condemned to go to hell anyhow? Why bother with social programs, environmental programs, and educational programs etc when God is only going to come in the End Times anyhow to destroy the whole bleeding planet anyhow? It’s much easier to follow a religious dogma which emphasizes faith over acts because an emphasis on faith will justify the very noisy navel contemplation which passes for evangelical worship. Although I have to admit, the only time that evangelicals EVER seem to get off their asses is when they want to convert the lowly heathens who they so clearly believe are below them in the theological pecking order. On those occasions the far right is only more than willing to extend a little time and energy on an act, but only because they believe it will provide them with the POLITICAL power that they crave–political power which, of course, will promptly be channeled into convincing people that the only things they need to do are believe and sit on their lazy haunches while the world around them goes to Hell in a hand car.

Ironically–or perhaps not so ironically now that I think about it–the right wing evangelicals, who can quote scripture at the drop of a hat–seem to have a very poor understanding of the Gospel of Christ. True, the New Testament does talk about faith and belief, but that doesn’t explain those portions of the New Testament in which Christ delivers specific instructions about the poor–about giving up wealth, but helping those who are less fortunate, healing and comforting the sick, offering guidelines by which we can live better lives. In the Evangelical dreamscape we are apparently supposed to believe that Christ issued these instructions because it was a boring Tuesday afternoon and he didn’t have anything better to do with himself. Welcome to the happy sappy nightmare world of the Christian Right where the only thing that doesn’t matter in the Gospel(s) of Christ are the teachings of Christ!

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Those Asshats are at it again..

I was being polite in the title..I really wanted to say Those Bible-thumping Fuckwits are at it again…

I construe Abortion Clinic fire-bombings and attacks as hate crimes. I know most government entities do not. So be it, but it ain’t right and they need to nail these fuckas post haste..before someone gets hurt or dies because some fundi mutha fucka can’t handle a female getting a perfectly legal medical procedure.

The Doctor who’s office was firebombed has been practicing medicine for 22 years.. he doesn’t need this shit.

The article has the statistics for abortion clinic attacks since 1977. They could be right, they could be way off..but still:

According to a statement from the National Abortion Federation, there have been seven murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 100 butyric acid attacks, 656 anthrax threats, and 175 arsons against abortion providers since 1977, including Thursday’s Albuquerque incident.

It’s a legal medical procedure, get over it you sick sumbitches.

The video with a very irony-laden title is just to calm me the hell down after reading about this crap at P2’s blog

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Jesus the King? Or Filter Kings?

What would you think about a minister who worked for the death-peddlers of big tobacco? Would you think that perhaps the minister was being just a wee bit less than a messenger of God? And what if the minister then decided to lie about taking payoffs from big tobacco? Would you consider these to be the actions of a holy man?It seems that perhaps Jesusistanis should be asking their new favorite boy these questions. For it does appear that Godly Mike Huckabee went out and preached against universal healthcare (which you’d think a Christian pastor might see as a good thing,) and he got paid for doing it by big tobacco (not something we usually associate with messengers of God.) Talk about your conflicts of interest! The man of God was on the payroll of mercahts of death, to preach AGAINST giving aid and comfort to those too poor to afford it! Is your head spinning yet?

Of course it isn’t. Huck’s a phony, a charlatan, and a thoroughly despicable figure. The more we learn about Huck, the more our collective stomachs turn. That any preacher could sign up to do the bidding of a tobacco company is disgusting in and of itself, but then lying about it adds a whole new layer of contempt to the disgust that we naturally feel at learning of this. Huck is a repulsive serpent, no doubt a direct descendant of the fellow that whispered to Eve back in the day.

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Theocratic Revision at its worst: Part II

The second installment of this series is also crossposted at the Coaliton for a Democratic America-Dusty

Theocratic Crusades Against The Constitution and Freedom of Religion
By BibleBelted and ThomasPaine
Edited by PraetorOne
You really have to give our beloved Theocrats credit. When they decide to take the wrong side in an argument they don’t go half way. When they decide to rewrite history they don’t only go half way. Not only do they recast Founding Fathers such as James Madison and Thomas Jefferson as proponents of a Christian Republic. They also embrace the losing side of the church-state argument as it took lace in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.

James Madison Defeats Patrick Henry

“While it is certainly true that John Adams and Patrick Henry were in favor of established faiths in their respective states of Massachusetts’s and Virginia, the truth of the matter is that in the long run their argument, the idea of established churches in the various colonies, was already a losing proposition by the end of the 18th Century. More reasonable ideas, ( i.e. the Separation of Church and State and the disestablishment of state churches) had already been argued by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Mason even before the Framers met in Philadelphia to rewrite the woefully inadequate Articles of Confederation.

Patrick Henry, for the record, clearly came down on the establishment side. In 1784 he introduced the “Bill Establishing a Provision for Teaches of the Christian Religion.” This, as one might expect is a provision that contemporary Theocrats would find quite enjoyable. in that it required all people in the State of Virginia to “pay a moderate tax or contribution annually for the support of the Christian Religion, or of some Christian Church, denomination, or communion of Christians, or some form of Christian worship.” [1]

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THEOCRATIC REVISION AT ITS WORST: PART I

HOW FAR RIGHT THEOCRATS DISTORT LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND THE CONSTITUTION

The Redefinition of Equal Rights: Equality is Not a Matter of Special
Privileges-By SweetPea, BibleBelted, Thomas Paine, and PraetorOne

Whenever I hear people talk about gays and lesbians wanting to promote
the “homosexual life style” I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry.
In the first place the idea that we want to promote a given life style
is just one bread slice short of a sandwich, and to be perfectly
honest, the term “homosexual life style” is usually bantered about by
people who have a lot more to promote than just a so called “life
style.”

The only thing that gays and lesbians seek is the right to be treated
in the same way that heterosexuals are treated. That includes the
right to marry, the right to raise families, equal employment
opportunities, and just about any other right or convenience that the
heterosexual community takes for granted on a daily basis. And yet,
for some reason, whenever we seek what the majority already enjoys, we
are accused of promoting a life style or of asking for special
privileges. Strange, I never thought that asking for the rights and
benefits that others routinely enjoy could be defined as special
treatment, but for some reason a few people choose to redefine the
argument in those terms.

Of course you also have to remember that many, indeed the vast
majority of the people who use that kind of Orwellian argument
themselves have something to promote, and as I have already stated it
is a lot more than a mere lifestyle. It is a form of religion-based
government that is not recognized by our constitution. In short the
people who want to delegate gays and lesbians to second class
citizenship are attempting to impose their religion in what can only
be described as a Christian-oriented theocracy which would have made
our Founding Fathers cringe. Or to put it another way, the would be
theocrats, instead of taking the attitude that they don’t have to
engage in activities which they consider sinful, have taken the
attitude that they have the right to impose those values on others who
do not consider homosexuality to be sinful. They truly believe that
their religious views should reign supreme, and instead of taking
personal responsibility for their own actions they want to impose that
responsibility on those of differing faiths and creeds.

Now if that isn’t an establishment of religion will someone please
tell me what is?

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