Since the beginning of the month, there have been three truly remarkable (remarkably disgusting, that is) cases involving the GLBT community. Two responses: punish everyone and blame the gays (Catholic Charities in Washington and the Iwatamba school district); the third (Denver) didn’t get the memo. Read the rest of this entry ?
Archive for the ‘hypocrisy’ Category
Marry a Committed Lover? No. Marry a Stranger? Yes.
19 February, 2010As I have said (written?) before, one of my best friends is gay. He envies the relationship I have with (((Wife))). He envies the fact that I can be married. Here in Pennsylvania, he cannot. Hell, we don’t even have a domestic partnership law — Pennsylvania has gone so far as to ban, by statute, gay marriage.
Two total strangers (as long as they are of opposite sex) can get married. An 80-year-old geezer can marry (in most states) a sixteen-year-old girl. A death row inmate can marry a girl he only met through the mail. Yet, in most states, gay and lesbian lovers, who may have long term, committed relationships, cannot marry. Why not? Religion. Read the rest of this entry ?
Feel That Christian Love
5 December, 2009Christianity is a religion of, supposedly, love. The love of god (and if you don’t love him back in the right way, he will sentence you to an eternity torment. The love of children (and you can even let them starve while waiting for god to provide). The love towards one’s enemy (specifically, Christians would love them to die). Read the rest of this entry ?
Blue State, Red Governor
24 November, 2009When I graduated from college with an honours degree in history, I moved to Rhode Island and spent about a year selling cars (well, it was a history degree, right?). I enjoyed Rhode Island. Nice state. Rather liberal. Delightfully bizarre. But, like the rest of New England, definitely a blue state. Read the rest of this entry ?
What if America Was a Christian Nation?
24 November, 2009Many conservatives (both political conservatives and religious conservatives) have a dream of transforming America from a secular democracy to a theocratic Christian democracy (picture Iran but with Robertson, Dobson, Haggard, etc. filling in for the Imams). So how would America be different if that happened? Read the rest of this entry ?
A Few Pet Peeves
13 October, 2009(((Wife))) has decided that, should we ever be stupid enough to acquire yet another pet (most likely a cat), the new pet would be named Peeves. Here are a few random pet peeves of mine (all through personal experience): Read the rest of this entry ?
An Addendum to A Kentucky Hat Trick of Stupid
12 September, 2009Oddly (and this is from Ed Brayton’s Dispatches from the Culture Wars), kids from Breckinridge High School, in Kentucky, do not need parental permission to be taken to a Baptist revival by their football coach. The kids did need a signed permission slip from their parents to listen to Barrack Obama’s education pep talk! Read the rest of this entry ?
Skewering Palin with Truth!
19 July, 2009This Modern World, by Tom Tomorrow, has a fantastic Sarah Palin comic out right now: Read the rest of this entry ?
Republican Family Values: Bullshit!
5 July, 2009
The Republican Party, in a rather successful attempt to convince poor and middle class Americans to vote against their self-interest, have embrace the idea of family values. They are anti-choice (because women are made to have babies), anti-birth-control (because if the sluts want to have sex, they damn well better get pregnant (otherwise, they might do it for pleasure)), anti-sex-education (because if you teach kids the facts about how their bodies work, they might get the wild idea that they can control their own fertility), anti-pornography (because we certainly don’t want humans to think that sex might be enjoyable), anti-GLBT (because we should ignore the Levitican proscriptions about shellfish and mixed fabrics and embrace the anti-homosexual message (without, of course, cherry-picking the Bible) and anti-freedom-of-though (because rational thought is the enemy of faith). Read the rest of this entry ?
A Strange Combination of Bumper Stickers
29 June, 2009I just got back from the grocery store. While walking across the parking lot, I almost got run over by a large SUV (no, Sarge, it probably was not the one gunning for you). It had an odd combination of bumper stickers on the back: Read the rest of this entry ?
(((Billy))) The Atheist 