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Exercises in Religious Freedom
December 3, 2014 - 12:41pm
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Apparently not all Christians are like this...
Arizona pastor predicts ‘AIDS-free Christmas’ if all gays are killed, as God commands
... but a hell of a lot enable hatred like this by their silence.
Ugh. Anderson is one hateful motherfucker.
How long before he comes out of the closet?
I am setting my watch.
Probably when he gets caught in a public washroom.
My personal favourite remains the virulently homophobic Republican who, when caught with a rent boy in an airport, protested that he was carrying his luggage.
Edited to add, that was George Rekers, formerly of the Family Research Council.
http://gawker.com/5531027/the-virulent-anti-gay-activist-who-brought-a-r...
It looks like he is more than happy to crawl out from behind the safety of his pulpit to do a totally unapologetic interview with the local NBC affiliate:
Pastor defends his anti-homosexual sermon.
Although I am not sure I take a lot of comfort in his clarifying that execution of LGBT individuals is not something he and his congregation should be doing but, rather, should be a governmental responsibility.
Meanwhile, down in New Zealand:
Just another of Christianity's "loving people" no doubt.
Thanks Bacchus, that provoked one of those grins that was so wide I could hear a little cracking sound in my temporomandibular joint.
*bows deeply* My pleasure. Its one of my favourite memes
And I have TMJ as well
@Bacchus - <3
Sorry to break up the love-fest (great photo Bacchus).
From Dec 4 2014: Michigan House Passes Religious 'License To Discriminate' Bill
Probably unconstitutional, so the lawsuits would ultimately force rationality back into the situation.
Plus the power that would give to Native Americans would make things utterly untenable for the whiteys.
jas, first of all I never said that, it's a quote from the linked article. It's misleading to re-quote it as if I said it.
Second, this is the LGBTQ forum, so kindly keep your vile racism against Indigenous people to the thread about the courts stepping in. I've left it to you and your fellow racists to enjoy.
Vile and despicable.
Sorry for the drift, bagkitty.
Right, yeah. I guess my racism in that thread is way outta control, eh?
Umm... yeah, no.
Meanwhile in Texas
@ Maysie - I didn't consider it drift in the slightest - I think it is a new, and extremely disturbing, trend... codifying "religious" exemptions that would permit overt discrimination under the banner of "religious belief". You bring up the example of Michigan - you don't have to go so far afield to find examples though, look at hte Prentice Tories here in Alberta trying to insert the same reasoning into their recent Bill 10.
If you were talking about your response to the word burst that appears at the end of post #12... If you feel capable of handling it go for it... I tried to glean some sense out of it several times and failed completely - in my mind it doesn't even qualify as a non-sequitor, just a meaningless outburst.
@ Bacchus #7
And it's not just a snappy internet meme. He actually gave a demonstration of the principle in Matthew 8.
On the exemption thing, don't they have one in Ontario for JPs not wanting to recognize marriage equality?
Of course a medical excemption is of more immediate concern, and probably would be challenged. Though it is nothing new, in an informal sense. Doctors have been playing god with women's reproductive health since forever.
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I don't think I was trying to write in code or anything. But whatever. You found it a meaningless wordburst; Maysie found it highly offensive.
Purple jam pants. There. Does someone want to read something into that?
Fucking purple racist.
There I said it.
Don't think anyone has linked this yet
http://stopugandanantihomosexualitybill.blogspot.co.uk/
Just how bad is homosexuality? Well let's check in with Pastor Scott Lively (who gets frequent flier points for his "contributions" in advising the homophobes in both Uganda and Russia) where he explains that homosexuality is worse than mass murder.
On the plus side, a federal court in the United States has denied Pastor Lively's petition to have charges against him (brought under the Alien Torts Statute by Ugandan plaintiffs accusing him of contributing to crimes against humanity) dismissed.
When I was a wee bagkitten, the nuns at the school I attended tried to teach us about Christian Charity. I am not sure this is quite what they meant.
Lovely.
A monk Whatcott. Just what we need.
Unfortunately, pharmacists have that right here:
Usually it's birth control pills or the morning after pill. I've never heard of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions for antiretrovirals, though I can see how it would be consistent behaviour for someone who believed that AIDS is "God's punishment for homosexuality."
I love the comments in Joe My God.
What a ridiculous rule.
Religion is a very scary thing. It lets people do all kinds of evil nasty stuff and clear their conscience of any immoral act by asking for forgiveness from an imaginary friend.
@ Sineed.
Yup. That's part of what I was talking about. I have also heard of doctors refusing to perform sterilizations on people they considered too young.
Of course a friend got the pill as a teen (years ago) for the wink/nudge reason of irregular periods.
Sineed, yes it was a good comment, but it helps to really capture the spirit of the site if you include the peanut gallery (everybody else on the site) trying to one-up each other...
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/13/north_carolina_church_members_indicted_f...
Not sure if this really belongs here but I don't want to start a new thread. I do have to say that Kirk Cameron had pretty much fallen off the radar screen - except for the odd article about "Child Stars, where are they now" that mentioned he had become a born again preacher I haven't even heard his name for years.
http://churchandstate.org.uk/2014/11/kirk-cameron-wants-to-force-christm...