The Gaytheist Agenda

Hilarious and spot-on. Now for the warnings so you can’t say I didn’t provide them:

Warnings: Video contains crude humor and obscene language. It viciously lambastes religious people who think Bibles are a groovy gift idea for homeless, hungry disaster victims. It may even violate Godwin’s Law. Definitely NSFW. Do not view if you are if you are prone to having The Vapors.

The Pear of Anguish was a popular punishment for certain individuals who violated “Biblical Law” during Medieval times. I have no doubt there are some who’d gladly put it into use today if they could.

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It was made of four ‘leaves’ which joined together by a hinge at the top. A screw inserted between the leaves could be turned to slowly separate the four lobes of the ‘pear’, expanding the orifice into which it had been inserted. The torturer could choose whether to simply distend the cavity, or expand the pear to it’s absolute maximum and mutilate the prisoner.

Of course, the orifice which was on the receiving end of the pear was symbolic of the offense - heretics received the oral pear, passive male homosexuals received the anal pear, and women who had intercourse with Satan were in receipt of the vaginal pear.
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I wonder how they determined a woman had been doing the nasty with Satan? It’s not like anybody could seriously claim they’d witnessed the act. Then again, these weren’t rational people so….

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. “
Blaise Pascal

 

Paul Cameron is an expert only in his own mind, much in the vein of Peter LaBarbera. His “Family Research Institute” is a certified hate group. Cameron had legitimate credentials until he was quite literally expelled from every professional group in the US and Canada due to his personal, unethical anti-gay crusade. Now he merely pretends to be a researcher and “expert” while he continues his demonization of LGBT people, and his quest to strip them of any and all rights they have, or might ever have.

(American Psychological Association) “Paul Cameron (Nebraska) was dropped from membership for a violation of the Preamble to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists”

Nebraska Psychological Association adopted a resolution stating that it “formally disassociates itself from the representations and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr. Paul Cameron

(American Sociological Association) “Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism” and noted that “Dr. Paul Cameron has repeatedly campaigned for the abrogation of the civil rights of lesbians and gay men, substantiating his call on the basis of his distorted interpretation of this research.”
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The American Sociological Association officially and publicly states that Paul Cameron is not a sociologist, and condemns his consistent misrepresentation of sociological research.

The Canadian Psychological Association takes the position that Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism and thus, it formally disassociates itself from the representation and interpretations of scientific literature in his writings and public statements on sexuality.

 
Essentially, no legitimate professionals want anything to do with Paul Cameron. The only people who take him remotely seriously are the so-called “pro-family” groups, and even some of them have stopped citing his work to support their anti-gay agenda as he is so widely known as counterfeit.

At any rate, Cameron has decided to rear his ugly head for the first time in a while. For what reason? To defend DADT with the outrageous claim that straight male soldiers are in grave danger because gay soldiers are inherently prone to sexual predation. Needless to say, Cameron’s flinging feces again, as there aren’t any facts in his “research”.

Hat tip: Truth Wins Out

 

Recently a group of Baptists from Idaho were arrested in Haiti on charges of child trafficking. They claimed they were merely rescuing the 33 children they had attempted to take across the border into the Dominican Republic from dire conditions. They told of their noble intentions to have these precious orphans adopted out once they set up a facility. Of course that wasn’t the entire story, as it never is in such cases.

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The goal, according to her written submission for funds, was to “rescue Haitian orphans” and “share God’s love with these precious children, helping them heal and find new life in Christ”.
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The basics: Steal another nation’s children and convert them to Christianity. Now why is it gay people are always accused of “recruiting children”? Oh yes, that’s called projection.

A little background on the ringleader of this operation:

Laura Silsby’s life had been unravelling fast. Her once-flourishing online shopping business was being chased through the courts for unpaid bills and the four-bedroom home where the divorcee lived with her two youngest children was reclaimed by the bank just days before Christmas.
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Even as her business affairs plunged deeper into turmoil, the church-going 40-year-old had been drawing up plans to build an orphanage for Haitian children and run an adoption programme “for loving Christian parents who would otherwise not be able to afford” the cost.

Over the last year, Mrs Silsby and her live-in nanny Charisa Coulter, 24, made several trips to Haiti and the neighbouring country of Dominican Republic, where she had ambitious plans for an orphanage with resort facilities on a north coast beach.
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Christian parents, of course. Why spend all of that time indoctrinating the children only to have some heathen parents come in and undo it? And what’s an orphanage without a luxury resort so the prospective parents can loll by the sea while they ponder which stolen child to take? I wonder if others appreciate just how much White Christian Folk do for them?

Three other worshippers from Central Valley - including a mother and her 18-year-old daughter - volunteered. So did three members of the Eastside Baptist church 140 miles away in Twin Falls - the pastor Paul Thompson and his son Silas, 18, among them - and two of Mr Thompson’s relatives from Texas and Kansas.
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The 10 were arrested after trying to cross from Haiti into the Dominican Republic with a busload of 33 children, with no paperwork or authorisation to take them out of the country. It soon became clear that most were not orphans at all, but had at least a mother or father who had been persuaded to hand the children over to the Americans on the promise they would enjoy a better life.
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(Emphasis mine)

Lying for the Lord and child trafficking to perpetuate their religion. They’re not humanitarians, they’re predators.

Since then, Silsby’s volunteers have turned on her and are claiming she duped them and they’re innocent of any wrongdoing.

THE group of 10 Americans jailed in Haiti on child abduction charges are splitting up, with eight of them signing a note saying that they had been misled by Laura Silsby, the leader of the group.

”Laura wants to control,” said the scribbled note handed to a producer for NBC News at the weekend. ”We believe lying. We’re afraid.”
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In their note, the Americans, who said they came to Haiti to rescue orphans from the earthquake, complained of general malfeasance in the case but provided no details. ”There is corruption, extortion,” they wrote.
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The note signed by the group, which is affiliated with a Baptist church in Idaho, made it clear that they were emotionally distraught and divided. ”We fear for our lives here in Haiti,” said the letter, which was signed by everyone except Silsby and Charisa Coulter, Silsby’s former nanny and co-founder of the group. ”We only came as volunteers,” the note went on. ”We had NOTHING to do with any documents and have been lied to.”
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It’s entirely possible the volunteers assumed Silsby had all of the proper documentation to take the children. It’s possible (even likely) that she lied to them in order to gain their support. But I find it difficult to find much sympathy for them. Didn’t their god give them any critical thinking skills, and if so why don’t they use them? (That is a rhetorical question, of course, as one of the main purposes of religions such as theirs is to stifle critical thought.)

These people took Silsby at her word when they dropped everything to go to a foreign nation. Then they took her at her word when she asked them to help her gather 33 children, many of whom had living parents, and head for the border. None of them asked her to produce documentation that she had legal rights to do this. None of them thought it a problem that one child was begging to be reunited with her parents, who were very much alive.

But then it all goes back to Silsby’s original plan, the one that lured them all there in the first place: Bring Orphans to Jesus. So regardless of what transpired in the meantime, none of the players in this mess are truly innocent. They’re all predators to one extent or another.

 

Hat tip: The Freethinker

 

As if demanding gay people be forced into “reparative therapy” wasn’t enough, Brian Fischer now wants more.

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Every state in the Union at the time of the Founding had laws which made homosexual behavior illegal. In fact, that noted icon of the left, Thomas Jefferson, wrote a law for the state of Virginia that mandated castration as punishment for two men apprehended for male-to-male friskiness.
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This raises the question, then, as to whether sodomy laws should be, or legitimately have been, repealed just because they are rarely enforced.

The answer to this is a clear and unequivocal “No.”

Think for a moment of the current social controversies that could potentially be avoided if homosexual conduct was still against the law.
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Gay marriage: problem solved. We should never legalize unions between any two people when the union is forged specifically to engage in felony behavior. Would we sanction, for instance, the formation of a corporation whose stated purpose was to import illegal drugs?

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Hate crimes laws: problem solved. We wouldn’t throw a pastor in jail for saying that illegal behavior is not only illegal but also immoral. For instance, he’s free to say that murder is not only contrary to man’s law but also to God’s law. End of the threat to freedom of religion and speech.

Special rights for homosexuals in the workplace: problem solved. No employer should be forced to hire admitted felons to work for him. End of the threat to freedom of religion and freedom of association in the marketplace.

This list could actually be extended, but you get the point. Laws not only curb dangerous and risky behavior, they keep such behavior from being normalized, sanctioned and endorsed by the rest of society, and as such render an enormous benefit to a healthy culture.
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Bothered by those pesky gay people asking for equal civil rights? Solve the problem by making gay illegal! Then Teh Gays could be jailed, castrated, or even put to death legally. Now where have I heard that idea before?

So after Fischer and his AFA friends take out gay people, who will they want to go after next? Who will they next want to criminalize and eradicate in the name of their “deeply held religious beliefs”?

 

The Christian Anti-Defamation League released it’s annual We’re Sooooo Persecuted list recently (while I freely admit Christians are persecuted in various places around the world, the USA is not one of those places).

10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech.

Of course not one of the CADC’s claims has a link supporting their claims. RRRW sites are like that. They just throw out a claim, generally a very biased and even dubious claim, and expect you to believe it. They wouldn’t mislead you–they’re Christians . But I like to fact-check and provide what they don’t–citations.

Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye was jailed for violating the law. Specifically he was jailed because he violated the Oakland law which creates a buffer zone around women’s clinics. Apparently those who protest abortion believe it is necessary to be in a woman’s face to “provide her alternatives to abortion” and “preach the word of god”. Cities like Oakland disagree and make laws indicating protesters must remain a certain distance away (in the case of Oakland it is a mere eight feet). Like many religious people of his ilk, Hoye believed he could use his “religious beliefs” to evade the law–any law. He was reminded that he cannot.

9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.

This was indeed a tragedy, one I blogged about myself. But as I indicated in my post the perpetrator was possibly mentally ill and Reverend Winters was likely not murdered because he was a Christian (nor was he likely the only intended victim) . Accordingly this would not be an act of anti-Christian bigotry or a hate crime. A tragedy, yes, but not persecution. (BTW, if it was an “anti-Christian” act, WTF is a murder doing all the way down at #9 on the list?)

7. The overt homosexual participation in Obama’s presidential inaugural events by “Bishop” Vickie Eugene Robinson, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D. C., and a homosexual marching band.

So it’s come to the point that the mere existence of gay people in the public eye is now an “anti-Christian” act? The CADC has truly jumped the shark.

5. Pro-life activist Jim Pullion was murdered in front of his granddaughter’s high school for showing the truth about abortion.

The man who killed Pullion also killed a local businessman, and apparently had a third victim in mind. He also was being treated for depression and was later found incompetent to stand trial. His beef with Pullion wasn’t with his “faith”, but with the graphic signs the man held while sitting outside the school. Am I in any way condoning the actions of the accused man? Of course not. But once again CADC is being terribly dishonest, presuming people will take their undocumented statements at face value and believe Pullion was gunned down because he was a Christian.

4. An activist judge ordered a home school mom in New Hampshire to stop home schooling her daughter because the little girl “reflected too strongly” her mother’s Christian faith.

All children need to be exposed to a variety of viewpoints and experiences. And if, as her mother claims, her “faith” could be destroyed by exposure to outside influences then it’s the sort of faith that should be destroyed. Any faith/religion that’s worth keeping can tolerate inquiry and even criticism.

3. The Federal Department of Homeland Security issued a report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate” that labeled conservative Christians extremists and potential terrorists.

So does that mean that CADC supports the beliefs and actions of the Christian Identity Movement (the only Christian group named in the report)? Or do they just reflexively presume that any denunciation of “Rightwing” groups, even those who kill, means “we hate Christians”?

1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.

Am I surprised that this is #1 on their list? Not at all. The RRRW was rending their garments over the hate-crimes bill for years before it came to fruition, and tantrumed when it passed. It doesn’t matter that their claims are pure bull-poo. It keeps money flowing into their coffers and allows them to pretend they’re victims because others now enjoy the same legal protections they do. Oh, the horror.

 
So there you have it. The alleged top-10 most horrible anti-Christian things that occurred in the US in 2009. Now where did I put my tiny violin?

 

Keep in mind that every reputable professional organization states that homosexuality is not a disorder, but is a normal orientation like heterosexuality. They also firmly denounce so-called “reparative therapy” as ineffective and potentially harmful, given that sexual orientation is not changeable. None of that matters to people like Brian Fischer, who rely not on facts but the opinions of ancient sheepherders. These opinions have been deemed “holy”, and are therefore something people like Fischer can use to add a sheen of respectability and authority to their own personal bigotry.

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It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse, since both pose the same kind of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. I’d be curious to know what you think should be done with IV drug abusers, because whatever it is, I think the same response should be made to those who engage in homosexual behavior.
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Riiiiight. Because HIV/AIDS can’t be contracted through heterosexual “behavior”. According to the CDC, the fastest growing group of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses is among heterosexual women of color. It’s time, for the good of all, to bury the myth that AIDS is a “gay disease”.

If you believe that what drug abusers need is to go into an effective detox program, then we should likewise put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program.

Homosexuality is not a mental illness or an addiction. It does not need “therapy”, particularly not from charlatans pushing pseudo-science and demeaning lies designed not to help but to manipulate and even torture.

Secondly, I’m afraid you’re simply wrong about the Bible’s perspective on the law and homosexuality.
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I don’t give a fig about the Bible’s perspective on homosexuality or the Koran’s perspective or any other “holy” book’s perspective. We do not live in a theocracy and our laws should not be based on anybody’s interpretation of “holy” books or religious doctrine. If they were, well, just look to modern day theocracies to see how life would be.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told “Christians don’t hate gay people. Christians don’t bear any ill will toward gay people. No Christians in America want to see harm come to gay people.” Blah blah blah. Sorry, I didn’t buy it before and I’m not buying it now. There are far too may people like Brian Fischer proving just how much Christians do hate gay people and want to see them harmed.*

 

* Please don’t attempt the “Not a True Christian” line. He’s one of you. If you don’t like what he’s doing in the name of your religion speak out against him or stew silently, but don’t try to disown him to make yourself look better.

 

The new “whites only” basketball team in Agusta, GA, that is.

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The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team.

“Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league,” the statement said.
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As if that’s not sick enough, here’s a quote from the team’s commissioner:

Don “Moose” Lewis, the commissioner of the AABA, said the reasoning behind the league’s roster restrictions is not racism.

“There’s nothing hatred about what we’re doing,” he said. “I don’t hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now. Here’s a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like.”

Lewis said he wants to emphasize fundamental basketball instead of “street-ball” played by “people of color.” He pointed out recent incidents in the NBA, including Gilbert Arenas’ indefinite suspension after bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room, as examples of fans’ dissatisfaction with the way current professional sports are run.

“Would you want to go to the game and worry about a player flipping you off or attacking you in the stands or grabbing their crotch?” he said. “That’s the culture today, and in a free country we should have the right to move ourselves in a better direction.”
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Poor trod-upon, flawless white folk. They’re as oppressed as heterosexual Christians. I truly feel for them.

 

Another day, another issue for the perpetually offended.

A CHURCH has condemned the opening of a Hell Pizza outlet – claiming the chain is making dough out of the devil.
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As if churches don’t do that every day of the week.

“The flyers they send you have the word hell all over it and a devil as well and you can not choose to ignore that form of advertising,” Pastor Van Bennekom said.

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Of course you can. Toss it in your waste basket or recycling bin and be done with it, just as I do when I get those religious tracts that have the word Hell all over them.

One of Springfield church’s eight core principals is a belief in the devil.

“We believe in the personality of the devil who by his influence and power brought about the downfall of man and now seeks to destroy the faith of every believer In the Lord Jesus Christ,” the church’s website said.
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So naturally nobody else in Australia can use the concepts of Satan or Hell because they’ll offend your chosen, contrived beliefs which are designed purely to scare and manipulate people. I imagine it puts a real dent in your ability to terrify small children into compliance with threats of hellfire and damnation if the pizza joint down the street has turned your biggest weapon into a joke.

The restaurant’s Australian chairman Mike Hird said he was not concerned that the Springfield church found the eatery offensive.

“Some people find the advertising interesting and see the humour, other people find it offensive – it doesn’t bother me if they don’t like it,” Mr Hird said.
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Hell Pizza was established in New Zealand and has previously courted controversy through its ad campaigns.
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Good for him. I wish him continued success with Hell Pizza. I rather hope he expands into the US some day. I’d love to patronize his establishment. (BTW, check out their Website. It’s quite amusing.)

 

What else can I say about someone who calls for the assassination of world leaders, equates hate-crimes protections for LGBT people with hanging Christians and loves to turn tragedies into a game of “It never would have happened if they’d been as good a Christian as I am”?

Haitians caused the earthquake because of their “pact with the devil”? Does Robertson actually plan his deluded, hateful ravings before he gets on camera or does he just pull them out of his backside as he goes along? I’m not sure which option I’d find more frightening.

 
If you want to donate to assist the people in Haiti, who did not make a “pact with the devil” or in any way create the situation they are now in, there are many organizations through which you can do so. One I would recommend is Direct Relief International. They are secular and 100% of your donation will go to programs.