The Gaytheist Agenda

They’re dead on with this one.

“Heat” (by the Courage Campaign)

Audon Felix Garcia died in a field near Bakersfield in 2008. This heartbreaking story reminds us what is at stake with the CA Employee Free Choice Act, which Governor Schwarzeneger just vetoed.

With one year left in his term, we can’t count on Gov. Schwarzenegger to change his heart or his mind. But the five declared or likely candidates for Governor — Jerry Brown, Tom Campbell, Gavin Newsom, Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman — can be pressured to pledge to sign this bill when the Legislature passes it again.

 
When Catholics are offended, LDS (Mormons) are quick to apologize


 
New Study Links Religion to Immoral Behavior (And in other news; water is wet. )


 
Penn and Teller - Family values (part 1)


 
Penn and Teller - Family values (part 2)


 
Sirius XM: Michelangelo Signorile interviews NOM’s exec director Brian Brown (And no, Signorile doesn’t drool all over Brown as Monica Hesse did.)


 

They were right! President Obama is going to indoctrinate school children and turn them into Socialist Atheist Communist Homosexual Muslim Hitler Youth! His planned speech transcript is now up at Whitehouse.gov . Excerpts below:

The President: Hello everyone – how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.
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So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I’m here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I’m here because I want to talk with you about your education and what’s expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now I’ve given a lot of speeches about education. And I’ve talked a lot about responsibility.
I’ve talked about your teachers’ responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.
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I’ve talked a lot about your government’s responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren’t working where students aren’t getting the opportunities they deserve.

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world – and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

And that’s what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.

Every single one of you has something you’re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That’s the opportunity an education can provide.
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And no matter what you want to do with your life – I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

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Now I know it’s not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.
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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at home – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up. No one’s written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
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Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work — that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won’t love every subject you study. You won’t click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.
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So today, I want to ask you, what’s your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you’ve got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don’t let us down – don’t let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

 
How evil can you get? Extolling the virtues of personal responsibility and getting a good education. I can see why the RRRW is so up in arms.

 

On Tuesday President Obama will spend 15-20 minutes speaking to the nation’s school children about the importance of staying in school and getting a good education. Pretty routine, innocuous stuff, right? Not if you’re a RRRW wingnut. Apparently in those 15-20 minutes Obama is going to undo countless years of parenting and churching, and indoctrinate their children into Atheist Muslim Homo Hitler Youth Nazi Socialist Commies. He’s apparently got far more power than I ever gave him credit for.

Now one would think from the furor over this that Obama was the first president to ever speak directly to students, or that at the very least no Republican president had ever done it. But as usual those who are rending their garments and making outrageous claims are forgetting history. This has been done before, more than once.

On November 14, 1988, Ronald Regan pushed tax cuts to school children from four middle schools. Unlike “stay in school and get a good education” that is a distinctly partisan political agenda.

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Today, to a degree never before seen in human history, one nation, the United States, has become the model to be followed and imitated by the rest of the world. But America’s world leadership goes well beyond the tide toward democracy. We also find that more countries than ever before are following America’s revolutionary economic message of free enterprise, low taxes, and open world trade. These days, whenever I see foreign leaders, they tell me about their plans for reducing taxes, and other economic reforms that they are using, copying what we have done here in our country.
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During the question-and-answer portion of the event, Reagan returned to the topic, this time telling the students that lowering taxes increases revenue:

Q My name is Cam Fitzie and I’m from St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. I was wondering if you think that it is possible to decrease the national debt without raising the taxes of the public?

PRESIDENT REAGAN: I do. That’s a big argument that’s going on in government and I definitely believe it is because one of the principle reasons that we were able to get the economy back on track and create those new jobs and all was we cut the taxes, we reduced them. Because you see, the taxes can be such a penalty on people that there’s no incentive for them to prosper and to earn more and so forth because they have to give so much to the government. And what we have found is that at the lower rates the government gets more revenue, there are more people paying taxes because there are more people with jobs and there are more people willing to earn more money because they get to keep a bigger share of it, so today, we’re getting more revenue at the lower rates than we were at the higher. And do you know something? I studied economics in college when I was young and I learned there about a man named Ibn Khaldun, who lived 1200 years ago in Egypt. And 1200 years ago he said, in the beginning of the empire, the rates were low, the tax rates were low, but the revenue was great. He said in the end of empire, when the empire was collapsing, the rates were great and the revenue was low.

The students probably didn’t know any better, but this is an idea that has been rejected by virtually every economist not named Larry Kudlow.
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Then in 1992 George HW Bush promoted his personal education plan to students:

Lesson to the RRRW: Presidents speaking to school children is nothing new, and while Obama is (IMO) a crappy president he’s not going to turn your children into Gay Atheist Socialist Hitler Youth in the space of 15-20 minutes. A black man is going to speak to students about getting a good education, nothing more. You can deal with it like adults or continue to act like paranoid lunatics. The choice is yours.

 

The RRRW has been abnormally obsessed in recent years with God, Guns and Gays. Steve Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church is no exception. In fact, he takes it to an extreme. Anderson hates fags with a passion and advocates their death. He’s also wished for the death of President Obama.

It seems Anderson’s outrageous preachings are taking root. Look who showed up at Town Hall in AZ with an AR-15 slung over his shoulder. It was a man who claims Faithful Word Baptist Church is “The Best Church in the World”.

 
It appears Steve Anderson preached his I Hate Barack Obama sermon the day before the Town Hall meeting to which this man showed up with his AR 15. Coincidence? It’s possible but I really don’t think so.

Who would Jesus blow away with a semi-automatic?

 

Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy died in his Hyannis Port home Tuesday evening after a battle with brain cancer. He will be missed.

Funeral services for Sen. Edward Kennedy will be held Saturday morning at a Boston, Massachusetts, church before his burial in Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington, a source told CNN Wednesday.
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Prior to the funeral, Kennedy’s body will lie in repose Thursday afternoon and Friday in the Smith Center at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, said the source, who once worked closely with Kennedy’s office. A memorial service will be held Friday evening at the Smith Center, the source said.

The funeral will be held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston’s Mission Hill section. The church is commonly known as the Mission Church. It is a short distance away from the Kennedy library.
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Rest in Peace, Senator Kennedy.

 

Steve Anderson is an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist “pastor”. He runs a little “church” in a strip mall in Tempe, AZ. Andersons doesn’t have a college degree (they’re “unscriptural and wrong”) and in fact his only credentials are his claim that he’s “memorized over 100 chapters of the Bible”. Essentially he interprets the Bible as he chooses and has built his own faith and church from that.

Steve Anderson hates faggots. He hates people who don’t hate faggots as much as he does; as much as he believes God declared everyone should. He insists the only proper thing to do with faggots is to kill them. It’s what God demands, after all.

Here Steve rants and raves for over an hour about “queers, fags, Sodomites” and other things that cause him to foam at the mouth. I congratulate you if you have the stomach to watch it through to the end.

In one of his many essays, Steve gives his version of the “truth” about homosexuals. Did you know that Ham raped his father, Noah? Yeah, me neither. But according to Steve Anderson’s interpretation of the Bible it happened so it must be true. Of course the essay is also chock full of the “rape as a recruitment tool” lunacy that only the most demented of the RRRWers latch onto . It also has the more mainstream lie that all gay people molest children, though in a unique twist it purports that gay men molest both males and females. Yes, Steve is one of those who likes to push the “gays will screw anything” meme.

But wait–there’s more! Here’s Steve frothing at the mouth about gay people and calling for them to be put to death. He also states that he hates President Barack Obama and wants him to die, painfully.

 
Anderson and others like him have the ultimate scam going. They have no credentials and unlike with other fields they aren’t required to have any. They can just call themselves Pastor, Reverend, Guru or whatever, deem any little space a “church”–with all the associated tax exemptions and other perks–and start raking in the money. They can preach whatever absurdities and hatred they want, including advocating wholesale genocide of people they don’t like and calling for the death of elected officials, and claim it’s protected under their First Amendment right to practice their religion. When anybody dare utter a peep of protest they pull the religious persecution card. Regrettably I don’t imagine this will end any time soon as the United States refuses to knock religion off its pedestal and demand it be open to the same criticism and question as any other lifestyle choice.

 

But what else could be expected from the likes of Rush Limbaugh? First the Barney Frank video, in case you haven’t seen it yet:

 
Now Limbaugh:

Stay classy, Rush.

 

This is beautiful. Yet another RWer compares healthcare reform to Nazism and Barney Frank is…frank with her.

If only more of our elected officials would do that this nonsense would come to a screeching halt.

 

Despite the hideous lies and fearmongering of the RRRW, including outrageous claims that Matthew Shepard’s death was “a hoax”, the House of Representatives passed HR 1913 by a wide margin!

The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Mathew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a 249 to 175 vote. A total of 231 Democrats voted in favor of the legislation with 17 voting against, while 18 Republicans voted for the legislation with 158 voting against, according to Stonewall Democrats.

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This description comes from HRC:

During debate on hate crimes legislation taking place today on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) claimed that Matthew Shepard’s death was “a hoax.” While Matthew’s mother, Judy Shepard looked on from the House gallery, Foxx, who managed the floor for those opposed to the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, spoke saying, “the hate crimes bill that’s called the Matthew Shepard Bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. This – the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”

You have to love those Republicans and their “family values”. Nothing screams “morality” like supporting violent crimes against people just because you think they’re icky. Watch some of their antics yourself, courtesy of Think Progress.

The bill now goes to the Senate where it is anticipated voting will be close. Hopefully, though, the Senate will do the right thing, as the House did.

 

Related posts:

The Hate Crimes Bill, Critical and Long Overdue.

Hate Crimes Bill Gets OK By House Judiciary Committee. RRRW Goes Berserk.