The Gaytheist Agenda

Michael Steel has complained that nobody takes the Teabaggers who turn Townhall Meetings into chaos seriously enough.

“We are not inciting anyone to go out and destroy anything. We’re not organizing the town halls; their senators are,” he said. “But instead of focusing on the fact that people are genuinely concerned about what is going on, this administration has the arrogance, the arrogance to look down at my mother, to look down at my co-worker.”

So how does he react when a member of his audience gets up to tell him how her mother died because the current system is completely broken?

Go on, Michael Steel, and tell us another one about how the Democratic administration isn’t paying enough attention to the concerns of others, and is looking down on people and their mothers. Real people are dying as a result of the current system and you seem to think it’s all about getting airtime. Perhaps if Amanda Duzak had been screaming incoherently about “Death Panels” and “The Nazis” killing her mother you would have taken her seriously.

 

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.

 

Cal Thomas is yet another right winger bloviating about how proposed changes to the health care system will bring about tragedy. But he goes a step further than claiming The Government wants to take us out of the decision making process. He insists the evil Liberal Secular (which in the eyes of the RRRW always means atheistic ) Left wants to take God out of the process. Now I don’t recall God being part of any insurance corporation, let alone all of them, but then I could be wrong…

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Underlying it all is a larger question: Is human life something special? Is it to be valued more highly than, say, plants and pets? When someone is in a “persistent vegetative state,” do we mean to say that person is equal in value to a carrot? Are we now assigning worth to human life, or does it arrive with its own pre-determined value, irrespective of race, class, IQ, or disability?
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Human life, regardless of race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic class, IQ, disability, etc, is indeed precious. It is worthy of being nurtured and protected. What I can’t figure out is why the Right Wing is trying to pretend they’re champions for the needy, and that Liberals pose a great risk to them. It is the RW that persistently denounces and works against increases in the minimum wage that would provide poor people opportunities to support and sustain themselves. They fight tooth and nail funding for social service programs that provide aid to the poor, the disabled, the homeless, the elderly and other people who are less able or unable to care for themselves. They are the ones who insist homeless people are “bums” who want/deserve to be where they are and therefore shouldn’t receive anything. It is they who scream about their precious tax dollars going to “welfare mothers”. It was their hero Ronald Regan who critically cut mental health funding and closed psychiatric hospitals en-masse, literally dumping patients onto the streets.

The bottom line is not the bottom line. It is something far more profound. Our decisions regarding who will get help and who won’t are about more than bean-counting bureaucrats deciding if your drugs or operation will cost more than you are contributing to the U.S. Treasury.

I keep hearing this same refrain. “I don’t want some bureaucrat making my decisions for me”. Wake up guys. Bean-counters are already making your health care decisions for you. They work for your insurance corporation. They determine whether or not a particular claim will be covered and to what extent. Their job is to deny as much as possible so their CEO can maintain his gargantuan annual salary and the company can keep reaping immense profits. Of course that assumes you have insurance in the first place. You may be fortunate enough to have employer-provided coverage, but if you’re not then what? Have you ever tried to purchase your own insurance? It isn’t easy, trust me. Yet another way the insurance corporations maintain their bottom line is to deny coverage to people who have “pre-existing conditions”, which can include anything and everything. They’ll also deny you if you take certain medications or have had particular procedures done in the past. (I, for example, have been denied by multiple insurance companies because I have migraine disorder for which I take Topamax.)So essentially insurance is for healthy people who are unlikely to use it, but rather just keep paying their premiums and making nice profits for the corporation.

Do individuals like Cal Thomas think they’ll always be healthy and under the auspices of employer-provided health insurance? Do they think they’ll never lose their jobs or otherwise be at the mercy of the corporate beancounters whose job it is to deny, deny, deny? Of course maybe they’re just rich enough to pay for everything out of pocket in perpetuity which is why they don’t give a hoot about those who can’t.

The unnatural progression for many on the secular left is to see such a person as a “burden.” In an age when we think we should be free of burdens – a notion that contributes to our superficiality and makes us morally obtuse – getting rid of granny might seem perfectly rational, even defensible. But by doing so, we assume an even greater burden: the role of God in deciding who gets to live and who must die. Anyone who has seen the film “Bruce Almighty” senses how difficult it is to play God.
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Again, it isn’t Liberals who are persistently whining about various people being “burdens to society” and screaming for our precious taxes to be cut so we might not have to suffer as a result. We are not the ones who would allow men, women and even children die in the streets rather than part with a few extra dollars per year. We are not the ones who want the almighty dollar to dictate who lives and who dies. That would be the RRRW. (Perhaps that’s one reason they’re so insistent on having “In God We Trust” stamped on our money–there’s no way they can stamp “In Money We Trust” on their god. )

Reminder to Cal Thomas; it’s not “God” who is currently making decisions about life and death under our present health care system. It is corporate insurance bean counters.

The explosive town hall meetings are indications that Americans are trusting government less and less. So where should we go? The answer is in your wallet or purse. It’s on the money. Right now it is little more than a slogan, but what if it became true: in God We Trust.

Hey, I was right. It is all about the almighty dollar. And here I thought Thomas was claiming God had something to do with it all.

 

Katy Abram is 35-years-old and suffers from a great deal of consternation, as you can see in these videos.

Why is it any time the idea of something like providing healthcare for all comes up the wingnuts have to invoke Soviet Russia?

“I know that years down the road, I don’t want my children coming to me and asking me, ‘Mom, why didn’t you do anything? Why do we have to wait in line for, I don’t know, toilet paper or anything?’ I don’t want to have to tell them I didn’t do anything. As a normal citizen, the most I feel like I can do is come to this town hall meeting.”

There’s the epitome of slippery slope thinking, albeit the highly disjointed non-sequitur variety. Health care reform will lead to toilet paper shortages. And here I was told gay marriage was going to cause the end of civilization.

 

Is it me, or are the RRRWers getting even more insane? There are the Town Hall meetings where the people who stood by and said nothing about GWB’s 342 page Patriot Act (except maybe “if you haven’t done anything you have nothing to worry about) are now screaming that Obama’s health care plan is too long to understand and it “takes away their freedoms”. Now Sarah Palin chimes in:

“And who will suffer the most when they ration care?” Palin asks. “The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”

First of all, where does Palin get the notion that care will be “rationed” under a national health plan, particularly by “level of productivity”. Denying people things because they’re considered useless to society is a Republican trait, hence the screams that people like “welfare mothers” and “useless bums” shouldn’t get any precious tax dollars. Second, why don’t people like her realize that health care in the US is already rationed, but the poor and those who have health problems/”pre-existing conditions” are the ones being told to screw off and suffer?

While the health reform plan proposed by Obama has many flaws it is not a cross between Logan’s Run and Soylent Green. But it’s not the survival of the richest and fittest plan we currently have, which is preferred by the RRRWers, so of course they’re going to fight it every step of the way.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I simply don’t understand the RRRW mentality.

 

I kid you not. Ironically he also demands a “Porker Surcharge”.

Oddly, however, he says nothing about surcharges for people who choose to devour Viagra and Oxycontin like candy.