The Gaytheist Agenda

The latest project of Liberty Counsel is something they call Adopt A Liberal. They apparently plan to “adopt” liberals and pray for their hellbound souls.

Some may assume I’d be opposed to this plan but I’m actually very much in favor of it. In fact I invite Liberty Counsel to call in back ups and pray for every Liberal in America. Pray long and hard for there are many of us, and our “souls” will not be easy to save. In fact it may take years. Decades. Perhaps even centuries.

Why am I advocating this? Because every minute members of Liberty Counsel are sitting around talking to their hands (an entirely useless effort) is a minute they can’t be out advancing it’s agenda. As far as I’m concerned they should devote every waking minute to prayer. The world would be a far better place.

 

While I already wrote about the racist buffoonery of the Teabaggers big day out, I ran across this on Atheist Revolution and just had to share it. This is what a 24/7 Telescreen diet of Fox News and RRRW Christianity will turn you into. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.

 

In case you were unaware, today was the day the Teabaggers descended on Washington DC for their big protest march. About 60-70K attended according to ABC News*. Other events were held around the country for those middle-aged white folk who couldn’t make it to DC. Here are some photos of these “mainstream Americans” putting their “family values” on display.

 
Yeah, Obama’s the Antichrist. Nostradamus told me so.


 
“Trade” Obama back how? Like a slave?


 
Notice the open threat on this one.


 
He’s stupid, and he drives.


 
Any surprise the Confederate Flag is flying?


 
For many more outrageous photos go to Hall of Shame and Meet The Crazies.

Of course video footage is always fun:

 


 
Sometimes there’s only one response for such absurdity;

 
*(Yawn. At least twice as many of us were there in 2005 to protest the Iraq war. And my sign, while decidedly cheesy, wasn’t racist or hateful, nor did it advocate violence. )

I actually hope this is a Poe because it’s terrifying to imagine this girl is for real.

 

Like many bloggers I review my server logs routinely. One query I saw a few times over the past few days, picture of gays recruiting, made me think of the new design my wife added to her shop just the other day (yes, this is a shameless plug of her new stuff as well as an attempt to make a point):

Lavender Liberal

Face it, bigots, you aren’t going to find any “picture of gays recruiting” because there is no such thing. We don’t recruit, you do.

 

That’s pretty much how I felt after reading this LTTE in a Muskegon online paper.

Letter: Why didn’t flight crew mention God?
by Dena Malda | Muskegon
Monday February 16, 2009, 11:37 AM

On the Feb. 8 “60 Minutes” program, we were captivated while viewing the Katie Couric interview of the crew and passengers of Flight 1549.

However, we were struck there was not one mention of God, who directs pilots of planes and secures the safety of passengers.

We have written CBS and asked them for more realistic programming. Help protect our freedoms. Write CBS about this.

Reality check for Dena. Not everybody in the universe believes in your god, and in fact some haven’t even heard of your god. The notion you have that people should automatically credit your god for every good event is merely part of your egocentric belief system. There are billions of people on this planet that believe in other gods or no gods at all. Get over yourself.

I myself was quite astonished and pleased that I didn’t hear dozens of people praising god for the safe landing of this plane as it’s so typical with such events. Normally a plane will crash, 30 people will die, a dozen or so will be injured and the plane itself will be horribly wrecked. From the survivors you’ll hear about how god was on their side and watching out for them. He obviously heard their fervent prayers because they’re standing here telling you their stories right now.

Well what about the people who died? Did they not pray hard enough? Did god hate them for some reason? Were they just bad Christians or perhaps behind on their tithes? How come nobody ever thinks to blame god for the plane crashing in the first place? If god had a hand in the good, why is he never responsible for the bad? (And that nonsense that god is the arbiter of all good but all bad comes from humans and/or Satan is bull.)

Now getting back to Dena Malda; if it was god who directed the pilots of the plane and secured the safety of the passengers then why did he allow the bird to fly into the engine in the first place? If god was so concerned about the passengers on that plane why put them in harm’s way?

Finally if somebody could explain to me what “freedoms” will be protected by making the pilot or CBS attribute the pilot’s skills to god I’d be much obliged. I can’t say it would make the programming more realistic, however. But apparently some peoples’ notions of realistic are different than mine.

 

Really, they are. Who else would see an ad for free donut of choice and automatically think of “abortion on demand”? They’re as bad as the RRRW wingnuts who automatically imagine hot, sweaty gay sex every time they’re faced with mention of gay people participating in an event (like Gene Robinson saying a prayer at Obama’s Inauguration). I wish I were making this up, but I’m not.

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The following is a statement from American Life League president Judie Brown:

“The next time you stare down a conveyor belt of slow-moving, hot, sugary glazed donuts at your local Krispy Kreme, you just might be supporting President-elect Barack Obama’s radical support for abortion on demand - including his sweeping promise to sign the Freedom of Choice Act as soon as he steps in the Oval Office, Jan. 20.

“The doughnut giant released the following statement yesterday:

‘Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies — just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet “free” can be.’

“Just an unfortunate choice of words? For the sake of our Wednesday morning doughnut runs, we hope so. The unfortunate reality of a post Roe v. Wade America is that ‘choice’ is synonymous with abortion access, and celebration of ‘freedom of choice’ is a tacit endorsement of abortion rights on demand.
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I don’t imagine they were thinking about people choosing the president–since it’s going to be inauguration day–that they’re referring to. No, they must be talking about abortion.

“Celebrating his inauguration with ‘Freedom of Choice’ doughnuts - only two days before the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision to decriminalize abortion - is not only extremely tacky, it’s disrespectful and insensitive and makes a mockery of a national tragedy.

Oh, the nerve of them. They should reschedule Obama’s inauguration just so the anti-choice wingnuts won’t be offended by people choosing what free donut they want to have on that day.

Really, some people need to get a life instead of desperately seeking things to be fauxffended about.

 

At least according to the bat-poo crazy Don Wildmon and his AFA pals. They’ve decided to launch another one of their boycotts because Campbell’s had the audacity to place ads in The Advocate promoting their Swanson Broth. According to Wildman by doing so Campbell’s:

sent a message that homosexual parents constitute a family and are worthy of support

Well FSM forbid that anybody do that. We have to keep pretending that the one and only acceptable family on earth consists of a white Heterosexual Christian woman, a white Heterosexual Christian man and 10-20 white Christian children that the woman spent the bulk of her life on her back spawning (since the only purpose a woman has in life is to be a brood sow for God and slave to her husband). Everyone and everything else has to be marginalized and treated like garbage so the RRRW busybodies can continue to imagine themselves superior while they collectively dump on the rest of the world.

They also gave their approval to the entire homosexual agenda.

You mean Campbell’s supports equal human rights for everybody? Wow, I think I’ll go out and buy some more Campbell’s. I’m glad that one of the things I recently donated to charity was an 8-pack of their soup.

In the meantime here’s one of the horrible ads that got Wildmon in such a tizzy. Be sure to send all young children out of the room before viewing because it’s really offensive.

Once you’ve gotten over the shock of that ad perhaps you can tell me how it is these people still get away with their claims that they don’t hate us. Maybe they’re just deluding themselves is all, because we’re certainly not fooled.

Now I think I’m going to start a grocery list, beginning with some Campbell’s products…

 

This time they’re attempting to bully Marriott International into removing “sexually explicit” movies from its in-room pay-per-view options. Apparently groups like American Family Association believe that adults shouldn’t have the opportunity to decide for themselves what they will view in the privacy of their own hotel rooms.

Several conservative groups, including the American Family Association, are asking Marriott International Inc. to stop giving hotel guests the option of ordering pay-per-view movies with strong sexual content - gay and straight.

AFA, based in Tupelo, said 47 “pro-family leaders” have signed a letter asking chain’s chief executive, J.W. Marriott Jr., for a meeting to discuss their concerns.

Marriott was told that stopping “porn movies” would be in keeping with the corporation’s position of “promoting the well-being of children and families,” AFA said in a news release.

Marriott’s website says the hotel chain has about 3,000 properties in the U.S. and 67 other countries and territories. AFA said most of these hotels offer in-room movies with pornographic content.

Roger Conner, vice president of communications for Marriott International, said Thursday the company would review the group’s letter and the request for a meeting.

Conner said Marriott and most hotel chains offer in-room entertainment that includes a wide range of films and “just one of those is adult offerings.”

“Every guest can quickly and easily block out just the adult movie offering by either calling the front desk or using their (TV) remote pad in the room,” Conner said. “It does not appear at all if the guest does not want the offering.”

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Among those participating in the letter to Marriott, according to AFA, are James Dobson, chairman of Focus on the Family; Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council; Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Bishop Harry Jackson, chairman of High Impact Leadership Council; and Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media.

This is utterly ridiculous. If a guest doesn’t want adult movies shown in their room they simply don’t have to order them. If they want to prevent another individual, such as a minor staying with them, ordering them, they can ask the hotel management to block them from the room. It’s that simple. There is no reason for the RRRW busybodies to make it impossible for everybody who stays at a Marriott hotel to be unable to see a particular form of entertainment simply because they themselves wish not to.

In case they’re not able to understand the implications of their bullying tactics let me propose this. Perhaps atheists and other non-Christians should band together and demand that Bibles be banned from all hotel rooms. After all, if we don’t believe in the Bible and don’t wish to see them then why should something we don’t approve of be so readily available in the nightstand of every single hotel room of the nation? Consider what is in the Bible–infanticide, genocide, incest, prostitution, murder, misogyny and a whole host of other heinous atrocities. Yet it’s readily available in nearly every hotel room within easy access of any child.

Of course I’m not seriously proposing the above, but merely offering it as food for thought. The RRRW wishes to control everything and everyone, yet rends its garments if anybody utter a peep against them (let alone attempt to thwart their megalomania). This nation was built on individual freedoms, and that is exactly what groups like FOF, AFA and others are attempting to destroy under the boot of “Family Values”. It’s time that We the People fight back if we are to keep those precious freedoms.

 

Addendum. A comment has arrived from VickiLynne who said:

 

You know people like this ‘worry me’ more so than disturbing or angering me. There’s something else going on in their lives, that they would waste such energy on the invasion of consenting adults personal lives/homes/and bedrooms. There are so many other more urgent and pressing causes they could concern themselves with. World Hunger, The Economy, The War, The Lack of Health Care etc. and they’re worried about sex - I guess that’s what happens when you’re not happy in yours. I dont mean it as a laugh or for a joke.

 
They are the new Puritans, and they seem to think that if only life would return to how it was when Leave it to Beaver ruled the airwaves–the “Good Old Days”–things would be right with the world again. What they don’t understand is that the Good Old Days never existed. What they see on television as a depiction of the 50’s or whatever era they think was idyllic is pure fiction and can never be created or captured. As much as I love utopian fiction I’m wise enough to understand it’s just fiction. I don’t seriously expect to create a utopia of any kind, nor do I anticipate anybody ever could. Sadly some people think that if they just yell loud enough or apply enough force they can get their utopia (of course one person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia).

 
I don’t see them applying their time, money and energy to serious problems like poverty, health care, world hunger or global warming any time soon. That takes genuine concern with the needs of others, and I don’t get the impression that they have that despite their constant calls to “please think of the children”. They could prove me wrong at some point in the future, however…

 

 

For everyone who says there’s no harm presented by those who hold religious beliefs I present this story.

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — The frantic 911 call to the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department from the home of an 11-year-old Weston girl who died from untreated diabetes was made by friends of the girl’s parents, authorities said Thursday.

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Randall and Althea Wormgoor each spoke to a dispatcher as chaos and cries could be heard in the background at Dale and Leilani Neumann’s home in rural Weston on Sunday afternoon, said Capt. Scott Sleeter of the Everest Metro Police Department in Weston.

Madeline Neumann died Sunday from an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes as her parents prayed for her to get better. Her mother, Leilani Neumann, said she never expected her daughter, whom she called Kara, to die.

The family believes in the Bible, which says healing comes from God, Leilani Neumann said.

The sheriff’s department released tape recordings Thursday of two calls related to the girl’s medical condition.

One was from an aunt in California on the department’s non-emergency line, Lt. Jason Plaza said. She reported the girl was in a coma and needed medical help because the family “believes in faith instead of doctors.”

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In other words, the parents simply sat around doing nothing but making wishes to a spirit they have no proof exists while their daughter got sicker and sicker, then died of a treatable disorder. That’s depraved neglect if I ever heard it, at the very least. But wait–it gets worse.

 

Janine Geske, a Marquette University law professor who was a state Supreme Court justice from 1993-98, said a possible criminal charge in the case could be second-degree reckless homicide, which requires proof of “recklessly causing the death of another human being.” It carries up to 25 years in prison.

But Wisconsin has laws on the books that say a parent cannot be accused of abuse or neglect of a child if in good faith they selected prayer as a basis of treatment for a disease, Geske said.

 

So apparently the parents are going to get off scott-free for their behavior. How perfectly vile.

 

Addendum. A comment has arrived. OJ said:

This is the article that enraged and upset me enough to start my own atheist blog. I seriously could not believe my eyes when I read about it. And then, two days later, it happened again to a 15-month old girl with a bacterial infection. Two deaths in one week as a direct result of people who were too stupid to take their daughter to someone who knew anything at all about human health. Disgusting.

 
Indeed. Of course we’re not supposed to say anything (and they can’t be prosecuted) because it’s their right to let their child die in the name of their “deeply held religious beliefs”. People like them are also allowed to keep people like us from having equal rights because of their “deeply held religious beliefs”. Am I the only one who thinks things are really messed up here?