The Gaytheist Agenda

Here’s a hilarious video series I stumbled across on the Internutz. It involves the hilarious misadventures of two of America’s most outrageous anti-gay acivists, “Porno Pete” LaBarbera and Matt “Bam Bam” Barber. It’s not for the kiddies or the easily offended. So far Fritz has six episodes up and it appears he’s going to keep making them so the laughs will keep coming. For now here are three to whet your appetite.

From Sean Chapin1

Don’t forget, the trial starts Monday.

 

I’m one of the strongest advocates for Separation of Church and State but this is truly overzealous.

SAN FRANCISCO — It was the week before Christmas when Irv Sutley, a former warehouse worker, first saw the offending ornament in a government building in Sonoma County, just north of here.

“I was turning around in the lobby, and I noticed the tree,” Mr. Sutley said. “And then, I noticed the angel.”

Mr. Sutley, an atheist, said he then went to the office of the county Board of Supervisors. “And there was a star,” he said.

It seems Sutley just runs around government buildings looking for things to be “offended” by. I’d suggest he take up reading but no doubt he would find plenty in the public library to complain about.

“For most people, a star atop a tree at this time of season represents the star of Bethlehem, which is a cult symbol, the cult being Christianity,” he said, adding that the government should be neutral on religion.
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Would you believe that Sutley is the Sonoma County Chair of the Peace and Freedom Party? Me either.

Irv Sutley

(Must restrain self from making snide comments about The Grinch…..)

“I don’t believe government has the right to use tax dollars to show favoritism to any particular cult like Christianity,” he said. “It’s just wrong. That’s why we have the Constitution, to protect minorities from the majority opinion.”

If Sutley wants to be protected from the opinions of others (which is not a right in any way guaranteed by the Constitution) he can stay home rather than purposely running all over the county seeking things to claim offense over. Speaking of opinions; my minority opinion is that Sutley is a boor, and an embarrassment to atheists everywhere.

 

Someone decides to abstain from something because it’s not in line with their religious beliefs. That’s commonplace. But in this case it’s a Wiccan teenager sitting out Christmas songs.

Fifteen-year-old Katarina Keen won’t sing along to “Silent Night” or “Listen to the Stars,” two Christian songs planned for her choir’s upcoming Christmas concert at Borger High School. But she will sing “Jingle Bells” and “A Carol in Winter.”

Katarina and her family are Wiccan.
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While their Christian peers in Borger celebrate Christmas, the Keens are preparing for one of eight Wiccan holidays, the Yule, in celebration of the winter solstice Dec. 21.

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“Choral music has its roots in the church. In order to teach it accurately, you have to teach it from whence it came,” Miller said. “I teach the foundation or the building blocks so these students can go out with a well-rounded foundation in choral music.”
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Teaching the children about religious/church music and having them perform it are two completely different things. But considering what I discovered about Miller via Mojoey I’m not surprised he can’t tell the difference.

Of course the comments below the story are very telling. Where are the usual defenders of Religious Freedom? Oh, that’s right. Religious Freedom in this nation applies only to Christians.

 

Of course the anti-gays are
foaming at the mouth over this but that’s par for the course.

Same-sex couples won the right to marry in the nation’s capital Tuesday when the District of Columbia City Council voted 11-2 to pass a measure sponsored by openly gay council member David Catania. Congress has 30 days to review the law before it takes effect, but Congressional leaders have already agreed not to block the law’s adoption.
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The bigots are screaming for their “God-given right” to vote away the rights of a minority but D.C. previously rejected all the clamoring for one. Hopefully they’ll stick to their guns.

 

I originally thought Merry Hyatt was just another person trying to cram Christianity into the CA public schools by force. It turns out that she’s also a Teabagger.

The Tea Party movement is supposed to be all about keeping the government out of your business. But if some California members get their way, the state will force public schoolchildren to sing Christmas carols.
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Merry Hyatt, a substitute teacher and member of the Redding Tea Party Patriots, is behind the push. The Record Searchlight reports:
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“We were having Christmas without Jesus,” Hyatt complained of her previous school district.

The initiative has the support of the local Tea Party Patriots president.

“Bottom line is Christmas is about Christmas,” said Erin Ryan, president of the Redding Tea Party Patriots. “That’s why we have it. It’s not about winter solstice or Kwanzaa. It’s like, ‘Wow you guys, it’s called Christmas for a reason.’ ”
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What can I say to such astounding ignorance and bigotry? Only a facepalm will do.

Brian Brown claims people have a God-given right to vote for marriage. For the record, my vote on his marriage, that of Maggie Gallagher’s–and those of all anti-gay bigots–is a resounding NO.

I mean, if we all have a “God-given right to vote on marriage” then it should go both ways, right?

 

From Chris Rodda at The Huffington Post: (All images from Huffington Post, more available at link)

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10. Have top U.S. military officers, Defense Department officials, and politicians say we’re in a religious war

As many will remember, we couldn’t have gotten off to a better start on winning hearts and minds when Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, on his speaking tour of churches back in 2003, publicly and in uniform proclaimed that the so-called war on terror was really a fight between Satan and Christians, making comments like, “We in the Army of God, in the House of God, the Kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this,” saying that George Bush, who himself had ignorantly called the war a crusade, was “in the White House because God put him there,” and, referring to the capture of Somali warlord Osman Atto, “I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol.”
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8. Plant crosses in Muslim lands and make sure they’re big enough to be visible from really far away
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But now, in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gen. Schwarzkopf’s common sense policies and priority of keeping the troops safe have been replaced by a flaunting of Christianity in these Muslim lands by Christian troops and chaplains who feel that nothing comes before their right to exercise their religion, even if it means putting the safety of their fellow troops at risk. Numerous reports and photos received by MRFF, like the one below, as well as photos posted on official military websites, show conspicuously displayed Christian symbols, such as large crosses, being erected on and around our military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

These large Christian murals were painted on the outside of the T-barriers surrounding the chapel on FOB Warhorse in Iraq. In addition to being a highly visible display of Christianity to Iraqis on the base, these photos were posted on an official military website. It is even more important that the Army regulation prohibiting displays of any particular religion on the grounds of an Army chapel, a regulation that protects the religious freedom of our soldiers by keeping chapels neutral and open to soldiers of all faiths, be strictly enforced on our bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, as these and other photos collected by MRFF clearly show, violations of this regulation that probably wouldn’t even be tolerated on bases in the U.S. are not only tolerated but promoted on our bases in Muslim countries.

7. Paint crosses and Christian messages on military vehicles and drive them through Iraq

For those Iraqis who may not see the overt displays of Christianity on and near our military bases in their country, there have been plenty of mobile Christian messages, painted on our tanks and other vehicles that patrol their streets.
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6. Make sure that our Christian soldiers and chaplains see the war as a way to fulfill the Great Commission

Iraq is crawling with missionaries and evangelists, both civilian and military, who show little or no regard for laws or military regulations. Why? Because, in their opinion, the “Great Commission” from Matthew 28:19 — “Go and make disciples of all nations” — trumps all man-made laws. It’s hard to find a military ministry whose mission statement doesn’t, in one way or another, include fulfilling the Great Commission.

Campus Crusade for Christ’s (CCC) Military Ministry, for example, whose goal is to transform our enlisted trainees and future officers into “government-paid missionaries for Christ,” is present at all of our military’s largest basic training facilities, as well as the military service academies and ROTC campuses. The “Vision” of another organization, Military Missions Network, is “An expanding global network of kingdom-minded movements of evangelism and discipleship reaching the world through the military of the world.”
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2. Make sure Bibles and evangelizing materials sent to Muslim lands have official U.S. military emblems on them

What better way to say to Muslims that the U.S. military is not officially Christian than to have official U.S. military emblems stamped on hundreds of thousands of Bibles floating around Iraq and Afghanistan?

Over the past few years, MRFF has amassed quite a collection of military Bibles — some produced by private organizations and others officially authorized by the military — prominently sporting the seals of the various branches of the military and other official military emblems. The latest addition to the collection is a photo from an officer serving in Iraq, who emailed this photo of a Bible being distributed in Iraq with both the Multi-National Corps - Iraq and I Corps seals imprinted on its cover.
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The poster boy for promoting these Bibles is Navy chaplain LCDR Brian K. Waite, who has appeared in uniform at three of the annual campmeetings of Revival Fires founder Cecil Todd, and endorses the ministry, also in uniform, on the websites of both Cecil Todd and his son, evangelist Tim Todd. Just prior to becoming a Navy chaplain, LCDR Waite wrote a virulently anti-Muslim book, in which he held the religion of Islam itself responsible for terrorism, and compared Islam, which he doesn’t even consider a real religion, to Nazism. Not long after his book came out, it was revealed that he had plagiarized much of the book and fabricated some of the endorsements on its cover. Not only does Cecil Todd clearly hold the same anti-Muslim views expressed by Waite in his book, but so does his son Tim Todd. In fact, Waite’s photo and endorsement of those Pentagon endorsed military Bibles appeared right next to the following statement on the younger Todd’s website:

“We must let the Muslims, the Hare Krishna’s, the Hindu’s, the Buddhist’s and all other cults and false religions know, ‘You are welcome to live in America…but this is a Christian nation…this is God’s country! If you don’t like our emphasis on Christ, prayer and the Holy Bible, you are free to leave anytime!’”

1. Send lots of Arabic, Dari, and Pashtu language Bibles to convert the Muslims

Worse than any English language Bibles, even those stamped with official U.S. military emblems, are the countless thousands of Arabic, Dari, and Pashtu Bibles making their way into Iraq and Afghanistan, often with the help of U.S. military personnel.
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My questions are;
Why would anybody want to do that?
What possible good could come of it?
If anybody could explain it to me I’d be much obliged.

 

If there’s anybody out there who is still on the fence about “abstinence only” sex education you need only look to Mississippi to knock you off. What they’re doing there is unbelievable, as well as unconstitutional (not to mention unscrupulous).

At the Mississippi Department of Human Services’ summit entitled “Abstinence Works: Let’s Talk About It,” we didn’t talk about abstinence, but we sure did chant, cheer, dance, pray and sing about it. At least sort of. Here’s a few (of the many) things that stood out to me.

Before the summit began, rap music blasted over the speakers. The 5,000 kids in attendance spent their time inside dancing and singing along to Soulja Boy’s hit song “Crank Dat,” the chorus of which repeats “Watch me crank that soulja boy, then superman that ho,” which most young people know is a disgustingly explicit sexual innuendo. Shortly after the Grenada Middle School cheerleaders performed their catchy cheer “Stop, don’t touch me there! You know this is my no-no square,” outlining the shape of a box around their short shorts. Talk about mixed messages.

What? If this were a lesson designed to teach toddlers to protect themselves from sexual predators I could almost forgive that asinine chant but these are teenagers. They are being denied the age-appropriate information they rightfully deserve and are being purposely dumbed down.

And despite the fact the event was state sponsored and state funded, Reverend Gary Bell led the rowdy group in prayer, closing with “in the name of Jesus Christ.” Performers sang about the glory of God and performed interpretative dancing to Christian gospel songs. Judge John Hudson’s speech quoted the Bible and reviewed the Ten Commandments. As for how that relates to abstinence? According to Hudson, the commandment “Do not commit adultery” directly translates to “Do not engage in promiscuous sex, or sex before marriage.” The constant and overzealous harping on God and Jesus wasn’t just wrong because it ostracized anyone who didn’t prescribe to a particular brand of Christianity — it was wrong because it was illegal. Taxpayer and state money funded the event, and last time I checked, it is illegal under the U.S. Constitution to use those funds to promote a specific religious message or agenda.

Not only is it unconstitutional, but it has been proven repeatedly that overt religion and “abstinence only” sex ed have the opposite of their intended effect.

He, nor any of the speakers, offered information on what to do if abstinence fails. Did he talk about proper use of condoms or birth control? No, but he did make the offhand and scientifically unfounded comment that condoms are “pieces of rubber that deteriorate in your back pocket. They only work some of the time.” But the medical community considers an 87 to 98 percent effectiveness rate in preventing STIs and pregnancy as more than “some of the time.” And how was the LGBTQ community addressed in the summit? Well, it wasn’t. In most states, certainly Mississippi, same-sex marriage rights are not recognized, so how are they supposed to handle their sexuality?

If you tell kids not to have sex outside of marriage they won’t, just like they never drink before they’re 21. That’s why there’s no need to teach them about protectionf. And since same-sex marriage is illegal in Mississippi those gay teens will never be having sex so there’s no need to teach them about it.

I would like to know why scientifically valuable and life-saving information is being censored and made unavailable, and to what end? Mississippi has spent more than $16 million in abstinence only programs, yet the state ranked number one in teen births in 2009, and in the top five in numbers STD infections. Mississippi even took the number one spot in 2006 as the state ranking highest in gonorrhea infections.

Condoms may not be 100% effective, but they protect against pregnancy and STDs far better than Jesus. Sadly MS refuses to provide proper sex-education to teens. Their taxpayers are paying for people to proselytize to their children and to drill moronic chants into their heads, but not to teach them anything that will actually help them in life. The children would be better off learning about “the facts of life” from strangers on the street than from the lunatics that are currently at the helm.

 

In an ultimate bid to eradicate the rights of women to control their reproductive systems and their lives, a group called Personhood Florida, Inc. has proposed the following amendment to the Florida constitution:

The words “person” and “natural person” apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being.

Last year, Colorado voters rejected a proposal which would have defined a fertilized human egg as a person. Similarly, voters in Montana, Oregon, Georgia and Mississippi had rejected like proposals. This year in Montana and Colorado, like in Florida, backers are instead pushing a proposal that refers to “the beginning of the biological development of that human being.” The result would be the same. All abortions would be barred because, under that definition, the “beginning of the biological development” would include fetus, embryo and zygote. While this is the position of the Catholic Church and others, it is no means that of most others. Also to be banned, according to Personhood Florida and the American Life league would be all forms of stem-cell research and in vitro fertilization clinics because of the failure of the latter to bring each fertilized egg to actual birth.

So who is going to pay the medical bills for all of the women who become pregnant if they can no longer get birth control pills? (And what of the women for whom pregnancy is a health risk, even potentially deadly? Why are they less of a “person” than a blastocyst?) Who is going to shoulder the increased costs for social service programs when scores of poor women who would have otherwise had abortions instead have children? Are all these “personhood” advocates going to do what is necessary for the millions of actual persons that result from their efforts? Or are they, as usual, going to stop caring once fetus becomes a born human and begins costing society precious tax dollars?

I suspect it’s the latter, and I need only look to the search queries in my server logs for the evidence:
“if medicaid covers abortion why do so many welfare mothers keep having kids”

They don’t care one whit about people. They care only about controlling them. This “pro-life” save the babies nonsense is just another smokescreen they use as a means of doing so.