unfocused anger, part I
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solarbirdAt the recent arguments against California's recently-adopted ban on marriage, you get a protester holding up a sign congratulating Harvey Milk's murderer as a hero (scene shot here); the domestic-parntership expansion bill here in Washington State is prompting the fundamentalist right to air a huge series of complete-fabrication hate ads against it (if you live in a swing district or any district targeted by these, please call your legislators to support the expansion), and the Mormon political machine is gearing up for more anti-queer action across the country, like in Illinois.
In non-queer culture-war bullshit, the current Pope Benedict upheld the excommunication of a mother who authorised an abortion for the twins her nine year old daughter was carrying after she had been raped buy her stepfather, a pregnancy which was under any circumstances life-threatening. The rapist stepfather has not been excommunicated. If you need a bigger sign of absolute wretched contempt for women by the Catholic church hierarchy, I don't know what's wrong with you. (Oh, and if you forgot, Pope Benedict has also been busy revoking excommunications of pro-Hitler Holocaust deniers.)
The only good thing about all this is that it's driving people away from Christianity in starkly clear numbers. Reap the fucking whirlwind, you evil bastards. The evangelicals are showing slightly up numbers, but the Christian Science Monitor thinks US evangelism is on the verge of sudden collapse, noting:
(The CS Monitor author is probably looking at the dramatic collapse in Catholic identification in New England following the continued church protection of child rapists and their protectors, like Bernard Law. "Oops, I think we're in trouble." I sure fucking hope so, you deserve to be.)
You look at this and then look in contrast to things like how in the officially Christian United Kingdom, PM Gordon Brown recently stated that "this [Proposition 8] attempt to undo good that has been done is unacceptable." And in Argentina - Argentina - you have banks running advertisements containing more overt queer respect than you see anywhere in the US. (Link courtesy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cow.) And you really realise that it's the US, the Islamic fundamentalist countries, the ex-Hitler Youth pope, and a few fascists in Russia vs. everyone else in the world. It's revolting.
Don't forget to call to support SB 5688 and HB 1727, the domestic-partnership expansion bills, and, for that matter, the dead-on-arrival SB 5674 and HB 1745, which would authorise marriage outright - it only adds a few seconds to the call. The legislative hotline 1.800.562.6000.
In non-queer culture-war bullshit, the current Pope Benedict upheld the excommunication of a mother who authorised an abortion for the twins her nine year old daughter was carrying after she had been raped buy her stepfather, a pregnancy which was under any circumstances life-threatening. The rapist stepfather has not been excommunicated. If you need a bigger sign of absolute wretched contempt for women by the Catholic church hierarchy, I don't know what's wrong with you. (Oh, and if you forgot, Pope Benedict has also been busy revoking excommunications of pro-Hitler Holocaust deniers.)
The only good thing about all this is that it's driving people away from Christianity in starkly clear numbers. Reap the fucking whirlwind, you evil bastards. The evangelicals are showing slightly up numbers, but the Christian Science Monitor thinks US evangelism is on the verge of sudden collapse, noting:
Evangelicals have identified their movement with the culture war and with political conservatism. This will prove to be a very costly mistake. Evangelicals will increasingly be seen as a threat to cultural progress. Public leaders will consider us bad for America, bad for education, bad for children, and bad for society.Yeah, and you'll be seen that way because that's what you've been. All you fucks have been doing is hating on me and people like me for decades now, and the entire religion has hollowed itself out to shrieking yahoos who don't give a rat's ass about anything other than worshipping torturers and bashing on queers and women. I mean honestly, when you have your reps talking about how he hopes the children(!) of "sexual promiscuity" die of AIDS to teach their parents a lesson, how much more wretchedly, perversely, direly, hatefully, sadistically evil do you think you need to be? I'm glad at least one of you recognises, at this late date, what you've become.
(The CS Monitor author is probably looking at the dramatic collapse in Catholic identification in New England following the continued church protection of child rapists and their protectors, like Bernard Law. "Oops, I think we're in trouble." I sure fucking hope so, you deserve to be.)
You look at this and then look in contrast to things like how in the officially Christian United Kingdom, PM Gordon Brown recently stated that "this [Proposition 8] attempt to undo good that has been done is unacceptable." And in Argentina - Argentina - you have banks running advertisements containing more overt queer respect than you see anywhere in the US. (Link courtesy
cow.) And you really realise that it's the US, the Islamic fundamentalist countries, the ex-Hitler Youth pope, and a few fascists in Russia vs. everyone else in the world. It's revolting.Don't forget to call to support SB 5688 and HB 1727, the domestic-partnership expansion bills, and, for that matter, the dead-on-arrival SB 5674 and HB 1745, which would authorise marriage outright - it only adds a few seconds to the call. The legislative hotline 1.800.562.6000.
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Date: 2009-03-10 08:51 pm (UTC)I wondered if the local bishop or whatever just went, Ah, fuckit--queers have money too.
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-10 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-10 10:54 pm (UTC)___Let the GOP know that Mother death fantasies are, you know, a bit offensive and may not have a positive effect on GOP candidates:
Colorado Republican Headquarters
5950 S. Willow Drive, Suite 302
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Office: 303.758.3333
Dick Wadhams
Party Chairman
dickwadhams@cologop.org
Michael Britt
Executive Director
michaelbritt@cologop.org
(w) 303.758.3333 x107
___Make sure the Democratic Party raise holy hell or fuck off:
Colorado Democratic Party 777 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204 info@coloradodems.org Phone (303) 623-4762 Fax (303) 623-2443
And here are some press people.
Colorado Spring's The Gazette
Steve Pope - President & Publisher Phone: 719-636-0201 Email: steve.pope@gazette.com Jeff Thomas - Editor & Vice President Phone: 719-476-1607 Email: jeff.thomas@gazette.com Click HERE for the newsroom staff directory
The Colorado Springs Independent Newsweekly
John Weiss
jweiss@csindy.com
*http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/25/gop-lawmakers-comments-hiv-promiscuity-cause-uproa/
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:44 pm (UTC)That's not true! They've occasionally taken a bit of a break to hate on someone else for a few minutes. It's just very, very rare.
Let's hear it for Christian love and tolerance!
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-10 10:26 pm (UTC)It's a good thing I'm not attention starved, because just being female and an atheist doesn't garner as much energy from the right wing as being homosexual. It's hardly fair!
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:45 pm (UTC)Srsly. It's enough to make this happy little pagan wish for the Second Coming... man, if that Rabbi were here, I bet he'd make that incident with the Moneylenders look like a kindergarten squabble....
And those Utah Mormons? Need to get raided.
(No dissing the Mormons around here; some of them are my good friends. But I remember being told by someone I trust intimately that she'd been told *by non-Utah LDS* that the folks in Salt Lake were, and I quote, "batshit crazy".)
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 01:37 am (UTC)Sasha has been saying for years that Catholic women who don't like the church's stance on who can stand in the pulpit and who get control over women's bodies and lives should leave the Catholic church and she doesn't understand why they don't. Now she is saying that all Catholics should at least quit going and giving money. If this happened, they would have to change. People yelling in the streets? Doesn't matter, as long as the pews stay filled and the money comes in.
Honestly, while I don't think she gets the psychology of people who go to church on a regular basis, she's right. People suddenly leaving en masse (or not leaving but just not giving money) and stating similar reasons why would cause a sudden rethinking of this shit within a year, at most, if people held their ground that long. (tho wow, I always thought John Paul got waaaay too much credit for being a good guy. Seeing what the alternative apparently was, I he looks a lot better.)
I only don't post this in my lj cause a couple of practicing Catholics there I don't wanna offend. Is there a tactful way to suggest this?
and the Mormon political machine is gearing up for more anti-queer action across the country, like in Illinois.
One of the local churchs (Baptist) that has air time on the pop radio station sunday mornings w/sermon repeats was talking about Mormons and proposition 8 *just this past Sunday*! He was talking about how Mormons were great and wonderful people that you'd like to have as neighbors, and pointed out their leading the fight on Proposition 8 as a prime example of this. How is it again that conservative churches never get called on *their* political activities? (or that any churches ever got tax exempt status, for that matter; tis a bizarre rule)
Then he went on to talk about how Mormons were really a deluded cult trying to lead real Christians astray and were unknowingly in service to Satan, despite their good work on lawn maintenance, dressing nicely and stopping gay marriage, and their niceness was part of the great deception. I'm not quite sure how this relates to anything, but I it seemed to when I first read your post. I think I forgot my point.
you'll be seen that way because that's what you've been. All you fucks have been doing is hating on me and people like me for decades now, and the entire religion has hollowed itself out to shrieking yahoos who don't give a rat's ass about anything other than worshipping torturers and bashing on queers and women. I mean honestly, when you have your reps talking about how he hopes the children(!) of "sexual promiscuity" die of AIDS to teach their parents a lesson, how much more wretchedly, perversely, direly, hatefully, sadistically evil do you think you need to be? I'm glad at least one of you recognises, at this late date, what you've become.
(The CS Monitor author is probably looking at the dramatic collapse in Catholic identification in New England following the continued church protection of child rapists and their protectors, like Bernard Law. "Oops, I think we're in trouble." I sure fucking hope so, you deserve to be.)
That just bore repeating.
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Date: 2009-03-11 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 05:25 am (UTC)The bishop he re-communicated - Bishop Richard Williamson - is both a Holocaust denier (as in, he claims it didn't happen) and a supporter of German-Canadian fascist Ernst Zündel, co-author (as Christov Friedrich) of The Hitler We Loved and Why, which you can look up yourself. It's available, with excerpts, on Amazon.
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Date: 2009-03-12 03:00 am (UTC)It's true, I am fond of data.
Date: 2009-03-12 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-11 11:17 am (UTC)Perhaps you should just be glad that there are two fewer Catholics in Brazil.
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Date: 2009-03-11 06:40 pm (UTC)Of course not. But I speak to the rottenness that has become the Catholic Church hierarchy and its seemingly systemic fondness for protecting (or at least not punishing) child rapists.
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Date: 2009-03-11 07:48 pm (UTC)but it's pretty much always been rotten...