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Dark Ages in America: Now?

September 1, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 2817 Views 1 Comment evolution, Creationism, Climate Change, Dark Ages, Republic, Education, exploration

In the previous century, America, through public and private cooperation and investment built an unrivaled infrastructure. We became the country that invented the things of a new and exciting world, and we built those things. We put in place a social safety net. We weren’t perfect, but we tried, and We looked to the future with excitement and anticipation, but today, we seem to be in a rush to go backwards as far and fast as possible. We fear everything, and demand absolute security, and think it can be found in some nostalgic past.

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Scott Lively Loves Him Some Nazis

August 31, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1641 Views 1 Comment SRO, RFRA, Religious Freedom, discrimination, Scott Lively, bigotry, Abiding Truth Ministries

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Scott Lively is an attorney who heads up something called the “Abiding Truth Ministries.” He’s risen to some prominence lately by taking his message of hate and bigotry towards LGBT people international. He found an especially receptive audience in Ugandan government officials, and helped pass anti-gay legislation which called for the death penalty for homosexual acts. His latest screed on World Nut Daily uses the same tired claims.

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Bill Donohue’s Usual Hyperbole

August 12, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 954 Views 0 Comments Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Switzerland, Bishop Vitus Huonder, Catholic, USCCB, Hate Speech

Bill Donohue, for those of you who don’t know, is the head, and as best anyone can tell, only employee or member of an organization called, “The Catholic League.” Bill is claiming that American gay rights activists are seeking to “criminalize the Bible,” based on a situation where a Swiss group has filed a complaint (in Switzerland) against a Catholic Bishop in Switzerland (those facists Swedes).

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Rep. Steve King, Talking Lawnmowers and The Baker Act

July 31, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1487 Views 0 Comments Congress, Steve King, bigotry, Lawnmowers, hate, Talking Lawnmowers, Iowa

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It worries and embarrasses me the idiocy I see in too many of our elected officials, and making it worse is the knowledge we elect them, and keep re-electing them. Evangelicals and Conservatives, especially Republican conservatives seem to try to out-stupid each other, and the rhetoric has simply crossed a line, especially on the gay marriage issue. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa[they should be really proud]) provides a ton of grist for the stupid mill, and I think his latest, were he anyone else, would qualify him for a Baker Act petition.

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Letter to Bishop Kiesey of the Michigan Area

July 20, 2015July 20, 2015 B. John 1880 Views 1 Comment Rev. Benjamin Hutchison, Deborah Lieder Kiesey, Palma Ceia United Methodist Church, Michigan Area Annual Conference, Cassopolis United Methodist Church, Bruce Toms, Ken Carter

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Recently, a small church in Michigan, Cassopolis United Methodist, had their church Pastor, Rev. Benjamin Hutchison, taken away from them. Was it because of poor attendance, hardly, he had quadrupled the membership since being appointed. He saved the church from dying according to many members. His crime, he was in a long-term committed relationship with another man. Just after that, nearly 30 United Methodist pastors joined in a celebrating a wedding ceremony for Rev. Hutchison and his husband, and now, to further hammer home her distaste for love, Bishop Deborah Lieder Kiesey has picked out nine of them for prosecution under church law. Here’s my letter to Bishop Kiesey:

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An Open Letter to Franklin Graham

June 15, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 859 Views 0 Comments Robert Jefress, Tony Perkins, Maggie Gallagher, Brian Brown, Bryan Fischer, Franklin Graham

It’s time we had a little talk, you and me. I know this whole idea that gay people (and all the LBT rest of them) might be starting to get some equal rights bothers you tremendously. I can’t figure out any sort of leap of logic that makes this such a big issue for you, unless, of course it somehow affects you directly. At some point, you’ve got to meet God halfway. You can’t create him in your image, nor imbibe him with your character flaws. If God hates all the same people you do, you have created a god in your own image, and are not worshiping the God of Abraham.

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Another Cause of Homosexuality Unveiled

June 14, 2015June 15, 2015 B. John 1572 Views 3 Comments Immunizations, evangelicals, LGBT

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Based on a comment in response to a Facebook post, ” There are those who think it is a side effect of some childhood immunizations or combinations thereof.” This has to be one of the most unique I can think of. Let’s start with a number of problems with this, from the most recent working back into time.

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An Open Letter to the UMC General Conference Commission

May 13, 2015May 14, 2015 B. John 982 Views 1 Comment UMC, Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, United Methodist Church, GC, General Conference

It seems the Commission on the General Conference for the United Methodist Church, meeting last month, decided to hold the first quadrennial General Conferences outside the United States . The original choice had the GC going to Zimbabwe in 2024, and the Philippines in 2028. Fortunately, an ever-present advocate for LGBT people within the Church was there, and raised a few concerns, including the fact that Amnesty International has declared Zimbabwe one of the most dangerous countries for LGBT people. The years were switched.

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An Open Letter to Conservative SCOTUS Justices

May 5, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1352 Views 0 Comments john roberts, supreme court, Antonin Scalia, SCOTUS, marriage equality

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Yes, this is a bit behind, but I had to make comments about some of the discussion points put forward

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An Open Letter to Anti-Gay “Christians”

May 5, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1741 Views 0 Comments Ted Cruz, David Duke, Alan Keyes, pat robertson, Tony Perkins, Matt Barber

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Unfortunately, as gay people are less afraid to hide in a stifling closet, and are demanding that they be accorded the same rights as every other American, the heads of the leaders of the evangelical branch of the christian right are exploding. They are ratcheting up the rhetoric to a disturbing level, and some of their language is most certainly designed to evoke a violent response by unstable people who follow them. So, I’d like to drop them a note.

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An Open Letter to Mike Huckabee

April 3, 2015September 29, 2018 B. John 1518 Views 0 Comments Wedding Cakes, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Indiana

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But at the end of the day, with or without these RFRA laws, you still have the same religious freedoms you have had since the Republic was founded. You can pray to whatever God you choose, or you can choose to not pray. You can go to whatever house of worship you wish on whatever day you’d like, and you can crawl into the pulpit and preach the ugliest and nastiest things your sad little heart can drum up about people you don’t like. So Mike, stop with the lying about the need for these laws. The only thing you’re trying to do is get special rights to take your particular from of hatred and bigotry into the public square, and you’re finding that Americans are finally less and less tolerant of your intolerance. I know it’s hard to take now, but in the end, America, and even you, will be better for it.