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Sometimes There’s Hope

September 11, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 328 Views 0 Comments Ellen DeGeneres, Christianists, Janet Mefferd, Quality Auto Paint and Body, Roanoke, Peter LaBarbera, Virginia

I am constantly reading and hearing the anti-gay Christianists (the Krazy Kristian Kooks as I like to call them) talking about how the world will end if gay people are given equal rights, and their rights to bully are taken away. Just in the past couple of days, on Janet Medferds talk show she hosted professional gay hater and homophobe (and truly most likely a big queen himself) Peter LaBarbera. After crapping on the TV show “The New Normal” to fill air time, they go off on homosexuals in general with the following exchange:

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Coming Out of The Closet in Favor of a Marriage Amendment

July 30, 2012 B. John 324 Views 0 Comments Evangelical, evangelical Christians, Krazy Kristian Kooks

I just couldn’t resist reposting this. The krazy kristian kooks want to enshrine what they call “biblical” marriage into our Constitution. Well, so long as it goes with their inerant Bible, I’m OK with it. Vote ahead. Sometimes people just need to stop and think, and read what they believe they are referencing.

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Back with My Thoughts on the Aurora Shooting

July 23, 2012July 23, 2012 B. John 1294 Views 0 Comments Arizona, Matt Barber, Shooting, Jim Hoft, Fred Jackson, American Family Association, Damian Goddard, Colorado, Pat McEwen, Guns, Operation Save America, Liberty University, Greg Stier, Nom, Aurora, Dare2Share, National Organization for Marriage, CO, Onenewsnow, twitter, Dark Night, Huff Post, One News Now, Madness, Congress, Jerry Newcomb, Louie Gohmert, Russell Pearce, texas, Mike Adams

Everyone needs to just take a breath, and let’s bring some sanity to the discussion. We all want to know why. We want to understand how this person came to this place. We want to assign some motivation, some identifiable cause. We want to blame someone or something so it will look like we can control these situations. We want these answers because we want to be safe. Blame doesn’t mend the families or even the nation. The answers given so far are little more than bandages that easily fail after just a few dips in reality. Because there isn’t a good answer, we need to just stop and say a prayer for the families and friends of the victims in Aurora and a scared nation.

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Dallas Pastor Lays Down the Law On Gay Marriage

June 8, 2012 B. John 1109 Views 0 Comments Dallas, Gay Marriage, Baptist

Jim Burroway at Box Turtle Bulletin brings this YouTube video to our attention. It is Pastor Frederick B. Haynes of Friendship West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas preaching about the hating on Obama on his stance around gay marriage. I don’t know how, but I’m thankful that here is a minister who gets it, and isn’t afraid to say so. “…But whatever you like to ostracize other people it’s because there’s a fear that you have yourself, and the fear that you have finds itself rooted in an ignorance of other people. “

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Pastor Worley Congregant Fail

May 25, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 327 Views 0 Comments North Carolina, Worley

Some years back I came across a rather long essay that speaks to what I see so much of evidence of today in regards to gay rights, and right here was a prime example. I wish I could find that essay again. The author looked at all the times throughout history society experienced a great sea-change. The main point was that progress always, ultimately, wins, but as these changes begin, and less-enlightened people begin to the see the change coming, they become scared. People generally don’t like change, and some people just can’t imagine a world different from the one they’ve created (or been told to create). So out of this fear emerges resistance, and this resistance escalates over time as the change becomes more pronounced. It’s the old “wild animal backed into a corner” example.

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The Hate is Just Dripping

May 21, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 514 Views 2 Comments Disgust, Hitler, Final Solution, Marriage, hatred, hate, Baptist, Vitriol

Once again we see an example of God’s gentle loving people. What a shamed that this is supposed to be the face of Christianity, and people wonder why younger folks remain spiritual, but are leaving the church in droves. Well, here it is.See what hate hath wrought with Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina.

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The Discomfort of Faith-My Experience at the Methodist General Conference

May 19, 2012May 25, 2012 B. John 1269 Views 0 Comments Church, Methodist Federation for Social Action, bigotry, African, Africa, Martin Luther King, General Conference, bishop, Faith, homophobia, Reconciling Ministries Network

I’ve been thinking back over the time I got spend recently at the quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church held here in Tampa this year. It was a big event, and it was a mess from a church polity standpoint. Like Congress, little of great substance was accomplished, and few longstanding issues were resolved, but that may be a good thing. Here, I reflect on the experience.

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Sometimes a Lie is Just a Lie

April 24, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 1149 Views 0 Comments Baptist, Lies, Gay Marriage, Video, Amendments, Civil Rights, Dishonesty

Well, of course the war over writing bigotry and discrimination into the North Carolina Constitution is in full swing. I am sadly disappointed that this is what my home state has come to, but I’m not surprised. I’ve talked to several of the legislators who voted to put this on the ballot, and they absolve themselves by saying, “Well, I just think the people should vote.” But when I ask them why they don’t put every civil right on the ballot, I was called, “absurd.”

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NPR Embraces Hate Groups

January 19, 2012September 29, 2018 B. John 1233 Views 0 Comments Morning Addition, All Things Considered, Bryan Fischer, national public radio, AFA, American Family Association, Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, FRC, Barbara Bradley Haggerty, hate group, Ombudsman, SPLC, Joel Rose

Apparently NPR Religion Correspondent, Barbara Bradley-Haggerty, has decided that religious groups which claim to be Christian can’t possibly be hate groups. It also seems she makes decisions about who to interview for stories based on who returns her call the fastest.

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The MOST Persecuted Frank Turek

October 13, 2011September 29, 2018 1292 Views 0 Comments Freedom, Same Sex Marriage, Charlotte, Bank of America, Bigot, Frank Turek, Cisco

So now we come to the end of our little journey through the latest creation of Maggie Gallagher. Maggie is the former Board Chair and President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), but she recently left those posts to create an off-shoot group called the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance, because you know, the good Christians like Maggie are being persecuted because they slowing losing their right to discriminate against whole classes of people under the civil laws of this country. Maggie started this group up with a guy named Frank Turek. Frank’s story was one of the first NOM started trotting out to try to show that people who believe in unequal treatment were being treated unequally.

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The Poor Persecuted Ruth Sheldon

October 12, 2011September 29, 2018 1181 Views 0 Comments New York, Same Sex Marriage, Nom, Bigot, Ruth Sheldon, Granby

Today’s featured guest is Ruth Sheldon, but before we get to Ruth’s story, don’t you just love the intense music NOM uses at the beginning of their videos? Ruth was the Town Clerk for Granby for nearly 16 years. She wants us to be sure we know that she loved the job, but was forced to give it up because of those icky gay people expecting to be treated fairly. She wrote in her resignation letter that “New York State passed the same-sex marriage law, a law which violates my conscience and my faith.”