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Dallas Pastor Lays Down the Law On Gay Marriage

June 8, 2012 B. John 302 Views 0 Comments Baptist, Dallas, Gay Marriage

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 215 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 351 Views 2 Comments Baptist, Disgust, Final Solution, hate, hatred, Hitler, Marriage, 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 466 Views 0 Comments Africa, African, bigotry, bishop, Church, Faith, General Conference, homophobia, Martin Luther King, Methodist Federation for Social Action, 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 356 Views 0 Comments Amendments, Baptist, Civil Rights, Dishonesty, Gay Marriage, Lies, Video

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 409 Views 0 Comments AFA, All Things Considered, American Family Association, Barbara Bradley Haggerty, Bryan Fischer, Family Research Council, FRC, hate group, Joel Rose, Morning Addition, national public radio, Ombudsman, SPLC, Tony Perkins

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 474 Views 0 Comments Bank of America, Bigot, Charlotte, Cisco, Frank Turek, Freedom, Same Sex Marriage

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 332 Views 0 Comments Bigot, Granby, New York, Nom, Ruth Sheldon, Same Sex Marriage

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.”

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The Poor Persecuted Laura Fotusky

October 11, 2011September 29, 2018 280 Views 0 Comments Barker, Bigot, Laura Fotusky, New York, Nom, Same Sex Marriage, Town Clerk

Laura Fotusky is another of the town clerks being trotted out by NOM with the claim that she was somehow being persecuted because, God forbid, she might have been expected to carry out her ministerial duties as prescribed by New York State law, and actually treat everyone equally under those laws. Well, we can’t go around having government employees doing that now, can we? Back in July, Laura resigned her position as the Town Clerk of Barker, NY rather than sign marriage licenses for everyone qualified to be married under civil law.

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The Poor Persecuted Rose Marie Belforti

October 10, 2011September 29, 2018 443 Views 2 Comments bigotry, City Clerk, Gay Marriage, Leyard, New York, Nom, Rose Marie Belforti

It appears that folks at the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), Maggie Gallagher’s personal hate group, is collecting stories of town/county clerks from around New York State who feel put-upon for having to follow the state’s law that all couples are equal under the State’s Marriage laws. As they collect their videos of the horrible (horrible I say) persecution caused these people being expected to do their civil duties under state law as Agents of The State, we’ll look at them under the light of a Constitutional Republic which is ruled by law, not religion.

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The Crazy from N.C…Please Make it Stop

September 28, 2011September 29, 2018 390 Views 0 Comments Bigot, bigotry, GOP, hate, homophobia, James Forrester, N.C., North Carolina, Repbulican, Traditional Marriage

So this GOP State Senator James Forrester who is supposedly a medical doctor (fortunately the sick in his town he’s retired). The batshittery is beyond belief and goes on and on as this blow hard is caught in lie after lie as he tries to conceal the animous on which the anti-gay hate bill was based. He was the primary sponsor. I warn you, the blatant idocy could make you want to puncture your ear drums.