Being Gay is Your Choice, Religion is in Your DNA
So says the office of House Minority Leader John Boehner:
Questioned about why the House’s top Republican opposes a hate crimes bill penalizing violence against gays, his spokesman said he “supports existing federal protections (based on race, religion, gender, etc) based on immutable characteristics,” just not protections for things like being gay — which conservatives occasionally claim is a choice.
“He does not support adding sexual orientation to the list of protected classes,” Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith added. The statement was made in an email to CBS News.
In other words, religion is a trait you’re born with.
Putting aside the sheer idiocy of Smith’s “you’re born Christian but choose to be gay” argument, the “immutable characteristic” of gender is not actually protected under existing federal law.
The stupid, it burns.
10/18/09 12:38 am | | Permalink | Tags: Christianity, hate crimes, homosexuality, John Boehner
Indoctrination in Public Schools
Americans are right to be worried about students being indoctrinated in our nation’s public schools, but it’s not President Obama who’s doing the indoctrination:
LOUISVILLE — A mother is angry about a trip led by the head football coach at Breckinridge County High School. The coach took about 20 players on a school bus late last month to his church, where nearly half of them — including her son — were baptized.
Michelle Ammons said her 16-year-old son was baptized without her knowledge and consent, and she is upset that a public school bus was used to take players to a church service — and that the school district’s superintendent was there and did not object.
“Nobody should push their faith on anybody else,” said Ammons, whose son, Robert Coffey, said Coach Scott Mooney told him and other players that the Aug. 26 outing would include only a motivational speaker and a free steak dinner.
“He said it would bring the team together,” Robert, a sophomore, said in an interview.
And here’s the kicker:
“The students who watched the president’s speech today had to get a note signed by their parents that said they could watch it.”
So baptism of students on a school field trip, OK. Listening to the President of the United States encourage students to stay in school, parental permission required.
9/8/09 9:38 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Barack Obama, Christianity, Kentucky, public schools, separation of church and state
In Texas, The New Testament Ends with the Founding of America
7/16/09 4:21 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Cesar Chavez, Christianity, desegregation, George Washington, Hillary Clinton, racism, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen F. Austin, Texas
Snack Attack and Other Adventures in the South
- A Tennessee couple was charged with domestic assault after they threw Cheetos at each other. Oh excuse me, allegedly threw Cheetos at each other. Maybe their orange fingers will be useful, as evidence. (Shelbyville Times-Gazette)
- Responding to an earlier complaint, Georgia park rangers arrested Mark Musselwhite, the former mayor of Gainesville, after they found him wandering around his campsite in the nude. Mayor Musselwhite claims that the complaint was not about him but rather some other nekkid guy in the same campsite. Seriously, this is his defense. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- Mark Sanford’s tax-payer trip to South America was only supposed to be to Brazil, but South Carolina’s Commerce Department added Argentina to the itinerary at Sanford’s request, so he could get laid. Clearly Sanford was thinking with the wrong head (ahem.) because his little visit to Argentina was contradictory to offical federal policy, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Oh, the things we do for sex love. (AP/McClatchy)
- A Louisville pastor has asked his congregants to bring their guns to church today because WWJD, right? And then they’re all gonna show those “meek” a thing or two about who’s really gonna inherit the earth. (MSNBC)
6/27/09 6:10 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Argentina, Cheetos, Christianity, Georgia, guns, Kentucky, Mark Musselwhite, Mark Sanford, naked, South Carolina, Tennessee
He’s No John Paul
Shorter Verbatim Pope Benedict XVI:
“a true dialogue is not possible without putting one’s faith in parentheses.”
But hey, no worries, says a spokesman, because he’s been to a mosque.
(Corriere Della Sera via NYT)
11/23/08 8:44 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Catholic Church, Christianity, Islam, Pope Benedict XVI, shorter
Christian Values: School Founder Offers Diploma for Sex
Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. A Houston TV station on Thursday exposed LaVern Jordan, founder of a local Christian school, offering to waive a student’s enrollment fees if the mother will agree to have sex with him.
Jordan: “For the uh, enrollment fee and stuff like that, maybe you and I can do something, you think?”
Mother: “Yeah, what, I mean what, what, you gonna wipe out all the fees?”
Jordan: “All the enrollment fees.”
Mother: “All the enrollment fees?”
Jordan: “Three hundred dollars.”
Mother: “So you gonna wipe everything if me and you get together?”
Jordan: “The enrollment fee, yeah.”
Mother: “Ok.”
Jordan: “If you and I get together.”
Mother: “What you mean? I mean, what?
Jordan: “Excuse me and I don’t mean to be so blunt but I am talking about f—— you.”
Mother: “You talking about what?”
Jordan: “F—— you.”
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Jordan: “For the $300 I would expect maybe we could get together several times, you think?”
Mother: “Several times, whatcha mean several times?”
Jordan: “Well I don’t know, you might like whatcha getting.”
The school, which is now run by Jordan’s wife, responded in the appropriate Christian fashion: forgiving Jordan and demanding an apology from the network and the mother.
In regards to the “story” that aired on 4/16- 4/17 of 2008 on Channel 13, we would like to begin by informing you that the “story” was not told in its’ entirety, as no one requested an interview with Mrs. Jordan, nor did Channel 13 accept her offer for one.
Here’s the email that reporter Wayne Dolcefino sent to the school three days before the story aired requesting an interview from Mrs. Jordan. Okay, back to the ridiculous:
The Parkway Christian School,Inc. staff wants to remind you that we are all sinners saved by Grace, and we have forgiven Mr. Jordan for his wrong action.
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[the school then quotes John 8:7, which includes the line: "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."] What do you think Jesus was writing in the sand? Was it the names of all the men that had been with the woman, or a list of all of their sins? Either way, it should help us all to realize that we are all guilty of sin and only God can be the judge of us.
Yes, everyone’s guilty. The school released another statement the next day, reiterating the claim that nobody asked them for an interview, but now they’ve been advised by their lawyers not to grant any interviews even if they do ask. Then, the real fun starts:
Furthermore, we would like to add that the woman in question did not handle the situation properly. Had she called to inform me of this incident, the matter would have been handled promptly and properly
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Channel 13 and the woman in question owe Parkway Christian School, Inc. a public apology for the unjust manner in which the incident was handled. My family, students, and school should not have to suffer the blame for something that we did not know was happening.
Yes, how dare that woman not call the wife of the man who propositioned her in his truck! I’m sure Mrs. Jordan would have dealt with the matter immediately and not accused the mother of slander or ignorance. People always act in a reasonable, rational way when you accuse their husbands of cheating on them by extorting sex from poor women. And how dare she expose the man for being such a pervert! After all, nobody’s perfect. The Christian thing to do would have been to politely thank him for his generous offer, get out of the truck, and pretend that she hadn’t just been treated like a whore.
Now, I don’t have any problem with Christianity because the vast majority of Christians intelligent, reasonable people. The problem is when the really self-righteous ones–the ones who try to impose their beliefs on everybody else–become embroiled in all sorts of sex scandals and then abuse their religion’s concept of forgiveness to get themselves off the hook. By Monday, I’m sure we’ll hear that Jordan has prayed hard all weekend and come to the decision that God has forgiven him and that we should all just forget that the whole thing ever happened. And when we do, someone needs to be there to call him on the hypocrisy.
(h/t Pam)
4/19/08 11:48 am | | Permalink | Tags: ABC News, Christianity, Houston, hypocrisy, LaVern Jordan, Parkway Christian School, Wayne Dolcefino
So says the office of House Minority Leader John Boehner:
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