Another Comment That I May Not Post

[erikagillian]

Linked by Slacktavist, this blog is by one of the founders of No Longer Quivering, a site for the people recovering from damage done by the Quiverfull movement. The post is mostly about how un-christian the people who were doing the Chick-Fil-A's support day were. But the comments, ech! So in reply mostly to this guy R.C. I said:

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Comments

[robby]

I think you're off base with most of this. Marriage has been considered a sacrament of the Christian Church for thousands of years, and wasn't made up recently so priests can make pocket money.

And your "blah, blah, blah" about hate ignores the fact that it was a gay activist that hated enough to attempt mass murder, not the groups that oppose gay marriage.

[veloracat]

There's only two thousand years of history of the Christian Church in the first place, not a clear thinker here. Joining the priesthood was the one way to change your station in life, just one bit of support that makes the first claim pass the smell test while the second... doesn't.

Out of all the Christians not only attempting mass murder to carrying it out, often with gays as their targets... oh, wait, I'm getting caught up in adding shit that doesn't actually have anything to do with anything, which is an outstanding reason for ignoring it.

Gillian! Some muddle headed twerp seems to have hunted you down!

[glinda_w]

Gillian! Some muddle headed twerp seems to have hunted you down!

veloracat: Thank you, you've phrased it far more kindly than I would have.

I can find online cites to, and full text of, the proceedings of the Council of Trent, in 1563, when marriage became a sacrament of the Catholic Church. What I don't have are history textbooks from nevermindhowlongago when I first learned about this.

Also, good job on calling that "mass murder" comment an unsuccessful attempt to derail the conversation from the actual topic.

[robby]

“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Matthew 19:5,6, two thousands years ago)

I'm afraid that you are the one lost in a fog of muddled ignorance and self delusion.

[ext_1407911]

A bit late, I know, but I really like your post and I'm glad you went ahead with it.

On the other hand, reasons to be cheerful part 3: it hadn't occurred to me before I read it that the word ableist is too close to the word atheist which is probably not helpful, thus light has now dawned on that so thank you.

I'd expand but my ventilator and me have an unmissable hot date for an hour or so before I can go to bed, so I had better go and do it...

[erikagillian]

Thank you :)

I'm not sure if I've ever used abelist out loud, now that I think of it. It doesn't sound nasty, I do agree with you there, not like some of them. As an invisible I don't have much experience with it, really, just the why are *you* not working, you're perfectly fine type thing :) There's such a wide range of disability, and I bet there's still some arguing over calling them disabilities and which are real disabilties. Which makes deciding on an opposing word more difficult. I'm coming up totally empty on possibles but I'm pretty tired and being tired usually robs me of my words :)

I appreciate you commenting, as people rarely do. This guy was my very first troll! And he gave up so easily too.

I hope your ventilator isn't what I'm thinking of, which is the machine they sedate you to put you on when you can no longer breathe of your own! Not that having to be on anything for an hour before you go to sleep can be any fun. But I hope you sleep well!