I got halfway through. The irony was too goddamned much.
Members of batshit loco institutions, the same institutions that have created the worldwide movements persecuting gays, all breaking from those same institutions to say that everyone should ignore the very historical teachings that preach against the rights of gays to marry or even exist.
These people represent a minority that is, if you think about it, a paradox in the flesh. To rip off Doug Stanhope: they're making up their own Christianity. They choose to believe the parts of the bible that don't really effect them.
Garden of Eden? Sure! Christ's teachings of Love? Absolutely!
Gay Marriage?
Oh, that was just a typo.
Fuck these idiots. If they have any balls at all, they'll denounce the religions they represent outright.
Yes, yes, I understand. "Their hearts are in the right place."
But saying their organizations and their opinions about marriage should have no bearing on a human being's civil rights is a smidgeon better than saying they should, or saying nothing at all.
I hold out no hope that Fundamentalist Christianity will do a collective "D'oh!" and suddenly quit nosily meddling in other people's private affairs, stop pretending Intelligent Design is science in any way, get their puppeteering hands out of Washington's asses, and stop crying oppression when they're not allowed to plaster their religion all over government buildings I have to use, too.
But I do hold out hope that maybe one by one people will start toppling toward being a tad reasonable with baby steps like these from liberal religions (or no-God religions like the women from the UU churches in the video).
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Members of batshit loco institutions, the same institutions that have created the worldwide movements persecuting gays, all breaking from those same institutions to say that everyone should ignore the very historical teachings that preach against the rights of gays to marry or even exist.
These people represent a minority that is, if you think about it, a paradox in the flesh. To rip off Doug Stanhope: they're making up their own Christianity. They choose to believe the parts of the bible that don't really effect them.
Garden of Eden? Sure! Christ's teachings of Love? Absolutely!
Gay Marriage?
Oh, that was just a typo.
Fuck these idiots. If they have any balls at all, they'll denounce the religions they represent outright.
Yes, yes, I understand. "Their hearts are in the right place."
Pavement on the road to hell, anyone?
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In fact, two of them were not of the "Jesus existed" variety, either, which is reassuring ;)
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If that one dude had ripped his collar off and denounced Christ, I might have given his words weight.
They are part of the very system causing the fucking problem in the first place.
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But saying their organizations and their opinions about marriage should have no bearing on a human being's civil rights is a smidgeon better than saying they should, or saying nothing at all.
I hold out no hope that Fundamentalist Christianity will do a collective "D'oh!" and suddenly quit nosily meddling in other people's private affairs, stop pretending Intelligent Design is science in any way, get their puppeteering hands out of Washington's asses, and stop crying oppression when they're not allowed to plaster their religion all over government buildings I have to use, too.
But I do hold out hope that maybe one by one people will start toppling toward being a tad reasonable with baby steps like these from liberal religions (or no-God religions like the women from the UU churches in the video).
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