You know the Yiddish-language newspaper ‘shopped all the women out of a photo of the Situation Room taken during the raid on Osama? Another newspaper thinks falsifying historical events is a great idea, with a minor difference in perspective.
(via Feministe and The Brooklyn Paper)
I haven’t been feeling well this week and thus writing has been usurped by sleeping and moping. I tend to get a mild case of the blues when I’m sick. I guess I’m more fortunate than a friend of mine who says he goes mildly insane. Anyway, the only recreational internet I’ve been surfing is teh funny and this page from Beginner’s Bible Coloring Book is religious batshittery at its best.
Alas, Crayola has discontinued their beige “flesh of Christ” crayon, but I think “cracker-eating green” is still available.
Via A Clockwork Door Hinge which is always good for a laugh.
Remember the “conscientious objection” card the anti-choice pharmacists play so they don’t have to give out Plan B?
I guess it was only a matter of time before the hetero-bigots got into that game. A proposed policy in Iowa would “protect” the rights of those judges who don’t want to perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples. Says the Alliance Defense Fund:
Forcing [judges] to participate in offensive acts contrary to their deeply held beliefs in order to remain employed is unconstitutional.”
Words cannot express how utterly, horrendously, and irredeemably hypocritical I find religious conservatives.
Sure, they want to protect your “foundational rights and liberties” such as “the right of conscience” – but only if your conscience whispers the same bigotry as theirs.
These idiots who are “defending their right” to live the way they want are the same control-freaks who have fought tooth and nail to keep that same right out of the reach of gays and lesbians.
Jiminy bloody Cricket, won’t they ever just STFU.
[tags]bigotry, hypocrisy, gay marriage[/tags]
Stop the web, I want to get off. I swung back and forth on this one for long, I got nauseous.
“This is appalling!…No wait, it’s a parody…No wait, they’re serious!…No wait, it’s a satire…No wait….”
In the final analysis, it’s a poe. Don’t know which finally gave it away – the Operation Rapture page or the “Host a book burning!” headline. Anyway, it had me going there for a while.
I’m kinda liking the burqa-esque photo of Palin they use for their masthead. Very apropos.
[tags]Sarah Palin, fundamentalists[/tags]
Dan Savage wants to be the “cool gay uncle” to Sarah Palin’s kids, from whom they can learn about birth control, abortion, gay-osity and other things Sarah wants to make illegal.
Must.have.that.poster.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leq3ydk5Ug4[/youtube]
[tags]Dan Savage, Sarah Palin, religious asshats[/tags]
An article in the Washington Post today discusses the results of a recent poll on Americans’ religious beliefs.
Apparently, the poll indicates the following brain boggler:
More than 90 percent of Americans — including one in five people who say they are atheists — believe in God or a universal power.
Emphasis emphatically mine.
The Post says this poll exposes the “depth and complexity” of our “deeply religious” nation:
For example, along with 21 percent of the people who describe themselves as atheists but express a belief in God or a universal spirit, more than half of those who say they are agnostic express a similar conviction.
How about the oxymorons of a deeply confused nation?
[tags]stupidity, religion[/tags]
Any fucktard can be a judge, but only believers can be adoptive parents.
In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes’ right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes’ “high moral and ethical standards,” he said, the New Jersey state constitution declares that “no person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience.”
Bitch, please.
[tags]adoption, theocracy as government, poor New Jersey[/tags]
I must confess, “sexual double standard” wasn’t the first that came to mind when I saw the Mormons Exposed calendar.
More like visions of hot guys in suits showing up at my front door. To think all this time I’ve been slamming the door in their faces, when all they wanted to do was share a very special eight-inch message with me?!
Then the hormone fog receded and I realized these sweet young things almost certainly play for the other team. Reality once again intrudes. Sigh.
Gotta love the irony, though.
[tags]Mormons Exposed[/tags]
This is one of my favorite maxims, because it’s so very, utterly, infallibly true.
And in heavy rotation these days, as well, what with moral-majority public servants Larry Craig and Bob Allen getting caught cruising public men’s restrooms for sex, and David Vitter exposed as a long-time patron of prostitutes.
The holier one proclaims their morality, the deeper their hole of denial.
Is it a coincidence that the recent best examples of such holey people are prominent members of a political party famous for its avowed mission to make us all good God-fearing constituents, come hell or high water?
I think not.
In fact, a careful analysis of the data indicates that the number of faith-based initiatives introduced by Congress increases in tandem with the number of closeted kinksters and homos elected to office.
Then just when it seems Republican WMO’s* have a corner on secret lives, the dark side of Mother Theresa puts them in a whole new, er, light.
The recent publication of Mother Theresa’s letters reveals a very different person than the one we all assumed we knew. The venerable nun who for so long epitomized the ideal of living in the light of God was in fact tormented by a “spiritual darkness,” a major crisis of faith, the entire time she worked in the Calcutta slum.
Yet another light-seeker living in shadow.
The difference is that Mother Theresa did not repress her pain and blame it on someone else. If, as some theorize, Mother Theresa figured out in her heart of hearts that there is no God, she did not preach fire and brimstone whilst secretly trysting with atheists in public bathrooms.
And so I say to Larry, Bob, David, and all people blindly flinging their emotional shit around in pathetic seizures of denial: Learn from the tiny woman from Macedonia. If you must feel that God has forsaken you, fine, but don’t make the rest of us unwilling actors in your passion play.
Pray to your God. Start a kick-me-I’m-gay support group. Go on a spiritual quest to the Island of Misfit Boys. Do whatever you need to do to learn to accept yourself, or at least to tolerate yourself quietly until you finally die and go to hell.
Just stop trying to find absolution by persecuting others who are just like you.
As the less-pious-than-we-thought-but-probably-more-practical Mother Theresa might have said: Deal Second stall from the wall.
*White Male Oppressors
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UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention by some Readers, and supported by credible sources, that Mother Theresa may, in fact, have flung a little shit in her time. While I’ve never been under the delusion that MT was perfect, upon pondering this further, I’ve concluded she’s perhaps less of a role model for dealing than previously stated. Thus I have made a minor edit to my original post.
[tags]Mother Theresa, religion, Larry Craig, Bob Allen, David Vitter, hypocrisy[/tags]