Don't Fence Me In

One man's plan to rid the world of homosexuals has gone, as they say, 'viral':

"I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress,”

“Build a great big, large fence – 50 or 100 miles long – and put all the lesbians in there.  Fly over and drop some food. Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. Feed them. And you know in a few years, they'll die out. You know why? They can't reproduce."  (CNN.com)

What about this idea that a "man of the cloth" wants to kill off people?  Isn't that no killing thing in the top 10 things you aren't allowed to do?  Now, some church members, who declined to give their names, defended their pastor, saying his words had been taken out of context. "He said he would feed them!" Oh, so he is not killing them, just not letting them reproduce.

So, the pastor at the Providence Road Baptist Church thinks that fencing in the queers and lesbos is going to make them go away?  Does he know where queers and lesbos come from?  Straight parents.


Perhaps there should be another fenced in area.  How about those "men of the cloth" who sexually abused kids, that is proven in 4,000 pages from the confidential files of nine Franciscan religious brothers who were accused, and the $28 million that was paid to the victims?  (HuffingtonPost.com)

Maybe they need to be corralled and have food air-dropped.  And maybe the pastor from North Carolina can join them.

Is it Politics, Religion or Just Hate?

You all know what "it" is.  "It" is homosexuality.  And, so, is the lack of equality therein related to politics, religion or hate?  Many stand by the politics.  Left-Wing liberals want equality for all.  Right-Wing conservatives want no equality.  Many stand by religion.

A Danish vicar refused to perform a funeral for a dead 74 year old lesbian because he wouldn't perform weddings, and would "not therefore perform other church services for gays."  (PinkNews.co.uk)

But, perhaps the religious is all wrong.  Maybe the religious basis has been misunderstood and/or mistranslated.  Daniel A. Helminiak, who was ordained a priest in Rome, is a theologian, psychotherapist and author.  He definitely thinks that all these people just didn't understand exactly what the bible was saying.  He thinks "the Bible is ho-hum on homosexuality." (CNN.com)

Even in the sin of Sodom, it isn't actually homosexuality that the bible is pointing out.  It is more: "pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48-49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach/Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man’s property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12)."

Then in Romans 1:26-27: "Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another."  In the Greek text, the phrase that was used was para physin.  This was translated to mean "unnatural," but "it should read atypical or unusual."

In another section, Romans 11:24, Paul used the para physin to describe what God did when he "grafted the Gentiles into the Jewish people," inserting a bad plant into the cultivated vine.  It was an unusual thing to do, not standard practice.  Paul wasn't calling God unnatural.  He was saying this was atypical.

The religious calling homosexuality sinful and unnatural because the bible tells them so, is wrong.  So, if it ain't religion, that leaves politics...

or just hate.

Yabba, Dabba, Do

So to say that Tennessee has some issues dealing with social topics is an understatement.  They have problems with women.  And losing the head basketball coach ain't it.  Republican candidate Garry Loe said he wholeheartedly supports women on the issues of housing, education and jobs, but is absolutely an anti-abortion advocate.  (RhrealityCheck.org)


Tennessee also wants to protect gun rights.  Even when it is illegal.  Tennessee Republican Tea Party lawmaker Jeremy Faison is pushing a bill that would protect gun owners who just “didn’t see” a sign prohibiting guns. So if there is a sign that says "No Guns", this law would "give gun owners a defense in cases where they didn’t see a sign prohibiting guns.” (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com)


Then there's gay rights.  There was a "controversial bill in Tennessee meant to restrict public school discussion of sexuality and LGBT issues."  They didn't want anybody to say "gay".  But, that might not happen now.  The key GOP sponsor announced on Monday that he simply wouldn't bring it up. (HuffingtonPost.com)


So maybe things are looking up in Tennessee.  Perhaps Fred and Barney should still stay away.  Probably wouldn't be able to have a "gay ol' time" there anyway.

Now that explains it all...

Somethings are difficult to explain.  Like why Santorum stays in the race (He is carrying the flag for the conservative movement - WashingtonPost.com).  Or why he would use rarely enforced obscenity laws to handcuff the pornography industry. (Porn stars are firing back! PhillyMag.com)  Or why some people have socially conservative political views in the first place.

Well, a new study may just explain it all, linking conservative ideologies to "low-effort" thinking. (HuffingtonPost.com)  Ahh, the low effort approach.  In one part of the study, bar patrons were asked about social issues before blowing into a Breathalyzer.  The higher their blood alcohol levels were, the more likely they were to be conservative.

And not just in bars.  "Keeping people from thinking too much...or just asking them to deliberate or consider information in a cursory manner can impact people's political attitudes, and in a way that consistently promotes political conservatism," Dr. Eidelman said about tests conducted in a lab setting.

In another study, "Psychological Science" showed that children who score low on intelligence tests gravitate toward socially conservative political views in adulthood.

Low intelligence/Low effort = conservatives... that does explain a lot.

Listen to What I Say... But Not What I Said

Maybe that is what good ol' Rick wants everybody to do.  First he says "The issue in this race is not the economy.," but the real issue is "because we have a government that is oppressing its people and taking away their freedom."  And that is important now!  (HuffingtonPost.com)

So, he wants the government out of people's lives.  That makes sense.  Except... when it comes to certain 'social issues' that Mr. Santorum wants the government right in the middle of.  Things like abortion and birth control.  He wants people to be able to have their freedom, unless it comes at the cost of something he disagrees with.  The right to choose is a freedom.

He also wants to interrupt another 'freedom'. He wants an end to pornography.  He thinks the Obama Administration is 'soft' on porn.  He thinks the Justice Department under President Obama “seems to favor pornographers over children and families.”  So, let's get the government in on that!  That is important now!  (WashingtonPost.com)

But, it is what he says, not what he said.  He didn't think that Penn State was soft on pedophilia in the Sandusky case.  Nor does the devout Catholic think he has to "grade the Catholic Church" on the pedophilia there.  So, let's just stay out of those areas.  (LezGetReal)

The one thing Rick ought to watch out for though, is who he might be intruding on in the porn area.  From the NewScientist:  "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds."  (TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com) So, Rick's supporters are buying the stuff.

Wonder if they will still vote for him...

I am Sure They Never Thought of These:

With all the talk about how homosexuality and same-sex marriage is just so wrong - because the Bible tells us so, the Huffington Post  makes the point that all the Bible thumpers may not be living up to all that the Bible forbids.

Tattoos are out...

• Leviticus 19:28 states:
• Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Only long hair and long beards are in... Santorum's hair is too round...

• Leviticus 19:27 states:
• Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

Gee, ever get kicked in the stones?

• Deuteronomy 23:1 states:
• He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Don't read your horoscope Mrs. Bachmann to see if your husband still loves you...

• Leviticus 19:31 reads:
• Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.

Sarah Palin may have to give up her job at Fox News...

• Leviticus 19:16 states:
• Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I am the LORD.

Ok, ladies, don't defend your husbands...

• Deuteronomy 25:11-12 states:
• When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets
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• Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Mitt, no more ham sandwiches... or Lobster tail..

• Leviticus 11:7-8 reads:
• And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
• Leviticus 10-11 states:
• And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you.

Newt, this one is for you... and your 2nd and 3rd wives...

• Mark 10:11-12 states:
• Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
• Deuteronomy 22:20-21 states:
• But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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• Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you

Does football count as work?

• Exodus 31:14-15 states:
• "Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
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• Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD:

Women, keep your mouths shut in church...

• 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 states:
• Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.  

 

Will There Be Any Candidates?

The GOP in Laurens County South Carolina probably won't have too many.  "Last Tuesday, the LCGOP unanimously adopted a resolution that would ask all candidates who want to get on the primary ballot to sign a pledge with 28 principles" that include the usual opposition to abortion and upholding gun rights, and a "compassionate and moral approach to Teen Pregnancy", whatever that might mean.  (TPMMuckraker)


But the LCGOP may have gone a bit too far.  Also part of the 28 is "abstinence before marriage", being "faithful" to your spouse, no spouses of the same gender and a big no to civil unions for people of the same sex.  And the big one?  No more looking at pornography.

Not sure how well that bodes for Newt Gingrich.  He won the South Carolina Primary in January.  He beat good Ol' Mitt by 12 percentage points. (NYTimes.com)  But, makes one wonder how the Republicans in Laurens County think about his 3 wives - 2 of which he was unfaithful to with obvious no-abstinence before marriage to a few of them.

Good Ol' Republican Hypocrisy:  Do as I say, not as I do...  Wonder if Rick or Mitt look at Porn??