Persecution on Parade.

[progressoid]

If you want some light entertainment, tune into a religious radio station. I listened to some on my way to lunch. The Kim Davis thing has them apoplectic. Much gnashing of teeth!

"We predicted this would happen" "persecution!" "Is the the beginning of the end times?" "She's a martyr!". " Also, send us more money"



And to make my lunch extra special, I over heard a young mother in the booth behind me say that she won't let her kids watch Sesame Street because those creatures are false idols.



Back to work.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. We really are living in scary times,

and it has nothing to do with "end times". The fundamentalists who want the world to think just like them scare the crap out of me.

The first word that popped into my mind when I heard that she was to be jailed was "martyr". I just knew that would be the word of the day. She is probably happy to go to jail, so she can be labeled as one.

[AlbertCat]

2. "martyr".

Four time married martyr!... let's welcome Kim to American Gladiators!

(Crowd roars!)


Release the lions!

[progressoid]

5. And she may also be getting a little cash for her martyrdom.

Apparently there are a bunch of fools out there willing to give her money.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. Well, she won't get it from GoFundMe.

I give them credit for changing their policy regarding funds for stunts like this one would be.

[beam me up scottie]

3. And atheists are irrational?

[progressoid]

4. If you play Elmo's Song backwards, you can hear Satan!

[beam me up scottie]

6. .

[uriel1972]

10. Just too funny :)

If I had been drinking you would owe me a keyboard.

[onager]

7. Great rant about Davis...

From Dan Savage. I thought "sitting on the dicks of randos who aren't your husband" was an especially nice touch.

I say this with sadness, I say this as the son of a preacher, I say this as a former seminarian: This pathetic bullshit is what passes for Christianity in America today. Thanks to the efforts of hate groups like the American Family Association, the Family Research Council (co-founded by a tortured closet case and lately the employer of a kid-diddling serial adulterer), the 700 Club, the Moral Majority, the National Organization for Marriage, the National Association of Evangelicals, etc., and the mousy, near-complicit silence of left-wing and progressive Christians, "Christian" is now synonymous with "anti-gay bigot."

To be a good American Christian like Kim Davis—or a good Alaskan Christian like Bristol Palin—you don't have to stay in your first marriage, you don't have to stop sitting on the dicks of randos who aren't your husband, you don't have to deny marriage licenses to straight people who are remarrying or marrying outside the faith or obtaining marriage licenses for Godless secular marriages. Nope. You just have to hate the homos. Hate the homos and you're right with the God of Tony Perkins and Josh Duggar, hate the homos and you're good with American Jesus. (Toss in support for capital gains tax cuts and American Jesus loves you even more.) You don't have to feed the sick, clothe the naked, house the homeless—you don't have to do any of that shit Jesus actually talked about—you just have to hate the homos hard enough...

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/09/01/22793219/i-suppose-i-should-say-something-about-kim-davis

[Curmudgeoness]

9. That whole article was great reading.

A little long, but I enjoyed it.