Who Would Jesus Beat Up?
Pandagon points out that the Southern baptist answer is apparently gay school kids:
The means specified in the resolution include “officially sanctioned homosexual clubs” (such as Gay-Straight Alliances), such deceptive labels as safe sex, diversity training, multicultural education, anti-bullying and safe schools.”…
Whereas, many public schools are promoting acceptance of homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle through programs that use such deceptive labels as “Safe Sex,” “Diversity Training”, “Multicultural Education” , “Anti-Bullying”, and “Safe Schools”;
Read that again: the Southern Baptist want to prevent anti-Bullying programs from gaining acceptance because they might teach kids that it is not appropriate to bully gay kids. How sick is that? How far down in hatred and fear and bigotry do you have to be to think that preventing gay kids form being bullied is acting in the tradition of Jesus Christ?
Certain flavors of literalists insist that the word “wine” in the Bible doesn’t always mean wine — sometimes it means ,a href=”http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/05/lb_holy_spirits.html”>grape juice. Perhaps this fondness for bullying is like that: “do unto others” sometimes means “do unto others — unless they are gay. Then you can beat the crap out of them.”
Jesus would be so proud.
UPDATE: John Cole shows us what a decent conservative looks like, and what an indecent conservative — Hugh Hewitt — looks like:
Apparently in the myopic worldview of Mr. Hewitt, reading and reporting the just-released documents the Army itself created is both ‘anti-military’ and ‘re-hashing’ an old story. Let’s not focus on the fact that few, if any, have been punished for these transgressions. Let’s not focus on credible reports that these incidents continue to occur. Instead, if Hewitt is to have his way, we should all focus on the ‘anti-military’ stance of the media.
What is particularly disturbing is how he and others have artificially conflated the Newsweek error and the NY Times story. This is no accident, but an act of intentional and outright propaganda. The Newsweek story may have been inaccurate, but the NY Times story was not. To read Hugh, you would think both were inconsequential and simply the result of a media hostile to the military. “Nothing here- just the military-hating mainstream media.”
And that is what is most disturbing about the short-sighted and indefensible position of the ‘uber-patriots.’ Put aside the demagoguery, the denial, and the smears. Put aside the wishful thinking, the demonization of the media, and the claims that anyone who is outraged by this abuse is un-American, anti-military, or out to get the President (which I am decidedly not). Instead, spend 1/10th of the energy you spend defending the status quo and urge the Republicans to use our majority status and the trappings of power we now enjoy with the control of Congress and the Presidency, and stop the torture and abuse. Do that, and your critics won’t have anything to complain abo
Hmmmm… stop the abuse. What a novel concept. (For Hewitt and others — who knows — it might just be novel.)
By the by, a point of clarification. Are Baptists (which Baptists? all Baptists?) really opposed to anti-bullying programs because they want their kids to have the chance to beat up on gay kids, or is it because they just don’t want their kids being told in the process of the program that being gay is a normal way of life ?
J. Michael Matkin: How in any way would that be a clarification? Because I, for one, do not care what the reasoning behind opposing anti-bullying measures is. To oppose rules that say you can’t beat up or harass another kid for any reason because it includes gay kids is beyond evil. Which ever reason the parent opposes it, it is equally disgusting.
There’s actually a clear answer to the question you pose as the title of this post. Jesus beat up the moneychangers who made their living off of the backs of folks who came to worship at the temple. Beat up is probably mild, he took a whip to them, actually.
He who has ears, let him hear.
Cheers -
How…Christian…of them.
And You’ll Know They Are Christians By Their Love
By their love. Yes, you’ll know they are Christians by they’re love.
And you’ll know they’re Southern Baptists if they have a problem with gay kids not getting beaten up.
Rev. Voddie Baucham, Jr. said if schools are found to be promoting homo…
Dawn, there actually is a difference. I haven’t had to articulate it yet in our home because my kids are still too young, but I can tell you where I’d be coming from. The reason that you don’t beat up on gay kids (or black kids, white kids, fat kids, nerdy kids, etc) has nothing to do with homosexuality being normal or not, but because everyone is created in the image of God and that fact demands that we respect their worth and dignity as a human being. Period. It’s not ultimately about whether I like that other person or how they live. It’s about what you owe the One who created you, the same One who created that other person. That’s the difference between the so-called Christians who cheered Hitler and the ones who risked their lives to wear the star of David out of solidarity with the Jews. Anybody who thinks any differently simply hasn’t listened to Jesus, no matter how loudly they shout their allelujahs.
Oh, and by ‘point of clarification’ I meant that I was asking for clarification, not offering it.
Southern Baptists have become so nazified the past twenty-five years. They’ve turned
back the clock to their old “1950 decade” ways. I wouldn’t give ‘em a plug nickel.
FUCK ALL OF YOU FAGGOTSS! I”m BLACK AND I HOPE ALL YOU NIGGERS BURN IN HELL