PETA: Village Idiots of the Animal Rights Movement
by KTKNovember 27th, 2006
I have always been disgusted by PETA , the animal-rights group that simply can’t seem to refrain from acting like assholes. But, their weirdo tactics aside, they’re also dumb as bricks:
The pastor at Anchorage First Free Methodist Church was mystified. Why was the activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals chastising him? No animals are harmed in the church’s holiday nativity display. In fact, animals aren’t used at all.
People, however, do dress the parts — Mary, Joseph, the wise men, etc. The volunteers stand shivering at a manger on the church lawn in a silent tribute to Christmas.The Rev. Jason Armstrong was confused by an e-mail this week from PETA, which admonished him for subjecting animals “to cruel treatment and danger,” by forcing them into roles in the church’s annual manger scene.
“We’ve never had live animals, so I just figured this was some spam thing,” Armstrong said. “It’s rough enough on us people standing out there in the cold. So we’re definitely not using animals.” . . .
That’s not to say they’ve removed all verisimilitude from the Virgin Birth. For instance, there’s the puppet camels:
“We have some puppet camel things we put out,” Armstrong said. “We have a cow hood thing that a person will wear that actually just looks spooky.”
For its part, PETA is of course undeterred by the lack of animals in its anti-animal protest targets. The issue is too important:
Jackie Vergerio, PETA’s captive animals in entertainment specialist, said her organization tracks churches nationwide that use real animals in “living nativity scenes.”
Seems the confusion started with the church’s choice of phrase. PETA flagged Free Methodist’s display as a “living nativity,” and indeed, that’s how the church describes it on its Web site.
To PETA, that means animals.
“Those animals are subject to all sorts of terrible fates in some cases,” Vergerio said. “Animals have been stolen and slaughtered, they’ve been raped, they’ve escaped from the nativity scenes and have been struck by cars and killed. Just really unfathomable things have happened to them.”
They’ve been “raped”? Animals in Christmas nativity scenes? And this requires a national crusade? (”Take Back the Manger!”)
I dunno. Between whacky Christian exhibitionism and whacky animal-rights posturing, it’s shaping up to be another weird holiday season.
KTK,
This is clearly a misunderstanding on your part. The PETA involved here is not the ethical treatment PETA. This is a different group: Posing Evangelicals Threaten Animals.
“Posing Evangelicals Threaten Animals”
Do you ever miss an opportunity to expose your bigotry?
Fred, you silly twit. Within the context of this thread, only a true moron could read my comment as anything other than making fun of PETA’s response, not the folks who put together the nativity scene. You are an embarrassment to yourself.
Okay, I apologize. “Evangelicals threaten animals” is not a putdown of evangelicals. If you say so… I’ll have to ask Michael Richards about that.
Fred, Fred, why do you do this to yourself? I will explain it so even you can grasp the situation.
PETA (I will assume you know who they are) sent a letter to a church complaining about animal use in a nativity scene. But there were no animals being used in the nativity scene. People were posing as animals. It was a silly mistake by PETA. So, in an attempt at humor, I redefined PETA to stand for something that would theoretically justify their mistake. If you carefully examine the first letter of each word in “Posing Evangelicals Threaten Animals” you will discover when combined, they form PETA. Also, if you read the entire sentence, you will find it is:
“This is a different group: Posing Evangelicals Threaten Animals.” You see, I am formulating a new name for PETA, I am not making a statement about evangelicals.
Now we all know that one of your favored actions is to reinterpret words people post in order to cast them in what you consider a bad light. However, in this case, you are stretching so far that not only are you being transparently disingenuous, you are representing yourself as being so stupid as to be unable to grasp what would be obvious to a child.
You can continue to claim that my intent was to state that evangelicals threaten animals - even though the whole point of this thread is that no animals were involved in the nativity scene (not to mention the church is Methodist), but in doing so you only reinforce the fact that you are not a serious or intelligent commenter. Your choice.
Liberals are so much fun to jerk around. They take offense at every little slight, but they say things that if a conservative said something similar they would be all over him.
Not to offend the vegetarians, but I like PETA as People Eating Tasty Animals.
PETA are a bunch of rediclous idiots i mean they even get a bunch of hollywood idiots to do ads for them and while this is happening their out and killing animals then they run around in rediclous costumes warning us of BIRD FLU. WELL I HAVE BIRD FLU SEE SQUAWK SQUAWK IM GROWING FEATHERS AND IM DEVOLPING WINGS AND I WANT TO FLY SOUTH IN THE WINTER AND I THINK PETA IS OPEN TO PERSONS WHOS IQs ARE BELOW THAT OF A FLEA
PETA are the biggist bunch of jerks around they should be abolished and shut down their complete idiots only some hollywood idiot would have anything to do with PETA
These PETA jerks belive all life sprang from the ocean thats only for true evolutionists iidots to beleive i mean a turkey or chicken is more intellegent then they are
a few years ago PETA and hollywood dim-wit dumb blond PAMELA ANDERSON were demanding that a statue of CORNEL SUANDERS be replaced with the idol of a bloody chicken then they were demanding that the GREEN BAY PACKERS change their name to PICKERS and that HAMGURG change its name to VEGGIEBURG proving their stupid i mean VEGGIEBURG is such a stupid name and HE HE VEGGIETALES those veggie guys look more intellegent then those jerks from PETA
We used to raise chickens and rabbits at one time one of my brothers had a sheep as part of a 4H project and one kept pigions and we also had cats and dogs and i know one thing these animals are more intellegent then some stupid PETA pussywads
I’ve always been pissed at people who throw away money to help animals when there are many human beings across the world living worse off. It sickens me.
When world poverty is solved, than maybe we can throw some money at saving Rover and Fifi
Stirling PETA would rather kill fifi and rover evil spot and puff becuase their idiots
Ya well I believe vegetables have feelings too and those Peta people should be banned from eating them, So then all that’s left for them to eat is dirt or one of my warm turds
PENCON theres a animated version of STAR TREK which features intellegent plants and LOST IN SPACE which features a carrotman
Irony: a group of dimwitted trolls making the intellectual equivalent of farting noises to amuse themselves in response to thread that is over two years old.
That’s all. Carry on.
Afterall Digglah you did respond to the thread making you a wet fart
You must be one of those Peta Idiots
stupid peta bunch of bigoted retards who can’t think worth a crap
screw them i love eating chickens
those lying mofos should all be sent on a boat to some insane asylum those stupid a$$holes
Fuque them!!!!!!
If animals ever see PETA comming they had better run away and hide