What I Say: Your Head Trucker is inclined to agree with Sir Patrick. It is, as he said, a "deliciously difficult" subject: here we are not talking about merely providing a service, but about freedom of expression.
Think about it: would you want to be forced to write or print something that said "No Gay Marriage" or "Vote for Bush" or even "God Hates Fags"?
And how important is a cake, anyway? I wouldn't want to buy a cake or anything else from someone who despised me.
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson Jesus loves you more than you will know . . .
Same story, two quotes about it.
In a nutshell: Iris Robinson, "the Anita Bryant of the UK," Member of Parliament in Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom), whose husband also happens to be an MP and is in fact the First Minister of Northern Ireland (roughly sorta kinda like a state governor over here) - well, last year she was spouting about what abominations we are, how homosex is worse than child abuse and how God can change a homosexual, same as a murderer . . . you know the drill.
Come to find out, all the while the holier-than-you-faggots Ms. Robinson was spewing her venom against teh gayz, she was at the very same time committing ADULTERY with a 19-year-old, forty years her junior. AND taking a bribe of several thousand dollars from her boy toy in exchange for channeling government support to his restaurant venture.
Now you're ready for the quotes.
Sullivan expresses the universal truth of the matter:
Where there is Christianism, there is usually hypocrisy, corruption and abuse. From Haggard to Maciel, from the Vatican to the Swaggarts, from Rove to Limbaugh, the sheer gulf between their public moralism and their private failings is vast. That's because they're human; and they deserve compassion and understanding, the compassion and understanding they always, always deny to others. [emphasis mine - Russ.]
Things are as they always are. God's Gentle Elected People infest the national media to scream about perversion and abomination, all while screwing the taxpayer AND cougaring the fuck out of a young hottie.
Bonus: Joe says the 1968 Simon & Garfunkel hit, "Mrs. Robinson," is climbing up the charts anew in the UK. Gotta love it.
Update: Righteous Iris not only screwed the boy she'd known since he was 9, she also screwed his father.
Hollywood's got nothing to compare with this mess. You can't make this shit up.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
