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Friday, August 30, 2013
Anderson Cooper Exposes Pat Robertson
Earlier this week, televangelist and granddaddy-of-all-homophobes Pat Robertson said on his TV show that teh evil gays wear special rings that will cut your finger when you shake hands with them, giving you AIDS - which of course is murder. The clip was on YouTube, but Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network had it yanked after a furor arose over his shitheaded comments.
But now the essential part of the clip - and some other choice moments of fatuous bigotry - have been preserved forever in this edition of Cooper's Ridiculist:
Jonathan Capehart, columnist for the Washington Post, says it's time for real Christians to speak out against this kind of homophobia and tell Robertson and his ilk to "stuff it":
I don't know about up nawth, but down here and all across Dixie, there are millions upon millions of simple-minded folks who think exactly like he does - may be hard for you to believe, but it's even harder for me to live surrounded by them.
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.
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4 comments:
Astounding words from Robertson who ought to be locked away for his own good. What amazes is that anyone - anyone at all - would listen to him.
I don't know about up nawth, but down here and all across Dixie, there are millions upon millions of simple-minded folks who think exactly like he does - may be hard for you to believe, but it's even harder for me to live surrounded by them.
I don't think most folks up here even know who he is let alone listen to him. You have my sympathy Russ.
Appreciate ya, Stan.
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