Seeking to Turn Back the Hands of Time

Two advocates of teaching creation and Christianity in Texas public schools have been working continuously to make sure that Texan students know that if it wasn’t for Christianity, the U.S. would still be inhabited by those heathen Native Americans…the same one’s the good Christians raped, murdered and diseased as they stole their land.

According to a post on statesman.com:

“I’m an evangelical Christian, and I think David Barton and Peter Marshall are completely out to lunch,” said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, a Christian institution. “They are not experts on social studies and history. Neither of them are trained in history. They are preachers who use the past and history as a means of promoting a political agenda in the present.”

Barton, a Texas-based GOP activist and nationally known speaker, and Marshall, a traveling evangelist whose father was a U.S. Senate chaplain in the 1940s, are aligned with American University law and history professor Daniel Dreisbach — one of four academics on the review panel — in the belief that America was intended to be a “Christian nation” with no separation between church and state.

The thing that amazes me, didn’t we already have this discussion decades ago?  Didn’t we as a nation decide to embrace ALL persons under the guise of freedom of religion?

So, here we have it…the Christian Right Agenda…just in case you were wondering.  Jam Christianity down the throats of everyone, especially our young, so they too know that the only “right” way is the “Christian” way…which means you can’t hate someone, unless they’re different from you!

Hopefully this will be shot down, but it’s hard to tell.  Individuality and acceptance of all races, religions and sexual orientations is NOT part of the Christian Right’s agenda!

Past Abominations of the Religious Right

Just a reminder where we’ve come from.  In the past, inter-racial marriage was considered an “abomination” by the religious right.  At one time, it was said that inter-racial marriage would destroy the institution of marriage.  It was said if Blacks and white were segregated, it would destroy the nation

Even further in the past, it was said by God fearing Christians that if slavery was abolished, it would destroy the nation.  It was said that if women were given the right to vote, it would destroy the nation.

The only thing that is a threat to destroying this nation, is allowing religious ideology to dictate who does and who does not receive rights.  The threat comes from whether or not we allow personal religious beliefs to dictate who is or is not equal.  The only abomination is what’s going on right now, people being allowed to vote on who is or is not able to marry, based solely upon their personal religious beliefs.

Popular vote didn’t end discrimination against interracial marriage.  Popular vote didn’t give women or Blacks the right to vote.  Popular vote didn’t end segregation.

The only true abomination, is allowing the “religious right” to dictate the law of tax-paying citizens!

I Repeat, I Didn’t Stop Being Black When I Transitioned

Just because I transitioned a decade and a half ago doesn’t shield me or any African descended transperson from being whacked with all the daily slings and arrows that being Black in America presents you with.

I still get called ‘nigger’. As a matter of fact I’ve had that epithet thrown at me more so by people in the GLBT community since I transitioned than folks outside it.

Read more at TransGriot!

Church’s Billboards Affirm Gay Love

Four billboards along Interstate 30 between Fort Worth and Grand Prairie will likely send some drivers into fits.

The billboards are inviting Christians to be more Christian by not excluding gays and lesbians from their churches, while asserting that it is OK in the eyes of God to be homosexual — a practice thought by many conservative Christians to be an abomination.

The “Would Jesus Discriminate” campaign is sponsored by five DFW Metropolitan Community Churches, whose congregations are predominantly gay and lesbian. The purpose of the campaign is to “engage people in a friendly discussion about Jesus’ message of inclusion.”

Read more at: NBC DFW

More Tax Exempt Lies About Health Care Reform

There’s a post on Alvin McEwen’s Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters that quotes an email he received from the Family Research Council. It shouldn’t be a surprise that uses scare tactics and blatant lies about President Obama’s health care reform plan.

Here is an excerpt from that email:

As debate over “health care reform” heads toward a showdown, the White House and its liberal allies are in full attack mode-confusing voters with moderate words; attempting to silence dissent; demonizing Christians and conservatives; and twisting the arms of moderate and undecided lawmakers who share your traditional values.

. . . President Obama and his liberal congressional allies remain fiercely committed to their radical vision of a nationalized health care system that

Uses your taxes to pay for abortions
Gives bureaucrats the power to ration medicine and treatment
Pressures the elderly and seriously ill to forego life-extending care
Forces pro-life doctors, nurses, and other professionals to participate in abortions
Raises taxes and wastes trillions of dollars on programs that will make health care worse

Liberal advocates can’t defend their “reform” plans without revealing those destructive intentions. Instead, our success in exposing the facts and building opposition to them has become a lightning rod for the anti-life movement and the mainstream press to repeat their lies.

Anti-life?  Since when is pro-choice anti-life?  Forcing doctors to perform abortions? Since when?  Are abortion clinics going to be shut down with health care reform?  Pressure people to forego health care?  No, give people health care!  Tax paid abortions?  NOT!  That’s rich coming from an organization that doesn’t pay taxes.

It looks like the religious right (I get shivers whenever I write that oxymoron) has joined forced with the likes of Rush (where’s my Oxycontin) Limbaugh, Bill (wave your hands in the air and lift your skirt) O’Reilly, Sean (I love to cry like other mentally disturbed people) Hannity and other right wing pundits in their fight to make sure the Obama administration fails, even at the cost of bringing the whole nation down with their selfish, self-centered, self-indulged agenda.  The worst part yet, the blatant lies.  Here, a tax exempt organization is claiming that health care reform will “raise taxes”.  What?  Then let them pay taxes and use that money to help the tens of millions of Americans that don’t have health care.

Now, Family Research Council, an offshoot of James Dobson’s anti-gay Focus on the Family, which is lead by Republican Tony Perkins, who is a political activist hiding behind the tax-exempt status of a “Christian” organization, is yet another prime example of why ALL religious institutions need to be removed from tax-exempt status.

When a political activist organization, who spends millions on supporting legislation, not to mention discriminatory legislation, hides behind their “religious”  status to avoid paying taxes, it not only defies separation of church and state, but it cost the rest of us who pay taxes a great deal as well.

Health care, especially in a nation where people such as Rush Limbaugh make $44 million in a year, shouldn’t be a debate.  Health care in this nation should be a right, not an option for those who can afford it.

Look, even if it cost a trillion dollars now, that’s pocket change compared to the 40 trillion this country will spend on the un-insured over the next decade.  No American citizen should be denied health care.  That is a real American value.  That should be a “traditional” value.  The Tony Perkins of the world have never done without.  They’ve never lost a loved one because they weren’t insured.  The Rush Limbaughs of the world have never done without health care…in fact his $44 million annual salary has allowed him to abuse the health care system and thus, his addiction to Oxycontin.

The time to stop these fat cat Republicans from denying health care to lesser fortunate Americans, who pay taxes, must stop.  One way to stop it, again, tax those with a political agenda.

The time is now for separation of church and state!

Write you congressman now!

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