I Read It And Tweeted It

I have a new favorite religious nut-job/hobo. Every morning at the Jefferson Park Blue Line stop here in Chicago, there is a gentleman holding a sign the fervently proclaims that Saturday is, in fact, the Sabbath, not Sunday as is commonly observed. He claims this was so decreed by Jesus himself, so therefore anyone "celebrating" the Sabbath on Sunday is obviously a sinner of immeasurable proportion. But that's not what makes him my new favorite. What clenched that honored title is this: when you walk by him, he yells at you to "Read it, then Tweet it." Awesome.

This tells me a few things. Most importantly, it tells me that Twitter is dead. Once the religious hobos are on board with the newest social media trend, it can only mean that the trend has reached critical mass and is about to implode upon itself. However, it also tells me that there is apparently a Very Important Debate about when the Sabbath actually is, which is a debate I have been ignorant of until recently. I suppose that's due to my general contempt toward Christianity, but I would think at least Fox News would be running non-stop terror stories about how the Jews are out to kill all Christians (or something equally hilarious/sad) because they practice Sabbath on Saturday versus the Christian's obviously superior Sunday… but that hasn't happened, which is why I guess I didn't know about it.

It also tells me that Jeff Park is now the new Market of Religious Nutbaggery. At least in the mornings. Every morning, there are at least 5 religious douches handing out all sorts of flyers, pamphlets and propaganda, asking to talk to you about Jesus, and now screaming at you to Tweet about it. Which I did, natch.

I would say that I should find a new route to work, but frankly these zealots provide more entertainment in the mornings than I get all day at work, so I have to keep going that way. I never get these kind of Nuttishness anywhere else since I don't go through downtown anymore, and it's good to be reminded from time-to-time that I live in a giant city that is big enough to produce absolutely insane religious freak bags. And that makes me happy.

Thank You, Governor Paterson

... For this. The Governor of New York had this to say about the Religious Right's lack of moral standing when it comes to debate on Gay Rights:

You see, the fact is that for years these same individuals - many of them, not all of them, but many of them - who pronounced religious doctrine did not exercise it when young gay and lesbian students were being chastised for expressing their point of view.

Where were these leaders of faith when college students of gay and lesbian orientation were beaten and oftenbrutalized for expressing their feelings for each other?

All I’m saying is: Why didn’t they speak about that at the time when it was the other
way around? See what really makes a democracy work is when you speak for others
rights even when you disagree with them.

I’m saying most of the religious leaders that I hear speaking out now did not do it at the time. Had they done so I think they would have better moral standing to speak at this moment on this legislation even though I disagree with them.Thank you for stating what I've been screaming all along. PS, Gov Pat introduced a marriage equality bill in NY recently. Let's hope it goes through, despite the religouly biased pricks in the NY Legislature that want to block it.

Again With The Out Right Lies

I have to admit that I'm getting to the point where I'm tired of fighting these religiously motivated, anti-gay bigots. "Why are you always down on the religion stuff, Dickie? Seriously, lay off!" you might say. However, I'd beg you to find me an example of anti-gay sentiment that didn't stem from religion.

Bigoted religious organizations are spending all of their time right now simply creating lies and falsehoods to spread to their constituents. Clearly, I still don't understand why it's relevant to them, other than as a blatant attempt to grab some form of self-importance from the situation. Why else would a church go out of it's way to make statements like "Hate-crimes legislation will mean that we will all get arrested for saying gays are bad?" Truth is that the hate-crimes legislation proposed here in the states is specifically toward crimes. Last I heard, calling someone a fag wasn't a crime, but beating the living shit out of them because you think they are is should be.

Fact of the matter is that Religious Preference is already protected by hate-crime legislation, yet here I stand telling everyone that the religious leaders and followers of our nations biggest hate machines are bigots. Wanna know a secret? I'm not doing it from jail! I know, it's amazing! I mean, if we were to believe what this nut-jobs are saying, then I'd have to be arrested because I speak openly about the evils of the church on a regular and daily basis, right? Yet, here I am. Still blogging away without a hint of the po-po on me. Weird how that works, isn't it?

And I am STILL waiting on one person to give me a relevant reason for Equality to not be the law of our land. Just one real reason, that's backed by real science (I know that concept is hard for Fundamentalist Christians to understand, but those of us who live in Reality are fond of Science), and I'd at least understand why they are bothering to fight. They'd of course still be wrong, but I'd at least have a semblance of respect for their arguments.

But hey, it's much, much easier to build a case from out-right lies and fear-mongering, isn't it? Just ask W. He's the king of that. Shit, we're still mired in a war because of his out-right lies and fear-mongering. I should start saying things like "Christians want to castrate all men everywhere!" and site a few Bible verses that show castration as punishment and see what happens. I mean, it's not true, and the Bible verses are completely irrelevant, but I'm bored and feel like fucking with other people's lives, so I'll give it a shot and see how much power and money I can rack up…

Come on people, start thinking for your god damned selves!