Kill Gays, God is Cool With It

If you have been following the news at all over the past year, you have probably heard about the Ugandan "Kill the Gays Bill," a piece of legislation that will criminalize homosexuality (I wrote about this legislation earlier this year).  Under the proposed bill, the maximum penalty for homosexuality is the death penalty (for serial offenders).  Other penalties include three-years in prison for knowing a homosexual and life imprisonment for being a homosexual.

Recently, Rachel Maddow interviewed the author of the Ugandan "Kill the Gays Bill," David Bahati.

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What I find highly disturbing is the lack of admonishment from the faithful in this country.  Even more frustrating is the indoctrination of youth, those 13-25, by supports of David Bahati's warped world view.  One of those groups is "The Call," run by Lou Engle who, according to the Call's website:

"Lou Engle is the visionary and co-founder of TheCall solemn assemblies, a movement of prayer, gathering two generations, but primarily targeting young people to pray and fast for justice and spiritual awakening. Since 2000, TheCall has gathered hundreds of thousands of people to pray both nationally and internationally."

The Call is a group which is hellbent on bringing the world and, especially, America back to the Lord:

"SOLEMN ASSEMBLY
In the Bible assemblies were appointed by God as the divine prescription to return to Him in times of apostasy. These gatherings were for the purpose of prayer, fasting, and repentance from individual and national sins. They were also used to call upon God for protection in times of crisis. Many times on these days the Israelites ceased from working and offered sacrifices to the Lord. There was always a promise of great blessing if the nation returned to the Lord with wholehearted devotion and the renewal of their covenant vows of love to the Lord. [Leviticus 23:36, Numbers 29:35, Deuteronomy 16:8, 2 Chronicles 7:9, 2 Chronicles 20:3-4, Joel 1:14, 2:15]"

And

"Our nation is in desperate need of the mercy of God and another great spiritual awakening, which will only come forth as the Body of Christ gathers together in prayer. When there is no hope for a nation, when there is no remedy, God has a Holy prescription. We must drop every barrier that divides us and unite in urgent, humble fasting and prayer with the promise that afterward God would pour out His Spirit (Joel 2)."

"TheCall is committed to mobilizing three generations, every ethnicity, and every denomination from across America to join in petitioning God for His undeserved mercy and to return to acts of justice that would satisfy His heart."

It appears that the members of the Call are too occupied by prayer and humble fasting to be outraged at the possibility that Uganda may make it legal to kill people for being gay.  At the very least there is no mention of it on their main website (to be fair they don't mention much on their website, they are rather vague, in a strange way).  Even Stonewall, one of their associate websites, doesn't make mention of the bill, which is odd since Stonewall is one of their official anti-gay websites. 

Stonewall, like the Call's main site, is rather vague in the details, but I have found is nothing new:

 
" StoneWall Now! is a prayer movement. We are lovers of God and lovers of people.  We are filled with compassion for the pain of those bound in homosexuality.  We are impassioned to protect the young from the indoctrination of iniquity in the education system as well as families and society from the legislation of the same.
Therefore, we are:
1.  Calling the church to REPENTANCE for our own broken marriages, moral compromise and cowardly tolerance of iniquity.
2.  Praying for the salvation and RELEASE of 100,000 gays & lesbians by the love of Jesus.
3.  Raising up 24/7 prayer to resist and restrain the spiritual powers behind the radical homosexual agenda.
4.  We are gathering and publishing testimonies of the 100,000 ONES who are being WON!"
 
Aside from the antiquated and ass backward views on homosexuality the sight is quite chic.  It appeals, as I am sure was the intent of the authors, to the youth.  It has a very energetic, fight-the-establishment kind of feel to it.  You can be a rebel for Christ by telling homosexuals that they are dirty sinners and deserving of death (that is the wage of sin, after all).  Want an example?  Check out the pic below:

 

By now you might be thinking: "Dave, so what, it's alright if they have a difference of opinion and want to express it;" normally I would agree with that general premise (it irks me that they are indoctrinating impressionable young people, but what is one to expect: if religion didn't indoctrinate the young, they would cease to be).  My problem here is that Lou Engle, the founder of the Call, has come out in support of the "Kill the Gays Bill."  Now we can see why the Call and Stonewall are so silent about Uganda: they want to cleanse the earth of sinners; namely, homosexuals.  If they can't convert and heal the gays (which time and time again it has been shown that you can't cure someone of homosexuality, it's not a disease), then the gays should be imprisoned and/or executed.  These sound like the kind of good ol' fashioned morals that the world needs to get back to: hate those who are different from you and kill them if necessary.   

 D

Oprah = The Lose

Read the following article from Slate. Now you will know why Oprah = The Lose!

D

Re-posted from: http://www.slate.com/id/2217798/

Say It Ain't So, O. Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?

By Arthur AllenPosted Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at 11:47 AM ET

Chastising a celebrity is an exercise in futility. You feel like a kitten being held by the scruff of its neck, scrabbling wildly in the air without drawing blood. Pointless as this may be, though, I will try to talk some sense into Oprah Winfrey, who has decided to go into business with vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy.

There is abundant evidence that vaccines don't cause autism. More than a dozen studies, as well as trend data from California and other states, show that neither the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal nor the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. In March, a federal court dismissed both of these theories in a most definitive way after hearing weeks of testimony and gathering thousands of pages of evidence.

Jenny McCarthy begs to differ. McCarthy dropped out of nursing school in 1993 to become a Playboy bunny and later starred in an MTV show that focused on her bodily functions. She believes that vaccines made her 7-year-old son autistic—and that she "recovered" him with alternative therapies, as she details in her parenting books. McCarthy has appeared regularly on Larry King Live and Oprah to blast the medical establishment, and last year she led a march on Washington to demand that children get fewer vaccines.

On Wednesday it was announced that Oprah signed McCarthy to a deal, starting with a blog on the Oprah Web site. Though neither woman's people will confirm details of the deal, it will presumably lead to a talk show, as it did for Rachael Ray and Dr. Phil, two other Oprah protégés. Perhaps not every episode of a McCarthy show will address vaccines and autism, but some surely will.

Celebrities take on all kinds of causes. They campaign for presidents, and they rally to save the women of Darfur and the hungry masses of Bangladesh and Africa. Some of these appearances may do some good, while others are merely benign grandstanding. But wealthy, toothsome, vivacious, and sexy Jenny McCarthy's impassioned campaign is actually harmful. Why? Because she is spreading dangerous misinformation—and that could bring some once-controlled diseases back into play.

Her boyfriend, actor Jim Carrey, is even more clueless. At the rally last year, I asked Carrey to give an example of a childhood vaccine we could dispense with. Tetanus, he said. That answer did not reflect a strong—or any, really—grasp of infectious diseases. Children who get tetanus—fortunately, it has been extremely rare in the United States since tetanus vaccination began in the 1920s—suffer horrendous pain, arch their backs, and go into terrible spasms before dying. It's a very natural disease, to be sure, because the germ causing tetanus lives in dirt. It's a germ that will be with us forever, and the only way to prevent it is through vaccination.

For some reason, Oprah and the rest of the entertainment world treat McCarthy as if she were Mother Theresa kissing lepers or Nelson Mandela denouncing apartheid. She's been proven wrong about vaccines, yet she persists in claiming that they are so dangerous that it's better to get vaccine-preventable diseases than get the shots. Oprah's spokesman told me that Jenny's views were more "nuanced" than I presented them. Yet here she is a month ago, in an exchange with Time:

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe. If the vaccine companies are not listening to us, it's their fucking fault that the diseases are coming back. They're making a product that's shit. If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

McCarthy's popularity has created a lot of anger and disbelief in that tiny sliver of society that believes in evidence-based medicine. One person who's feeling particularly frustrated is David T. Tayloe, president of the 60,000-member American Academy of Pediatricians. (Remember them? A pediatrician is a person with a medical degree who takes care of children. Some of them are said to trust science more than celebrities when it comes to health care.)

"I think show business crosses the line when they give contracts to people like Jenny McCarthy," Tayloe says. "If you give her a bully pulpit, McCarthy is going to make people hesitate to vaccinate their children. She has no medical or scientific credentials. It disturbs us that she's given all these opportunities to make her pitch about vaccines on Oprah or Larry King or U.S. News or whatever. We have to scramble to get equal time—and who wants to see a gray-haired pediatrician talking about a serious topic like childhood vaccines when she's out there blasting the academy and blasting the federal government?"

Still, others involved in the effort to refute the vaccine/autism myth aren't as worried about McCarthy. "Jenny McCarthy doesn't bother me that much because I don't think most people take her as a serious commenter on medicine," said Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine inventor and author of Autism's False Prophets. "I'd be more concerned if it was someone like Meryl Streep, someone seen as person of gravity and good sense."

What's a little sad about this episode is the fact that once upon a time, big stars like Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, and Elvis Presley stood up for vaccination campaigns to protect the lives of children. (Actress Amanda Peet recently stepped up to counter McCarthy's message, saying that people should get their advice on autism and vaccines from doctors, not actresses. But Peet seems to lack McCarthy's entrepreneurial verve and hasn't drawn the same level of attention.)

In those days, parents and children clamored for vaccination. Especially children in places like the South Side of Chicago or rural Mississippi (where Oprah was born in 1954), who suffered higher rates of polio in the late 1950s because their parents couldn't afford the new vaccine.

Over the past year, new outbreaks of measles, whooping cough, and other vaccine-preventable diseases have occurred in communities with parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids.

Oprah, think of the children.

Punsihment of a young boy in Iran (E-mail)

There is an email going around that shows several pictures of a young boy getting his arm run over by a car. He was receiving this punishment because he supposedly stole something from the marketplace because he was starving.

The actual email opens with these lines:

An 8 year old starving child caught stealing bread in a market of Iran is punished in a public place, in the name of Islam!!!

His arm will be crushed and will lose its use permanently.

A religion of peace and love, they say?

How can anyone believe them when they commit such inhuman acts?

And the email ends with:

Spread this example of peace
and love of Islam to your friends !!

This is an obvious propaganda piece that has no factual basis (at least in this particular instance, but that is another discussion that if anyone here wishes to indulge in, I will happily do so.). A two second Google search leads you to find out that this is merely a street performance. Like us here in America (you know us, we are always right about everything!), they have street performers and magicians. I beseech you, please do not spread this anti-Islamic propaganda around the internet. Let us bridge the gap of ignorance so that we may reach a place of coexistence and understanding.

D