Unacceptable

There was an anti gay hate crime in my fair city last night and you can read about it here.

This kind of shit sickens me beyond belief. And before any of you decide to leave me a comment that you're not surprised that this type of thing happened in TN, please don't waste your time because I'll just delete it. Let's be clear, this type of assault happens all over this country and it happens because of the climate of fear and anti gay hate that is stoked by the radical religious right and the Republican party.

Some in the radical religious right claim that they hate the "sin" of homosexuality but they love the homosexual. This of course is bullshit. People on the far right politically and religiously hate anyone who is not exactly like them. They need someone to demonize and and to try and "save" and who better to hate and despise than the people most unlike them in the world. It used to be they hated Jews, then blacks, then women's libbers, then hippies, then Communists, and now it's the gays turn to feel their wrath and unholy unchristian hatred.

Don't get me wrong people, not all religious people hate or fear gays. My friend Rev. Shuck is a huge advocate for gay, lesbian, and transgendered people. He's all for marriage equality and having gay people serve in the ministry. And he's a Presbyterian minister. And he started the local PFLAG chapter in our area. So not all men or women of the cloth are bad or "scum of the earth." Some actually believe in equality for all in all phases of life.

If people in the radical religious right stopped hating gays like James Dobson and Pat Robertson do and they started loving people the Jesus Christ said to then a lot of hate crimes against gay people would stop. But I'm not about to hold my breath waiting for the sanctimonious religious blowhards in this country to actually live as their messiah commanded them to.

A gentle reminder

If the baby Jesus can forgive Jim and Tammy Faye Baker, Newt Gingrich, John McCain, Larry Craig, and David Vitter, and if he lets Jerry Falwell, and all those other bigoted hateful people, like the Catholic missionaries who forced Christianity on aboriginal peoples at the point of a sword, then I bet he forgives John Edwards too.

Oh, by the way Slappy, your comments only stay up as long as it takes me to notice them and then they go down. It's a shame that no one in the liberal/progressive blogoshpere reads your little rants so you have to resort to posting your inane comments on our blogs. As soon as I see you left one of your little invective comments here I don't even bother to read it, I just delete it as soon as I sign in. Feel free to write what you like on your blog and I'll feel free never to go there and read it. This is the USA after all and I have all the freedom in the world to ignore your blog.