"I don't care what the liberals say, I don't care what the naysayers say, this nation was founded as a Christian nation...There is only one God and his name is Jesus. I'm tired of people telling me that I can't say those words.. Listen to me, If you don't love America, If you don't like the way we do things I have one thing to say - GET OUT. We don't worship Buddha, we don't worship Mohammad, we don't worship Allah, we worship God, we worship God's son Jesus Christ." ~ Pastor Dennis Terry, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, Baton Rouge LA
Seriously? Wow... Where to begin? How full of hate and bigotry does someone have to be to say things this outrageous? Is this an example of being "Christ-like"? Is this what accepting Jesus into your heart does to a person? Is this "doing the work of the Lord"?
Here's my take on him and it's short and sweet. The loving Pastor Terry is Christian Taliban, plain and simple. I'm thrilled that he's loudly exercising his 1st Amendment right to free speech, otherwise we might never have learned what a grade A raging asshole he truly is. He represents the terminal sickness that has infected the GOP for a couple of decades. The Ď‹ber-conservative religious fundamentalists got their hooks into the GOP when Reagan brought them into the fold to secure his bid for White House, and they're not letting go come hell or high water. The don't realize that their brand of medicine is killing the patient. But fuck 'em, who cares. Karma's a bitch, right?
The best part of Baton Rouge Hatefest 2012 is that Pastor Bigot's speech was an introduction for Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum! I think Santorum later said that he didn't clap for the good pastor, like that makes any difference.
Jon doesn't actually say that in this clip, but he doesn't have to. Anyone with half a brain can see that the alleged 'War on Religion' is a ruse contrived by the right to motivate their ultra-religious base against Obama. If you're paying attention you should be able to see through the fog that is the so-called debate on health care - most meaningful discussion is buried beneath a massive pile of political rhetoric, half-truths or outright lies - and recognize that this is about race, and I don't mean a political race. I mean the race of our president. When they conjure up imagery of the Nazis, and in their scenario the Democrats are the Nazi party which would make Obama Hitler, they're obviously trying to paint themselves as victims. It's called role reversal. Rick Santorum has been trying to use it lately, too, by attempting to sell himself as a victim of bigotry and intolerance form the Left. It's all bullshit designed to distract us from what's really going on. The Right is terrified that Obama will be elected to a second term, which would give him the time needed to manage the current upward trend in the economy and probably ensure the election of another Democratic president in 2016. Anyway, here's Jon. Enjoy!
Before you turn up your nose and huff "He's so disgusting!" you need to listen to this, but first I'll set the stage... In the final segment of each show Robin Quivers reads the news. On this particular day one of the articles she shared was about the anti-gay group One Million Moms demanding that JCPenney fire Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson because she's openly gay, which set Howard off. He talks about why Rosie O'Donnell was upset with David Letterman's remarks about how she met her fiance, about One Million Moms and then why Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann are "the worst people on the planet."
For the record, One Million Moms is an arm of the American Family Association. In 2010 the Southern Poverty Law Center listed the AFA as a hate group because of the "propagation of known falsehoods" and "demonizing propaganda" about homosexuality.
The clip is about twelve minutes long, but worth listening to. As a warning, the language is colorful, so this is not safe for work or around little ears.
I also recommend that you listen to Ellen's response to One Million Moms after they attacked her as not sharing their values. "Here are the values I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you'd want to be treated and helping those in need," she said. "To me, those are traditional values. That's what I stand for."
Where do I begin? This man lives in his own alternate reality, and he's trying to suck the rest of us in with him. This little tirade of his is lunacy!
No one asked the right to change its religious views. What has been asked is that they stop trying to impose their religious views upon the rest of us! They can maintain “traditional marriage” in their churches; doing so is protected by the First Amendment. It's from that same Amendment that the concept of separation of churchand state comes; and in the spirit of the First Amendment I must ask Mr. Santorum and his supporters to cease at once their selfish attempts to cram their god down my throat! I do not want the theocracy that Mr. Santorum seems to so fervently believe he was divinely chosen to bring to the White House. This guy goes on like it's up to him to save the world, if we would only abandon our own belief systems and adopt his. Theocracies are dangerous – take a look at the Middle East. A government ruled by religion is one where the people are free to engage in a tyranny of the majority against the minority.
Santorum accuses the government of being secular, like that's a bad thing. Is he serious? Again, First Amendment, please! He also claims that questioning the pro-equality movement results in being “ostracized from the public square.” If that were true he would have been run out of town years ago!
Here's the bottom line... Denying me the right to marry my partner denies me equal protection under the law and effectively makes me a second-class citizen, and in doing so you cause me harm and denigrate me as a human being. Granting me the right to marry my partner denies you nothing. Nothing! It doesn't change your life one bit. Your rights remain as intact today as they were yesterday and will be tomorrow. So, Mr. Santorum, let me be clear... My intolerance of you is not because of your religion. It is because you are an ignorant and frightened man that irresponsibly spews his hatred without thought or care for consequence and wraps his bigotry in the robes of his church, hiding behind his god while crying victim. Please, just respect “the wall of separation between church and state” and stop trying to deny me my rights.
Oh, and everyone please Google "Santorum".
Here's a transcript of Rick Santorum's remarks regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional as seen in the video above:
“The Ninth Circuit decision yesterday said that marriage, if you believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman and exclusively that, you are in fact – the only reason you could possibly believe that is because you are a bigot. There is no rational basis for you to have marriage as an institution between man and woman. There's no, NO, rational basis. Your belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on hatred and bigotry. That's what they just wrote. Four thousand years of human history... Irrational hatred and bigotry toward a group of people is the only reason you could possibly be for marriage between a man and a woman. Now, where's the tolerance in that? Where's the tolerance of someone having a belief structure that is based in nature, is based in reason, that is based in faith, and to ignore all of that, based in history, based in common sense, but yet all of this is ignored and you are bigots and haters. You are not to be tolerated. And if you think it ends there well just look what happens, look what happens when the government says “Here's the right I'm gonna give you and if you don't play the way we want we're gonna force you to do things you don't wanna do whether your religion says that or not.” This is the intolerance of the left, the intolerance of this secular ideology. It is a religion unto itself. It is just not a biblical based religion. And it is the most intolerant, just like we saw from the days of the atheists in the Soviet Union. It is completely intolerant of descent because they fear descent why? Because the descent comes from folks who use reason, common sense and divine revelation and they want no part of any of those things. They want their world view to be imposed without question, and if you question them you're haters, you're bigots and you should be as a result of that ostracized from the public square.”
