8:09 PM -:- Posted by Allen    

If Christians Want To Know...

If Christians want to know why they face so much organized resistance these days, I can tell them: they brought it upon themselves.

No, not all of them. Just the vitriolic ones, who write things like this:

Ellen, my Dear Ellen,
"Emancipation Proclamation'"??? It is becoming more and more obvious that you don't have a clue as to what these words mean. Come to think of it Ellen, you just plain don't have a clue what it was that our Founders fought and spilled their blood for or what it was that they beleived in. All I can say Ellen, is that you are right up their with David Cay Johnston in my book. You are a sick, sick person who needs a lot of help Ellen Ratner. But, who am I to judge you and your morals, some day, you will stand before GOD and be judged. You do remember who GOD is don't you Ellen?

Now that's a fine Christian way to talk to somebody, isn't it? NOT!

This little gem comes to us courtesy of one of our own, Rose Lear. Rose is taking exception to an article by Ellen Ratner in WorldNet Daily, where Ms. Ratner discusses a recent Canada Supreme Court decision sanctioning gay marriage, and the recent Lawrence v. Texas US Supreme Court decision striking down religiously-motivated laws that infringe on private sexuality.

I'm with my favorite nitwit Bill O'reilly on this one: I don't care what people do so long as they don't drag me into it or shove it into my face. For example, I really don't give a darn if somebody wants to have sex exclusively missionary-style their entire life. Seems pretty wierd to me, but hey, to each her own, right?

What's important to note today, re Rose and Ellen and WND is that what Ms. Ratner wrote did not fairly invite and does not excuse the uncivil abuse Mrs. Lear spits at her in this quote. That's easy to see if you just read Ms. Ratner's closing punch-line:

Lawrence v. Texas is a long overdue ruling that finally boots cops out of the bedroom. And that's a good thing, because cops in bedrooms --now that's deviant!

I am never more appalled at the bad behavior of so-called patriots and constitutionalists as when I see one of "us" screaming like a rabid monkey at someone we disagree with, attacking their exercise of free speech, or any other rights.

American fundamentalist Christians too often appear to not really believe in freedom of speech or religion. They say they do, but they only act like it when it's their speech or religion being attacked. They certainly aren't acting like it while they are attacking the speech and religion of others.

And they're not acting like it when they legislate their religious rules onto the rest of us.

I don't care if they are the majority. I don't care if they can say that 75% or 92% of the people of this country, or of the civilized world, agree with thim. If they do say that, they are social democrats attacking the Republic, plain and simple. "Majority rule" is a fiction created in recent decades by socialists subverting our schools and press.

The American ideal is no "rulers" at all. The American ideal is each person respecting the sensibilities of others, for whatever reason each one finds to be respectful. Yes, that may mean deciding not to walk naked down the street if you know there are hysterical blue-noses living there. But it also means staying out of other people's bedrooms, out of their marriages, and out of their choices. So if the people who want to walk naked all want to move to the same street, or build their own town, it's nobody's business that they walk naked down their own street.

Mrs. Lear accuses Ms. Ratner of being a "sick, sick person". But I submit that it is Mrs. Lear who is sick, so emtionally unbalanced on the subject of sex that she simply cannot mind her own business, cannot help but spew forth her twisted religious vomit.

I can't imagine a more horrendous scene than being caught forever between a pushy homosexual hell-bent on making sure I know he's gay, and Rose Lear on the the other hand preaching her irrational hate-based religious confusion.

Mrs. Lear says she is not one to judge, but then has already judged without exercising discernment, and condemed without exercising compassion. And in conducting herself thusly, she has locked tight the door to reason.

Rose Lear and her kind are a serious impediment to reconciliation. They are the reason we don't get any cooperation from other political groups. They represent a bastardized religion spun from their personal dysfunctions and advocate a mean and ugly version of god ripped from their most desperate nightmares.

I can tell you that these are a religion and a god that I personally would rather suffer in hell than find favor with.

And I can also tell you that I am embarrassed to be associated with such behavior. It is neither American, nor Christian.

I've gotten weary of explaining such incidents away, of having to say, that's some of our group but not me.

From now on I'm going to be repudiating it. I'll be saying something akin to what, I believe it was Justice Douglas, said: Yeah, there are some sickos in every bunch. But you have to take the bad with the good if you're going to have a free society.

That even includes the whackos who unwittingly labor every day to destroy the very freedoms they pretend to love.