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May 21st, 2012 by Joel

Concentration Camps for the Queers

So sayeth Pastor Worley,

“I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers,” he says in his sermon, delivered on May 13. “Build a great, big, large fence — 150 or 100 mile long — put all the lesbians in there… Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out… And you know what, in a few years, they’ll die.” (ht)

Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church — located at 3283 Providence Mill Rd, Maiden, NC 28650 — is seen here from a service posted to the church’s website dated May 13, 2012 calling for the starvation and ultimate death of “queers and homosexuals.”

Also, because Worley needs another angel to help, we have Lesly Charles, an NYPD cop and prophet who utters some pretty disgusting language. He simply responds,

 “I’m just doing God’s work. You know I can’t comment. Have a blessed day.”

 

May 20th, 2012 by Joel

Our close friend, Pakistan

 The chairman of Pakistan’s telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam.

via Pakistan blocks Twitter over ‘offensive’ material | Fox News.

Yeah… plus, they love the people that hate us. So, why in the world are continuing to give them money?

Anyone else think that our foreign policy is based on whatever decision sounds the worst?

May 17th, 2012 by Joel

Shorter University loses Staff over Prying Creed

Dozens of faculty and staff at a Georgian Christian academic institute are resigning over a statement from school officials in which employees must pledge to refrain from activities including drug use, alcohol, adultery, and homosexuality.

Known as the “personal lifestyle statement,” around 50 members of the faculty and staff at Shorter University based in Rome, Ga., have chosen to resign rather than renew their contracts at the private school.

via Faculty Refuse to Sign ‘Lifestyle Statement,’ Resign From Christian University.

Well, that happens I guess. For those who are uncreedal, they sure are developing creeds…

May 16th, 2012 by Joel

@theIRD lies (um, excepts that they misunderstood)

I would suggest that if they read the Scripture as closely as they do other things, then they may in fact have a moral deficit.

Chris, my good friend, posted this morning an admirable goal:

I have already pledged–in a recent sermon (found here)–to avoid the destructive medium of talk radio.  Today, I pledge my blog to be a force for entertainment, inspiration , good and the gospel.  The negativity–that which helps generate traffic to my blog–will no longer be present.  If there is a justice issue which I feel needs to be addressed, you may still find that.  However, the rank negativity you find in other places, will no longer be my forte.  (here)

How did the IRD respond?

ird lies

Alright… I’ll help you out.

The IRD may not be Hitler, and they really aren’t.

They do, however:

  • badly use Scripture
  • Have no clue about history
  • Create scapegoats to torch
  • spend time trying to build a country wide movement based on hatred of said scapegoats
  • Is led by a guy who displays clear signs of too much homophobia, if you know what I mean, and uses the IRD to sell his own books.

UPDATE

yeah… no apology and as far as i know, the post did not come down.

May 16th, 2012 by Joel

What happened to Pastor Mike Huckabee?

“President Obama has surrounded himself with morally repugnant political whores with misshapen values and gutter-level ethics,” Huckabee wrote.

via Mike Huckabee: Obama Surrounds Himself “With Morally Repugnant Political Whores”.

Indeed, read the entire letter.

Say, what happened to the good, Southern Baptist Pastor?

May 15th, 2012 by Joel

Texas Undermines the American Judicial System. Again.

He was the spitting image of the killer, had the same first name and was near the scene of the crime at the fateful hour: Carlos DeLuna paid the ultimate price and was executed in place of someone else in Texas in 1989, a report out Tuesday found.

Even “all the relatives of both Carloses mistook them,” and DeLuna was sentenced to death and executed based only on eyewitness accounts despite a range of signs he was not a guilty man, said law professor James Liebman.

via Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says – Yahoo! News.

A couple of things… a JURY, not absolute evidence, determines the fate of a person. It is better than no Jury, but it is still based on the gullibility of people.

Second, in Texas, the verdict matters. This is essential in understand the Texan judicial system.

May 14th, 2012 by Joel

From the Cap, “No, your move.”

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Ht will via fb

May 12th, 2012 by Joel

Poverty is created

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May 12th, 2012 by Joel

Some thoughts on the gay marriage stuff from this week

You know, I admire anyone with political courage these days, especially when they are in the foxhole about to be overrun with Republicans, but it got me to thinking.

Regardless of how you feel about it, hear me out.

I don’t think we’ll move on as a society, or a country, until love is no longer an issue to be used by politicians for appeal and gain. Can I get a #holla?

The fact is, is that both parties have used marriage, family, love, and children for their own political game. Our personal lives are nothing more than serfs on their campaign fiefdoms. If you think that even Republicans really care about ‘traditional family values’ then you have lost your mind. Or Democrats for the working poor. This is not to say that groups who align themselves with these parties do not – so don’t get me wrong – but the Party bosses only pay attention to these groups around campaign season.

Now, I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.

Study, for a while, propaganda. God has been used since time began to start wars, crown kings, and murder. The South was under the suspicion that the slave intended to rape white women and break apart families (ironically, it is was the slave owner who actually did those things to the slaves). We use what people hold dear to them the most to rally the troops, so to speak.

I hope that the President is sincere – and no, I don’t think Mitt is in his beliefs (why? because he opposes same-sex marriages and yet supports gay couples adopting children) – but I equally hope that love, marriage, and God will at some point in the near future stopped being used as a campaign poster and fodder for pandering.

Go, love. Go, vote. But, don’t go vote for someone who uses your love (or your God) for their political gain.

May 10th, 2012 by Joel

Why is it a surprise Mitt Romney was a bully at prep school?

Let’s remember… Mitt has essentially said that his campaign will be bullying. Period. Look what he did to Newt and Santorum, after all:

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

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“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”

Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents – The Washington Post.

I don’t get it… what surprises you about this? The man strapped a dog to the roof of a car for hours. The psychology of bullying includes mistreatment of animals.