Here's a rant from the Christian Voice magazine. Rev. Michael Bresciani says:
"June 6 is D-Day, June 14 is Flag Day and this year we celebrate Fathers Day on June 21. These observances have long been a deep and revered part of American culture …
June has traditionally been a month of honoring fathers, soldiers and patriots. Now, thanks to the social engineering of Barack Obama, we have a whole month to celebrate lesbians, bi-sexuals, gays and transgenders. In America, there will be about 290 million people who will likely not be rushing out to observe this month long celebration.
Barack Obama proclaimed June as LBGT month, saying he has partnered with the gay community to ‘advance a wide range if initiatives’. He plans to enhance hate crimes, repeal ‘don’t ask – don’t tell’ in the military and advance the right for gays to adopt.
We can’t say we didn’t see it coming, but choosing the month of June is almost a slap in the face to millions of Americans who choose to remember the fathers, warriors and patriots who have given so much to make the country what it is. Nothing could seem more like a futile attempt to mix oil and water. This is indeed social engineering, but it is not very sociable."
Eliz again: Wow, can you imagine how harsh this tirade would be if this guy wasn't a Christian?
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But who pays attention, really, to these "months" dedicated to this-or-that group that needs placating, soothing, or otherwise making happy?
I'm a Christian, but you read a lot more "Christian rants" than I do, I assure you, Eliz!
There's always a "month" going on---maybe it's "Breast Cancer Awareness Month!" "Literacy Month!" ---whatever, it's all harmless enough, and there are beneficial events held, and those who care passionately about the month's theme can participate, and those who don't, or are busy, or who haven't read the media hype---don't.
I won't be going to any LBGT socials, but (yeah, even as a CHRISTIAN) have no objection to their existing! Pres. Obama can declare it Cockney Cajun Harelip month for all I would notice. He's not doing it because he feels a deep love and compassion for this group, but because it strikes the right political note and gets him points. I have NO problem with that, and neither do most Christians, I daresay. It's all just political public-relations hokum.
Your relentless selection of the stupidest of Christian published "rants" is doing a real disservice to some of your followers.
bwj, According to Gallup (2004) around 45% of the population of the USA believe some of the stupidest Christian ideas, for example that the earth is only 6000 years old, according to a Fox news poll in 1999 it was 50% and Pew put the number in 2005 at 42%, which ever way you cut it that's a lot of people. I got these numbers from here
I agree with you, what Obama is doing is politics and who cares etc., but what this man (rev. Bresciani) is espousing is naked prejudice, and he is supposed to represent his church. Would you suggest ignoring it, sweeping it under the carpet, pretending this doesn't go on, or the decent moral thing, i.e. hold it up to the light of criticism?
I think it would be fair to say that if these ideas were held by only a handful of hicks in the woods somewhere no one would care. If only all believers were as tolerant as you, unfortunately that is not the case.
BWJ said: Your relentless selection of the stupidest of Christian published "rants" is doing a real disservice to some of your followers.
Eliz said: I find these types of things very interesting, sorry if they offend you.
I will post that thing you sent me from the WSJ soon. Haven't read it yet.
I don't think I AM a free thinker, just that I would like to be. I know it's impossible though.
No, no, sweetie, your posts do NOT offend me (at least, do not make me angry nor defensive.) But you are focusing on such a narrow segment of---oh, never mind. I see why you feel as you do, and would not cavil at your stance.
To each her own.
Wonderful that this guy mentions D-Day first, without any apparent awareness that the Nazis rounded up and murdered homosexuals, and that (by any reasonable assessment) thousands of Allied troops who hit the beach at Normandy must have been gay. Jaw-dropping imbecility.
Yes, but I don't think he was interested in anything other than ranting against homos.
If Obama had selected November, fo example, it would have been "How dare he make it in the same month as Veteran's Day". Or in May, "How dare he make it in the same month as Memorial Day, when we remember our heroes who fought Nazism...". And don't even think about if it had been December!
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