Nothing about a lot of something

This post has been a difficult one to write. So much is not being covered in MSM and yet there is so much going on.

Under the radar:

The Missouri House of Reps wants a Christian state. No jews, no muslims, no catholics, no undeclared, no angostics, no atheists are welcome.

They also passed a bill, now in the state Senate, to prohibit birth control. All forms of birth control.

South Dakota passed a law to eliminate all abortions. If you happen to be HIV + and get pregnant, you have no option in South Dakota. However you can drive to a neighboring state. If you have money and transportation.

Tennessee also wants to eliminate abortion.

As does Mississppi.

My step-niece, in Texas, is now pregnant. She is 18. She was on birth control but stopped. She says the pregnancy is three years too soon. Her chances of poverty are huge now, virtually inevitable. Any other children will escalate her chances of being impoverished. She will not abort, but the stigma and pressure on her to keep the child is great from our society's point of view. And yet buckling under this pressure she is most likely to become a burden as will her children. Should she have stayed on birth control? Should her boyfriend used condoms? Yes indeed. But where is the grace to correct this mistake?

What the hell are we asking of one another when we pass crap legislation that is religiously based? Where did we get the idea that morals only come from religion? Morals existed long before any formal religious teaching or doctrine.

Just when did religious freedom trump all other freedoms?

When the Talibangelists rail on about censorship of their freedoms, we are merely reigning in the influences that lead to punitive, discriminatory, gender-based, racially and economically targeted laws that cripple what democratic ideals we still have a hold on.

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Theocracy: take 2

Over at Pam's House Blend she posts of Democratic Senate Candidate for Ohio Merrill Kaiser, Jr., a Biblicist. Not to be outdone, my home state, big on loopiness, offers Larry Kilgore, candidate for Governor- a fine Texas-sized fanatic.

link here

Sigh.

And if that isn't bad enough check out Theocracy Watch

But there is a voice in the wilderness...We Believe Ohio

Pass the Plate Pastor, this we can get behind!

Kid, you gotta face for radio

My hobby is words and their meaning. More specifically it is the search for what causes brought them into being. Was it frequency or urgency? Perhaps it was the uniqueness of the situation which defied current linguistic tools?

To that end I present:

Backpfeifengesicht (german, adjective) "face that cries out for a fist in it"

This goes beyond sexy ugly, you know. I wonder what a face that cries out for a fist in it would look like?

And how often did someone like this appear or occur so that language to describe it had to be thought up?

I cannot think of anyone who really had a face CRYING for a fist in it.

Maybe they were just faces meant for radio.
global wording

I hear what you are seeing

"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you."-George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss.,Sept. 20, 2005.

"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." —George W. Bush, on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005

If we end up with English as the national language can we also inflict a level of competency in using the language????

Please????

If It Looks Like an Inquisition and it Walks Like...

All aboard! The trains are leaving the station!

The theocracy of today gaining speed and fervor all brought to you by "Christians" is a slippery slope, my friends. Missouri has a bill, an actual bill in the state house of republicans...I mean representatives... that would render christianity the state religion. This bill should not come as a surprise, if you've driven through there in the last few years and seen the large-white-text-on-ominous-black-background billboards poxing the farmland with statements of old testament wrath and ruin.

But Christianity is not a religion. Not as they are thinking of it. When you ask Protestants if Catholics are Christian they will firmly say they are not. And when talking of a Christian religion they are not including United Church of Christ folks, nor Unitarian Universalists >gasp< ...certainly not those folks either. And they are not including Free Presbyterians, Locked Up Presbyterians, or even United Presbys.
And heaven forfend, certainly not Catholic-light Episcopalians even when cloaked as Anglicans.

Nope those are not deemed true Christians when there is talk of Christianity as a state religion.

So if this bill passes, and actually it is possible, as it broadly states Christianity as a religion, there will be the need for a bill which defines what Christianity is. And believe me, the above mentioned practitioners will not be in the short list.

I suppose we should parse what religion actually is. If you use the definition including "use of recognized practices and observances" that is where the denominations declare distinctions intransgressable.

Distinctions from sprinkling to dunking; personal revelation versus membership from moment of conception; intercessory prayer and forgiveness versus personal relationship; wine versus grape juice; high holy days or any day; Sabbath honor or shopping sales; speaking in tongues or just merely wagging them in gossip; robes or suits; men and/or women pastors; stoles or lapel pins; these will be the wedges of discrimination.

This is not about a big tent for all to come together. This is not about gathering in the fellowship hall for casseroles ad nauseum, this is about the cutting out of a large place for only those who know the secret handshake and then it will be only for those who have power to change the secret handshake.

This is not about rights but restriction. This is not about helping but harming. This is not about agape but animosity. This is not about Christianity but Corruption.

Call your friends in Missouri, encourage them to stop this and as a back-up give them refuge if they are excommunicated from their home state.

Update:

And doncha know I just got the weekly call from my mother who said, in her sweet way, that for Mother's Day this year we are all off to Branson...yes Missouri...for a weekend of Protestant-styled frolicking. I was told I could go fishing...If word comes about that they had to dredge the lake for me, you'll know that a baptism went bad.

I tried to say that the talibangelists were making Missouri a Christian state, but her retort was

Mom: "we're being legislated against. Do you know that 'they' had to remove a picture of George Washington praying beside the Potomac?"
Me: "where?"
Mom: "I dunno, in the south somewhere."
Me: But Mom, if its in a public school and public school is mandated...and besides, are there not other pictures of George?"
Mom: "What's wrong with a Christian State?"

wow...

There is a genetic disconnect or some anomolous occurance. I am a missing zygote. And I was having such a good day.

The Good , the Gay and the Ugly

I am fit to be tied. If I thought the last post was me on a tear, well I have reached new levels today. Welch, W.Va. Chief of Police Robert K. Bowman hates 'mos even to the point of refusing to render aid- or allow anyone else too either. I bet he is a church going fella' too.

You tell a person that someone or a group of someones is/are bad. You tell them that the someones cause the bad things to happen. You tell that person the someones are cast beyond the pale of saving. That the someones can't even be looked upon by God and that therefore the allowance or presence of that which is so abomidible contaminates his own salvation efforts. You tell that person he will go to hell with those bad people if he even so much as looks at them. You tell the person that his salvation and condition of an afterlife is dependent on how he conducts himself here and now. And that is dependent on doing what you say is dogmatically "true". You bind him so close to the fear that even when faced with inevitable dilemmas he will not reach out to save the damned as they die.

Congratulations, you are now complicit to manslaughter.

Or at least you damn sure should be.

And yet, Sunday, some pastor, not thusly charged, will preach that the homosexual agenda has robbed a good man from his good job protecting the GOOD people of Welch, Virginia.

Not the gay people, the good people.
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