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Feb 15 06: on threats to western civilization

Today has been tough going. I only just managed to get my fists unclenched; prior to that it was hard to hold a pen to mark up the current pile of (execrable) math manuscript. Why? Because the first thing I heard this morning was the voice of NPR’s Barbara Bradley Haggerty, delivering the early moments of her piece on how queers get to be scapegoats and smokescreens for yet another election cycle. Is your economy doing poorly? Has your party put its decision-making in the hands of clueless cronies, shiftless liars, and shameless con-men? Has your international policy pissed away the goodwill of the world and turned it into censure, resentment, and outright despisal? No problem. You can still get your base to vote your guys back into office if you tell them that their homes/schools/churches will be burned down by the queers otherwise.

Take the state of Virginia, for instance. State law already prohibits gay marriage, domestic partnerships, or any private arrangements that would approximate same. But just to be safe, people like Victoria Cobb, head of the Family Foundation of Virginia, are looking to rewrite the state constitution. As Haggerty said:

For Cobb, who is expecting her first child in July, protecting traditional marriage has gained some urgency. It is, she says, about protecting children.

That was the point where I slapped the radio into silence.

Ms. Cobb, I have a question, one I wish that Ms. Haggerty had thought to ask you. What if that child you’re carrying is a lesbian?

How will you have protected her then?

Commentary

Here in sweden our Christian Democratic party is finding a common ground with Swedish Imans in demanding a law forbidding the ridiculing of any religion (well at least their religion), this is of course is caused by the danish cartoon controversy. This “christian” fool makes a connection between the danish rasist cartoons and a photo exhibition, “Ecce Homo”, which showed a jesus (I can´t remember if jesus was gay or female or davidbowiesque)in the company of transvestites and gays of all sexes. Such interpetations of christianity are of course offensive to true christians (some groups deserve to be downtrodden, especially if they are downtrodden!). Oppression of humanity makes for strange bedfellows.
I wonder if the interviewed
Iman from Stockholm asked his new christian friend/ally why Christian voters believers had actively oposed and hindered the building of a Mosque in central stockholm until the late 1990´s.
Wouldn`t it be nice if the “rapture” happened today so the rest of us could get on in a sensible world and deal with the worlds real problems?

posted by jc., Feb 16 06 5:16 AM