tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post3746894250265993554..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: all yor babies r blong 2 usDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-72674512831355335482010-11-08T09:29:55.581-08:002010-11-08T09:29:55.581-08:00The Culture Wars are over, we won. Two thirds of A...The Culture Wars are over, we won. Two thirds of Americans want to end DADT as does a majority of Congress -- that DADT almost certainly will not end does not attest to the prevalence of the Cultural Warriors, who are in fact a marginal superannuated white rump (forgive the visual), in my view, but to the mortal failure of our hopelessly brittle insufficiently democratic governing institutions.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-55417802645710039682010-11-08T06:40:00.158-08:002010-11-08T06:40:00.158-08:00---------------------------
[The] Bible-based fear...---------------------------<br />[The] Bible-based fear and loathing of homosexuals. . .<br />is being shaped in the minds of tens of millions of<br />Americans. . . by the antihomosexual teachings of the<br />radio and television fundavangelists, the Southern Baptists,<br />Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints<br />(Mormons), fundamentalist leaders in every Protestant<br />denomination, and priests, bishops, and cardinals of<br />the Roman Catholic Church, especially Benedict XVI. . .<br /><br />[F]undamentalist Christianity, that "perverse segment"<br />of the Christian church, is a threat -- not just to<br />lesbian and gay Americans but to all Americans who<br />refuse to support their so-called absolute values or join<br />them in making this "a Christian nation". . .<br />[W]e must resist before the fundamentalists do what<br />they have promised -- turn the world's oldest democracy<br />into a theocracy ruled entirely by "righteous men". . .<br /><br />[The] "culture war" is real. . . and fundamentalists<br />will not be satisfied by denying homosexuals our rights.<br />In fact, they are using their antihomosexual campaign<br />to recruit volunteers, raise funds, mobilize voters,<br />and eventually divide and conquer the nation. Their<br />ultimate goal is to break down the wall that separates<br />church and state, superimpose their "moral values"<br />on the U.S. Constitution, replace democracy with<br />theocratic rule, and create a new "Christian America"<br />in their image. . .<br /><br />My own roots are planted deep in evangelical Christianity. . .<br />But in the early 1970s, the evangelical church as I<br />knew it began to fall under the influence of fundamentalist<br />Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson,<br />and James Dobson. With their powerful media voices,<br />their call to "reclaim America for Christ" transformed<br />the historic evangelical agenda from sharing freely<br />the "good news". . . to superimposing their "moral values"<br />on the nation through a dangerous combination of bad<br />religion and dirty politics. . .<br /><br />My old friends and former clients believe sincerely that<br />gay people are a "threat to children, to marriage and the<br />family, to the nation and to western civilization itself."<br />They are true believers, and we doubt their sincerity at<br />our own peril. For the past decade, I have been an eyewitness<br />on the front lines of the war the fundamentalists are<br />waging against lesbian and gay Americans. In the process,<br />I've come to realize that fundamentalist Christianity is<br />not just a threat to lesbians and gays, but to all Americans<br />who cherish democracy and the rights and protections<br />guaranteed us by the U.S. Constitution.<br />---------------------------<br /><br />-- Mel White, _Religion Gone Bad_ (2006)<br />http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Gone-Bad-Dangers-Christian/dp/B000NBKJ4Sjimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com