I Hate the Religious Right
Damn am I fed up with the religious right force feeding its twisted and narrow-minded view of the world on us. They insist that Christmas promotions must include the words Merry Christmas instead of the more benign Happy Holidays and brow beat major stores into going their way. What about those of us who aren't Christian or Catholic and don't celebrate Christmas? Don't we count for something? I'm Jewish and don't want somebody wishing me a Merry Christmas. Others celebrate Kwanzaa and don't want to be wished a Merry Christmas either. How about a range of signs that acknowledge all three holidays so as to be inclusive.
But the religious right doesn't want to be inclusive. It's their way or the highway. They're gunning for Roe vs. Wade and could well succeed, sending us back to the day of dangerous backroom abortions. And now they're targeting Brokeback Mountain with a petition against its 8 Oscar nominations. More than Some 61,000 people signed up saying the movie mainstreams homosexuality in America and that's the key reason why it snagged the Oscar nods:
"The Academy’s nomination of this film has little to do with honoring great moviemaking," said Gary Cass, executive director of the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ in a letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. "Instead, it is just a high-profile attempt to mainstream the homosexual agenda. That this movie uses the classic symbol of the American male – the cowboy – to promote this agenda is offensive to the vast majority of Americans."
Here we go again. Religious freaks claiming its all about them and their morals. Somehow I doubt that the agenda of Brokeback Mountain, assuming it even has an agenda, is offensive to the vast majority of Americans. And its a paranoid fantasy to think that it snagged 8 bids because Hollywood wants to mainstream homosexuality. I haven't seen the movie, but I can assume that it was so successful because it truly is one of the best movies of the year. Besides, last I checked, homosexuality is pretty much mainstream and the country seems no worse off for it. It brings a diversity to a country that was founded on diversity and tolerance for other people's views and lifestyles. Listen you freaks, the country was founded on religious freedom, yet you want your view of the religion to dictate our choice and the way we live our lives. A small minority of Americans wants to control the agenda, not Hollywood. And I am utterly fed up with it.
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Prove to me you have a backbone by not deleting my post.
Nobody will ever force you to believe in God. Nobody. That is what free will is, if you want it, I suggest you let those live in peace that want to be conservative, without some globalist liberal telling them how much taxes need to be paid, to support your welfare state.
Look at Europe, is that what you want? 50% taxation, without representation, and a nation of people living off of those tax payers that actually work, just like here to a degree.
How about you work your ass off, and buy me food, and pay my rent. I don't feel like working anymore! In fact I'm going to go the hospital anytime I feel like and take advantage of your health car.
Then, after a day of lounging around, at your expense, I'm going to drop my children off, at tax payer funded child care. Then I'm going to go to a nude beach and enjoy myself, getting fat of Twinkies and RC Cola.
If that doesn't sound like fun, than don't be a liberal, because that is their pipe dream. Rampant homosexuality, with lazy non working population, living off of others! Too bad, your too smart to see it!
Posted by: Patriarch Verlch | April 8, 2006 09:19 PM