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some “American Family Association” dude said this:

“It’s a stupid ad,” he said. “How do we define ‘good’ if we don’t believe in God? God in his word, the Bible, tells us what’s good and bad and right and wrong. If we are each ourselves defining what’s good, it’s going to be a crazy world.”

All right, in regard to the whole concept of “if you don’t believe in gawd you can’t be good”, once and for all, let’s call bullshit on that. Christians, you have to call bullshit on that too. You’re good because it’s right, and it makes you better, not because you’re afraid of a deity.
Additionally, our laws aren’t based on the bible. Are countries with a long history of law, but zero history of biblical influence (other than being killed quite often by bible wielders), suddenly to be called christian cuz they outlaw fucking murder? Here’s a decent article on the subject.
Ultimately, tho, the clown in the above quote claims that gawd tells us what’s “…good and bad, right and wrong…” I’d argue with that on a lot of fronts. sure, there’s some universal good and bad in the bible…as noted, no murdering, no stealing. but there’s a lot of kill your enemies in there, and sell your children into slavery, and kill your son if he badmouths you. it’s caravan law, basically, and it’s a load of bollocks for the most part. we don’t live travelling with a fuckin’ herd of goats.
I’m getting good and fed up with the activist religious horning in on the secular world. If you want to change something to a fucked-up, bigoted reflection of your stupid fucking book, do it in prayers, okay? pray your idiot heads off, gawd’s the only one who can change things, right? so pray pray pray! get busy! why are you reading this! you should be praying! somewhere there’s a young gay kid who doesn’t feel like a pile of shit that the world hates! get to work, you fuckers!

Okay, this is must-viewing for anyone with a heart.

So: are you for, or against, love?

I'm showin jerm how I blogs.

Prop 8 passed with millions of dollars in out-of-state money coming in, much of it from the Mormon church. I haven’t been able to find specific items pointing to politicking in church, but if anyone has some, I’d love to post it. You can do it anonymously and everything. I’d LOVE to get something that we can use to start the ball rolling on removing ANY politically active church’s tax-exempt status. As an institution, churches can be as political as they want, but they forfeit tax-exemption. That’s the fuckin’ bargain.
The Dishonor Roll from Californians Against Hate is a great list of all the donors to Prop H8. I urge you to avoid the people on this list…if they cannot recognize other human beings as such, there is no reason to patronize their businesses or support their causes or concerns. It’s not only Mormons either, there’s extremists like Ahmanson and Prince on there as well.
The fact that Mormon’s participated so vocally in organized bigotry hurts especially bad for me, since my own family has a lot of LDS in it, and I actually studied at a Mormon seminary for two years of before-school mornings. I’ve had numerous exchanges already, and I still don’t understand how they came to this conclusion. Especially given the LDS’s own experiences with bigotry and violence, it’s hard to understand how they can support bigotry on others. It honestly makes me sick to my stomach.
I’ve heard a few pro-8 people say that people just don’t understand their side of things. I can honestly say I don’t. I’ve posted before about it, and I just don’t get it.

O noez…fuk u xtian jrks!!!!!uno!!!!!!

Maya Angelou said this during Bill Clinton’s inauguration:

Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister’s eyes, into
Your brother’s face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.

It’s appropriate today as well. We as a nation have had something really amazing happen, but as Obama himself said last night, this is not a goal. It’s a starting point. It proves the sayings right, but it doesn’t change anything yet. There’s hard work to be done. The bigotry and hatred of Proposition 8 in my home state has to be overturned. It cannot stand, if we are to pretend we live in a just world. The churches that actively campaigned for that initiative must be held accountable, and their tax-exempt status has to be examined. If you wish to be politically active, you cannot be tax-exempt. That is the deal. We MUST campaign harder in the areas that went 70%+ for Yes on 8. And we MUST get the message out to areas long taken for granted.
Barack Obama, the 44th President, is an astounding thing to say. But it’s not the end of the road, but the beginning of a long, broken, pot-hole marred road. Hopefully at the end of it we find the “more perfect union”…and beyond that a new road.

I love this image from futurama.