This is not my America anymore. [View All]

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I am feeling like such an outsider anymore. Over the last 2 months I feel like I'm living in some Pentacostal revival tent, and that if I don't start speaking in tongues and roll down the aisles, then I am a heretic in my own country. Jesus this, "Gawd" that, "Culture of life" here, "people of faith" there.

I subscribe to Salon, so what do they give me for my money? Wired, whos first issue to me had Arnie's grizzled, steroid affected face on it. New Republic online, edited by that Auntie Lance, HIV+ barebacker Andrew Sullivan, who blames democrats for not "embracing people of faith", and the holy grail... A 6 month inundation of USless News and World Distort, complete with Michael Barone's increasingly loonie propaganda pieces. Every week, I get some such front covers as... "Why we pray", "Mysteries of Faith", "Virgin Mary, the history", "George W Bush, man of faith", "James Dobson: the interview...the Focus on the Family story", "John Paul II, Pilgrim, Prophet, Pope", "Pope Benedict XVI" and then one day in late January...I get a cover of George Bush, set in a black background, with the presidential seal just behind his head, out of focus, making it look like a halo around him. Coincidence? I couldn't find the cover pic in their archives, but trust me, the real thing is much more vomit inducing that my description.

One week of freaks and pontificates on television swarming over a poor woman who's brain had died, the we get into 3 weeks of POPEAGANDA! Think it would die down? No! We then have this "Justice Sunday" or whatever they're calling it today to spread the good word of Christs love for homosexuals who repent all over the TV airwaves. Of course, lately it doesn't help that my Senator apologizes for calling Dobson and his thugs "Antichrists" and the apologizes, after they, once again, claim victimhood... something he had every right to do, and should do it more often. That one word, for me trumps his vote for Condosleeza...one more I can forgive his Gonzales vote. As a gay man living with the constant televised "debates" over whether or not I will sodomize little Johnny don the street, never being told exactly HOW my relationships are a thread to any straight people's marriges (I guess they got married just because we can't, like a big gay taunt!), that I will molest 40% of the foster children, as long as I'm in Texas, and the solutions of the problems only gay people create, like rickets and osteoporosis, are being debated on the House and Senate floors. To paraphrase someone else I heard on some documentary...I feel like a jew at the Nurenburg Rally.

Are liberal outlets any better for me? Not if I'm gay and the Democrats are trying to figure out who's rights to sacrifice on the altaer of "electability" and see myself come out on top. Mike Malloy, although rightly so, goes on and on about the "flying monkey right" but his show has been nothing but a "christ killer" sermon in the last month.

DU? I drop by, and don't post, on a very personal thread about a gay boy who killed himself because his catholic school's policies, the parent church's doctrines, dogma, and bigotry, and it took less than 20 posts for some catholic to strip this boy's tragedy away from him and claim victimhood for herself, as if NOBODY, but the CHRSTIANS can claim victimhood, and how dare ANYBODY question that! Every thread, example, and fact based question posed here, gets hijacked by thin skinned, tax exempt, majority members, who can't stand the fact that someone other than they as a christian, have been dealt a raw deck of cards. Some gay person gets rejected by his Southern Baptist family, the very "christian" responses grow to "You are bashing Christians!" Not once does any of these people question their own heresy and blasphemy, in equating everything about them with the divine. It's almost like... "How dare you tell me not to buy Parkay Margarine! I am a Christian. You must hate Christians to force us to buy Imperial!" Here's a clue...The fact that you are a christian has NOTHING to do with you being a self absorbed drama queen! You are that way DESPITE your faith!

BTW: I am a christian too. Raised methodist. If you are offended by this post, then YOU ARE AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIGOT!:P

...$10 says it'll take 10 posts for someone to claim victimhood for his/her faith.