" I can't get behind this orgy of cheap and easy piety."

[bettyellen]

i love dan savge, and his take this week on the cafeteria catholics and their hipocrisy....

"I was pleased to see John Paul II's papacy come to an end. ....snip.......
In 2003 a Vatican screed condemned not only gay marriage but also adoptions by gays and lesbians. Allowing us to adopt children, the Vatican said, "would actually mean doing violence to these children." (Hmm. Violence against children . . . perhaps we should defer to the Catholic Church's expertise on that subject?) And two days before my boyfriend and I celebrated our 10th anniversary in February, the pope rose from his deathbed just long enough to describe gay marriage as part of an "ideology of evil." Gee, J.P., you shouldn't have.

What's maddening about this pope's signature gay bashing is this: When the pope—the dead one, the next one, the one after that—says something stupid about homosexuality, straight folks take it to heart. The church's efforts have helped defeat gay rights bills, led to the omission of gays and lesbians from hate-crime statutes, and helped to pass anti-gay-marriage amendments. But when a pope says something stupid about heterosexuality, straight Americans go deaf. And this pope had plenty to say about heterosexual sex—no contraceptives, no premarital sex, no blowjobs, no jerkin' off, no divorce, no remarriage, no artificial insemination, no blowjobs, no three-ways, no swinging, no blowjobs, no anal. Did I mention no blowjobs? John Paul II had more "no's" for straight people than he did for gays. But when he tried to meddle in the private lives of straights, the same people who deferred to his delicate sensibilities where my rights were concerned suddenly blew the old asshole off. Gay blowjobs are expendable, it seems; straight ones are sacred.

So I can't get behind this orgy of cheap and easy piety. Watching the talking twats on CNN pay their respects to this "universally beloved man of God" (how many of them have had premarital sex, I wonder?), to say nothing of the suddenly reverent assholes on Fox News (Bill O'Reilly didn't have many nice things to say about J.P. II when he opposed the invasion of Iraq), makes me want to throw a bottle of lube through a stained-glass window."



Savage Love
by Dan Savage
April 12th, 2005

http://www.villagevoice.com/people/0515,savage,62908,24.html

[Stephanie]

1. They love to pick and choose

That Dr. Laura Leviticus letter has been around a hundred times, but it sums it up. These fundies want to enforce ancient biblical laws, so long as they don't apply to THEM. I am so TIRED of screaming that they're hypocrites. Can we call them anything ELSE?

*edit*

In case you missed the Dr. Laura letter (tho I say it's impossible!):

http://www.commondreams.org/views/071300-106.htm

[bettyellen]

2. hi stephie dear, how are you? it's been a while!

[Stephanie]

3. pretty good sweetie, and you?

Have you heard from our pal since he came back from his trip?

[bettyellen]

4. nope he's been awful quiet.......

since nashville, it's been maybe two weeks since i spoke w/ him. i think the surgery is coming up in another week, and he'll start freaking again. poor baby.

[Selteri]

5. The best thing to call them, now that's a hard one without sounding too

Liberal. Everything to call them that isn't a single word is hard.

I can always use GWBs version, "They're evil, they're bad."

We can use the term the Media gives some of these 'terrorist' leaders, "Radical" Such as "Fundementalist Radical Dr. Laura..."

Of course there are other great labels for them, my favorite is, "Misinformation Whore." but it suonds way too upper crust to really have people rememeber that.