Idiot Fundy: NJ Senate Bans Anti-Gay Marriage Pastor

[cali]

Unbelievable. Read what he said.

(CBS/AP) TRENTON New Jersey's Senate is banning a pastor who spoke out against same-sex marriage in the invocation that starts the Senate session.

The Reverend Vincent Fields made the remarks on the same day that a Senate committee approved a bill that would allow gay couples to have civil unions.

Fields prayed -- in his words -- "We curse the spirit that would come to bring about same-sex marriage. We ask you to just look over this place today, cause them to be shaken in their very heart in uprightness."

Invocations are not supposed to be political.

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http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_347093338.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. If the pastor is not supposed to say anything political

in his capacity for praying for the Senate, I think they were right in letting him go.

[jilln]

2. I still find it unbelievable that government sessions start with prayers.

[valerief]

8. Ditto. So much for a secular government. nt

[Lowell]

3. The good reverend might look into

moving to Kansas. I think he would fit right in with Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church.

[The Deacon]

4. I Would Like To Point Out -

Phelps is not a Kansan - he moved to Topeka from (as I recall) Kentucky. A large number of the Radical Right ideologues in my native state aren't native Jayhawkers. This was also true of John Brown & Carey Nation - something about the state just seems to attract outside loonies.

[Lowell]

5. I've had several run-ins with Rev Phelps

and his cult as a rider in the Patriot Guard. I don't have any idea where he originated, but his church has really brought a lot of bad press to Kansas. For that I am sorry. But, this moron from New Jersey does sound like he could be an assistant pastor with Phelps bunch. He would fit right in.

The filth spread by them both is very familiar. I remember a few years ago when Phelps was showing up at the funerals of AIDs victims. Somehow he connected his homophobia to the military and began bringing his incestous band of neanderthal followers to their funerals. If his activities had been thwarted back then we wouldn't be putting up with them today. This jerk from NJ sounds a lot like Phelps.

[The Deacon]

6. Same Text

But compared to the truly reprehensible behavior of The Phelps Family cult - they have taken now to showing up at the funerals of men & women killed in action & spewing out their hateful creed that they died to punish the U.S. for "tolerating" homosexuals - everyone else pales. Fred Phelps has reached the Hitlerian Level in his Evilness & Vileness.

[rocktivity]

7. This country gives you the right to consider homosexuality and abortion a sin

But they're not crimes. The government should not be endorsing him.

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