4.08.2005

I did this so you didn't have to: Best-of Fundie Blogs, Pt. 2

Like Jen, there is no end to the things I will put myself through for our dear readers. Today, I read LifeSite so you don’t have to. A brief foray into the crazy contained therein:

• Leading Protestant Minister Reminds Prime Minister to Abstain From Communion at Pope’s Funeral
  
  No one, and I mean no one, uses the word abstain more than the fundies…but I digress. Seems "popular protestant minister and television personality" David Mainse needed to remind Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin—who supports marriage equality—that the fires of hell await those that eat crackers while endorsing sin. He says, and I quote because I can’t begin to make this shit up:

  I pray that conviction of sin and righteousness and judgement (sic) to come will come upon the political leaders who attend that funeral service. And may they not be so hypocritical, those who are Roman Catholic, to receive communion who have not had absolution for something that is obviously a grave sin.

  Obviously marriage equality is a grave sin—after all, think of all the commandments that specifically prohibit same-sex marriage, and all of Jesus’s admonitions…wait, what’s that you say? Same-sex marriage isn’t once mentioned in the Bible? No commandments either, huh? Hmmm…
  
  
• Official English Translation of Pope John Paul II Last Will and Testament
  

  
  This is seriously worth a read if you get a chance. I’m only going to address this one bit from his will:

  I leave no property behind me of which it is necessary to dispose. As for the everyday objects that were of use to me, I ask they be distributed as seems appropriate. My personal notes are to be burned. I ask that this be attended to by Fr. Stanislaw, whom I thank for his collaboration and help, so prolonged over the years and so understanding

  Yeah, if I had ignored years of sexual abuse by my priests, I’d want my personal notes to be burned, too.
  
  
• Priests for Life Head Fr. Pavone Preaches to Standing Ovation at Schiavo Funeral
  

  
  Short story--Fr. Pavone gets the rockstar treatment for taking up the "culture of life" cause.

  "God calls us to go forth from this place and build a culture of life," he said. Fr. Pavone described Terri's death as the result of "a clash of world views" that divides "those who say suffering is meaningless" and Christians "who do not watch human suffering from a distance but instead jump into it."

  Yeah, because it's pretty much a guarantee, if suffering exists anywhere in the world, Christians are around somewhere.
  
  Oh, and this quote from Fr. Thaddeus Malanowski about Terri Schiavo is priceless: "She showed us how to live." Yeah...I'm beginning to think that Terri Schiavo was like the right-winger's ideal women: she lays flat on her back, barely eats and has no brain.
  
  
• Former President Clinton Insults Pope on Way to Funeral
  

  
  Poor Bill just can't catch a break. Um, people, he hasn't been president for five fucking years! Get over it!
  
  

• Kansas Voters Approve Constitutional Amendment Banning Homosexual Marriage
  

  
  Kansas voters approved, by a margin of 70-30, a constitutional amendment banning all marriage except that between one man and one woman. Rev. Terry Fox of Wichita says "We always felt like if Kansans were given an opportunity to vote, they would vote strongly to protect marriage and defend marriage in the way it has traditionally been defined." By that reasoning, the amendment should really go way beyond banning same-sex marriage. It should:

  
  
  • Make women civilly dead upon marriage
    
  • Allow for polygamy (read your Bibles people!)
    
  • Overturn all laws against marital rape
    
  • Roll back women's property and custodial rights
    

  
  

  Need I really go on...
  
  
• Rally to Support Calgary Bishop Henry as He Faces Trial by Homosexual Activists
  

  
  Am I the only one imagining a panel of drag queen and bear daddy judges? Anyway, the Alberta Human Rights Commission recently considered two complaints against Bishop Henry for his frequent homophobic comments. Now, all the fundies are coming out en masse to rally around the Bishop. This is particularly choice: our good friend David Mainse called Henry, "a very courageous bishop who reminds me so much of Cardinal Wojtyla." Cardinal Wojtyla--hey, that's the Pope! I thought we weren't allowed to compare the Pope to us mere humans?
  

Okay, after reading all of that...I feel dirty. And not in that good, I'm a proud sinner kind of way.

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