Excerpt: "Christians are busy citing Leviticus 18:22 as a reason they oppose homosexuality as much as they do, so, obviously, the best way to reach these 'Christians' is to quote Leviticus back at them. Specifically, Leviticus 11:8, the part that says the carcass of a pig is unclean and that it's a sin to touch it. Which means that logically, any sport that involves the throwing and catching of a ball made of pigskin is an unclean and sinful sport, and no true gay-hating Christian should approve of it."
Michele Bachmann waves bag of gay-unfriendly Chick-fil-A. (photo: Minneapolis News)
Chick-fil-A Christians Boycotting the NFL
07 August 12
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ou never see as many self-proclaimed Christians line sidewalks to go volunteer at a homeless shelter or food bank or soup kitchen as we saw line up to get into Chick-fil-A on August 1. And that's something Jesus actually said Christians should do.
Christians are busy citing Leviticus 18:22 as a reason they oppose homosexuality as much as they do, so, obviously, the best way to reach these "Christians" is to quote Leviticus back at them. Specifically, Leviticus 11:8, the part that says the carcass of a pig is unclean and that it's a sin to touch it. Which means that logically, any sport that involves the throwing and catching of a ball made of pigskin is an unclean and sinful sport, and no true gay-hating Christian should approve of it. I'm sure Mike Huckabee is organizing an NFL boycott for all Christians this season.
And while they're at it, they should boycott Red Lobster, since the same book that says homosexuality is a sin says it's also a sin to eat seafood that doesn't have fins or scales. According Leviticus 11:10, eating shellfish is an abomination just as being gay is an abomination. I fully expect Chick-fil-A Christians to be outside of every Red Lobster in America calling out the sinners for eating unclean food of the sea.
Christians will really have their hands full with the law if they're as steadfastly obedient of the fifth book of God's Word, Deuteronomy, as they are of Leviticus, the third. Because Deuteronomy 21: 18-21 demands that parents of rebellious children should take their kids out in public and throw big rocks at them until they die. So the next time your daughter goes out and doesn't call you when she gets to her destination despite her saying she would, I would expect a true Chick-fil-A Christian to assemble a lynch mob with stones in hand waiting for the unruly child when she gets home.
But there is a bright side to Chick-fil-A Christiandom, because Leviticus 19:19 expressly forbids the planting of different kinds of seeds on the same plot of land as much as it forbids homosexuality. This means after the Chick-fil-A Christians are done with their sub-par chicken sandwiches, they'll obviously protest Monsanto, which makes a killing (literally) by genetically modifying seeds. I'm sure the Chick-fil-A Christians, being so steadfastly obedient to the book of Leviticus, would gladly work with us in stopping the agribusiness giant from ruining endless fields of crops, right?
Though something tells me not to hold my breath for the Chick-fil-A Christians to follow any other parts of the Bible that aren't convenient for them. The NFL is America's national pastime. We all love to eat tasty crustaceans. Some of us have our herb gardens and our vegetable gardens in the same patch of dirt. And none of us like stoning our kids to death. Some parts of the Bible are outdated and shouldn't be followed literally. And my dad, a Methodist preacher, agrees with me on that.
So all you Chick-fil-A Christians, you can stop calling gay people sinners. All of you sin just as much, if not way more, than gay people, according to the book of Leviticus. And unless Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy has ever bludgeoned one of his offspring to death with rocks when they refused to clean their room, I recommend he judge not, and refrain from casting the first stone. The only "family unit" that matters is one where parents love and provide for their children, regardless of the parents' gender or sexual preference. If you really want to wear your religion on your sleeve, put down the waffle fries and start protesting the murdering of innocent Pakistanis by drone strikes, and tell the Israeli army to allow the Palestinians to have some food and water, at the very least. Jesus would totally high-five you for that.
All that being said, my sincerest wish as a chicken-loving Southerner is that everyone would stop making eating fried chicken a political or religious statement. Fried chicken didn't do anything to us except be really delicious. If you don't like Chick-fil-A, go to Church's. And if you don't like gay marriage, don't get one.
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Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. You can contact Carl at carl@rsnorg.org, and listen to his online radio talk show, Swag The Dog, at blogtalkradio.com/swag-the-dog.
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and jtatu thumbs down for agreeing??
Good point-take a look at most any candid photo of Rand disciple Alan Greenspan and you'll see the very similar expressions of a miserable human.
In this piece he is lightening up, but he is also stimulating an actual conversation between writer and reader. Call it a Fan Club, or better yet a "community", it is all part of constructing a public intellectual persona. And that edifice is a really important one (if a bit awry and gaudy in the HST tradition) in the progressive intellectual cityscape.
Can I get honourable mention for this post?
Sorry I found out about this too late to participate.
How could this NOT be on the list?
Yeh, the earth is falling apart...but now and then we need to get off the beaten path and see the World as it really is...and not as it appears to be...or we wish it to be.
for most appalling fashion sense and hair style...iconic indeed! God help us all!
Ayn Rand? Her ghost haunts American politics and she continues to move the big money that supports the Tea Party.
Big irony: Rand was the most popular and influential atheist in American history.... When atheism appears on the political left, it's "Godless Communism," according to Fox News.... When atheism develops on the political right, it's "Objectivity." Huh?
David Brooks? His book "Bobos in Paradise" describes the aging yuppies who have made Brooks "the most popular conservative among liberals." Brooks has built his career with bobo money and support. Bit of irony: Brooks has very little support among the conservatives who voted for Romney. Without the bobos, Brooks would vanish from your television screen.
I remember that as true when I went to college (early 1960's.)
Everyone had read her, in good faith, and everyone branded her as dangerous a charlatan as Aleister Crowley - except for the Philosophy departments, which simply asked the valid question, "why in God's name would anyone take a "hack"(-English /Lit. Dept's assessment) science fiction writer for a philosopher, even a bad one?"
Ah, RHytonen--ya made ma day!
Philosophy departments in Europe laughed at Hitler and his associates during the 1920s. After 1932, they no longer laughed.... With Ayn Rand, the question is not, "Is she acceptable in academic circles? Is she an original thinker?" Instead, the question that matters is, "Is her work influential in American culture and politics?"
Ayn Rand is still a powerful force in a lot of places. Too many places.
And calling Oprah(tm) pretentious is a redundancy.
I can't help but be reminded of the punch line of an old joke: "pretentious... .moi?"
But he's still the most pretentious asshole I've seen in a while, no matter which word you hear.
Anonymous donors exist.
I fondly remember Ernie Kovacs, Studio One and Omnibus from my teen years; Twilight Zone, the Young People's Concerts and Bullwinkle in my 20s; later the Watergate hearings, The Prisoner, the Smothers Brothers, I Claudius, Deep Space Nine, and a few others worth watching. Since then I've sampled a few programs now and then, like Downton Abbey which I quickly shut off. Surely it's one of the Top 10 pretentious soap operas of all time. I really am skeptical of old age nostalgia, and am sure there never was a "golden age" of TV. Maybe I was an idiot ever to watch it at all, but it seemed to me there used to be creative stuff on the Box (not interviews, not infotainment, not "reality" shows) which made some of it worthwhile.