TOM DELAY AS MESSENGER OF GOD?

Although Tom DeLay has stepped down as house majority leader due to his somewhat inconvenient legal problems, he remains a close ally of the White House and a major force in the Republican Party.  So it is with no small amount of horror to learn that at a major D.C. conference of Christian leaders earlier this week entitled, "The War on Christians and the Value Voter in 2006" Mr. Delay was positioned as appointed by Jesus to lead Christians through the final days.  In fact, Mr. DeLay's legal problems were cited as an example of the weapons of hell that are being used against a messenger from heaven (that would be Mr. Delay.)

Mr. DeLay explained to his doting fans, "Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world. We are, after all, a society that provides abortion on demand, has killed millions of innocent children, degrades the institution of marriage and all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition."

DeLay added, "we have been chosen to live as Christians at a time when our culture is being poisoned. ... God made us specifically for it. ... Jesus Christ himself made us just so that we could live in this nation at this time."

The homosexual agenda was singled out as perhaps the greatest threat to heaven.

Salon.com reports:

"In fact several other speakers urged listeners to start using more scatological and stigmatizing language [in their attacks against homosexuals.]

Peter LaBarbera, who heads the Illinois Family Institute and is known for his obsession with gay men's most outré sexual practices, told the audience, "My greatest frustration has been our side's inability to make homosexual behavior an issue in the public's mind." In order to inspire the kind of revulsion he wants to see more of, he read from a posting on a gay message board: "Hey guys, I know this is kind of gross and all, but I was wondering if I'm the only one. I'm usually the bottom in my relationship with my boyfriend. After having been the receptive partner in anal sex it's only a few hours before I start to experience diarrhea ... it really stinks, because I really like sex, duh, but it takes the fun out of it when I know I'll be tied to the bathroom for the next day."

"I don't think so-called GLBT teens are told anything like this" by their school counselors, LaBarbera said. "We need to find ways to bring shame back to those who are practicing and advocating homosexual behavior."

Every Western nation has its extreme right wing lunatics, but the fact that one of their leaders and heroes was House Majority Leader and remains a key figure in our majority political party and counts our President as a close friend and ally may be unique among Western nations and a reason for us to be very much afraid.

Heads of state that welcome these kinds of fringe lunatics into their inner circle, Iran as an example, deserve candid and swift condemnation from the civilized international community and repudiation from every decent citizen within that nation.

Am I the only one struck by the irony that many in George W.'s inner circle are closer in mentality and philosophy to radical Islamic clerics than they are to the principles of the United States Constitution?

Comments

[Mr. Bill]

These bastards deliberatly confuse rimming with corpophagia, and play to the worst scatalogical fears of the ignorant. They recycle the discredited smears of the odious (and I suspect sexually conflicted "Dr." Paul Cameron) despite the real research into gay sex practices.. That so many idiots construct their sexualtiy as a set of oppositons ("I may be X but I'm not a queer.") is how these bastards get away with it..

[Fred]

With regard to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Court upholding the law that prohibits non-residents who are gay and lesbian from coming into the state and getting married unless their own states where they reside recognize the marriage, I'd sure like to see some state legislator introduce legislation that would simply state: From the enactment of this law forward, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall recognize marriages performed in any state that, in turn, reciprocally recognize marriages solominized within the commonwealth. From this date forward, those marriages performed in states that do not recognize marriages performed within the Commonwealth shall, in turn, not be legally recognized by this state.

[Spencer]

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