THANKSGIVING IS A TURKEY OF A HOLIDAY

When the first Evangelicals invaded the area we now call Massachusetts, the locals should have slaughtered them on the spot.  Now that would have been a Thanksgiving worth celebrating.

Of course, history has been rewritten portraying the Puritans as fleeing religious persecution. In fact, they were evicted from England for committing religious persecution, a tradition they then brought to these shores.

Ironically, with all of this back and forth on state constitutional amendments that reduce gay Americans to second class citizenship, 30 states so far institutionalizing bans on same sex marriage, no one seems to have the courage to call it what it is:  good old-fashioned burn them at the stake religious persecution.

This is not a civil rights battle, this is religious persecution, now institutionalized and legalized in 30 states and on a Federal level through the Defense of Marriage Act.

Never mind that the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees me  protection from religious persecution; in fact it is the key reason my Jewish ancestors came to America.

One quote keeps popping up in the media that really makes my blood boil.

"It's really awful," says Frank Schubert, campaign manager for Yes on Proposition 8. "No matter what you think of Proposition 8, we ought to respect people's right to participate in the political process. It strikes me as quite ironic that a group of people who demand tolerance and who claim to be for civil rights are so willing to be intolerant and trample on other people's civil rights."

When did poisoning the constitution with religion-based laws become a civil right?  When did persecuting minorities in the name of God become a civil right?  When did the right to exercise bigotry at the expense of an American citizen's right to life, liberty and happiness become a civil right?

Uh, Mr. Schubert,  It's a commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness.  Breaking one of the Ten Commandments is big stuff, much much bigger than any other incidental "tips" written into the Bible.  You want abominations?  An entire religion fueled by "false witness"?  Does that do it for you?

Mr. Schubert and his kind have slipped so far into their own cesspool of lies, hate and fascism that they and we keep missing the simple truth that 30 state constitutions have been trashed by mob rule and referendum to institutionalize a law that is in direct violation of the first amendment.  It's illegal, its un-American and it's nothing less than a major first step to fascist theocracy.

Religious mobs have managed to gather enough critical mass to institutionalize and legalize behavior that stands side by side with skinning Jews alive, burning witches and murdering your neighbors because they believe in a different deity than your own.

The first Evangelicals were evicted from England and the first thing they did when they arrived on these shores "seeking religious freedom" was to celebrate their "liberation" from religious persecution by slaughtering "heathens" and burning witches. 

I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving this year.  It commemorates an event that never happened, a promise that was not kept and an American tradition of religious persecution that continues to fuel immoral and appalling laws that are ripping away my civil and human rights.

Comments

[Billy]

Wish I was in NYC could do an anti-thanksgiving with you all; I’m persona non grata back at the ranch this year. Sis’s new hubby number four (or five if you count the annulled Mexican wedding which I do) is the biggest tool I mean christian and the rents do not want a scene. They will feel guilty and make up for it at xmas, again.

RR: IS IT ALWAYS THE GAY BROTHERS, SISTERS, CHILDREN, NEPHEWS WHO ARE EXPECTED TO DO THE COMPROMISING? I SAY CRASH THE PARTY AND BUY YOUR NEW BROTHER-IN-LAW A DILDO AS A WELCOME TO THE FAMILY GIFT.

[paul]

Eh, all holidays are bullshit, pagan rituals incorporated over time into the domineering religion's ideology anyway. I'll always celebrate xmas, easter, thanksgiving..the 4th of july etc, simply because it's a time to get together with family and friends, and I'm not going to let my self-righteous contempt get in the way of that. Plus, my mom would kill me if I ever missed a Thanksgiving, and if she didn't my appetite would.

[Billy]

Such a non issue because its all upside: mom’s house v. pop’s cheque book, 4 hour drive through LA v. 2 hour drive over the mountain to Palm Springs; dry turkey v. catered “Tropical Feast “; number 5 v. buds new 22 y/o model/actor/singer bf who hates clothes apparently; and the topper, the inevitable non-screaming match between Mom n sis v. screams of passion hopefully from 4 bedrooms and cabana. The mere though of it puts a rise in my mood.