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MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS DEBATE TIMING OF GAY PUNISHMENT

At a recent conference intended to further understanding of Islam on the liberal and progressive Vanderbilt University campus, a Christian student challenged the Islamic death penalty for gay men and women.  According to the Christian, Muslims are savages for executing gays in this life.  Christians believe that gays should be pitied and comforted in this life before they are sent to Hell after death for an eternity of fiery torture.

Muslims believe that God wants gays to be killed in this life, Christians believe that gays will be subject to eternal torture in the next life.

Theologically speaking, divine punishment is all about time and place.

(Ironically, Vanderbilt University was founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the great great grandfather of CNN's hot silver homo, Anderson Cooper who could not be reached for comment on this tribute to his family's legacy.)

At the heart of the Vanderbilt University controversy is the fact that in the name of religious tolerance and freedom, the school employs a student adviser and working professor who advocates the extermination of gay Vanderbilt students and faculty.

The Muslim professor and chaplain says his religious views are not so bad and are not so extreme.  In fact, he defended himself on not one but two counts. 

His first defense is that he is not responsible for the teachings of Islam and can only "go with what Islam teaches."  Kind of a just following [Allah's] orders sort of thing.

His second defense is that in Islam homosexuals are given the opportunity to disengage from their sinful behavior before they are executed.  In fact, often times they are allowed months and even years of torture in a valiant and divine attempt to purge them of their homosexual habits. It is only when all else fails that they are hung, beheaded or stoned to death.

A Christian student who challenged the morality of this view, was shouted down on the basis of Christian condemnation of homosexuality.  How are the two religions any different, asked one observer?

The answer is timing.

"Yes, Christianity does consider homosexuality sinful, and Christians pray for homosexuals hoping that they will find Jesus and be saved from eternal damnation, while Islamic law says they should be punished with death. See the difference?" he responded.

Other Christians have attacked Vanderbilt University, asking why a Muslim professor who advocates gay genocide is openly employed by the university while Christian professors who would work to lead homosexuals out of sin and to Jesus would be considered bigots and unemployable under university diversity and tolerance policies.

Unhappy to find myself on the same side of an argument with Evangelicals, I must indeed agree with the question.

The Muslim professor ended his defense by pointing out--and I use his words: “As Muslims, we don’t just go around killing gays. That is a ridiculous misconception/  There is a set of strict criteria that must be met before this punishment is enforced. The rule is in place to promote the Muslim values of family. Even in rare cases where all criteria is met, it is even rarer for this conclusion to be reached.”

Well that's a relief!

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DADT: I CAN'T HEAR THE TRUTH OVER ALL THAT BIBLE THUMPING!

Perhaps the core reason for the robust and enduring nature of American bigotry is the uniquely American view that knowledge and education are for pussies.  We mock intelligent politicians--we even question their ability to lead--but we celebrate idiots like George W. Bush and Sarah Palin.  And my favorite defense of Bush is that he is secretly intelligent and just plays dumb to be popular.

Find me another democracy where one of only two governing parties crusades against science and reason and crusades for fear and superstition.

In fact, it is something of a miracle that some degree of freedom has survived in this nation when you consider that we only have two political parties and one of them is currently—and proudly--hanging its hat on legalized bigotry and mythology over science and reason. A recent study revealed that more than half of the Republican members of Congress actually claim to believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed some 6,000 years ago. I say “claim” to believe because I don’t believe they really do believe such nonsense but are just playing to the morons who keep them in office.

Nonetheless, it is disturbingly disappointing and toxic to democracy that our President doesn’t dress these morons down daily and instead panders to them and seeks compromise. Freedom is based in knowledge, education and reason and is always under threat from ignorance, fear and blind faith.  Only fascists and theocrats would argue this--even when they call themselves "patriots" and "Republicans".

History and knowledge would beach the current war against equality.   It really wouldn't take much.

God help almost every argument made by Republicans and Evangelicals if facts and history were to be examined.

Certainly the greatest irony weighing down on the current "Don’t ask, Don’t Tell" "debate" is that one could easily argue—and many historians have done so—that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the end of legal discrimination targeting people of color, women and Jews was born in the United States military beginning with the Second World War and continuing with Korea and Vietnam.  And, in fact, it is exactly for this historic reason that the repeal of DADT so frightens Evangelicals, Republicans and even some Democrats.

The truth of ending DADT is that it will have an unstoppable ripple effect on the rest of society as young men from all parts of this nation, of all faiths, of all colors and of all socio-economic backgrounds discover in the showers, in the trenches, in the sleeping quarters, in the mess halls and in the bars that we are all the same and that the fear mongering fostered by older generations is simply rubbish.  They will learn quickly that sexual orientation hardly defines who you are or how you behave.  Fear, hate, ignorance and persecution however very much define who we are--remove them and we are left with tolerance, productive diversity and brotherhood.

No fewer than 25 nations today know this and have openly gay men and women serving in their armed forces.  All evidence suggests that DADT is rubbish; and there is absolutely NO evidence to support it--other than fear and stupidity.

It was in a necessarily and increasingly diverse military during World War II, Korea and Vietnam that young boys from Alabama discovered that a black man could save your life and that Jews from New York did not actually have horns.

Americans of all colors, shades, religions and nationalities suddenly found themselves thrown together and in the trenches in defense of democracy and freedom. Tolerance was essential to survival and over the course of a few years during the 1940s, America came face to face with its spectacular diversity--and it made us stronger and better.

By 1948, the United States military was racially integrated--a move that was born in the military and preceded society by almost 20 years.

Millions of GIs learned that we are all cut from the same human cloth and then they carried this message home from the barracks to the nation.

As new generations emerged from the Second World War, Korea and then Vietnam and then came to power across this nation, racism, sexism and antisemitism began to whither.  It was a difficult and sometimes violent road, but thanks to integration and diversity in the military, it became an inevitability that changed American society for the better and forever.

This is our history, a history that easily exposes the silliness, the lies and the irrational and ungrounded fears of those who would fight for the kind of environment in the United States Armed Forces that was exposed for its destructiveness some 70 years ago.  And yet here we are again, as if yesterday never happened.

History teaches us that it is not diversity that threatens national security, it is bigotry.  Church leaders and Republicans are well aware of this fact which is why they work so hard to blind their constituents and protect their power with endless deafening and blinding Bible thumping.

As for why they do this?  Easy.  Diversity and tolerance are the hobgoblins of fascism.

And why does Obama and Congress keep delaying the end of DADT and continue to call for further "research" and discussion on DADT?   That is a very good question and not one I can answer.  They are playing some disgusting, immoral and unethical political game with the dignity, rights and lives of gay Americans and for that they should be ashamed and for that Obama will go down in history as a disappointment at best.