I try not to be too snarky in my posts, but at times the Christianists and the parasitic opportunists who play them for money make it ever so hard. The untethered insanity that they pass of as religious devotion is just too, too crazy to let me hold my tongue. Lou Engle - who I personally think needs major psychiatric intervention NOW - is a case in point. As are his fellow loons and theocrats who demonstrated in Sacramento, California against gay marriage. In their prayers, they also prayed for bisexual women and middle aged men who play video games. WTF is with men playing video games? Seriously, at times I don't what planet these folks are from - perhaps a planet called Moron? *
Not surprisingly, joining Engle in the batshittery was KKK loving, not so closeted racist Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. What frightens me about such people is that far too many Americans fail to realize that these individuals and their mentally disturbed followers will not rest until there is a theocracy in this country. That's not to say they will ever be successful in the endeavor, but I fear that they will become more radical (and violent) as their agenda fails and as a result increasingly live up to the name "Christian Taliban." I also cannot help but wonder what's missing and/or broken in these people's lives that they obsess over denying rights to people they don't even know and who merely want to live their lives with basic security under the civil laws. Here are highlights from the Sacramento Bee on the religious based insanity:
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Summoned by conservative Christian leaders from around the country, thousands gathered on the west steps of the Capitol on Saturday for 12 hours of solemn prayer, gospel and Christian rock – and repeated calls to end abortion and gay marriage.
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Much of the day was devoted to speeches about God, love and morality, but there was considerable blurring of the line between religion and politics. Among the speakers was Tony Perkins, a leader of the religious right and head of the Washington lobbying group the Family Research Council. . . . "If (the ruling) stands, in one generation we will have gone from banning the Bible in public schools to banning religious beliefs in society," Perkins said.
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The event's organizer, conservative Kansas City evangelist Lou Engle, urged the crowd to "break the altar of homosexual marriage."
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Speakers decried what they called the rampant immorality sweeping America. The crowd was asked to pray for women who'd had abortions, clergy addicted to pornography, bisexual women – even middle-aged men who play video games.
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The Sacramento event began with a four-hour religious concert Friday night at Raley Field. On Saturday, organizers planned for a crowd of 50,000, lining up portable toilets alongside Capitol Mall and installing video screens several blocks from the stage. But while the area immediately adjacent to the stage was packed, the mall remained largely empty. The California Highway Patrol declined to make a crowd estimate.
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[T]he presence of such heavyweights as Perkins put a political cast on the day. Engle's website posted a video greeting from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a once and potentially future candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, urging people to come to Sacramento. Huckabee tore into Walker's Proposition 8 ruling on the video.
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Summoned by conservative Christian leaders from around the country, thousands gathered on the west steps of the Capitol on Saturday for 12 hours of solemn prayer, gospel and Christian rock – and repeated calls to end abortion and gay marriage.
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Much of the day was devoted to speeches about God, love and morality, but there was considerable blurring of the line between religion and politics. Among the speakers was Tony Perkins, a leader of the religious right and head of the Washington lobbying group the Family Research Council. . . . "If (the ruling) stands, in one generation we will have gone from banning the Bible in public schools to banning religious beliefs in society," Perkins said.
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The event's organizer, conservative Kansas City evangelist Lou Engle, urged the crowd to "break the altar of homosexual marriage."
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Speakers decried what they called the rampant immorality sweeping America. The crowd was asked to pray for women who'd had abortions, clergy addicted to pornography, bisexual women – even middle-aged men who play video games.
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The Sacramento event began with a four-hour religious concert Friday night at Raley Field. On Saturday, organizers planned for a crowd of 50,000, lining up portable toilets alongside Capitol Mall and installing video screens several blocks from the stage. But while the area immediately adjacent to the stage was packed, the mall remained largely empty. The California Highway Patrol declined to make a crowd estimate.
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[T]he presence of such heavyweights as Perkins put a political cast on the day. Engle's website posted a video greeting from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a once and potentially future candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, urging people to come to Sacramento. Huckabee tore into Walker's Proposition 8 ruling on the video.
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