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Oregon – 1 step forward & 2 steps back

Oregon is considering adding 2 items to the ballot this year.  1 is to allow non-heterosexual couples to marry, and the other is to allow bakers, florists, caterers, or any other business to discriminate against them under religious exemptions, in effect by stating that since their religious beliefs forbid gay & lesbian marriage, then they shouldn’t be forced to do business with them due to their religious beliefs.

If I were a retailer, couldn’t I use the same law to say that I don’t want gays & lesbians in my business?  If I were a developer or landlord, couldn’t I keep them out of my properties & neighborhoods?  And could a doctor refuse to treat them if they need emergency medical services?  What about keeping slaves, since the Bible, and therefore their religion condones slavery?  Acceptance of slavery is all over the Old Testaments & appears more than once in the New Testament as well.

If slavery is an antiquated Biblical idea that we’ve overcome, how about our negativity & discrimination toward gays & lesbians?

We can’t make laws to require everyone to come together as one in our society & care at least as much for each other as we do ourselves.  Besides being a hippie Utopian dream, we raise our young to be warlike, animalistic, reptilian-brained creatures who seem to have no compassion for anything but their own needs & desires, and we look at those ideas as being non-rewarding socialism unless we give it of our own volition in dribs & drabs of charity to make ourselves feel good, but we shouldn’t be making laws that continue to separate us from each other using standards applied unequally to segments within our society.  That is the definition of discrimination in a nutshell.

It’s hard to believe that in 2014, we’re still fighting that battle.  Besides, I’ve always said that gays & lesbians have the right to get married & be as miserable as the rest of us married people.

As The Rev Charles once said, Luke is — not from New Jersey

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Let’s start this with something the far right can understand and appreciate — biblical scripture — Luke 9:51-56: “Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers before His face.  And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him.  But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem.  And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, ‘Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?’  But He turned and rebuked them, and said, ‘You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.  For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.’  And they went to another village.”

What this says to me is liking or hating anyone simply based upon their beliefs, race, or being different in any manner that they cannot change is prejudicial & wrong — end of discussion.  I know that religious beliefs can be changed, but that doesn’t mean they should be changed simply because they don’t agree with yours.  Heck, in my opinion, the fact that you embrace religion at all is a negative to me, but I respect your right to be ignorant as long & deeply as you want.

The biggest problem I have with the far right is that they believe their religious beliefs & their use of them for personal/financial gain & human segregation is beyond reproach, including the use of them to align groups of people against each other socially & professionally. This type of behavior is just a stone’s throw from radical Muslims who kill people whenever their religion is “blasphemed” in their eyes, or Hitler Youth for that matter — the Jews of yesterday are the social/political critics & “deviants” of today.

Intolerance seems to be the theme in many religions & politics, which tends to go against the intent of the founders of them, like Jesus, who would surely abhor the bashing of those who don’t believe the same as he did.  This is a (surely fictional) being who helped the poor, walked among the lepers, and threw out the moneychangers, all ideas that today’s Christians & Republicans don’t embrace, which is the true meaning of the work “ironic” if you ask me.

I understand that people are passionate about their religious beliefs, but I’m not, and I don’t like the level of intolerance they invoke when confronted by people like me who do not believe as they do, labeling me as a hatemonger when I point out the fact that religion is simply unproven theory and that I have no respect for the idea of it.  I don’t hate them; I simply have no respect for their ideology.

I find it hard to discuss anything rationally or intelligently with most people on the far right, especially those who consider themselves highly religious. I don’t agree with speech that demeans a person or a particular group simply according to their race, religious choice (or lack thereof), sexual orientation, or nationality without regard for any other issue thereof, nor do I support any group of people or any person who holds those views, and I don’t believe (the fictional character of) Jesus would have either. People have been using certain archaic notions written in the Bible for centuries to justify their hate for various groups and it will probably never end.

It’s a different matter entirely to not like an idea that is detachable from a person vs not liking that a person is gay, or black, or some other condition that they can’t & shouldn’t change.

The part of Tim Tebow will be played tonight by Satan

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Tim Tebow is a loser and always has been a has-been. He’s the epitome of the Christian Right-Wingers whose holier-than-thou attitude is nothing more than wolf’s suit made of sheep’s wool.  The only reason people didn’t notice in college is because mediocrity can survive there, but once you get into the NFL with the adults, it’s a whole different game with different rules, as the Pat Sullivans and Ryan Leafs & Todd Marinovichs of the world found out, just like little Timmy found out.

If the guy was really a team player like he claims to be, he’d work on assuming a different role on the field, maybe as a gadget player, a slotback/pass option player, a tight end, whatever it takes to makes the squad & contribute positively, which he said he would do when he joined the Pats, but he says he only wants to play the 1 position he can’t play well — QB.  The guy is delusional — the rest of the league has already figured him out rather quickly & he was one of the worst passers ever, and the stats don’t lie.

He’s not nearly as good at fooling the NFL at QB as he is at fooling the religious right & snagging $50,000+ per speaking engagement. He invented “tebowing” as a marketing ploy — the guy is actually Satan in disguise — Tim is the character in the movie “The Dead Zone” who tries to become President & ends humanity by pushing the button while everyone’s drinking his Jim Jones-brand of Kool-Aid, but Christopher Walken (played by Nick Saban in this cerebral script treatment of mine) steps in & says “screw you, Tim Tebow, and Roll Tide, you MF-er”, and then Tim’s on the cover of TIME holding up a baby as a shield. That’s the real Tebow, and “only time will tell” as the band ASIA once sang decades ago.

What gets me is that the Jacksonville Jaguars owner isn’t smart enough to realize that hiring Tebow at QB couldn’t make things any worse than they already are for them (4-12 in 2013), and the attendance & resulting merch sales would go sky-high.

If Tebow is #2 on Olbermann’s World’s Worst list any night, then Shahid Khan, the stupid owner of the Jags, is #1 every night.