Chris Hedges is so great. These wackos need to be exposed for who they really are.

Yeah, he is. (And his article is the scariest of the three.) I want to buy his book when it comes out in paperback.

The more they babble, the crazier they sound, and most people (even if they might not be rushing out to join PFLAG or something) don't have all that much love for these kind of nuts.

Some of that "IS YOUR BABY GAY? WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?" rhetoric makes very little sense, theologically.

Have you seen the clothes babies wear- how do you tell the straight ones from the gay ones with all the pastel and the ruffles and the matching socks/hats/bibs? All babies look gay to me.

Yuk yuk yuk.

most people (even if they might not be rushing out to join PFLAG or something) don't have all that much love for these kind of nuts.

I'm sure it looks that way in NYC.

I never dreamed I'd have to worry about whether I might someday have to flee my state, or maybe my country, in my old age, but I do worry about that now. It's thouroughly depressing.

Powells has a review up of Hedges' book.

Hedges' book is excellent. I'd also recommend, in the same vein, Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism.

Wow--I've been reading a lot about religion lately. Perhaps that partially explains my malaise.

I'm sure it looks that way in NYC.

Queens isn't exactly SoHo, BoPo. (god, it was fun typing that) and I've been other places and more and more, due to relentless media exposure, people are indeed beginning to get used to it. Yeah, it could be a lot better, and yes there's always going to be a contingent of people who just can't get over teh ghey thing, but IMHO the majority of the country is moving (slowly, I'll admit) away from the wacko Christians, not towards them.

box: the Fundies are a loud minority, but still a very small minority (and many of them are lip-service followers at best). Most Americans like their birth control, their booze, their pot, their pornography, their access to abortion, their demonic rock music, their pre-marital sex, and a whole host of other things that the fundies would like to see wiped out and that's what'll keep them from taking over. The majority of the population, one way or another, is in their gunsights, and people can sense that.

I catch myself "Godwining," but I get concerned that people like the above authors, as well as Ann Coulter, are the "brownshirts" out there in front making ordinary, less obvious hatred and intolerance more acceptable.

I do think it's a minority but then so were the Nazis, for awhile.

/godwin

I don't know how large of a majority we really are - the large urban populations are probably more immune from Christian Fundamentalist attacks than people in the rural South and Midwest. The problem as I see it is that while we're enjoying our booze and demon rock and abortions, the radical Christians are (instead of joining in our hedonism) actively trying to make our fun illegal.

Assfucking too, casarkos. Don't leave that out of the inventory of fun. I'm doing that right now as I type.