Will she say 7000 years?
10000 years?
10000 years?
Saturday, September 5, 2015
A Few Fanatic Descendants of Presbyterians Persecuted in 1700s Now Want to Impose Their Will on Everyone
Huckabee is an intelligent man who is pandering to fanaticism now. At last Isaac Bailey in the Myrtle Beach Sun Times and a few others are pointing out that Kim Davis does not represent all US Christianity. She is a minority of a minority, a remnant of once-persecuted people, I suspect (without knowing her ancestry) who once achieving power wants to impose her power on everyone.
Before the Revolution, the British establishment (the Anglican Church) got to play power games like Kim Davis, and worse. They could forbid anyone to marry outside the Anglican Church then fine or jail Quakers who married in their own ceremonies. Quakers were taxed for fornication in Virginia because they did not marry in the Anglican Church. In North Carolina the only valid marriages were those conducted by the Anglican Church with proper fees going to the Anglican Church.
No wonder that Presbyterians and other sects hated the established church for persecuting them.
No wonder that a handful of descendants of persecuted people (persecuted in Scotland and the Borders, cruelly persecuted in Ireland, persecuted even in the colonies) rebelled, only to be beaten down again in the Civil War, even if they had not been rich enough to own slaves, and beaten down again in the Great Depression. Listen to Kim Davis's ignorant husband (I lose count--is he the fourth and the father of the children conceived while another man was husband and before marriage to yet another?). Listen to him speak as if he knows more than the whole rest of the United States. These are ignorant isolated bigots. Ask them if the sun revolves around the earth. I dare you. Ask them if the universe was created seven thousand years ago. I ask you. I guarantee you that they KNOW.
So to treat Kim Davis as Christian Martyr is downright sick, and an insult to Christianity. These are the people who want the freedom to discriminate and the power to enforce that discrimination.
Listen to Rand Paul just a few years ago wishing the Civil Rights Law had never been passed. What is wrong with this nice Christian couple really not wanting to serve a black customer in their restaurant?
Now he sympathizes with Kim Davis and makes her into a martyr for Christianity.
She is a fanatic ignorant power-mad bigot, not a Christian. Cartoons are beginning to make this clear--Quakers refusing to issue gun licenses, slender clerks refusing to sell junk food to fatties like Kim. Cartoons, humor, will push the Mainstream Media into acknowledging that Kim Davis does not speak for all Christianity.
Isaac Bailey on Kim Davis's UnChristian Bigotry
The Myrtle Beach SUN TIMES
"But let’s be clear. She is not being heroic; she’s trying to force this country to hold onto an ugly past.
Others throughout our history have practiced civil disobedience to make the U.S. more equal for more Americans.
Davis is trying to do just the opposite."
Thursday, September 3, 2015
How do you spell "weasel" today? JEB!!!!Boy!
Jeb Bush Seeks Middle Ground on Clerk's Same-Sex Marriage Stand
"[Davis] is sworn to uphold the law and it seems to me there ought to be common ground, there ought to be big enough space for her to act on her conscience and for, now that the law is the law of the land, for a gay couple to be married in whatever jurisdiction that is," Bush said to supporters at a town hall event in Laconia, New Hampshire.
And because he is neither hot nor cold but lukewarm Someone will spew him out of his mouth?
Gorgeous Day, Surf up, Not a Surfer in Sight
You could see up and down 3 or 4 miles, counting around toward Cayucos, and not a single surfer was out there.
They were all home repainting their red boards blue, maybe. Or maybe as a group they are smarter than you thought. I am still shaking from two days ago when the fog lifted to expose many surfers out in the water--this just before the shark took a hunk out of a board a little to the north, here at Morro Strand.
They were all home repainting their red boards blue, maybe. Or maybe as a group they are smarter than you thought. I am still shaking from two days ago when the fog lifted to expose many surfers out in the water--this just before the shark took a hunk out of a board a little to the north, here at Morro Strand.
Today's Local Paper--Shark Felt Threatened; Pistol-Wielding Prison Guard Felt Threatened; Republican Candidates Felt. . .
So the (or a) shark reappeared (or appeared) yesterday morning off Morro Strand and surfers paddled in. With no surfers in sight thousands of birds had the water to themselves and circled a several hundred yard area, flying fast as if they were going hundreds of miles north or south but wheeling around, often settling down on the water. The local expert says the shark probably felt threatened by the surfer's red board. Because it is feeling threatened it is hanging around, the expert explains. OK. And the former prison guard in a frenzy of road rage threatened another driver with a loaded gun but because he was also feeling threatened he gets only probation. OK. And because they all have to be more religious than the others the Republican candidates for President are tumbling over each other in their rush to be the most lawless. Rand Paul, who a few years ago didn't want any silly laws to keep a nice white couple from having to feed anyone black at their restaurant, embraced Kim Davis for behaving like a good bigoted American, and Marco Rubio jumped on top of Rand, and Huckabee and Jindall rushed for that group hug for Kim Davis, who has some experience, apparently, in group hugs. And Christie maundered on about balance and balance and balance. What a lawless crew, defending religious bigotry in the name of religious freedom.
The Lawless Crew--Huckabee, Jindal, Paul, Rubio, Anyone Else?
And see Christie's blathering about "balance." Has any other Republican candidate embraced Kim Davis?
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