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Larry Stickney and Gary Randall, two of the most active anti-gay zealots in Washington, each sent out Christmas Eve messages under the auspices of their respective organizations. Though united in their antipathy for gays, they seem to part company when it comes to weaponizing Christmas Day itself.
If you thought Jesus was “the reason for the season“, silly you! According to “Bible-believer” Larry Stickney’s Christmas Eve missive, the birth celebration of Jesus is the time to make political statements, attribute manufactured quotes to “founding fathers”, and generally conflate Christianity with patriotism of the ignorant, puff-chested variety.
“We have no King…no King but Jesus!” — Larry Stickney’s imaginary “founding father”
Curiously, Gary Randall’s Christmas Eve message (which color-coordinates with Stickney’s. Hmmm….) finds beauty in the twinkling lights of Seattle and Stickney’s favorite symbol of “Sodom on the Sound“, the Space Needle! And though he remained true to form by inserting a biblical barb for people who believe differently than he (“And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.”), the rest of his message is otherwise above board. Staggering. I guess it’s ok to admit that Seattle is beautiful and inspirational when you’re on a holiday break from your anti-gay crusade.
Check out screen shots of their missives below the fold.From Larry Stickney’s Washington Values Alliance
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From Gary Randall’s Faith and Freedom Network
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No king but Jesus?Well, no, not really. But conservative Christianity does have its share of queens, doesn’t it? Ted Haggard, Peter LaBarbera, Raymond Arroyo, Benedict XVI, and the list goes on and on. It’s a good thing they’re not looking for a national anthem for their Christian nation. ”God Save the Queen” is already taken.
As usual, Stickney comes off as abjectly ignorantAside from the fact that the Founders were devout secularists — note that the closest thing to religiosity found in the Constitution is a single, formulaic reference to “the year of our Lord” — there is the little detail that the first European settlers in America held that Christmas was, at best, the deluded lie of Papists and, at worst, the very invention of Satan to distract believers from the Truth of God. Even in the 1770s and 80s, most Americans did not observe Christmas.
But fact have never been Stinky’s strong suit.
The Christo-Truthiness History is getting frieghteningIt’s touching all kinds of subjects, and the Jay-Walker American clueless Beck audience just lap this cr*p up like cream from a saucer.
This isn’t mere revisionist History…it’s total BULLSH*T and distorting definitions of basic concepts of political science…socialism = fascism….YIKES.
frightening…..typo
Christ was the reason we stood up to become a country?And here I thought the Boston Tea Party was about taxes. Surely, the tea must have been offered to the only source of water large enough for God, in order to have tea with him.
Sometimes, I really wonder what college lets these jokers get away without a single U.S. History pre-Civil War class. Of course, it’s definitely easier to understand why they can proclaim what they proclaim as “truth” and not have the same dumbfounded expression on their faces as anyone who possesses an education above the fifth grade.
ah yes, the average americanhas absolutely no concept of history.
go ahead and ask someone who fought the war of 1812?
the dates of said war, location, what famous building was burnt. that’s just an example. no one I know, paid any attention in history class.
“By using a mirror of brass you may see to adjust your cap; by using ancient times as a mirror you may learn to foresee the rise and fall of empires…” Emperor T’ai Tsung 627-650 A.D.
Oops!Time to wipe up the puke.
College?Somehow i doubt that Stickney went to college.
HmmmmmAnd even if he id, how much you wanna bet it was a “college” akin to Liberty, Regent, Bob Jones or some other “institution of higher learning” disguised as an indoctrination camp!
He’s acknowledgedbeing a puglilistic substance abuser and womanizer when he was younger, then working in the building industry until an injury took him out. College never enters into the narrative and he “came to Jesus” later in life, so Bible college earlier is highly unlikely. I’d be surprised if he graduated high school with more than the minimum grades. He’s not stupid, but he’s clearly ignorant.
You ought to have stayed with the Britsif the ultimate expresion of the American Experiment is to have “no king but Jesus,” particularly as this is always read to mean that the most conservative and reactionary of theologies is ordained to govern the land. This is what Jefferson, Adams and so many others feared.
Better to have paid Davison, Newman & Co. the cost of the tea dumped into Boston Harbour than to live in a land of laws picked out of the Old Testament to gratify the bigotries of hate and fear driven ministers.
As for HM the Queen, well, in her youth she pulled off quite the feminist gesture when she joined the ATS(Women’s Army) in WWII to silence criticism of that organisation as low class and of dubious morals as opposed to the Women’s Navy or Air Force. Also, her mum QE the Queen Mother was Gay-friendly. God or Goddess save the woman who defied preachers and conservatives to become Subaltern Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor and a lorry driver and mechanic in WWII. She gets to keep her song and woe to the fundies who try and appropriate it for Joshua Bar Joseph
The War of 1812?The war where the US was Napoleon’s ally?
The war that the US launched to grab Canada?
An ancestor of mine was in command of one of those great ships of the line that finally securely blockaded the coast of the US after Waterloo.
My thanks, as alwaysfor keeping a watchful eye on our friends Larry and Gary.
I had an ancestor in the Navy during the War of 1812, tooI’m an indirect descendant of Lewis Warrington on my mother’s side.