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The prize for blatant chutzpah has to go to the Family Research Council head Tony Perkins and American Family Association head Tim Wildmon. During a recent AFA radio program, they claimed that God will “judge” America because of the gay community and legal abortion:
Perkins: You and I Tim as Americans have been given a very unique role in the history of mankind to be a part of that process and choosing our leaders, but with that opportunity comes a responsibility and an accountability. I think we’ll give an account for who the leaders of this nation, who the leaders are, and the policies that they adopt. We can’t simply wash our hands and say ‘oh just because we have a pro-abortion president, a Democratic president, we don’t have anything to do with that.’ No my friends, we do. When only fifty percent of the church-going population is registered to vote and only half of them are actually voting, I have some really somber news: I believe God is going to hold us accountable for the death, the destructive policies of this country that have devalued human life and are redefining marriage.
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Wildmon: Folks keep in mind the overarching principle here we need to look at is a Biblical one, in that it is immoral, it is evil, it is wrong in the eyes of God to kill unborn babies.Perkins: And as long as it’s happening in the United States we’re a party to it.
Wildmon: We’re a party to and we are being and we will be judged and held accountable for it, as a country.
Are they serious? While Wildmon is busy pointing the finger at gays and legalized abortion, he conveniently forgets the action of his group, the American Family Association, which include:
- inaccurately linking lgbts to pedophiles (a classic case of bearing false witness),
- employing the rabid Bryan Fischer who has – when he’s not claiming that gays made up the Nazi Party in German – made an ugly racial slur about President Obama, viciously attacked a Medal of Honor recipient, and wrote a ridiculous piece about the supposed lack of morals of Native Americans;
- and continuing to sell the fraudulent video “It’s Not Gay,” featuring the testimony of supposed “ex-gay” Michael Johnston (even though Johnston, an HIV-positive man, was discovered in 2003 to be having unprotected sex with various men). The AFA, by the way, is still selling the tape (seen here with Johnston’s face is on the cover in this link).
And Perkins and the Family Research Council aren’t exactly slouches in the bearing false witness or hypocrisy departments themselves. I had trouble narrowing the number of lies they tell down to 16.
But the lies include distorting research, making false claims about GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) which FRC was forced to take back after GLSEN handed them a cease-and-desist letter, and relying on the junk data of a discredited researcher who believes that gays stuff gerbils up their rears.
These are the main reasons why the Southern Poverty Law Center named both FRC and AFA as anti-gay hate groups.
If you ask me, I think that both Wildmon and Perkins need to worry less about how God will judge others and worry more about He will judge them.
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“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” — Susan B. Anthony
One of my main problems with Christianity is that you don’t need to worry about being scum while you’re on this earth. All you need to do is repent at some point — preferably on your deathbed, so as not to interfere with your fun while you’re alive and kicking — and you’re home free.
Of course, with those like Perkins and Wildmon, the question becomes “Do they even have enough moral grounding to realize that what they’re doing is wrong?” Somehow, I doubt it.
Arguing about who “God” will or will not judge makes about as much sense as bickering about whether Fanny Hill is pro- or anti-choice or whether Donald Duck likes broccoli more than asparagus. If the day ever comes when I start worrying about the opinions and personal preferences of imaginary characters, I’ll know it’s time to hang it all up.
That was actually a movement in the Russian Orthodox Church in the late 19th century: God’s forgiveness is a miracle; the more God forgives the greater the miracle; I will therefore live an evil life so that when I repend and am forgiven, God’s miracle will be all the greater. Praise God and pass the women!
It is rather scary, the way so many Talibangelicals hold to that same doctrine.
…there’s one particularly batshite crazy online columnist / conspiracist I like to read (I love a good laugh) who in a brief moment of honesty confessed that her venomous opinions about homosexuality were personal and not religiously held beliefs at all.
She even admitted that her continuously attacking the homosexual community was a sin and that it’s something she struggles with daily… but really, how hard can it be to simply stop attacking teh gays?
While I applaud her honesty, she shares the belief that her God will forgive her this one sin…?!
Problem is that it’s not just one sin… she lies, she hates, she attacks, and she has knowingly and falsely attributed her personal beliefs to Him just to get herself attention.
If there is a Heaven, I don’t know how in Hell these folks think they’re getting in…
They have a nifty, ready-made motto which I’m sure you’ve heard: “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” They repeat that smug mantra every time they’re challenged on their vile behavior. With such a neat little cover for every kind of villainy, why bother to think beyond it? Christianity has got to be the most convenient belief system (note that it’s never called a system of thought) on record.
And that, I am convinced, is why Christianity is so widespread today: it provides a very useful framework for comitting atrocities, slaughtering innocents, accumilating wealth at all costs and otherwise being a vile, evil human being, and still getting a saint’s reward after death. The whole “Your sins are forgiven, welcome to Heaven” doctrine has got to be one of the most vile doctrines humans have ever created.