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From Right Wing Watch:
Vision America’s Rick Scarborough delivered a guest sermon at the Fairton Christian Center in New Jersey earlier this month where he declared that gays coming out of the closet was a sign that a nation has forgotten God.
But Scarborough quickly corrected himself and apologized for using the word “gay” when he really meant “sodomites” because using the word “gay” is “an abuse of the language.” Scarborough went on the predict that, very soon, pedophiles will be referred to as “happy people” and they will have parades and be defended by legislators … and those who don’t think this can happen just need to remember that “twenty years ago, who called a sodomite ‘gay’? We had laws in Texas ’til 2002 that we sent them to prison! That was based on the Bible, by the way”
I’ve got a Facebook friend who speaks in vicious tones about the Bible and Christianity in general. He at times drives me crazy. But when I listen to Scarborough, I can understand his anger.
If Rick Scarborough had said the same things about African-Americans or those of the Jewish faith that he just said about gays, there would be no question about his bigotry. Since when is using the Bible as a crutch an excuse for such abusive language? Bigotry is bigotry, no matter how you attempt to dress it up.
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I wonder how the audience reacted. I can’t imagine this going over very well in New Jersey. Everything from his not-from-here accent to his prissy preacher way of dressing to his un-nuanced bigoted content is viewed as foreign in the Northeast.
I think what would scare me more is someone with the same message who looks and sounds like me. The Rick Santorums and Maggie Gallaghers and Tony Perkinses are scarier.
The contrast between this and the Rhode Island rabbis is telling. Scarborough just doesn’t get it.
It always seems to me that there’s something missing in people like this — there’s some essential something that makes us truly human that they missed out on. Or maybe they’re just terribly afraid.
I have to wonder if it takes a lot of work to be this ignorant?
“……. twenty years ago, who called a sodomite ‘gay’ “
Guess what, this usage of the word “gay” has been around for a long time. I specifically remember it being used in the movie “Bringing up Baby” (1938)
Seems to be an awfully lot like Cardinal O’Brien, doesn’t he, Laurel? D’ye suppose that he has the same kind of secrets?
Possibly Rick (he seems too childish in a nasty way to be a Mr.) is a frustrated aka not up to following his real calling, English teacher. Who cares what gays were called twenty years ago?
Twenty years ago, the politically correct designation for a certain minority was Negro. Now, you better not use that word as it is offensive, better use black. Or am I out of touch, again?
And don’t name your sports team Chiefs! And a bunch of other words that apparently are offensive to people with some American Indian blood in them.
This guy has nothing to say, so he has to get cute. Too bad apparently someone is listening to him or inviting him to talk to them. I used to be a Baptist until I discovered they just LOOVVVED our wars including the totally senseless killing of 1,000,000+ Iraqis, plus the starving of by now over a million of their children. Pray for the troops! Pray for victory!
Some churches and other venues (like country music events) have a cross and picture of Christ at the middle of their backdrops, with an American flag sandwiched on either end. What part of only one master did they not get?
I think the audience he is pitching too is deluded enough to not find his prissy idiocy offputting but I hope that is not so.