once again, again

The latest skirmish in the nation's culture wars began when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family." In a later radio interview, he ratcheted up the rhetoric: "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, `We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'" (Huffington Post)

I am always amazed when those who use God’s name to prove that their own bigotry and bias is just are permitted to do so as if they and only they have access to the Lord. Smugly because they quote chapter and verse or get down on their knees or praise the Lord in a deep and humbling voice, these Christian crusaders become soldiers who want to ruin, ridicule or remove the fortunes of anyone they deem not like them.

I am still aghast how easy it is to take out of context portions of the Bible and still be considered a scholar. How permissive we become when as long as we first say I am following Gods will, we let bigots bully. And how easy it is for words to be recited without any deeper meaning to them then just hate.

I love when Christian soldiers whose own lives are less then whole point fingers at the rest of us. They never look at the whole society but prefer to punish those who at the moment have less power and prestige. Marriage is always a sin when same sex couples want to do it, but never ever a mention of God’s embarrassment and outrage when heterosexual couples wed two, three times over or prefer adultery and infidelity over intimacy and trust. 

It is always those damn homosexuals whose collective power will topple God and rise up and overthrow heaven. It is never the heterosexuals who hate thy brother, who deny freedoms to their fellow man, who fall from the grace of God that God hates. Why is it that we assume because someone says God’s name louder than the rest of, holds a Bible in his hand is good and just?

Dan Cathy is certainly entitled to is own religious bigotry. This is still Amerika (and freedom of religion or not being religious is the law) so Dan Cathy can shout from his mount any angry epitaphs he wishes. The problem for me is that Mr. Cathy’s homophobia based on the Bible and not on our Constitution is being accepted by politicians we elected to uphold that CONSTITUTION. What worry’s me is that the God Mr. Cathy quotes is fast becoming the commander and chief of this nation. What pisses me off is that comments by Mr. Cathy are taken as law and fact and the people representing this great nation of ours permit this lack of democracy to run rampant and unchecked.

Where is the bipartisan backbone stating Mr.Cathy can express his true fears and phobias but it is not the American way and far from the kind of nation our forefathers fought for. Why is there still an issue on fair and equal, rights and freedoms for any American? And as much as the Republican/Tea Party worry that Sharia Law is taking over this nation I worry that Evangelical Christian Law based on here-say, superstition, and hate is creeping like an unguarded cancer. And a few pooh-poohs and looking the other way will not stop it from killing the heart and soul of the United States of America.