Mean and Ignorant Christians - the sequel
So the crazy Christians that organized the first Justice Sunday several months ago in Louisville to bitch and moan about the filibuster are back at it again. Check it out. This time they'll gather in Nashville (are they afraid of the blue states?!) for "Justice Sunday II" on Sunday August 14, and instead of Sen. Bill Frist addressing the crowd, this time they've got crack-a-loon former Sen. Zell Miller, the forehead vein-popping, pseudo-Democrat from Georgia who said John Kerry would arm our troops with spitballs.
Oy veh. And the right rails about Howard Dean having a temper? Zell Miller's head is going to explode one day like a peaking zit, and it isn't going to be pretty.
I loathe things like "Justice Sunday," which boil faith down into a partisan issue. What they'll do is gather eight or nine prominent Christian conservatives into a Nashville church, beam up to a satellite so Christian fundamentalists throughout the U.S. can watch it as a simulcast, and tell everyone that if you're really an authentic person of faith, you'll demand that George W. Bush appoint a 'pro-lifer' to the Supreme court. Anything less and God doesn't love you.
Thankfully some progressive Christians aren't taking this lying down. The Interfaith Alliance put out a pretty good statement on this event today, and it looks like they are trying to organize a counter presence in Nashville. So if you know people in Nashville, tell them to get their asses in the streets, or to at least pay attention for what counter-events might take place.
Ugh...Lee Greenwood is going to perform at this thing, too. It's bad enough his "Proud to Be American" shtick has ruined every single seventh inning stretch I've ever participated in....now he's got to tell me that I'm unfaithful, too?
Oy veh. And the right rails about Howard Dean having a temper? Zell Miller's head is going to explode one day like a peaking zit, and it isn't going to be pretty.
I loathe things like "Justice Sunday," which boil faith down into a partisan issue. What they'll do is gather eight or nine prominent Christian conservatives into a Nashville church, beam up to a satellite so Christian fundamentalists throughout the U.S. can watch it as a simulcast, and tell everyone that if you're really an authentic person of faith, you'll demand that George W. Bush appoint a 'pro-lifer' to the Supreme court. Anything less and God doesn't love you.
Thankfully some progressive Christians aren't taking this lying down. The Interfaith Alliance put out a pretty good statement on this event today, and it looks like they are trying to organize a counter presence in Nashville. So if you know people in Nashville, tell them to get their asses in the streets, or to at least pay attention for what counter-events might take place.
Ugh...Lee Greenwood is going to perform at this thing, too. It's bad enough his "Proud to Be American" shtick has ruined every single seventh inning stretch I've ever participated in....now he's got to tell me that I'm unfaithful, too?
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