Huckabee to GQ: Gay Marriage Will End Civilization

"it's a christian school but i dunno some of the kids don't act very christian"

Exactly. This. The term is a marketing/tribal/brand name you use to sell shitty pop music to rightwing authoritarian followers. It has dick-all to do with the source of the name or paying attention to the teachings of some itinerant revolutionary rabbi who had some good ideas tromping around Asia Minor during the reign of Tiberius.

It's one of the reasons I don't identify myself as "Christian", but rather as "drunken Protestant" or "loosely Presbyterian"

idk who gets to determine what "acting Christian" means, does it just mean acting like the ideals? pretty sure people confuse "you are supposed to do this" with "you will act like this at all times because you are infallible"

there's a noticeable difference between "I try to live up to these ideals but sometimes I make mistakes" and "I pay lip service to these ideals but never follow them because I am a gigantic ass"

i think she just meant people were being dicks more than they had to be

lol

Right, wot Dan said.

Posted to my facebook today re Chik-Fil-A: Hey...let's eat water intensive meat during a drought to celebrate our homophobia....

Christianity = "Boy, I sure am a sinner. I should ask every day for forgiveness."

"Christianity" = "Boy, you sure are a sinner. You should ask every day for forgiveness. I, on the other hand, have a Jesus fish on my car."

Hey...let's eat water intensive meat during a drought to celebrate our homophobia....

I think you mean "homophilia." At least that's my experience.

Homo-Fil-A

this whole thing is really reminding me of the terry shiavo thing for some reason

because it's so fucking stupid, is the reason, probably.

Yes, and it's another skirmish for people desperately wanting to prove that they're not victims of modernity by bolstering themselves and loudly chanting their tribal affinity and righteousness to drown out any possible internal doubt or anxiety.

Check the Slacktivist link I posted a coupla days ago; American conservative/Republican/evangelical culture is _all_ about declaring the correct Stances, and ostracizing those who don't reaffirm some plank as zealously as others.

Looks like from that picture gallery there is a competition about which congressman can prove they are the most "conservative" by having the most chick fil a bags on their desks.

Feel like this is the Stand with Chik-Fil-A standing in for Las Vegas.

Here, this gawker bit is good:

All Meals Are Possible Through Christ: Hate-Bingeing on the Chicken

...People gathered to celebrate the wonder-working power of redemption through Christ—which, instead of what all those pipe-organ songs seem to suggest, is cause for intense, simmering resentment.

[....]

Indeed, you could be forgiven for assuming that this was solely a protest in favor of religion, but it was as much about Free Market Jesus as it was about the original version, with the poor people and the repudiation of material things. A large motivating factor for the Chick-Fil-A celebrants was aggrieved rhetoric from the far right that portrayed gay activist groups as violating or suppressing the First Amendment in two ways. One, that citizens boycotting a business constitutes active suppression of speech, and that Obama/The Gays/The Left were "criminalizing" pro-Christian speech. Two, that the original text of the First Amendment read, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, unless that speech or assembly affects a corporation's bottom line."

i ate at CFA on wednesday but didnt find out until afterwards that it was hate-a-homo day. it wasnt any busier than it usually is at lunchtime on a weekday. i ate there the next day too

I hope you introduced yourself.

isn't it illegal to ingest CAF products more than once a week?

Hungry4Ass&Chicken

lol

"hello my name is hungry4ass and I am hear to share chicken with you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF00qCIGe04

has this been posted yet

argh typo

wow xp

ugh

Yay tribalism

it'd be depressing if it weren't so hilarious

A lot of Eagle Scouts have been sending their medals back in protest of Boy Scout policy. I suppose I'd do this, too, but I have no idea where my Eagle Scout medal is.

I might have my Second Class badge around somewhere...

https://sites.google.com/site/chickenoffset/

Surprise!

http://chicagophoenix.com/2012/09/18/chick-fil-a-agrees-to-end-anti-gay-donations-mandates-equal-treatment-of-gays/