There is a place where my love of freedom and my love of Barack clash and it is here. Fred Phelps--who is the nuttiest nut in the nuttery--and his "church" (i.e. his children) were protesting outside Malia and Sasha's school in D.C.
I lived in Kansas City for a while and Phelps is based in Topeka; I remember his "God Hates F*gs" foolishness was well known in that area. It's reported that Phelps called Malia and Sasha the "satanic spawn" of a "murderous bastard" on his website. That's Phelps' granddaughter with the sign (how does every kind of crazy procreate but me?).
I'ma be like Tom Hanks in "The Green Mile:" There is no way God would give Phelps the call or authority to do the hateful, hurtful things he does.
Barack oughta suspend the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and whatever else and declare martial law to keep this nutacular nut away from his babies.
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Just like drug dealers can't be within a prescribed distance of a school, these kind of whack jobs need to be required to back the hell off. This is nothing but grandstanding with a dose of harassment.
What is the purpose, really??
HA! Nicely put.
Blogger MacDaddy said...
Kellybelle: I grew up in the South; and there I've heard some of the same things said by black ministers, many of whom had been involved in the civil rights movement.
Kellybelle, they forget their own history: the positive impact and continued contributions of so many gay people. They forget, for example, that it was James Baldwin, a bi-sexual) who came back from his adopted home in Paris, France to give countless of speeches to raise funds for his friend Dr. King and the Southern Leadership Conference (SCLC) so they could post bond to get all those people out of jail for protesting in the streets.
They forget it that it was Bayard Rustin, openly gay, who helped teach a young Dr. Martin Luther King how to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and who was the premier organizer of the March on Washington.
They forget the immortal words of Cortta Scott King who said that all children of God should be welcomed in the House of the Lord without qualification. But these fools didn't listen to her nor would they listen to Dr. King, if he were alive today.
In the words of the great Marvin Gaye, it makes you wanna holler.
The homophobes in the many black churches have been out of touch with black folks struggles for year. One of the few exceptions worthy of highling is Rev. Lowery, who once was president Of SCLC who left them for reasons he did or that I've found. The rest in that group-- forget em. It's not the gays that are the problem. They, the black ministers are. Blessings.
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