Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

May 13, 2012

Jane Skrovota. Insane Public Speaker.




Here is Jane Skrovota at hearings regarding a proposed LGBT non-discrimination ordinance in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Some of the things that come out of her mouth are just mind-numbing.
The dude behind her is priceless.

Some of the reasons this woman objects to LGBT people receiving protection from employment and housing discrimination include the following:

  • “P-E-N-I-S goes into the anus to rupture intestines. The more a man does this the more he’ll be a fatality or a homicider…”
  • “A huge percent of gay men in school grounds molest boys, partly because they don’t have AIDS yet…”
  • “Hillary Clinton’s roommate four years in college was a gay woman. To avoid going gay like Clinton did, college students need single rooms and single gender dorms… A college woman is seduced with illegal Rohypnol to go gay.”
  • “Candida fungus grows hugely on a corpse. AIDS is a candida fungus disease…”
  • “Roman senators went to Roman baths to be promiscuous gays, bis, and orgiers then went to the Coliseum to watch Christians get mauled and perish. Do gays become this sadistic? Yes. They cuss after coupling, don’t like the land they lay on, and 80% of those that did treason by the year 2000 are gays.”
  • “Gays can transform to be celibate to live to be 80 years old.”
  • “Read the book Nijinsky to understand that bisexuals always become insane.”
  • “A wedding dress is for a woman not a man.”
  • “Jesus was kissed by Judas, a homo, who tried to sabotage Jesus’ kind ideas. Do you choose Jesus, a celibate, or Judas, a homo? You have to choose!”

I see. It's all so clear now.
Some people are straight up fucking insane.

April 7, 2012

"I hugged a man in his underwear."


"I spent the day at Chicago’s Pride Parade. Some friends and I, with The Marin Foundation, wore shirts with “I’m Sorry” written on it. We had signs that said, “I’m sorry that Christians judge you,” “I’m sorry the way churches have treated you,” “I used to be a bible-banging homophobe, sorry.” We wanted to be an alternative Christian voice from the protestors that were there speaking hate into megaphones. 
What I loved most about the day is when people “got it.” I loved watching people’s faces as they saw our shirts, read the signs, and looked back at us. Responses were incredible. Some people blew us kisses, some hugged us, some screamed thank you. A couple ladies walked up and said we were the best thing they had seen all day. I wish I had counted how many people hugged me. One guy in particular softly said, “Well, I forgive you.” 
Watching people recognize our apology brought me to tears many times. It was reconciliation personified. 
My favorite though was a gentleman who was dancing on a float. He was dressed solely in white underwear and had a pack of abs like no one else. As he was dancing on the float, he noticed us and jokingly yelled, “What are you sorry for? It’s pride!” I pointed to our signs and watched him read them. 
Then it clicked. 
Then he got it. 
He stopped dancing. He looked at all of us standing there. A look of utter seriousness came across his face. And as the float passed us he jumped off of it and ran towards us. In all his sweaty beautiful abs of steal, he hugged me and whispered, “thank you.” 
Before I had even let go, another guy ran up to me, kissed me on the cheek, and gave me the biggest bear hug ever. I almost had the wind knocked out of me; it was one of those hugs. 
This is why I do what I do. This is why I will continue to do what I do. Reconciliation was personified. 
I think a lot of people would stop at the whole “man in his underwear dancing” part. That seems to be the most controversial. It’s what makes the evening news. It’s the stereotype most people have in their minds about Pride.
Sadly, most Christians want to run from such a sight rather than engage it. Most Christian won’t even learn if that person dancing in his underwear has a name. Well, he does. His name is Tristan. 
However, I think Jesus would have hugged him too. It’s exactly what I read throughout scripture: Jesus hanging out with people that religious people would flee from. Correlation between then and now? I think so. 


Acceptance is one thing. Reconciliation is another. Sure at Pride, everyone is accepted (except perhaps the protestors). There are churches that say they accept all. There are business that say the accept everyone. But acceptance isn’t enough. Reconciliation is. 
But there isn’t always reconciliation. And when there isn’t reconciliation, there isn’t full acceptance. Reconciliation is more painful; it’s more difficult. Reconciliation forces one to remember the wrongs committed and relive constant pain. Yet it’s more powerful and transformational because two parties that should not be together and have every right to hate one another come together for the good of one another, for forgiveness, reconciliation, unity.
What I saw and experienced at Pride 2010 was the beginning of reconciliation. It was in the shocked faces of gay men and women who did not ever think Christians would apologize to them.
What I saw and experienced at Pride 2010 was the personification of reconciliation. It was in the hugs and kisses I received, in the “thank you’s” and waves, in the smiles and kisses blown.
I hugged a man in his underwear. I hugged him tightly. And I am proud."




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June 22, 2011

Sherri Shepherd Had More Abortions Than She Would Like to Count, but That's Okay Because Now She Trusts God When He Says "Because I Said So."

In an interview about her life before she found God, Sherri Shepherd talks about her promiscuous lifestyle that included "more abortions than (she) would like to count":

"Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jehovah's Witness. In 1993, my mother was dying from diabetic complications. My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses. I was in a very physically abusive relationship. I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count. I had very low self-esteem and just wanted to die. I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn't even make a difference. But God showed me that it would make a difference." 

So, Jehovah's Witnesses won't accept blood transfusions, but multiple abortions are A-Ok? I can't get enough of people fucking their lives up and partying so hard they undo basic math skills only to "find" God and go sanctimonious all over everyone's ass.
Sherri then told the magazine that some days, she wishes her "View" boss, Barbara Walters, would be "saved":

"Oh sometimes I say, 'Lord, Juanita Bynum or Joyce Myers would be so good at this table.' They could lay hands on Barbara Walters and get her saved. I ask the Lord, 'Why am I here?' I have to trust God when He says, 'Because I said so.'"

In case you weren't aware of her particular brand of idiocy, here are a few more gems from the files of a woman who still maintains that OJ Simpson was framed.



She doesn't know if the world is flat.



She thought that nothing and no one came before Jesus.



She doesn't believe in evolution and considers 'Lucy' to be just a human.



She would not let her son "be" transgendered or even wear a dress until he was 18 and left the house.



She has never voted because she didn't know the dates of any federal elections, and she was unaware that elections were held every 4 years, not every year.

May 27, 2011