During this election year, the collection of wingnuts seems to resemble The Gong Show more than American Idol, Jerry Springer more than
Anderson Cooper, Jay Leno's Battle of the Jay Walk Allstars more than What's My Line?
Speaking of which:
Does anyone know who Manny Pacuiao is?
He's a champion prizefighter popular in the Philippines who currently lives and
trains in L.A. His pronouncement came at a time when it was disclosed that he
had a Filipino mistress - he's supposedly a devout Catholic.
Pat Robertson, is, of course, Pat Robertson. He was accused of being a bit dotty back when he said that Orlando Florida would suffer a meteor since it allowed Disney World to have Gay Day. He also declared that disaster-ridden Haiti has signed a pact with the Devil, leading even his followers to believe that he is senile. Other are doubtful, stating that senility could not last a full forty years.
Pastor Jim Garlow, of Skyline Weslyan Church in San Diego, has compared marriage equality to slavery and insisted that if Prop 8 failed, pastors would go to jail. (Garlow was a leading proponent of Prop 8).
Paul Cameron is probably
THE most discredited researcher on earth, declaring that the average age of a
gay male is 42 - a figure he arrived at while perusing gay newspaper obituaries
during the worst years of the AIDS crisis. The Family Research Council has
based their rhetoric on Cameron's findings. Cameron has been ousted
and criticized by The
American Psychological Association, the Nebraska Psychological Association and
the Canadian Psychological Association. Most of Cameron's "research"
has been published in pay-to-publish publications.
Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Bill Graham, has become at odds with his father of late, positing that people outside Christianity cannot possibly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ( at least not without his -ah,er - God's permission).
Bishop Harry Jackson is an activist for the black family - just not the gay black family: I'm looking at the extinction of marriage. And black culture is in a free fall." He also believes that condoms promote AIDS.
Bryan Fischer has become known as America's
"Super Bigot": he opposes everything and everyone who isn't Bryan
Fischer. As a spokesman for the American Family Association, Fischer has railed
against Native Americans, African-American single mothers, liberals, gays,
feminists, Mormons and, well, the list goes on and on. He has friends, be they
may currently be in hiding.
But Wait, There's More!
Like a Ronco Popeil product commercial, the panoply of wingnuts who will be weighing in on gay marriage and all political "wedges" will be adding more wingnuts as time goes by...all the way to Nov. 6th. You will hear from:
- Cindy Japan-is-shaped-like-a-dragon Jacobs. She
may "cure" another woman of her hysterectomy just to spite pro-choice
foes.
- C. Peter Wagner, who advocates the
demolition of the Statue of Liberty, it being a pagan idol. He will be going to Sarah Palin's Alaska and burning totem
poles on front lawns.
- Rick Joyner, who visited heaven once upon
a time, and may visit it again to see what the political climate is there.
- John Hagee , who will be rooting for Armageddon with CUFI (Christians United For Israel).
Yes, the "Laugh" sign is on for us in the studio audience called America. But don't laugh too much and miss voting this year. Maybe that's their strategy.
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