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January 12, 2010
Whipped With A Wet Noodle: The Top Ten HORROR Stories From The Christian Right's Persecution Complex
By Rev. Dan Vojir
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has put out it's Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks of 2009. Attacks? More like imaginings. This list only serves to depict the unbridled bigotry of the Christian Right. They're guzzling their own snake oil again.
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I have a black t-shirt with bright white lettering that fits my mood these days: So Many Right Wing Christians - So Few Lions. Obviously, I can't wear it everywhere. Certainly not where the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission
congregates. I'd be instantly labeled "anti-Christian" even though the
shirt qualifies it's remarks with "Right Wing Christians" whose actual
Christianity is questionable.
I'd also be labeled a "homosexual activist" because as everyone knows, gays want to destroy Christianity - it's all part of the "gay agenda." So it was really no surprise to me to find out about the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission's "Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks in 2009." It should be called "The Top Ten Non-Anti-Christian Attacks We Can Blame On Our Enemies, Especially Gays." It should also substitute "attacks" with something more suitable, like "Totally Unrelated Incidents and Fabrications." Stretching some of these "attacks" into anti-Christian violence makes for interesting, novel (as in fiction) reading. So to set matters straight (ugh!), I've listed the "Top Ten" with some minor addenda.
Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks in 2009I'd also be labeled a "homosexual activist" because as everyone knows, gays want to destroy Christianity - it's all part of the "gay agenda." So it was really no surprise to me to find out about the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission's "Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks in 2009." It should be called "The Top Ten Non-Anti-Christian Attacks We Can Blame On Our Enemies, Especially Gays." It should also substitute "attacks" with something more suitable, like "Totally Unrelated Incidents and Fabrications." Stretching some of these "attacks" into anti-Christian violence makes for interesting, novel (as in fiction) reading. So to set matters straight (ugh!), I've listed the "Top Ten" with some minor addenda.
Contact: Dr. Gary Cass, Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, 760-630-2232, 954-551-9770 VISTA, Calif., Jan. 4 /Christian Newswire/ --
10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech. Evidently, not that peaceful. And he wasn't jailed for his speech:
SFGate.com: Walter Hoye, 52, of Union City was the first person convicted under an Oakland ordinance barring protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.
9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.
CBS Series, Guns In America: The man suspected of fatally shooting an Illinois pastor during Sunday services suffered from mental illness stemming from a tick bite, the suspect's family told a newspaper in an interview last August. [Lime Disease].
So who should be jailed - the suspect, or the one who gave him the gun? Absolutely no mention of any form of anti-Christian motive.
8. HBO's program "Curb Your Enthusiasm" aired an episode where the main actor urinates on painting of Jesus. When confronted HBO would not apologize.
New York Daily News: In a statement titled "Urinating on Jesus," Catholic League president Bill Donahue says, "At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine ["accidently"] on a picture of Jesus; he doesn't clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer."
A Daily News poll: 40% thought it was OK - and funny.
7. The overt homosexual participation in Obama's presidential inaugural events by "Bishop" Vickie Eugene Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D. C., and a homosexual marching band.
Eugene Robinson is indeed an Episcopal bishop who riled the Christian Right by saying "We worship a living God, not one locked up in the Scripture of 2,000 years ago." The presence of Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus and the marching band were supposedly meant to be somehow anti-Christian. Reasoning: Gay=anti-Christian. Or maybe it should be Gay=anti-"Christian."
6. Police called to East Jessamine Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky to stop 8th graders from praying during their lunch break for a student whose mother was tragically killed.
From Isitluck: Cops weren't called. The kids were not targeted for praying, but for stretching their prayer time past the end of the lunch period, skipping class en masse.
Isitluck is a blog: it brought out the fact that the incident was not in any media whatsoever, not even CBN. Nothing.
5. Pro-life activist Jim Pullion was murdered in front of his granddaughter's high school for showing the truth about abortion. Reports showed that the suspect was mentally unstable, and targeted Pullion and another man for displaying pictures of aborted fetuses near the high school.
4. An activist judge ordered a home school mom in New Hampshire to stop home schooling her daughter because the little girl "reflected too strongly" her mother's Christian faith.
LifesiteNews.com: [The "activist judge"] proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering "the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others." The court approved the order.
This incident was more about the pending legislation in New Hampshire that would place new restrictions on homeschooling.
3. The Federal Department of Homeland Security issued a report entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate" that labeled conservative Christians extremists and potential terrorists.
Check out the actual report HERE. It's a report on hate groups of the militia/"I-wanna-kill-me-some-queers-and-n*****s" kind. Oddly enough, the only mention of "Christian" is in a passing reference to the hate/militia group Christian Identity, a violent group whose history goes back to Father Charles Coughlin the virulent anti-Semite, often called "The Father of Hate Radio." The CDRC is banking on the fact that their readership can't, well, uh, read. Or are afraid of death-by-boredom-and-confusion by reading a government document.
2. President Obama's appointment of radical anti-Christians like homosexual activist Kevin Jennings as the "safe school czar;" pro-abortion advocate Kathleen Seblius made Secretary of Human and Health Services, and Chai Feldblum, pro-homosexual and anti-religious liberty judge nominated for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
This "incident" is so anti-gay that it defeats own purpose. Instead, it highlights its own bigotry and discrimination.
1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.
The position of this "incident" as #1 shows the chief intention of the list is to slam anything to do with protection of the LGBT community from gay-bashing. The law clearly states that religious institutions and ministers are protected by freedom of speech.
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission (CADC) has released its list of the top ten incidents of anti-Christian defamation, bigotry and discrimination in the US from last year. The list was selected by the subscribers to CADC's e-mail list and was selected from a list of twenty of CADC's top stories from 2009.
A helluva lot more, it seems. "Bona fide examples of persecution" would include violence against people for being Christian, just like violence against people for being gay. But the following examples don't prove anything of the sort."It is arguable that anti-Christian hatred has spilled over into material forms of persecution in 2009," said Dr. Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. "Christians were killed and bullied for their witness, ministers and churches threatened with violence and vandalized for standing for marriage, and Christians were fired for not compromising their faith. If these are not bona fide examples of persecution, than I wonder what more it might take?"
10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech. Evidently, not that peaceful. And he wasn't jailed for his speech:
SFGate.com: Walter Hoye, 52, of Union City was the first person convicted under an Oakland ordinance barring protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.
9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.
CBS Series, Guns In America: The man suspected of fatally shooting an Illinois pastor during Sunday services suffered from mental illness stemming from a tick bite, the suspect's family told a newspaper in an interview last August. [Lime Disease].
So who should be jailed - the suspect, or the one who gave him the gun? Absolutely no mention of any form of anti-Christian motive.
8. HBO's program "Curb Your Enthusiasm" aired an episode where the main actor urinates on painting of Jesus. When confronted HBO would not apologize.
New York Daily News: In a statement titled "Urinating on Jesus," Catholic League president Bill Donahue says, "At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine ["accidently"] on a picture of Jesus; he doesn't clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer."
A Daily News poll: 40% thought it was OK - and funny.
7. The overt homosexual participation in Obama's presidential inaugural events by "Bishop" Vickie Eugene Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington D. C., and a homosexual marching band.
Eugene Robinson is indeed an Episcopal bishop who riled the Christian Right by saying "We worship a living God, not one locked up in the Scripture of 2,000 years ago." The presence of Robinson, the Gay Men's Chorus and the marching band were supposedly meant to be somehow anti-Christian. Reasoning: Gay=anti-Christian. Or maybe it should be Gay=anti-"Christian."
6. Police called to East Jessamine Middle School in Lexington, Kentucky to stop 8th graders from praying during their lunch break for a student whose mother was tragically killed.
From Isitluck: Cops weren't called. The kids were not targeted for praying, but for stretching their prayer time past the end of the lunch period, skipping class en masse.
Isitluck is a blog: it brought out the fact that the incident was not in any media whatsoever, not even CBN. Nothing.
5. Pro-life activist Jim Pullion was murdered in front of his granddaughter's high school for showing the truth about abortion. Reports showed that the suspect was mentally unstable, and targeted Pullion and another man for displaying pictures of aborted fetuses near the high school.
4. An activist judge ordered a home school mom in New Hampshire to stop home schooling her daughter because the little girl "reflected too strongly" her mother's Christian faith.
LifesiteNews.com: [The "activist judge"] proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering "the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others." The court approved the order.
This incident was more about the pending legislation in New Hampshire that would place new restrictions on homeschooling.
3. The Federal Department of Homeland Security issued a report entitled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate" that labeled conservative Christians extremists and potential terrorists.
Check out the actual report HERE. It's a report on hate groups of the militia/"I-wanna-kill-me-some-queers-and-n*****s" kind. Oddly enough, the only mention of "Christian" is in a passing reference to the hate/militia group Christian Identity, a violent group whose history goes back to Father Charles Coughlin the virulent anti-Semite, often called "The Father of Hate Radio." The CDRC is banking on the fact that their readership can't, well, uh, read. Or are afraid of death-by-boredom-and-confusion by reading a government document.
2. President Obama's appointment of radical anti-Christians like homosexual activist Kevin Jennings as the "safe school czar;" pro-abortion advocate Kathleen Seblius made Secretary of Human and Health Services, and Chai Feldblum, pro-homosexual and anti-religious liberty judge nominated for Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
This "incident" is so anti-gay that it defeats own purpose. Instead, it highlights its own bigotry and discrimination.
1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.
The position of this "incident" as #1 shows the chief intention of the list is to slam anything to do with protection of the LGBT community from gay-bashing. The law clearly states that religious institutions and ministers are protected by freedom of speech.
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OK,
there you have it. The Top Ten Anti-Christian Attacks of 2009. I'll bet
that the Top Ten list for 2010 includes throwing away an old DVD of
"Going My Way."
Authors Website: http://sacredcowsmakethebesthamburgers.blogspot.com
Authors Bio:
Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books €" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.
He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.
Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
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