The anti-gay bigots are feeling under siege. Not only are they are upset that the word ‘gay’ has been appropriated so that it can’t be used to mean happy anymore, they find it an abomination that gay people are now publicly visible and openly present everywhere, adopting children, and otherwise acting like ordinary people. They see the Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriages as an ominous sign and as first step towards the day when the only marriages that can take place are gay marriages.
But the last straw for Sandy Rios of the American Family Association (any group that has the term ‘Family’ in its title is likely to be infested with bigots) is the rainbow. She says that gays have commandeered the rainbow for their propaganda purposes, when all god-fearing people know that the Big Man in the Sky invented the rainbow to send us a specific message, and using it for other purposes was going to make him really mad.
American Family Association official Sandy Rios warned on her radio program yesterday that the Obama administration’s decision to light up the White House in rainbow colors in celebration of the Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision was “an unbelievable affront to God” that will have “consequences.” According to Rios, God will lift His hand of protection from America in response to the court’s ruling and the celebratory rainbow images, thereby increasing the threat of terror attacks on the United States.
The rainbow, she said, “was God’s sign to mankind that he would never destroy the earth again by flood,” so if “you take his symbol and you use it for a sign of sexual behavior that is ungodly, unallowed,” it will have “some consequence.”
“My grief is for you, because you don’t understand what you just did. You don’t understand,” she told gay rights activists. “Again, now, to get more practical about this, the terror threat against this nation has gone up exponentially.”
The Hulk has nothing on god when it comes to the destruction that he creates when he gets mad and in a smiting mood, so we should not take Rios’s warning lightly. We also know that in his mysterious way, god tends to be pretty indiscriminate in his smiting, using blunt instruments like floods, tornados, droughts, and the like that cause a lot of collateral damage that harms even his own flock.
The great mystery is why their god has the power to do so much smiting on a large scale but not the power to prevent the things that make him mad enough to want to do so.
These nutters are really getting pissy about minor things not related to doctrine. Just a cursory glance at most forms of Christianity reveals that the beginning of Genesis, homophobia, and the sacredness of rainbows were not central (and presumably still aren’t) pillars of the faith. Are they gonna talk about the Trinity at some point (for those sects that this is important for)?
As all know, after Jesse Jackson formed the “Rainbow Coalition” back in the ’80s, he and his clan got utterly smote.
“We also know that in his mysterious way, god tends to be pretty indiscriminate in his smiting, using blunt instruments like floods, tornados, droughts, and the like that cause a lot of collateral damage that harms even his own flock. ”
As has been noted by others many times, god seems to be smiting more often than not in the bible belt.
Meanwhile Canada is much less touchedwhat with marriage for years and lower religiosity.
A rainbow appeared over the big party in downtown Tucson last friday, so I think god approves.
…or at least, Thor does!
Sandy Rios seems to be upset that rainbows are public domain, and her doG never registered the copyright in the first place. Let her doG show up in person to defend His intellectual property, then.
doG will lift His hand of protection, and then He will lift His leg.
I noticed that too. Also any group with Patriot in their name.
It’s all very Orwellian.
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Family is Wingnut Hate
Sandy Rio’s god is rather sick in the head. Much like it’s creator, Sandy Rios.
God loves the US best, America is god’s country, the New Israel. God is angry with us and about all but to destroy us. God is an abusive and sadistic parent. He does have one redeeming quality though. He only exists as a fantasy in Sandy Rios head.
Since it occurred on Frigga’s Day (Friday), I think she deserves the credit more than Thor does.
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the statement “the terror threat against this nation has gone up exponentially” is meaningless without knowing the exponent. possibly .01? or maybe -2?
At least one inquiring mind wants to know!