Help, my eyeballs can’t stop rolling!

December 10, 2008 by Pastor Dan.

Hearing recently on MSNBC that Pat Boone had become completely unbalanced (not the same as unbiased) in comparing the terrible Mumbai terrorist massacres with the demonstrators in the streets of California who hope to overturn Proposition 8, I think my eyeballs have become permanently stuck—rolled as far back as they can roll!

Leave it to Joe’s blog to link this to a previous column on “World Nut Daily” in which Boone does suggest that the pro-gay marriage forces are jihadists. After trying to link Obama with the 9/11 terrorists, the Christian folk singer/wingnut says, “The jihadists in these organized, hugely funded attacks on our morality and virtue are not Middle Eastern – they’re homegrown Americans who actually believe they’re promoting a better America by destroying the foundations on which this nation was built!”

Joe, whose profile can be found on MySpace, claims to be a 49 year old biological male in New York, and does as credible job of covering anti-gay religious news.

Help! We’re oppressed!  After years of psychological advances in which individuals and classes of people have tried to stop whining about being victims (and therefore being co-dependent with their victimizers or oppressors), now the fundamentalist Christians seem to be taking over this role.  The Moral Majority of Ronald Reagan’s days has become the Oppressed Majority because demonstrators have taken to the streets to say “Shame!”

The context of Boone’s wacky remarks are the street demonstrations of people who are furious about Proposition 8 squeaking into law. I’ve attended these street demonstrations here in Los Angeles – a spontaneous combination of webanatics, liberals or libertarians, old-style gay activists, you name it. But “organized, hugely funded attacks on our morality and virtue” they are not.

Especially the “hugely funded” part. We spent our wad on the “No on 8″ campaign. Who has anything left?

Isn’t there a place for senile Christian class-B folk song singers to go when their capacity for reason has atrophied? Apparently Pat is too far gone to realize that the extremism of his rants and ludicrous accusations actually help our side. In the long haul, what do we have to fear if there are only moneyed Mormons and nitwit fundagelicals like that foul-mouthed “babdist” preacher from Topeka on the other side?

— Pastor Dan Hooper, Los Angeles

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