Droning on and on and on

At the end of the week that began with Memorial Day.......


Continuing on a similar theme to the drone-topia of the brilliant, gifted Mark Fiore, is a similar strategy by the homophobes of Florida.
From Right Wing Watch
Florida Family Association Rents Two Planes to Protest 'Gay Day' at Disney
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 4:35pm

And then we have the assertions that people won't be gay anymore if we start having the occasional therapeutic government execution of gays to discourage them.  The ignorantly pius defined this apparently that coming out of the closet as openly gay is itself a transformational experience that will MAKE someone gay where they were not before.  Apparently you go into the closet, utter the magic phrase 'presto homo', and upon opening the door and stepping out, openly acknowledging your sexual orientation  you are magically transformed into a homosexual.  I don't want to think what that magic wand looks like.

As previously reported, the Florida Family Association is preparing for its protest of ‘Gay Day’ at Disney World, and the group has now announced that it has secured two planes with banners “to warn unsuspecting families” and condemn the “public promotion of homosexuality”:

Florida Family Association will fly two planes to warn unsuspecting families about Gay Day at Disney which is scheduled for Saturday, June 2, 2012 at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando. A special thanks to Florida Family Association supporters who generously donated $12,802.37 designated just for this project.

Florida Family Association has received many, many letters and emails from people across the country who patronized Disney World in Orlando to find themselves in the middle of one of the annual Gay Days at Disney. The most recent letter we received was from Willis in Sarasota who wrote “Just a note to let you know that about 18 years ago my wife and I and our 2 year old granddaughter were at Disney World when it was ‘Gay Day.’It was the most deplorable sight that we ever saw. I thank you so much for the vision of the airplane banner warning people.”

We want to warn families before they expose their children to Gay Day’s same-sex revelry, before they pay money to Disney for parking, admission, novelties and food. We also want to send a message that Gay Day’s public promotion of homosexuality to a captured audience inside the park is wrong.

In its action item, the organization called on Disney to stop “Gay Day” participants with the same policy it uses against gang members:

Dozens of gang members visiting Disneyland in California have been evicted after entering the park wearing gang colors according to Kenneth Green, Director of Corporate Communications. He said the company was concerned the groups might intimidate or invoke fear in the hearts of regular patrons. So, Disney can see where a dozen people wearing gang colors might be offensive to regular families but not thousands of same-sex revelers wearing shirts that flaunt and promote homosexual, lesbian and transgender behavior.

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Please stop this offensive event from occurring in the midst of thousands of children by requiring that it be held after regular operating hours when thousands of children will not be in the park.

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It's better than advocating beating the people attending this event, or advocating locking them behind lethally charged electrified fencing to die........... but not by much.  This Kansas pastor has some serious problems understanding that we don't practice Shariah law in this country, and we don't practice his version of Christian law, and we don't practice Jewish, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or any OTHER religious law.  And he seems particularly ignorant of what kinds of marriage, including POLYGAMY,  and the owning of slaves for sex outside of marriage, and concubinage - essentially keeping a formal mistress who did not have the status of wife, with whom a man had sex and children.

Yet this dolt with a tax exempt status is so Biblically illiterate he apparently is ignoring all the references to levirate marriage -- NOT conforming to the requirement that you marry your deceased brother's wife AND impregnate her is what got Onan killed supposedly by an angry Jehovah -- are parts of the Bible with which he is unfamilliar.

Here is a CNN video of the Pastor of hate in Kansas droning on and on and on about a topic where he is illiterate leading his conservative Baptist homophobic sheep:

So for a good overview of concubinage in the Bible -- which is not modern monogamy by any stretch, for those harping and droning on and on about marriage being between one man and one woman, and who want to cite the Bible as their authority for anything else being immoral, and a threat to marriage -- lets go where it is so handy to go when one needs to use a reference that comes with training wheels for the slow, Wikipedia entry on concubinage:
In the Bible
Among the Israelites, men commonly acknowledged their concubines, and such women enjoyed the same rights in the house as legitimate wives.^[8] The principal difference in the Bible between a wife and a concubine is that wives had dowries, while concubines did not.
The concubine may have commanded the same respect and inviolability as the wife. The Hebrew word used in the Levitical rules on sexual relations, which is commonly translated as "wife", is distinct from the Hebrew word that means "concubine". (However, on at least one other occasion it is used to refer a woman who is not a wife - specifically, the handmaid of Jacob's wife.^[9]) In the Levitical code, sexual intercourse between a man and a wife of a different man was forbidden and punishable by death for both persons involved.^[10][11] The Bible notes several incidents of intercourse between a man and another man's concubine, and none of them result in capital punishment for either party,^[12][13][14] although the man to whom the concubine belonged was dishonored by such a relationship.^[8] For instance, David is portrayed as having been dishonoured when his concubines had a sexual relationship with his son Absalom.^[15] However, this instance is as likely dishonoring to David because it involves a form of incest, as David's concubines would have been somewhat like step-mothers to David's children.^[16]
Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.^[8] The children of the concubine had equal rights with those of the legitimate wife;^[8] for example, King Abimelech was the son of Gideon and his concubine.^[17] Later^[8] biblical figures such as Gideon, David, and Solomon had concubines in addition to many childbearing wives. For example, the Books of Kings says that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.^[18]

and then we have the section from the same entry on Judaism, another topic on which our Bible belter death monger is equally ignorant:
In Judaism
In Judaism, concubines are referred to by the Hebrew term pilegesh. The term is a non-Hebrew, non-Semitic loanword deriving from the Greek word pallakis, Greek παλλακίς,^[19][20][21] meaning a mistress staying in house. Or the Aramaic phrase palga isha, meaning half-wife.^{[citation needed]}
According to the Babylonian Talmud,^[22] the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract (Hebrew:ketubah) and her marriage (nissu'in) was preceded by a formal betrothal (erusin), neither being the case for a concubine. But, one opinion in the Jerusalem Talmud argues that the concubine should also receive a marriage contract, but without including a clause specifying a divorce settlement.^[8]
Certain Jewish thinkers, such as Maimonides, believed that concubines are strictly reserved for kings, and thus that a commoner may not have a concubine; indeed, such thinkers argued that commoners may not engage in any type of sexual relations outside of a marriage. Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah (i.e. temporary marriage) relationships; some commentators'^[who?] suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.
Maimonides was not the first Jewish thinker to criticise concubinage; for example, it is severely condemned in Leviticus Rabbah.^[23] Other Jewish thinkers, such as Nahmanides, Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, and Jacob Emden, strongly object to the idea that concubines should be forbidden.
In the Hebrew of the contemporary State of Israel, the word pilegesh is often used as the equivalent of the English word mistress - i.e. the female partner in extramarital relations, even when these relations have no legal recognition. There are attempts to popularise pilegesh as a form of premarital, non-marital and extramarital relationships which (in their view) would be permitted by Jewish religious law.^[24][25][26]
So once again, we have the religious right extremists, acting more like a pack of rabid feral dogs, preaching their Biblically illiterate hatred and ignorance on the topics of sexuality and marriage. I'm fairly sure there would be an uprising by these oppressed submissive right wing women who are part of these congregations if most of these Pastor Phobics tried to persuade them they had to accept, without any choice or input, their husbands having sex slaves in the house, around them and their children -- sharing their kitchen, bathrooms and sitting at the same table for meals, not to mention sharing their husbands, and having their husband's children with these women under the same roof. Given the attitudes on the right we've seen lately against birth control it could get crowded fast! It seems a relatively safe prediction that wouldn't go over well, if they REALLY preach the Bible.

Apparently not only does Reverend Ho MO phobe not understand that one could be openly gay in the Israeli army, indicating they do NOT share his homophobia in that country and tradition, he is unaware that parts of Israel are among the most popular travel destinations for gay tourism.

The photo on the left is from one of the tourism web sites.  Maybe these right wing fundies need to make a pilgrimage to the Holy land to find their true religion; every time I hear one of them having these rants, it seems they protesteth too much, and more than likely they themselves are fighting their own sexual orientation, directing their frustrations with their struggle outward, projecting them on to others.  They just LOVE the concept of Israeli militantism, but they hate the Israeli tolerance.  Maybe it is time we brought out the old 60s and 70s cultural mantra here - make love, not war, including culture war.