RELIGIOSITY: Dusty Smith / “Have You Heard The Good News?”
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Category Archives: Conservatism
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: The Amazing Atheist / “Chick Fil America”
ACERBIC WIT: Gore Vidal / “Americans, Your Lack of Education is the Joke of the World.”
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ACERBIC WIT: Gore Vidal vs. William Buckley / “Go Back To Your Pornography And Stop Calling Me A Crypto-Nazi” / Democratic National Convention 1968
This is the well-known incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
GUN VIOLENCE: Bill Moyers / “NRA ‘Enabler Of Death'”
REASON: Thom Hartmann / “Why Would Anyone Proudly Call Themselves a Conservative?”
SEXUAL PSYCHOLOGY: Zinnia Jones / “The Assumed Primacy of Penis-in-Vagina Sex”
“The narrow focus on [Penis-in-Vagina Sex] PIV is largely responsible for the idea that oral and anal sex are “not really sex”, which is both a dangerous misconception, and sometimes an act of strategic ignorance within an obsolete value system. It also serves as a focal point for the concept of “virginity”, a model which fails to describe sexual experience in any meaningful way despite supposedly existing for this purpose, and instead functions to define a woman’s worth by the history of her vagina.”
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- Hard Penis Not Required (psychologytoday.com)
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Chick-Fil-A Has Spent $5 Million On Groups Trying To Stop Gay Marriage”
Chick-Fil-A, the Atlanta-based fast food chicken restaurant that specializes in Christianity, has used its more than 1600 outlets to fuel its zest for stopping same-sex marriage, spending $5 million between 2003 and 2010 on anti-gay organizations and hate groups, including $2 million in 2010 alone.
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. . . Chick-fil-A founder and chairman S. Truett Cathy . . . a devout Southern Baptist; his religious beliefs have a major impact on the company. The company’s official statement of corporate purpose says that the business exists “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A.” Cathy’s beliefs are also responsible for one of the chain’s distinctive features: All Chick-fil-A locations (company-owned and franchised, whether in a mall or freestanding) are closed on Sundays, as well as on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
h/t: Planet Atheism
Related articles
- Prejudice With A Side Of Fries: Chick-Fil-A Reportedly Donates $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2010 (huffingtonpost.com)
- Chick-fil-A Gave $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2010 (thinkprogress.org)
- Chicken or the Gays: Make a Choice About Eating Chick-fil-A (gawker.com)
- Before You Head to Chick-Fil-A… (patheos.com)
CONSERVATISM: Bill Maher / New Rule To Conservatives / “You Act Exactly Like 14 Year Old Boys”
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- The Brainwashing Wore Off (balloon-juice.com)
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Thom Hartmann / “School & Religious Freedom Dying in Louisiana”
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