deeperdream:

drinkthe-koolaid:

chrisafer:

Strong (by RPerry2012)

“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.
As President, I’ll end Obama’s war on religion. And I’ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.
Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again.
I’m Rick Perry and I approve this message.”

SCHOOL PRAYER IS NOT ILLEGAL.  SCHOOL-ORGANIZED PRAYER IS.

It looks like Rick has decided gay bashing is the lifeboat he needs for his Titanic of a campaign.

Rick, you’re right. I don’t have to sit in the pew at all (and I don’t, since I’m an atheist) to see what’s wrong with this country. All I need to do is see idiots like you considered viable candidates for the presidency.

As a Christian, I’m offended by this video. As a gay man, I’m incensed. What kind of weird, bizarro-world does this man live in?

Later this evening, I’m going to go to my church, which is decked out in full Christmas regalia, to practice for our Christmas cantata. I will be one of many, in many churches, not only in my town but across America. No one is persecuting us. No one has passed a law saying we can’t worship as we wish. The only thing that anyone’s said, is that it’s probably bad form to shove our Christianity down the throats of the millions of Jewish, Muslim, Pagan, agnostic and atheist people that we share space with in any given day.

Let’s also not forget that no one is forbidden from praying in school, they’re forbidden from public, mandatory prayer in schools. Which, by the way, Jesus himself preached against: “Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.” (Matt. 6:5)

That assumption; the callous, idiotic assumption that because Christianity doesn’t rule and dominate all American life it is somehow oppressed, irritates me. My faith is neither so small or so fragile as to demand such concessions.

But as a gay man, this makes me shake with rage. How dare this man say that there is something about me which makes me unable to serve in the military, should I choose that? How dare he say that being able to do so is in some way a wrongness, a persecution of Christianity? Who I love and who I am attracted to is in no way connected to my ability to serve my country, as thousands of LGBT men and women have shown.

How dare he judge the service of those men and women, and condemn it to score political points.

Very well put. And needless to say, I agree wholeheartedly.