Comments on: Religious Right Watch: Gay marriage backlash begins

By: LA Gringo

LA Gringo — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:21:54 +0000

Eric, I agree. I think churches entering the political fray hurt them. People seek God for spiritual and emotional reasons not political ones. Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. Jesus hit the mark. He didn’t preach politics and that’s where the churches have missed it. And churches will continue to lose members unless they get out of politics and get back to serving spiritual needs.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:47:10 +0000

The case you missed it, a recently released survey (American Religious Identification Survey, 2008) showed that, among other things, 86% of Americans identified as Christian in 1990. In 2008 that number had dropped to 76%. The reasons for this decline are as diverse as the people surveyed.

However, I can’t help but wonder how much of this decline reflects a reaction against the religious right. The face of Christianity that much of the non church-going public sees, I suspect, is that of the right-wing zealots–full of fury, hatred, intolerance, and a pronounced measure of anti-intellectualism (’horrifying stupidity’ would more closely capture the feel of it). Could it be that one of the reasons for Christianity’s falling numbers in the US is due to a revulsion toward this brand of obnoxious faith?

By: LA Gringo

LA Gringo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:21:54 +0000

Looks like on this website, you can just click on the link…to the New York Times article. That’s nice. Many newspapers won’t let you do that…

By: LA Gringo

LA Gringo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:19:57 +0000

Read today’s Iowa story from the New York Times. Here’s the link. Copy and paste it into your browser window. It ’s a moving and thoughtful piece that I hope all will read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/opinion/09thrasher.html?ref=opinion

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:01:30 +0000

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Whatever shall we do?

By: mill

mill — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:11:56 +0000

…. Bob Knight of Concerned Women for America ……WHAT? A guy as a member of a lady’s organization?!? Does he wear a dress when he puts out their hate message? Does he lust for the same men that the concerned women do? Isn’t it dangerous to the women in that organization that they let in a guy? Or dangerous to that guy?

Or can both genders comingle in a variety of ways, some of which involves sex among the same sex of our species ….. and fears help by the CWA and others are simply unwarranted nonsense?

By: emily

emily — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:31:35 +0000

the ad says ‘a rainbow coalition is coming together of every creed and color in love…..’

Rainbow Coalition?

does Jesse know about this?

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:15:42 +0000

When are these last dinosaurs going to disappear? I’m tired of religious maniacs and hearing about their offended sensibilities over what should be common sense and is the wave of the future.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:55:03 +0000

The Catholic League needs to ignore gay marriage and start paying attention to their perverted priests who prey on children. NOW – That really is perversion!!!

By the way – Lets not forget Ted Haggert- The Evangelical who was busted with gay prostitutes. The truth hurts

By: Bingo Long

Bingo Long — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:43:29 +0000

Excellent & informative juxtapositional survey of the dark side of marriage philosophy in the USA. Notice how each of these supposedly “religious” arguments fails immediately when confronted by the specter of “equality” and “freedom,” values which should also inform responsible religious doctrine. I’m happy more people don’t want to live in a theocracy like these folks who are so sure of what God thinks, despite having never met the critter.