I recently found a new website, and I kind of regret having done so. In pursuit of finding even more examples of far afield dissenters and so-far-left-they've-even-left-the-wide-road apostates, I've come across www.religiondispatches.org. They have a dumb tag line: "Exhilarating the breakfast table since 2008". Besides being dumb, it's also inaccurate, because they've been around since December 2007. I know - I checked their archives. Perhaps they were only 'Piquing the interest of breakfast tables' then, but now the tables are downright excited.
As I thought about it, maybe furniture deserves to experience exhilaration, a fact I never considered. So I asked my breakfast table how I can make it feel more exhilarated, and it said "Well, actually sitting at me to eat breakfast might help, instead of standing over the kitchen sink, like you were some single guy or something." Ouch. Mrs LarryD doesn't have time during the week to eat breakfast before heading to work, and the Sons of LarryD eat at the counter before school. Weekend breakfasts are eaten at the table, a fact I pointed out, to which the table responded: "You only do that because you feel guilty, so it doesn't count."
Well, enough about my furniture issues.
Here's the "About" description for Religion Dispatches: "Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine dedicated to the analysis and understanding of religious forces in the world today, highlighting a diversity of progressive voices and aimed at broadening and advancing the public conversation." In other words: "We hate orthodoxy and are not afraid to shove our pipsqueak opinions down your throat." Ears getting tickled yet?
Case in point: a column from last week titled Catholic Bishops Want a Place at the Table of Hate. (Do these people have a table fetish?) The author, Kate Childs Graham, is bemoaning the fact that, while it's the Mormon Church who ponied up big bucks to promote Prop 8 in California (donated nearly $15 million to the cause, allegedly - her figure is not cited), the Catholic Church in Utah contributed nearly $1.4 million to the cause. She's quick to quote Bishop John Wester of the Salt Lake diocese:
"Like our friends in the Mormon faith, the Catholic Church has long championed and promoted the sacredness of traditional marriage and the importance of the family in our society. While acknowledging that this position is not universally held in our society today, our churches are committed to proclaiming the truth and we cherish our ability to participate in the democratic process."
Man, that statement just drips with hate, doesn't it? Bad, bad bishop!
She seems to think so: "Seriously? It is like children clamoring to be known as the bully in first grade." Ummm, perhaps you missed this video? And the vandalism and intimidation that's been occurring in other places throughout California? And the demonstrations in New York City? Maybe you describe that as "tough love", but a better term might be "hate the straight".
She's grateful, though, that not all Catholics are in on the nefarious "plot to destroy same sex marriage." She goes on to quote the National Catholic Reporter, Nicole Sotelo (who) wrote, “As a Catholic, I believe it is time we forgo another constitutional amendment, or “new law,” that continues to uphold special privileges for some. It is time we begin creating a society based on “the law which we had from the first,” a law of love.”
Nice spin, Kate. Use the Birdcage Bottom Gazette to support your cause. The "special" privileges you complain about are applied to the wrong segment of the population. So-called same sex marriage activists as yourself are the ones demanding "special" privileges, not the other way around. You're the ones spewing hate. You're the ones who can't deal with the will of the people.
Ah, what's the use? I'd read this garbage to my breakfast table, but it might turn suicidal and fling itself through the glass doorwall. Then where'd my family eat on the weekends?
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