Wednesday, August 24, 2005
See! It ain't just me!!
Wiccan Leaders call on Christians to Censure Pat Robertson and Condemn Violence America and its allies are calling on all people to end terrorism and violence as acceptable political tools worldwide. Yet here in America itself a major Christian Leader, the Reverend Pat Robertson, has called for the assassination and murder of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This announcement was delivered from the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club television show to an international audience of millions on Tuesday, August 22. Rev. Robertson hinted that God would approve of the killing of the dictator and save the United States of billions of dollars. Such a public incitement to murder by any other religious or political leader would be called an outrage, yet we see no such action against Robertson.
Several Wiccan leaders, who have themselves been targeted by Robertson's organization, are calling on all Christians and religious people to censure Pat Robertson and publicly denounce the use of violence. Rev. Ed Hubbard of the Correllian Nativist Church states, "Pat Robertson has the ear of the president of the United States and has asked that Christians pray for the death of political leaders. He is legitimizing the use of violence against non-Christians and those who disagree with his political positions using his powerful religious pulpit. Robertson would use the CIA as the Christian Inquisition and Assassination division of the Christian Church."
Hubbard adds, "Without a clear statement from Americans, and especially Christians, condemning this action, then we see that they accept and even approve of such violent, and potentially illegal, terrorist statements. It makes CBN no better than the Taliban and other terrorist organizations broadcasting hate. Good people should be appalled and call for Pat Robertson to be censured and even removed from such an important position. Otherwise, it won't be long before he may call on his followers to commit acts of physical violence rather than spiritual violence. It is definitely not beyond him to do so."
Pat Robertson has advocated violence and negative prayer (prayer intended to bring about the illness or death of a person) numerous times to push his religious political agenda, and calls on civil disobedience and other means to ignore laws he finds inconvenient to his own political aims-calling them contrary to the Bible. The question Americans and their allies must ask is, "How far will we accept his call for violence before we believe it? Will he call for the death of Americans in the name of God?" Only immediate censure and condemnation of such violence can assure all people that Christians are truly a loving people, otherwise they are accomplices to murder and violence.
Ed Hubbard will be presenting a seminar on Witch Wars: Attack against Our Religious Freedom at the WS Education and Leadership Conference in Albany New York, Sept.1st-4th. Rev. Ed Hubbard's presentation will also be made available
online.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005
High Court Protects Kids of Calif. Gays - Yahoo! News
"'Today's ruling defies logic and common sense by saying that children can have two moms,' said attorney Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel. 'That policy establishes that
moms and dads as a unit are irrelevant when it comes to raising children.'"
EXACTLY!!!!!!! Moms and dads as a unit ARE irrelevant when it comes to raising children. That's exactly right. Loving caregivers who can demonstrate a healthy adult relationship with their partner as well as a healthy, strong parental relationship with their children are relevant when it comes to raising children. Gender is extraneous.
Boys who are raised by effeminate heterosexual fathers or fathers who have no interest in sports or outdoor activities or any of the other stereotypical "guy" stuff aren't penalized by the state. Boys who have absentee fathers whether physically or emotionally, or abusive fathers will not only NOT have a good "male" role model but are far more likely to become neglectful or abusive themselves. Being a "man" shouldn't be about gender, it should be about being a strong, honorable, responsible human being.
The same corollary applies to girls. I had a very feminine mother, who was completely subservient to my abusive alcoholic father, except when she was yelling at him for drinking which just set him off. Nothing about that whole scenario made sense to me then and now that I'm pushing 40 it still doesn't. I didn't have a good female or male role model. I learned more about life and being a "girl" from Judy Blume books than I ever did from my mother. I learned about the mechanics of sex in the third grade from a sixth grader on the bus. When children are young they need to be taught to be good citizens, be curious and to love. As they grow older they will begin to discover what gender means to them and they will find the role model that demonstrates how they want to personify that. My hubby's father figure wasn't his emotionally unavailable father, it was his maternal grandfather. I never found a good female role model for myself. I just had to figure it out on my own. Which, I suppose, is why I find the superficial trappings of femininity so annoying. I find the strength of character, intelligence and intuition of "woman" to be the attributes I aspire to attain.
There is no "perfect" set of parents. The only criteria that SHOULD be applied to parents is that they love each other and they love their kids and they put the kids first. Unfortunately, as long as we are under the bootheels of the Xtian Rong, this criteria won't matter. As long as one has a penis and the other a vagina and that they were BORN with said equipment, they will be deemed ideal parents. No others need apply. And if that doesn't work we'll shove these poor kids into orphanages or foster homes until the proper set of male/female parents can be found. Or until they age out without ever having known a stable family environment and then have to try and make it in the world and have a successful adult relationship/family environment of their own. Talk about setting someone up for failure. CRAP!
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Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death - Yahoo! News
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club."
Ok, it's "Thou Shalt Not Kill unless Pat says so". Got it.
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