{"id":3317,"date":"2014-04-04T21:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2014-04-04T21:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:14:11","slug":"when-dinosaurs-walked-the-earth-and-george-w-bush-was-a-popular-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2014\/04\/04\/when-dinosaurs-walked-the-earth-and-george-w-bush-was-a-popular-president\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth and George W Bush Was a Popular President"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt is hard to recognize it was only 10 years ago, in 2004 to be exact, that George W Bush proposed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage<\/a> in all 50 states, and as he was re-elected that year, there were ample suggestions<\/a> that his win was due to having precisely such amendments on the ballot in many states, boosting turnout among evangelicals. But the tide has turned, and after many years of gay bashing, conservative Christians chickens are coming home<\/a> to roost, as this poll tells us:<\/p>\n

Fifty-three percent of voters said they felt favorably toward gays and lesbians, compared to 42% who felt favorably toward evangelicals. Eighteen percent said they felt unfavorably toward gays and lesbians, while 28% reported unfavorable feelings toward evangelicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The poll tell us something more, which we already knew<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The poll found that voters who attend monthly or yearly worship services favor legal same-sex marriage by a large margin — 64% and 68%, respectively. By contrast, respondents who attend weekly religious services oppose same-sex marriage by roughly the same margin — 63%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Of course “there are people of faith on both side of the issue”-meaning, those whose faith is strongest, are on the wrong side.)<\/p>\n

But of course evangelicals, such as the notorious Matt Barber of the Liberty Council (associated with Falwell’s Liberty “University”), are whining louder<\/a> than ever. And about what? About what has always happened-and is still happening-to gay people can also happen to them. God Himself forbid!<\/p>\n

Sadly, many people, even many Christians, think that I and others are using hyperbole when we refer to this sexual anarchist \u201cLGBT\u201d movement as \u201chomofascist\u201d or the \u201cGaystapo.\u201d I hope you\u2019ll think again. It\u2019s time to wake up and smell the impending anti-Christian persecution. It\u2019s fully at hand.<\/p>\n

Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned under pressure after\u00a0gay rights activists\u00a0demanded that he step down or recant his support of traditional marriage laws.<\/p>\n

Eich donated $1,000 to support\u00a0Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that amended the state\u2019s constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.<\/p>\n

\u201cCEO Brendan Eich should make an unequivocal statement of support for marriage equality,\u201d a Credoaction petition signed by almost 75,000 people said, per\u00a0The Inquirer.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cIf he cannot, he should resign. And if he will not, the board should fire him immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Mozilla\u00a0announced\u00a0that he had resigned. \u201cMozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn\u2019t live up to it,\u201d executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker wrote. \u201cWe know why people are hurt and angry, and they are right: it\u2019s because we haven\u2019t stayed true to ourselves. We didn\u2019t act like you\u2019d expect Mozilla to act. We didn\u2019t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We\u2019re sorry. We must do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Do you see what\u2019s happening? Did you read that? That\u2019s fear\u00a0\u2014 deathly fear. Fear of a radical, hateful, intolerant, obnoxious, fascist, evil and power-crazed group of sex-obsessed anarchists who demand that we all affirmatively celebrate their deviant and self-destructive sexual sins and unnatural perversions.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often said that these folks want those who speak Biblical truth about human sexuality and legitimate marriage either 1) dead, 2) imprisoned or, if they can have neither of these, 3) marginalized to the point where they can\u2019t even support their families.<\/p>\n

Check No. 3 off the list. I guess they\u2019re working backwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aside from the “slippery slope” fallacy, what the writing fails to take into consideration is that having a job-CEO or otherwise-is not a right<\/em>. \u00a0Mr Eich can have whatever views he pleases-but he may not necessarily have whatever job he pleases. Just ask the gays in the 29 states<\/a> where you can get fired for simply being gay-and attempts to end<\/a> this anachronism at federal level are yet to succeed.<\/p>\n

Freedom is hanging on by a thread, America, and it is those who worship the sin of Sodom that are determined to finish it off once and for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, but he never uses hyperbole!<\/p>\n

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