The Christian Hate Group American Family Association organized protest of J C Penny for choosing Ellen to be their spokesperson.

Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of its customers are traditional families.

The Christian USA Ministries is calling for a boycott of Starbucks for being one of more than 100 firms in Washington supporting same sex marriage.

“Christians are upset with Starbucks for turning against God…Starbucks can follow Satan if they want to,” Steven Andrew, and evangelical pastor and president of the USA Christian Ministries in California, said in a statement.

Started boycott of Girl Scout cookies in protest of their accepting a transgender brownie.
(I hear they support Planned Parenthood too)

St. Timothy Roman Catholic parish in Chantilly in Fairfax County ousted 12 troops with 115 girls. In Alexandria, Saint Rita Catholic Church is reportedly considering doing the same.

Revealed their control of the Komen Foundation by cancelling support for Planned Parenthood and embrionic stem cell research.
(That went well )

Catholic Bishops posted Urgent Action Alert to protest the Obama administration decision that women were entitled to obtain birth control.

They were busy this week. The good news is that more people seem to be considering them not only hateful, but irrelevant.

Except for Repub Presidential candidates, of course.

In the grand tradition of Arizona Republicans, Rep. Cecil Ash, a Republican from Mesa, is suggesting Arizona needs a holiday for white people.
You can’t make this stuff up.

Quite often now we hear someone explaining that the problem with our political process is “parties”.

If only we had open primaries, if only we didn’t print candidate’s parties on ballots, if only we had “non-partisan” elections …..

This is total nonsense – there is no better way to judge how a candidate will vote than to see the party affiliation next to their name.

These efforts are actually efforts to PREVENT voters from having the information they need to make informed decisions.

Not only can one tell how a candidate will vote based upon their party – you can tell what party they belong to based upon their vote.

Here are a few bills introduced in our state legislature in the last few weeks – I dare anyone NOT to know the party of the lawmakers who introduced them:

Bills to:

• Teach the Bible in public school
• Allow guns on campus
• Prohibit legal medical marijuana users in student housing.
• Define “human life” as starting at “conception” and lecturing pregnant women seeking abortions.
• Require hospitals to report suspected non-documented patients to immigration.

If you can’t guess the party, you aren’t informed enough to vote.

Last weekend, in a last ditch effort to stop the Mormon Menace, christian leaders and hate group spokespersons from throughout the Old Confederacy gathered in Texas to agree upon a single candidate to represent them.

Attendees were a diverse group of old white straight christian males.

The three contenders were Perry – an evangelical like most of them, Santorum – catholic, and Gingrich – bad catholic.

Surprisingly after a few votes they settled upon Santorum.

For some reason they considered Perry “unelectable”.

But now there is trouble in Paradise.

It seems that the christian voter ID laws aren’t well enforced ( “show me you Bibles” ) and some evangelicals are claiming that the catholics rigged the vote for Santorum and are demanding a recount.

WWJD ?

According to National Republican Radio, the christian bigwigs are meeting again

in Texas to try again to coalesce around a single candidate to run against cult

follower Romney.

They reported – with a straight face – that Jesus Christ wasn’t running and so they

needed to compromise, although little Frothy claimed that he was the pro-Jesus

candidate.

(Unfortunately for him, some of the bigwigs consider Catholicism a cult).

I admit that this brought to mind the vision of Jesus Christ presenting his platform

in front of the typical Repub debate audience:

Blessed are the Meek

No more apology tours !!! We are an Exceptional nation !!!!!

Feed the poor

SOCIALIST !!!!!

Care for the Sick

REPEAL Jesuscare !!!

Blessed are the merciful

Build the fence !! It takes balls to execute an innocent man !!!!

Blessed are the peacemakers

Bomb Iran !!!

Blessed are the persecuted

Stone the gays !!!

What terrific reality TV

Concerned that a Mormon stood poised to win the Repub presidential nomination, in June the leaders of christian churches and hate groups gathered for a conference call and settled on the strategy of encouraging Rick Perry to run as their preferred christian candidate.

Although Perry prayed mightily and pledged to stop Obama’s war on religion, God has not yet answered their prayers and so they have convened an emergency meeting in Brenham, TX to adjust their godly strategy.

“You and your spouse are cordially invited to a private meeting with national conservative leaders of faith at the ranch of Paul and Nancy Pressler near Brenham, Texas, with the purpose of attempting to unite and to come to a consensus on which Republican Presidential candidate or candidates to support, or which not to support” - Politico reports the invitation to read.

Invited are the luminaries of the right wing christian world (sans Catholic Bishops): James Dobson, Don Wildmon, Gary Bauer, John Hagee and Kelly Shackelford.

The fear is that religious right voters will split their votes among Santorum, Perry and even Gingrich, assuring Romney of victory. They hope to coalesce around a single Not-Romney and urge the other candidates to drop out.

The flavor of the week this week is Santorum and he is expected to be the choice, but my bet is that Perry will be the eventual beneficiary once Santorum is subjected to scrutiny and people learn more about what a nasty piece of work he is.

I just saw this again.

Imagine a country where preachers don’t tell people how to vote,
we don’t judge our leaders by their religion, we don’t give tax money
to church schools or institutions.

It is sad how far our country has fallen.

“That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another.” – Papyrus (c. 664 BCE – 323 BCE)

What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either. ” – Sextus the Pythagorean.

Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others.” – Isocrates(436–338 BCE)

“What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.” – Epictetus

“Zi Gong asked, saying, “Is there one word that may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?” The Master said, “Is not RECIPROCITY such a word?” – Confucius

“If people regarded other people’s families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another? For one would do for others as one would do for oneself.” – Mozi

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. —Udanavarga 5:18

“Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” (Matthew 7:12)

“Recognize that your neighbor feels as you do, and keep in mind your own dislikes.” —Sirach 31:15

“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.”
—Talmud, Shabbat 31a

The Golden Rule

Ok, so imagine that one day in high school you discover that you weren’t born in a particular city, but instead had been born in a different city which was located on the other side of a “border”.

How would you like you neighbors to treat you. What would the moral thing to do be ?

Should a Samaritan refuse aid to someone born in another country ?

Does the geography of your birth change the way you should be treated, or treat others?

Or your race ? Or gender?

Some seem to think so – but I’m going with the wisdom of the ages.

Did you know that there was a web site known as Coontube.com ?

Neither did I – thats the sort of thing that you can only learn if you bother to read the Arizona Daily Star comments section.

When I first moved to Tucson I started reading the online AZStar daily, as a way to get to know my new home. Being an online kind of person I naturally always check out the comments by the locals.

I really can’t tell you how low my estimate of Tucson was as a result of this experience – it was like living in Alabama.

At the time Arizona was deciding to amend their Constitution to strip gay citizens of their rights, and the anti-gay hatred was overwhelming.

But consistently the nativism is the overwhelming impression. It doesn’t matter the subject, you can rely on anti-hispanic and anti-”illegal” hate speech.

I’ve since realized that the commenters there are not at all representative of the people of Tucson – but who are they and what do they represent ?

Every election they overwhelmingly predict that evil liberals will be thrown out on their ears and good old fashioned racists and teabaggers will sweep the polls. Every election they are wrong. Obama is a foreign born Muslim Marxist. They want to impeach Sheriff Dupnik for even mentioning that there exists in parts of Tucson hotbeds of hate speech.

Even the mildest story that touches upon race gathers hoots of claims of racism against poor oppressed whites.

To pick a story from today, Leonard Pitts has a mild story decrying the media’s obvious obsession with missing white women.

What does this gather ?

Therein lies the liberal mindset….Going back over 40 years to find some way to criticize…

Quit living in the past. What happened 40+ years ago does not validate this guys lame article today.

Watch any advertisement and it is always the white guy who is the brunt of the joke or made to look the fool. In any advertisement where there are two men, one black the other white, the black man always plays the role of the intelligent one.

it’s as simple ‘black and white’ ain’t that right Mr. Pitts.

Geez, Pitts, if you’ve got a thing for white women, just sign up for eharmony.com and git ‘er done.

The editors of the ADS should never have published this tasteless nonsense. If someone had posted this column in these comments it would have been rightly removed by the ADS.

Pitts has a very simplistic world view:
Black is always right & white is always wrong.

Pitts really hates white people.

“Where the white women at?”

And, of course, the link to coontube.com

William J. (William Jab) Is this how Pitts was raised?

I am writing about this phenomenon, but I don’t understand it or have an answer to it .

I have heard that after the Giffords shooting the U of A was conducting a study of the AZ Star comments – and “civility” in general. I hope it is true and I hope that they publish their findings soon.

Because I really would like to understand this phenomenon. Who are these people ? Are they really our neighbors ?

How much do they represent Tucson, and if they don’t how do they so dominate the public response in Tucson’s single daily newspaper ?

Enlighten me.