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#1407021
aaa
Ah, the southern states. The lands of spite and anti-intellectualism.
5/26/2012 10:29:08 AM
#1407026
farpadokly
Why do Americans keep electing religious nuts to positions of power? The kind of people who hide behind the Bible to disguise their own bigotry?
@Brendan: I always feel uncomfortable when you talk like that, it seems over the top. I almost feel like saying, why don't you move to Europe if you love it so much, but I think I'd sound like one of the idiots on the internet who regularly tell me to move to Cuba or something.
Be a proud secular American! You have a constitution which explicitly separates church and state. You have freedom of speech guaranteed. Be glad of that and stay put and remind your fellow countrymen of these things!
5/26/2012 11:18:31 AM
#1407028
tranz2deep
I think this Baptist nutbar's angling to become the new head of Westboro Baptist..
5/26/2012 11:26:11 AM
#1407031
I don't want an apology. And don't patronize me by telling me that you have "gay friends".
5/26/2012 11:47:30 AM
#1407043
checkmate
I also believe that all people are created in God's image
Considering that homosexuality is as old as humanity itself, God must be bi. He makes rainbows, doesn't he?
This guy confirms what I wrote about Mississippi on this site just a few days ago:
"Mississippi, America's hell hole. No thank you.
How can one tell that Mississippi's so bad? Because it makes both Louisiana and Arkansas look good, or at least half way decent."
5/26/2012 12:55:16 PM
#1407044
Old Viking
Southern Baptist, eh? Well I'll be darned.
5/26/2012 1:12:36 PM
#1407060
Osiris
@OhJohnNo: Christianity has taken cognitive dissonance and transformed it into an art form.
5/26/2012 2:06:41 PM
#1407062
Thrutch
1406966 Spuki, much of the Kirk/Spock slash fiction was written by women
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Mind you a couple of women I knew did an Uhura/Memory Alpha creature story ...
/edit for sense
5/26/2012 2:08:00 PM
#1407095
Xotan
"...Gipson is a Baptist minister and a business lawyer when not serving in the Legislature."
-- So the Theocracy is already here!
@ Farpadokly
Your comment re Brendan R, I can well understand hius frustration. The Consitution of the USA has already been breached by the religious right, Neoconism, the Baby Bush Administration etc, etc. Just bear Prop 8 in mind. Lots of religious money pouured into achieving a political end. Need I say more.
5/26/2012 4:32:57 PM
#1407105
Renon
Hmmmm..you claim to be a follower of Jesus, and yet here you are letting the Old Testament, which is NOT the book of Jesus, dictate your thoughts. Methinks that counts as worshiping a non-Christian religion. So, by your own accord, you should be put to death.
5/26/2012 4:53:22 PM
#1407123
Sagan's Ghost
Once again proving that the term 'baptist minister' is a synonym for 'imbecile'. Ladies and gentlemen, this is weapons grade idiocy.
5/26/2012 7:31:30 PM
#1407135
Wehpudicabok
Because calling for a genocide on one's own constituents is a surefire way to get reelected!
YAY DEMOCRACY!
5/26/2012 9:37:37 PM
#1407136
Fawful has seen God has a vagina on top of his penis
"Gipson is a Baptist minister and a business lawyer when not serving in the Legislature."
This is why my country is better than the U.S.A.: we actually have an article in our constitution that explicitly prohibits people from serving in politics if they are active members (read: preachers, pastors, etc.) of a religious organization.
5/26/2012 9:38:33 PM
#1407137
Swede
Isn't there something in the Ten Commandments about not killing people?
Brendan, we have people like this in office too. Not as many or as vocal, but they exist, sadly.
5/26/2012 9:54:28 PM
#1407144
AtLeastHeHasBalls
I can respect him for not apologizing for having a controversial opinion.
However, I can't respect him at all for that asinine, dangerous opinion and nobody who's saying shit like that should be in office anywhere in this country.
5/26/2012 11:47:32 PM
#1407156
Matante
Brendan, this has to stop.
You used to defend America, but always by bashing Europe or Canada and pretending that no freedom would exist if the USA hadn't been somehow powering it for the whole world.
Now you stop bashing Europe, and start bashing America and pretending that the problems it has to deal with are more shameful that anything else found in the world.
Switching from hating some nations to just start hating another is no improvement. I don't know what your issues are, but that doesn't sound healthy.
5/27/2012 4:22:52 AM
#1407182
John_in_Oz
'Andy Gipson' is an anagram of 'Pansy Doing'.
This is clearly a sign from God that you should stop being a hypocrite.
5/27/2012 7:04:13 AM
#1407209
Ebon
Going for the "it's god's fault I'm a bigoted asshole" defence.
5/27/2012 7:32:12 AM
#1407210
SpukiKitty
@Matante
Yeah. I remember now.
@Brendan Rizzo
Brendan, I like you. I promised never to be snarky at ya but...well...you've turned into Headache. You need a therapist. I don't know what happened that made you switched sides. Ever heard of "shades of grey"? It's not "one or the other/black & white", my friend.
I noticed something. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I suspect that Brendan Rizzo & Headache are one and the same, a sock-puppeter. Here's how I've arived to this conclusion.
* When Brendan was "Mr. America", he used to spar with "Mr. Anti-America", Headache, a LOT! They were like arch-foes. Brendan was the Liberal version of "America Is Great & Europe Is Stupid" whereas Headache, of course was the reverse.
* Suddenly, Brendan's doing Headache's schtick & HEADACHE HASN'T BEEN SEEN SINCE!
....Things that make you go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmm"....
Some trolls are VERY clever & not anywhere near as obvious...they're really that GOOD at trolling. I suspect that Brendan/Headache is a very committed, very subtile, very ingenious master troll.
5/27/2012 7:32:50 AM
#1407211
Ebon
@ Brendan Rizzo:
Brendan, our conservatives here (the UK) are just as vicious and petty as yours. Ours just tend toward social Darwinism rather than religious zealotry.
5/27/2012 7:35:06 AM
#1407214
SpukiKittyBIG ANGRY BEAR-GUY SEZ:
"HEY, ANDY GIPSON!...."
"...YOU WANT TO TELL ME THAT PERSONALLY?!!!"
5/27/2012 7:41:05 AM
#1407246
Jeff Weskamp
And now, a message from Spider Jerusalem concerning this Mississippi politician:
IT MAKES ME WANT TO PUKE!!!!
IT MAKES ME WANT TO SHIT ON GEORGE WASHINGTON'S DEAD CHEST!!!
5/27/2012 9:56:25 AM
#1407263
checkmate
If one goes by the rules and laws in the Old Testament, capital punishment is dealt out for any number of offences.
If one were to investigate a little, I'm sure it would be very, very easy to find something which Andy Gipson has done/does/is doing which the Old Testament considers a capital offence.
So, turn the game around and demand that Andy Gipson be "put to death", and use the Bible as justification for that demand.
Something tells me Andy won't like that.
5/27/2012 11:33:21 AM
#1407308
Brendan Rizzo
@ SpukiKitty:
If you know how to do so, compare my IP address to Headache's. We are not the same person. I would hate for you to wind up thinking so.
Maybe I do have a bit of a problem when it comes to countries. But no matter how often I am told otherwise, I won't be able to believe America isn't doomed until reactionaries release their hold on the country. That won't happen for decades if it happens at all. At least other countries realize the foolishness of religion. Mine doesn't. Its motto is even a statement of faith, which probably goes against the Constitution. For some reason I think we at FSTDT are fighting a losing battle. Even if we aren't climate change will probably wreck the world before this century is out. Thanks a lot, Republicans.
5/27/2012 3:30:23 PM
#1407309
Quantum Mechanic
"Thanks a lot, Republicans. "
If we can avoid blowing up all the nukes there will be survivors.
Very few of them will trace their roots to Mississippi.
Getting rid of nukes was Reagan's idea; His best by far in my opinion.
5/27/2012 3:40:11 PM
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