Obama has kept yet another campaign promise.
On May 26, 2010, the House voted to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) Act which prevents openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces. This landmark decision will finally allow citizens the honor of protecting this great nation, regardless of their sexual orientation. It is a major step towards equality for homosexual Americans, and undermines idiotic myths that homosexuals can't handle combat situations, or even worse - rape fellow soldiers in foxholes while trapped under enemy fire. The latter is not only the most offensive, but the most popular scenario alluded to by the religious arm of the conservative right.
Apparently, these gay bashers haven't taken the time to speak with soldiers who just returned from Iraq. According to them, when you're in a country where any minute you could die at the hands of antipersonnel weapons, suicide bombers, and snipers the last thing on your mind is getting your freak on in the foxhole. However, anti-gay proponents don't want people to know that. Instead, they want Americans to believe that homosexuals are sexually depraved animals with no sense of right or wrong. This sentiment was echoed by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, who claimed during a radio interview that Hitler used homosexual soldiers because they had "no limits" to "the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict". Fischer also went on to state that Hitler himself was gay, despite the fact that he and his mistress Eva Braun died together in the bunker, and that "God is looking for more Phinehases in our day".
What the f***?
Okay, for those of you who don't know who that is, in the Old Testament Phinehase killed two people after catching them involved in sexual immorality. On top of that, the two people Phinehase or Phinehas killed were heterosexuals, and did so because at the time there was a prohibition against intermarriage between Jews and non-Jewish peoples. An incident used for decades by religious leaders to promote the belief that God and the bible was against miscegenation, and cited regularly until 1967 when laws banning interracial marriage were overturned in the Supreme Court.
That digression aside, this statement is offensive to Christians, homosexuals, and the remaining survivors of the Holocaust. It is nothing more than a revision of history in favor of religious rhetoric (Texas textbook fiasco anyone?). For one, Hitler persecuted homosexuals, and had them both imprisoned and executed because they couldn't be used as part of his breeding program for creating a perfect Aryan race. That, and he had this whole genocide thing where he systematically murdered anyone who was considered to be physically or genetically inferior. Which means gays, children with special needs, the insane or mentally infirm, homeless, and others were all put to death as part of Hitler's quest to create the master race. Yes, Hitler didn't just wipe out six million Jews, he also wiped out millions of others who were a "threat" to Aryan purity.
So, if that was the case then where does Fischer get the idea that Hitler was gay, and had gay soldiers? Probably from the same place where the magician gets the rabbit. Keep in mind, this is the same man who stated that the U.S. government should repatriate all of the Muslims living in this country back to the Middle East where they would be "more comfortable" unless they renounced their culture and religion, and adopted the Christian faith instead.
I'm not kidding.
Long story short, men like Fischer are not who they profess to be. If anything, they are the modern version of the Pharisees that Christ warned people about, and condemned because by their actions people would know they were not men or women of God. Hatred, bigotry, discrimination, oppression, and harassment are not of God but of the Devil. If Bryan truly believes that he's going to get a big pat on the back from The Man Upstairs for inciting fear and hatred towards others, he's got another thing coming, and it isn't going to be everlasting life in the Kingdom.
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DADT Repealed
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/dont-ask-dont-tell-dont-pull-your-punches/
Fischer's Claim That Hitler And His Men Were Homosexuals
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/top_social_conservative.php?ref=fpa
Fischer vs. The Muslims
http://omnipotentpoobah.com/2010/04/13/bryan-fischer-backward-christian-soldier/
On May 26, 2010, the House voted to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) Act which prevents openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces. This landmark decision will finally allow citizens the honor of protecting this great nation, regardless of their sexual orientation. It is a major step towards equality for homosexual Americans, and undermines idiotic myths that homosexuals can't handle combat situations, or even worse - rape fellow soldiers in foxholes while trapped under enemy fire. The latter is not only the most offensive, but the most popular scenario alluded to by the religious arm of the conservative right.
Apparently, these gay bashers haven't taken the time to speak with soldiers who just returned from Iraq. According to them, when you're in a country where any minute you could die at the hands of antipersonnel weapons, suicide bombers, and snipers the last thing on your mind is getting your freak on in the foxhole. However, anti-gay proponents don't want people to know that. Instead, they want Americans to believe that homosexuals are sexually depraved animals with no sense of right or wrong. This sentiment was echoed by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, who claimed during a radio interview that Hitler used homosexual soldiers because they had "no limits" to "the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict". Fischer also went on to state that Hitler himself was gay, despite the fact that he and his mistress Eva Braun died together in the bunker, and that "God is looking for more Phinehases in our day".
What the f***?
Okay, for those of you who don't know who that is, in the Old Testament Phinehase killed two people after catching them involved in sexual immorality. On top of that, the two people Phinehase or Phinehas killed were heterosexuals, and did so because at the time there was a prohibition against intermarriage between Jews and non-Jewish peoples. An incident used for decades by religious leaders to promote the belief that God and the bible was against miscegenation, and cited regularly until 1967 when laws banning interracial marriage were overturned in the Supreme Court.
That digression aside, this statement is offensive to Christians, homosexuals, and the remaining survivors of the Holocaust. It is nothing more than a revision of history in favor of religious rhetoric (Texas textbook fiasco anyone?). For one, Hitler persecuted homosexuals, and had them both imprisoned and executed because they couldn't be used as part of his breeding program for creating a perfect Aryan race. That, and he had this whole genocide thing where he systematically murdered anyone who was considered to be physically or genetically inferior. Which means gays, children with special needs, the insane or mentally infirm, homeless, and others were all put to death as part of Hitler's quest to create the master race. Yes, Hitler didn't just wipe out six million Jews, he also wiped out millions of others who were a "threat" to Aryan purity.
So, if that was the case then where does Fischer get the idea that Hitler was gay, and had gay soldiers? Probably from the same place where the magician gets the rabbit. Keep in mind, this is the same man who stated that the U.S. government should repatriate all of the Muslims living in this country back to the Middle East where they would be "more comfortable" unless they renounced their culture and religion, and adopted the Christian faith instead.
I'm not kidding.
Long story short, men like Fischer are not who they profess to be. If anything, they are the modern version of the Pharisees that Christ warned people about, and condemned because by their actions people would know they were not men or women of God. Hatred, bigotry, discrimination, oppression, and harassment are not of God but of the Devil. If Bryan truly believes that he's going to get a big pat on the back from The Man Upstairs for inciting fear and hatred towards others, he's got another thing coming, and it isn't going to be everlasting life in the Kingdom.
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DADT Repealed
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/dont-ask-dont-tell-dont-pull-your-punches/
Fischer's Claim That Hitler And His Men Were Homosexuals
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/top_social_conservative.php?ref=fpa
Fischer vs. The Muslims
http://omnipotentpoobah.com/2010/04/13/bryan-fischer-backward-christian-soldier/