Calling all archangels!
In the first chapter of the Gospel According to Luke, we are told that the angel Gabriel put the whammy on the father of John the Baptist, making him stone mute for a few months.
Those were the days, huh?
We could have used the old archangel around the Garden State yesterday. Seems the New Jersey Senate opens its daily session with a nice little prayer. I don't know how they pick these guys (nobody's asked me, for example) but they chose a doozy when they got the Rev. Vincent Fields from some house of worship in Absecon called Greater Works Ministries.
"We curse the spirit that would come to bring same-sex marriage,'' he said, bringing God into the whole cursing business.
Ain't that wonderful? Just in time for the big Christmas rush of God's smitings, curses and plague-delivering. 'Cause, you know, the baby Jesus was all about gay-bashing.
Can't we put the bile away for a little while, or at least get a couple of angels to dumb-strike the bilious pastors in our midst, just till we celebrate the birth of Christ?
Those were the days, huh?
We could have used the old archangel around the Garden State yesterday. Seems the New Jersey Senate opens its daily session with a nice little prayer. I don't know how they pick these guys (nobody's asked me, for example) but they chose a doozy when they got the Rev. Vincent Fields from some house of worship in Absecon called Greater Works Ministries.
"We curse the spirit that would come to bring same-sex marriage,'' he said, bringing God into the whole cursing business.
Ain't that wonderful? Just in time for the big Christmas rush of God's smitings, curses and plague-delivering. 'Cause, you know, the baby Jesus was all about gay-bashing.
Can't we put the bile away for a little while, or at least get a couple of angels to dumb-strike the bilious pastors in our midst, just till we celebrate the birth of Christ?
posted by Michael Riley at 10:37 AM
4 Comments:
Where's separation of church and state when we need it?
I'm so pleased that I live in New Jersey where we show by our votes that we recognize that there is a separation of church and state.
Jesus spoke of marriage being between a man and a woman. Only a perverse reading of Scripture would lead someone to believe that Christ would view gay marriages or gay civil unions as anything other than sinful abominations.
Incidentally, the words "separation of church and state" do not appear anywhere in the US Constitution.
hey pap, nor does the Constitution say gays are not to be treated equally..
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