Good As You

What I find particularly amazing about this is that this issue is getting heat in the mainstream (ie it's not just a couple blogs and Rachel Maddow), but Bob Emrich decides to send this mass e-mail anyway.

At least the Family members are smart enough to stay silent / gently disavow. Mr. Emrich has some nerve.

Interestingly, he's always been really chatty with me in the past. But when I asked for comment, I got a one word response. When I responded, I got a *one letter* response back.

One letter response.... There are a limited number of words that are one letter long and it wouldn't make sense to respond with "a" or "I"....

Mr. Emrich doesn't seem hip enough to do this, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess his one-letter response was "k".

What I don't understand is how Exodus, Emrich, Lively et. al haven't been branded terrorists after doing this. They're instigating a situation in a politically volatile country that could result in a number of innocent deaths and the repression of all HIV testing and treatment options.

How is this not terrorism?!

Bob doesn't seem bothered by the fact he is complicit in propagating physical harm (even death) against gay Ugandans. Bob and his ilk are responsible for what is happening in Uganda, and I think they would be thrilled to see similar legislation enacted here in the United States. Some of the folks who recently signed the Manhattan Declaration are now calling for Uganda to relax its stance on teh gays. They're trying to put out a fire they intentionally started, but only because they're getting burned by the media attention. Had Rachael Maddow not made this into the shit storm its become, a lot of these Christian moralists would be quietly pleased to watch gay Ugandans jailed or killed.

And not to minimize the fact that jailing / executing gays is totally off-the-wall insane, but the revised legislation seems to still have the "if you see something gay (even in your own family) and don't report it, you go to jail for three years."

Calling something Orwellian is a tired cliche, but that's exactly what this is.

Marcus wrote: "What I don't understand is how Exodus, Emrich, Lively et. al haven't been branded terrorists after doing this. They're instigating a situation in a politically volatile country that could result in a number of innocent deaths and the repression of all HIV testing and treatment options. How is this not terrorism?!"

How indeed? This is horrifying and in my opinion it is nothing short of terrorism. I read those letters and felt like locking my door, pushing a chair under the doorknob, and showering to scrub off the crazy and evil. They are as creepy as anything said by Ted Bundy or Charles Manson. And these peoples' words may kill more people than either of those mens' actions did.

Local and national media should be all over this story- can you imagine the outcry were the slaughter of Christians being casually discussed/ advocated?

Yes, Louise -- it's truly startling. Both the silence and the "ho hum" tone that is being used by the ones who do say something.

Why do you think these perverts are called the American Taliban? These perverts are drooling at the chance to turn the USA into the UCSA (United *Christian* States of America)?

I sent him a not so carefully worded F bomb letter today voicing my opinion of his hateful rhetoric and christianist psychological abuse and laid the blame for the Uganda bill directly on his shoulders and told him he had blood on his hands for exporting hate.

How much will you bet that Emrich and Warren are both members of "The Family" cult? And you notice how Warrem puts this out on a web video, knowing (as Emrich mentioned in his missive) that they scarcely have electricity (or toilets), let alone internet access. Warren put this drivel up for consumption by an American audience, to act as if he is being proactive, but the nature of his actions belie his true intent.

Can't wait to hear what Rachel will say about this tonight. Remember folks we must put pressure on the FAMILY and their 'Annual National Prayer Breakfast' which will be held to promote this very idea, and President Obama is said to be going, although the Pres of Uganda may be 'uninvited.'
Come on WASH folks we need this BLASTED and some kind of demonstration held.

I'm in the process of emailing back and forth with him, I'll let you all know what the upshot is when I hear back from him on my reply to his last email.

The response given to him by that woman was the correct one. I almost wonder if he thought, "How dare this African woman talk to me, a white American like that." We should encourage people to continue to attend church if our goald is save souls, rather than to judge them.

I have a feeling Jesus would have told him the same thing.

The Bible says:

"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

So .... what will happen when these Christianists start going after the Jewish people? And some other group they despise.

How can you not bristle with shock when someone writes "the whole concept of human rights grates on my nerves." Wow. Really? Humans having rights bothers you? What is the antithesis of human rights? Slavery? Tyrany? The reality that someone actually wrote that sentence seriously is so ludicrious and disgusting ESPECIALLY when you are dragging the Christian religion into this perversion, it's stunning.

People like Bob Emrich seem to know NOTHING about Jesus Christ. He's a bilious charleton who seems to have never read the Gospels chronicalling the life of the very person the religion is named after. Call him a Leviticite, call him a Paulite, but do not refer to this freak as a Christian.

Human rights is what Jesus Christ stood for.

It's so pathetic that these perverts use religion as their cloak. And they base their entire thought process and decision making on ancient Hebrew/Aramaic texts that were written when people thought the earth was flat and the sun went around the earth. They haven't even evolved enough to use the Gospels -- the life and teachings of Jesus Christ -- as the basis for their faith.

It's stunning how inferior these people are in thought and in understanding, especially about Jesus Christ. But they aren't really interested in Him or His teachings. They are interested in having a minority to abuse, not unlike Hilter devoured the Jews.

Smart people do not listen to these people. Intelligent people are appalled by their ignorance and greasy horribleness. They prey on the ignorant and the haters. These are the so-called Christians who follow these kinds of people.

If there is a hell, there is a special place there for these preachers. Their day is coming...and of course they have to live daily with all the dark scum that is their hearts. That has to be hard.

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When are Christians, and for that matter memkbers of any religion, wake up and realize that regardless of the issue, a pastor who advocates and/or supports "killing" is un-Christian or un-religious. Their followers should be appalled and leave his or her flock. For that matter, they perhaps should call for his or her killing as an appropriate and sanctioned method of dealing for those with whom we disagree. After all, would a representative of God lead us astray?

Mr. Emrich is not a christian. Talk is cheap. Jesus said that he who hears his words and DO them is a disciple, indeed.