Is There A War On Christianity ... Or Is There A Christian War On The Gays?

Ever since the shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, there have been several church burnings throughout the South, and some — I’m looking at you GOP and you, too, Fox News — like to play these acts of arson up as a sign that there is a war on religion in this country.

Well, then, please to explain this ….

The Metropolitan Community Church of Our Redeemer in Augusta, Georgia was vandalized last week, after that pesky marriage equality ruling, with Bible verses spray-painted on its front doors:

 ‘Burn Leviticus 18:22 Lies’

‘You’ll burn’

Those are the Bible verses that condemn gay sex as an ‘abomination.’

Pastor Rick Sosbe said the vandalism and the theft of the church’s rainbow flag a few weeks ago were the first hate crimes since they occupied the building 12 years ago, and he believes it was a reaction to media coverage of his marriage.

See, Pastor Sosbe and his partner were the first gay couple in Richmond County to receive a marriage license, just four days after the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.

“I was angry. I was very sad and I thought, ‘Just why?’ To me, it seems so interesting that they’re saying on there that you’ll burn — in other words saying “You’ll burn in hell,” I’m sure — and quoting scripture. Is that what Christianity — right-wing, fundamentalist Christianity — has come to?" — Pastor Sosbe

I’m guessing the religious wingnut vandals who did this to the church don’t believe in a God is Love kind of faith. They believe in judgment, casting the first stone, vandalizing buildings, all in the name of God.

And, in the name of God, where was the GOP outrage for the vandalism of this church? Where was the Fox News report? Oh, right … gay.

That makes it okay.

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NOM Goes To Iowa, And They Don't Want 'Em There

The Reverend Rich Hendricks, an openly gay Davenport, Iowa pastor is criticizing the National Organization for Marriage [NOM] in regards to a sign that showed up at one of its recent rallies displaying two nooses as the “solution to gay marriage.”

Hendricks, of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad-Cities, said his denomination has issued a call for the anti-gay marriage advocacy group, to denounce the sign, saying, at a Stand proud, Vote Proud rally, “Iowans, do you want to support an organization that refuses to denounce lynchings as a solution to a problem?”

NOM’s Failed Summer for Marriage tour, and the pro-gay marriage Stand Proud, Vote Proud tour recently crossed paths in Sioux City, Iowa, where Davenport Alderman Bill Boom called NOM activists “out-of-state antagonists” who are building discrimination and hate in Iowa over the issue.

Boom cited recent reports that the marriage equality ruling has contributed to the number of marriages spiking for the first time in four years in Iowa. He added that in the past year, Iowa posted the lowest number of divorces since 1970.

“We’re doing something right,” he said.

But ... Maggie Gallagher, NOM's Minister Of Hate, said her organization had asked the participant at the July 26 rally in Indianapolis to remove his sign and called the participant “disturbed.” She said gay marriage proponents have been jumping on the sign incident to “blame the majority of Americans who believe marriage is one man, one woman.”

Wow. We have a lot of nerve getting annoyed by a sign that says, in effect, Kill The Gays.

Sorry we bothered you Maggie.

But, um, would you be annoyed if I carried a sign with two nooses on it as a solution for ridding the world of lonely, ugly, spinster women with mustaches?

I mean, that'd hit close to home, wouldn't it MagPie?

Asshat.