Christian Leftist

Thanks to the pillars of moral hypocrisy like Alan Keyes, a preacher and politician who disowned his own daughter after she came out as a lesbian, the public knows all about the horrible ordeals that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people endure when they choose to reveal their sexual identities to their parents. What may not be as obvious to the American people is that 86 percent of this country is Christian, and a great number of Atheist and Christian families have extremely emotional fights over the religious choices of children and parents. I myself fought bitterly for the right to go to a church that my parents thought was a cult because I went there so often. In truth, it was because people didn’t have as many catfights on holy ground.

Well, there’s this video going around the internet where someone — presumably a disillusioned sibling — covertly taped a fight between a mother and her son about his assertion of Atheism. It’s both hilarious and frightening: hilarious, because the mom is obviously an uptight, hypocritical tyrant who threatens to cancel Christmas (”because Christmas is about JESUS!”) and frightening because it show how common it is for weak-minded individuals to resort to verbal and/or physical threats when faced with the possibility of co-inhabiting a house with someone who disagrees with their beliefs. The video is a great example of how NOT to behave when discussing your religion with others.

This really isn’t the way to convert your kid back to Catholicism.

The Easter Egg Roll. (I love how on the afore-linked news page, there’s a link to a video on the “phenomenon of peeps.” Back to the story: a century-old tradition of plenary indulgence for tots on a day of spiritual purity, a festival of youthful races and happy snapshots, and a sea of rainbow leis! Yup–about a hundred or so gay and lesbian couples gathered with the festive Hawaiian decorations to escort their kids to the fun.

Naturally, conservative Christian groups threw a fit, and several radicals (wow! Imagine calling someone besides a liberal *radical!*) stood by the lines to get in and held up signs and shouting epithets in colloquial (read: bad) English, as Jon Stewart so eloquently pointed out on Tuesday.

I’m not sure I approve of singling one’s self out by wearing a rainbow-colored necklace, especially if the point is to simply blend in and be seen as “normal.” On the other hand, I wouldn’t want to walk up to a couple and start a conversation only to have them toss expletives in my face. What was funny was that Bush only appeared for the Katrina victims and the VIP guests. I really don’t get why everyone couldn’t enter the lawn area for the speeches if the same number of people were going to occupy the same space an hour later. Maybe Laura thought the gay couples were going to chuck their leis at her during her speech?