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Burning Down The Church, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #393 | @MDWorld

April 6, 2015 Victor El-Khouri 3 Comments

It would be swell if I could like Mike Huckabee. The guy is just so damn affable. He’s funny, self-effacing, pleasant to watch on teevee, and for a politician he’s a decent rock musician. Even Jon Stewart likes him, and to his credit Huckabee has the guts to appear on Stewart’s show. But it is impossible for me to like such an intolerant dogmatist.

Just as many of his fellow Republicans were beginning to regret mindlessly backing the pro-discrimination bills in Indiana and Huck’s native Arkansas, Mike went on Tony Perkins’s radio program to say stuff that is so outrageous, so contemptible and so insane if he said all that in front of his draft board he would have been rejected.

Of course, I’m talking about the Tony Perkins who heads up the hate group called the Family Research Council, a name so preposterous George Orwell would think he missed a bet. Tony is just like Mike except he’s a lot less congenial, and he’s even more of a bigot. I mean that in the purest textbook definition of the term.

You may very well ask what Mike told Tony that spawned my reaction. Sit down.

Huckabee defended the so-called Religious Freedom laws – the ones written to deny non-believers the equal protection clauses in the Constitution. He said opposition to these laws are part of a liberal / homosexual / anti-Christ pogrom to exterminate right-wing heterosexual Christians. It is these people who are, according to Mike and Tony, the nation’s truly oppressed minority.

“It is … really a page out of 1984, when what things mean are the opposite of what they really are,” Huck told Tony. Yes, he actually said this in defense of the hateful “Religious Freedom” movement, which is exceptionally upfront in advocating a “right” to discriminate against those who do not share their own religious beliefs.

“It won’t stop until there are no more churches, until there are no more people who are spreading the Gospel,” Huckabee told the Tony Perkins who did not play Norman Bates. Yes, indeed: the homosexual community wants to terminate the Christian faiths because… because… well, he doesn’t really say. He implies the mere act of peaceful coexistence with homosexuals is anti-Christian and therefore is unacceptable.

Hmmm… That case he’s carrying may not contain a bass guitar.

It may contain rocks. Beware smiling politicians.

Mike Gold performs the weekly two-hour Weird Sounds Inside The Gold Mind ass-kicking rock, blues and blather radio show on The Point, www.getthepointradio.com and on iNetRadio, www.iNetRadio.com as part of “Hit Oldies” every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, rebroadcast three times during the week – check www.getthepointradio.com above for times and on-demand streaming information. Gold also joins MDW’s Michael Davis and Martha Thomases as a weekly columnist at www.comicmix.com where he pontificates on matters of four-color.

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