A Piece of What You Need, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise

January 9, 2010 Martha Thomases 18 Comments

Another terrorist organization was in the news this week.  According to this article in the New York Times, the African nation of Uganda may be about to pass a law that would make homosexuality a crime, punishable by death.

The extremists who inspired this attempt at mass murder are evangelical Christians: Scott Lively, Caleb Lee Brundidge and Don Schmierer.  Although their theories about homosexuality have been debunked and discredited in the United States, they found a welcoming audience at an event in Africa.

The Times reports, “The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was ‘the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda’ — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.”

You can tell from looking at the Ugandan flag to the left that their leaders are insecure about their masculinity.  Why else would they need to put a cock in the center?

I’m not a Christian, but I did attend an Episcopalian girls boarding school for four years, during which time I was required to go to chapel five times a week, as well as take a theology class.  No one ever told us that homosexuals were the prime obstacle to a moral society.  Maybe, since we were a girls school, they were afraid of putting ideas in our heads.

Before that, I attended Sunday school as a Jew, and for that, I read the entire Bible.  I even read the boring parts, about who has to pay when your animal gores another animal, or a slave, or a child.  There were parts about sexual behavior,  but they were vastly outnumbered by the parts about seeking mercy, loving justice, and walking humbly with God.  There’s nothing about homosexuality in any of the Top Ten Commandments.

We’re big fans of the Bible in my house, especially the Song of Solomon (since my belly is, in fact, like a mound of wheat).

One would think the incident in Uganda would embarrass true Christians.  You think they would denounce these fanatics, as they expect moderate Muslims to denounce the Taliban.

You would be wrong.

President Obama recently appointed an openly transgendered woman to his administration.  She’s a remarkable person, literally a rocket scientist, but you wouldn’t know that to hear our American Taliban talk about her.

Here’s a sample:

“Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth, a ‘national organization devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda,’ is wondering if there is some sort of “transgender quota” in the Barack Obama administration. ‘How far does this politics of gay and transgender activism go?’ he said. “Clearly this is an administration that is pandering to the gay lobby.’

“‘This isn’t like appointing an African-American in order to try to provide diversity and right some kind of discriminatory wrong,’ LaBarbera said.”

It’s incredible to me that people who claim to believe in an all-powerful Deity think this same Deity makes mistakes.  Homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people are either created in God’s image, or the Bible is wrong.

But don’t tell that to these fundamentalists.  Just as the Taliban is a group of fundamentalists with a political agenda, these guys are a group of fundamentalists with a political agenda.  Al Qaeda is a terrorist group inspired by the Taliban.  I’ll leave the parallel conclusions to you.

People who flaunt their religion, who feel entitled to tell us what God wants, are the source of many of our problems.  I’d like to propose that, until the poor are fed, the sick visited, and those who mourn are comforted, that they keep their noses out of my business.

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Martha Thomases, Media Goddess, is madly in love with Teddy Thompson and will refer to his songs whenever possible.