Check the Date on That Calendar
Okay, so there’s a small town north of Atlanta where time stands still.
Hoschton was hiring a city administrator and – oh Lord, we should have been this coming – a black man applied.
The mayor decided that although the man was qualified “she just didn’t think Hoschton was ready to hire” a black person as an administrator. She said this privately to a council member.
“We are not Atlanta,” she carefully explained.
Two other council members were not in agreement and went to the city attorney to complain.
But Councilman Jim Cleveland agreed with the mayor.
“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” Cleveland was quoted as telling the newspaper.
“I have black friends, I hired black people, he added. “But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
Yeah, stunning.
Meanwhile, while racists were being racists, the man who had applied was hired at another city. I hope at a much higher salary.
Thanks to Sam in Minn for the heads up.
I don’t know how it is over there in Georgia but here in California if that happened the person discriminated against would get an award of one year’s salary and never have to show up for work.
This actually happened at a company I worked for. There were a lot of “I never said that” or “that’s not what I meant” defenses but at the end of the day the Labor Relations board levied $40K to a receptionist that wasn’t hired because she was too “dark.” Funny thing is she was about the same shade as the CEO who was middle-eastern. She got another job and all the more power to her.
It is possible that Georgia has the same enforcement.
1Although it has been awhile (50 years) Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 should trump the st00pid festering in Hoschton, GA. Would enjoy hearing from Council Weasel Jim Cleveland as to any actual biblical citations supporting his st00pid. Don’t recall in either the OT or the NT any skin shade requirements among the stoning and begetting. But there are a number of items in our Constitution and laws expressly calling the both mayor and council weasel all kinds of st00pidly flat out wrong.
2Time for a Princess Bride homage as to the meaning of the word “Christian.” I do not think it means what the racist councilman thinks it means…
3So after centuries of justifying slavery as a good “biblical” institition, showing up to consecrate lynchings and placing a “christian” imprimatuer on jim crow laws it could be argued that southern “christians” are bogus hypocrites.
4In fact considering world wide record of hypocrisy it could be argued that any of the established “cults” ( they are all cults it is only how much money they have been able to scam out of how many people for how long that raises a cult to a “religion” beliefs, rituals and catechism are still rooted in cultish delusions) qualify as being guilty under any RICO prosecution.
Corruption in service to delusions is the mothers milk of religion.
Ummm. This is off topic, and from Texas, but in a similar vein of willful ignoramous-ness.
Texas Rep. Jonathan Stickland has dismissed “…concerns over an ongoing measles outbreak in his state and calling vaccines “sorcery,” “dangerous,” and “self-enriching ‘science.’” “.
I got this from a Mediaite story [https://www.mediaite.com/news/texas-gop-lawmaker-dismisses-vaccines-as-sorcery-dangerous-and-self-enriching-science/].
5Many people are just too stupid to understand that such thinking harms everyone. Themselves most of all.
6“But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
What do you think the odds are that he doesn’t know Jesus was Middle Eastern and certainly not white?
7Seems to me that good ol’ biblethumping Thick Stick has been featured on the Salon before, eh?
In any case, he’s a raving Talibangelical Trumpanzee, but which Texass Reptilian isn’t?
Whole lotta ‘sorcery’ getting jabbed into those toddlers, scary stuff…
And he’s going after a Baylor pediatrics MD on twitter.
From his Wiki page –warning, if you look be steeled for his grinning Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon puss [somebody run his DNA…might be berry interesssting].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Stickland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_early_modern_humans
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“In May 2019, Stickland referred to vaccines as “sorcery” in a Twitter argument with Dr. Peter Hotez, a prominent pediatrician at the Baylor College of Medicine. [30] Mr. Stickland believes vaccines are dangerous, and that his personal belief in God will protect his children from communicable infectious diseases.”
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“They differ from modern-day humans in having a more robust physique and a slightly larger cranial capacity.[15] The Cro-Magnons had fairly low skulls, with wide faces, robust mandibles, blunted chins, narrow noses,[16] and moderate to no prognathism.[17] A distinctive trait was the rectangular eye orbits, similar to those of modern Ainu people.”
ChristANULs state they get their morals from the buyBull, well where does it talk about mixed race marriage? But there are no aliens here so mixed races can’t happen. You see you dimwitted bigoted christANUL…all humans are HUMAN!!! All the ‘race’ talk is a fiction invented by hate-filled, self-hating bigots!!!!
9“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage.”
I don’t recall Jesus ever talking about interracial marriage. Maybe when he turned water into wine at the wedding celebration he made some off the record remarks?
10Councilman Cleveland: “I have black friends”. I bet you don’t, really. If you ever did, you don’t now.
11I’ve been through Hoschton (pronounced “hoosh-tun” where the oo sounds the way it does is “good”) and believe me, that applicant dodged a bullet when he went to work somewhere else.
p.s. doesn’t sound like the Christianity I get every Sunday morning…quite the opposite.
12I can’t be arsed to look it up, but I have some recollection that Moses married a dark-skinned woman.
Oh, you say that doesn’t count because he was Jewish? Well, you folks sure haul out the Old Testament when you want to start smiting people you don’t like, so seems to me this should count just as much.
13@Rhea, #13,
And wasn’t Moses “most beloved” by God…
14So that little flyspeck of town will remain a mausoleum until it all dries up and blows away. Any survivors will never figure out why.
15Okay, I’m confused.
Where’s the part of the story where they couldn’t hire the guy unless he married a white woman?
Or by “mixing”, did the guy mean a black person actually working in the same buildings all the fine, pasty Kristians?
Troglodyte.
16I would have thought FBI violet crimes like murder, rape, robbery, and agg assault would be far more upsetting to Georgians than having to finally deal with the existence of black people. It is 2019 after all. And btw, 1949 is not coming back.
@Lunaragent
17Councilman Jim Cleveland would have to evolve rapidly in order to arrive at Troglodyte from his present evolutionary position in the primordial muck.
To Councilman Cleveland: There is no condemnation in the bible of mixed marriage, other than suggesting the prejudice from others. Here’s this: ” this is in the Old Testament, where we read that Moses (who was the mediator of the old covenant) took to himself a wife who was a Cushite. A Cushite was an Ethiopian. All of the evidence that we can construct on Old Testament history indicates that Moses’ wife was black. We also read that his sister, Miriam, became very distressed by the fact that her brother married a Cushite. It was a racist reaction. Miriam got angry and rebuked Moses. Because of Miriam’s response, God judged Miriam and gave her leprosy. So if anything, it would seem to me that God frowns upon those who are racists.”
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