Is That Banjo Music I Hear?
I love Arkansas. I love the Ozark mountains and the Capitol Hotel in Little Rock. I sat on the floor and sobbed at the Central High School National Historic Museum. I love Green Forest and my Aunt Rhea’s apple trees. I love the Buffalo River in the fall and little cabins where you don’t even get radio reception. I love The Winery and their sweet grape wines.
And then there’s this guy, State Senator Jason Rapert …
Jason and his very prissy mustache
A Republican state legislator miffed about an Arkansas judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s same-sex marriage ban suggested on a conservative radio show that politicians should emulate Saudi Arabia by basing laws off Christian doctrine, as Saudi Arabia does with Islam.
And he’s not joking either.
That’s why they call him the Senator from Tealiban.
Thanks to Charles for the heads up.
Can’t wait for the stonings to be scheduled on every second Sunday. Another idiot Republican who refuses to acknowledge the existence of folks who aren’t KKKristian, but who are very much American citizens with guaranteed constitutional rights.
1There’s just no amount of therapy that could penetrate the cognitive dissonance of the Teapublicans.
Good Grief.
2It may be time to have mandatory Constitution education for every citizen. It’s high time we set these people straight, they can keep their God in their churches. Jesus’s actual words were few, the books written of his time on Earth were hand picked by a MAN to be placed in the Bible. The key here is “Man”, they will never get it. MY rights were never handed to me by a magic man in the sky or Constantine.
3Jesus was Jewish, a Rabbi and he was preaching Judaism, every Jewish Mother thinks her son is a G-d, but let’s not let the facts get in the way of convoluted historically false tales to keep the masses in line.
4Okay, but don’t pick on innocent banjos. Not all of us drool and scratch our balls (those who have them) just because we’re banjo players.
5Is there a media scare-word for Christian Sharia?
6Like I told our kids last night, the Tea Party wants us to have a theocracy. I’ll stop my rant before I get started.
7I guess my first question would be “Which Christian doctrine?”
Are we talking Westboro Church? Nelson Mandela? Pope Francis?
8I wonder how many of Rapart’s relatives had a part in this movie??
https://www.google.com/search?q=deliverance+photos&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS545US547&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=v4KYU86gMqnf8gGxk4HoCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQsAQ
9YES! Let’s make forgiveness mandatory! Let’s require that the hungry be fed and the homeless be housed. And let’s throw the money lenders out of the temple right now!
This would be a wonderful world if the loudest Christians were the most Christ-like.
10Yeah Ralph!
11The uncharitable conduct of Senator Rapert and his cynical appeal to “Christian doctrine” brings to mind the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer whose resistance to Hitler led to his imprisonment and execution. Bonhoeffer observed that the church looked on while injustice and violence had been done under the cover of the name of Christ. According to Bonhoeffer the church had often disavowed its duties as sentinel and comforter, and withheld the compassion that it owes to the despised and rejected. He also concluded that God would not leave unpunished those who so misuse God’s name as the church has done.
12I saw a bumper sticker that said “The last time we mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.”
Get out the marshmallows.
13Great comments, Uncle Dave. Y’all might enjoy reading the non-fiction WOMEN OF THE CONFESSING CHURCH, the folks who kept the real Christians going during that terrible time.
14Yes! State Senator Jason Rapert wants his state to emulate the laws and practices of the Muslim religion in Saudi Arabia. Why stop there?
Should women in Arkansas drive cars? They sure get by fine without a drivers license in Saudi Arabia. Why I saw a movie recently, ‘Wadjda,’ about an upstart girl in Saudi Arabia wanting to earn her own money to buy a bicycle. Can you imagine the trouble that girl is going to cause when she grows up?
15NO DOMINIONISM. Down with the Tea Party. Rant.
16Marge Wood, that Dubya is a Dominionist says everything we need to know. Say no to Dogma for Dummies.
17KKKristians Declare War on the Separation of Church and State.
Needs work; too long for a bumper sticker.
18Shucks, I bet he is just the kind of guy who goes to church to love God so he won’t have to waste any of that lovin’ on other people!
19Lord, protect my Freedom From Religion – and from those who would deny me that freedom.
20UmptyDump, second your thought. A country is stronger for the freedoms of all, those who wish to practice their religion and those of us who don’t. Separation of religion and state is paramount. If some religious faction gains access to government as has the Tea Party, we non-partakers and a whole group of religions are in serious trouble. Ask Eric Cantor, he thought he was one of them, until he wasn’t.
So far we know the Koch’s are willing to support candidates that do their bidding, until the brothers don’t support them. David B.Rat is their latest experiment in influencing politics.
Following the money, and expecting even the KKKristians to eventually be tossed under the bus by the Kochs. Keep digging, and maybe we’ll discover the Kochroach connection to Opus Dei beyond Rick Santorum.
21That lizard wouldn’t know Christian ideas if they hit him right in his mouth hair. I doubt if he knows what an idea is. Why do people elect these drooling Teatards?
22Thanks, PKM. I went digging again and found that Brat was lined up by the super duper rich libertarians all along. What do y’all think of Lawrence Lessig and his plans?
23This idea was decided against when the Constitution was written. Many had seen Christians persecuted, even killed by other Christians in the Colonies because they did not agree with the “state church” in that colony. Read the story of the founding of Rhode island, or the hanging of Mary Dyer and other Quakers in Massachusetts, or the jailing of preachers in other colonies, just for some examples. All these were Christians persecuting Christians, not even what was done to non-Christians.
I may not agree with another person’s religion, but I should respect their rights if I expect them to respect mine.
As for Saudi Arabia, I recently read a book by an American Muslim woman doctor who worked there for a year and found it very repressive even for her, though she was a devout Muslim.
24Teanderthals..
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