POLL: Meme of the Week – November 16th

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1. Went with icky...

Too-long explanation of why follows...

I spent part of yesterday doing Recreational Xianity. I recently relocated to my birthplace in the Deep South, and Sunday morning radio is mostly given over to preaching. While I'm annoying myself reading various web sites and political news, I'll often tune into these clowns just to laugh at them.

Listened to sermons by two rip-roaring, hellfire-and-brimstone, old school Black preachers who followed each other on the same radio station.

At least the music was good. One choir sang the old traditional hymn "Mary Don't You Weep." The unresurrected Jesus Of R&B Music, James Brown, had a big hit with that song when he altered it slightly to "Baby Don't You Weep."

But what really jumped out at me - BOTH of these preachers, in the middle of their usual guff about repent or go to hell etc. etc., felt it necessary to attack gay people in their sermons. One called homosexuality "an abomination." The other said "God is tired of all this mess with transexuality and homosexuality and all these other sins..." Or words to that effect.

It reminded me of a favorite movie moment, in the John Sayles flick "Lone Star:"

A white Army NCO is about to retire, and is happy because he can finally marry his fiancée - a black female sergeant. He's telling his friend about it:

Friend: "Does her family know you're white?

NCO: "No. But they'll be so happy she's not a lesbian, they won't CARE what color I am."

Friend: "It's always heartwarming to see one irrational prejudice defeated by another irrational prejudice."