Seriously they want me to wear purple
The loveliness of the religious mind.
Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed therselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE
Ooh ick – who’s that – some high school kid, right?
No, it’s a school board member at Midland School District in Arkansas. It’s a grown-up male adult mature citizen over the age of 16.
being a fag doesnt give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then dont tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I dont care how people decide to live their lives. They dont bother me if they keep it to thereselves. It pisses me off though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags cant procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other aids and die. If you arent against it, you might as well be for it.
An adult, and a school board member. He’s a member of a school board. He plays a role in education.
I would disown my kids if they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids will know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone.
However, not everyone disagreed with McCance’s comments, which he had defended on his page by citing his religious beliefs.
Gays and lesbians are “thinking they’re all right, and [God is] going to let them think that and go to hell for believing what they’re doing is right,” pastor Harry Craig, of Pleasant Plains Full Gospel Church, told CNN Little Rock affiliate KARK.
God is love; God is compassion; what would Jesus do.
Somebody got to him, since he has apparently apologised, and come to know the error of his ways. But this is not unusual for Christians. I’ve met quite a few myself over the years, who say precisely this kind of thing. What would Jesus do? Just possibly send them to the everlasting fire reserved for the devil and his angels.
The name of that church is painfully ironic.
Honestly, why do we, no matter of left or right, consider these apologies to be genuine? People usually don’t hold opinions light-heartedly. We invest a lot of emotion in them and often argue relentlessly for them. So when someone expresses an unpopular opinion (not to mention bigoted, stupid and utterly, utterly hateful) and he back-pedals, why believe their expressions of remorse? They most likely still believe these things, but are only subdued by the reaction and try to conform. Saying “Oh well, case closed” after such a fake apology won’t actually help change anything. Or am I wrong?
Jesus wept (John 11:35)
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Well, all right. Maybe he’s scared of what god might do to his home town. You know what happened to Sodom.
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But it still reads like ignorance, arrogance, callousness and self-righteousness. What was it JC said about things like that?
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We conclude, then, that religion is whatever people believe, if you follow me. No doubt all the good folks think he’s just what they need in a school governor.
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Good job spelling, grammar and punctuation are not criteria.
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Or resonant prose.
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Or common politeness, restraint, reasonableness…
Two things:
1. Y’all should watch his pathetic “apology” on Anderson Cooper’s show. Not only is he as inarticulate as you’d expect, he “apologizes” for his “unfortunate words,” but not for the content. Typical.
2. I’m already tired of people (well-meaning people, too, which makes it more irritating) commenting online about how he’s “un-Christian,” or putting “Christian” in sarcastic scare quotes. Yes, yes, he is, in fact, acting in a very Christian way. Why do even non-believers and lefties continue to perpetuate the notion that “Christian” is synonymous with love and charity, and uncontestably and obviously so?
Why, Josh? Because of the very kind of automatic deference that the gnus are so busy blowing raspberries at, that’s why.
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The Christian argument against homosexuality was made, shaped and firmly implanted in the mind of the true believer by St. Francis. In his own uncouth way (is there any other?), McCance is simply acknowledging and upholding that legacy. Those accusing him of ‘un-Christian’ behaviour should at least have the honesty to admit that. Insisting that a true Christian should consider homosexuals to be god’s children is either naive or patently hypocritical.
That goes without saying. The good news is that McCance is clearly speaking from desperation. If he thought that he represented the citizens of the school district, he would have found a more acceptable way to express their shared bigotry. He knows that he doesn’t, and so he doesn’t care what he says.
I hate these contrived apologies. And I hate the fact that people feel there is something to be gained by forcing them.
The guy’s a bigot, why bother with phony apologies? I’d be much more interested in credible assurance that his bigotry would not affect how he performs his job.
[BTW, I do share some of the annoyance at being pressured to ‘wear a color’ or other mindless token gesture for the cause du jour. This happens at my job where there is pressure to wear some item in solidarity with a cause, breast cancer, heart disease, women’s heart disease (yes that is a separate appeal) etc etc.. No one was ever cured of a disease because people succumbed to social pressure to display a symbol]
Agreed.
Lots of luck with that.
Well, the “apology” accompanied a resignation. That is something, at least.
Well, the point is that religion is simply what people believe. It doesn’t hang together. There is no consistency, the scriptures can be interpreted any way you like. Why else do we have all those exegetes and apologists? Whatever the believer believes is obviously “right”, and that’s all that matters. Any number of inconsistencies can dwell in the same head, and each one takes its turn in determining how the believer acts. Thought for many believers seems to be no more than simply hopping from one assumption to another by a process of association (which may even be completely unrelated to the content of any particular idea).
jay:
I agree, given that he resigned anyway, I would actually have more (i.e. some) respect for him if he’d said “I’m not sorry, I said what I believed. You’re free to judge me for that, but it’s my belief and I won’t pretend it isn’t”. It’s not like a forced apology is going to change his mind (if he indeed has a mind).
I agree with you on “solidarity” signals as well.
Ah yes, the art of the “notpology”. Not “I said something stupid and wrong and I’m sorry and I know better now”, but “I’m sorry I hurt some people’s feelings” [sotto voce: “….who really should stop being such babies, and I’m still right, just phrased it too obviously.”]
I urge everyone to watch the full Anderson Cooper interview. Two things were clear, as I saw it.
Number one, this was not someone who was remorseful for anything. This was someone who had gone from a nobody to having his name make the national headlines is less than 24 hours. He was freaked-out that he was getting all this negative press, and he just wanted it to end. So he did a mea culpa hoping that the nightmare would end. The subtle equivocations in his apology were telling: this was not someone who felt he’d done anything truly wrong.
Number two, the views McCance expressed on his facebook page were, more than anything, a matter of religious conviction for him. Again, watch the AC 360 interview. McCance says that his views on homosexuality are Bible-based. He offers no other justification. In fact, when Cooper asks McCance whether he will evolve in his views toward gay people, he basically shrugs and says, Welp, the Bible says what it says, so…you know…that’s what I think.
There seems to be an invisible line in the sand that divides people like this guy and the Phelps clan from the average American Christian. The voting record of both groups is the same when asked about subjects like equality for homosexuals in marriage or adoption or even things like the DADT policy. I don’t see the line myself but christians do. There was a survey of attitudes towards homosexuality published about two weeks ago – I read about it on CNN – that asked religious people of various denominations whether they thought their church behaved in a descriminatory manner towards homosexuals. Catholics by and large agreed that their church discriminated against gays – good for them to at least recognize that there was a problem.
In contrast the vast majority of evangelical christians claimed their church showed no discrimination towards homosexuals!
what would Jesus have done? Probably have worn purple like every single one of my Christian friends did the other day.