http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9283083/Christian-counsellors-being-closed-down-says-struck-off-gay-cure-psychotherapist.html
Lesley Pilkington, a "Christian therapist" who believes that homosexuality is sinful, practices a
controversial counselling technique known as “reparative therapy” involving
counselling and prayer. Her ridiculous methodology was exposed by an undercover reporter who revealed that "during the session she asked him whether he had been abused as a child or
bullied at school and whether any of his relatives had been Freemasons as a
possible cause of his homosexuality."
Freemasonry causes homosexuality????
From further down the article 'Andrea Williams, director of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “People who
practise reparative therapy are increasingly pushed out of the public
sphere.'
Well yeah, because it doesn't work, causes damage and is based on a faulty model.
What did you expect?
Friday, 25 May 2012
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
They're calling for Concentration Camps
I wish I was making this up.
I pray to God that I'm just having "one of my bad days" and I'm hallucinating or my paranoia's running out of control or it's a waking nightmare or a really, really bad migraine.
*sigh* Nope. Read it and weep. Church member defends NC pastor: LGBT people ‘worthy of death’
There it is. They literally want us behind barbed wire and they might deign to drop us a food package once in awhile, although that looks like an afterthought.
If it was just the pastor ranting away it would be one thing, but his followers are flapping their yaps about it as well. Reminds me of the Phelps gang.
My wife IM'd me a link this morning talking about how Fox news viewers are least informed of what's actually going on in the world. This is hardly new - the conservative "echo chamber" is a well-known artifact. Just look at Free Republic (actually, don't - they don't needs the hits, JimRob is having a nervous breakdown and the site is just hard on the eyes).
Here's how it works.
Decide upon a "truth". Let's do "reptilians are taking over the earth". (OK, that's scary, the spell checker let it through). Find media outlets friendly to your position and only listen to those media outlets. Only buy from businesses that are "non-reptile zones". Don't allow your children to attend school because they teach vertebrate biology which includes reptiles. Instead, home-school your kids using a curriculum obtained from a special publishing house that only does non-reptilian-friendly literature. Hell, buy all your books from there. Read no other literature. Do not trust encyclopedias because they were written by reptilians. Everything you thought you knew about US history is wrong - it was written by reptilians. Do not listen to the radio except the one allowed non-reptilian station. Same with TV - only watch Fox News. The only website you're allowed on is Reptilian-free Republic. Drop all your old friends, shun all your relatives. If they aren't actively fighting reptilians, then they are against you. Don't let your children have any friends - they might be corrupted by reptilians. Go out in your back yard and start digging - the reptilians are coming and you'll need a nuclear-safe bunker.
OK, enough of that. Now substitute "liberals" for "reptilians" and you've got the Fox news mindset.
I pray to God that I'm just having "one of my bad days" and I'm hallucinating or my paranoia's running out of control or it's a waking nightmare or a really, really bad migraine.
*sigh* Nope. Read it and weep. Church member defends NC pastor: LGBT people ‘worthy of death’
There it is. They literally want us behind barbed wire and they might deign to drop us a food package once in awhile, although that looks like an afterthought.
If it was just the pastor ranting away it would be one thing, but his followers are flapping their yaps about it as well. Reminds me of the Phelps gang.
My wife IM'd me a link this morning talking about how Fox news viewers are least informed of what's actually going on in the world. This is hardly new - the conservative "echo chamber" is a well-known artifact. Just look at Free Republic (actually, don't - they don't needs the hits, JimRob is having a nervous breakdown and the site is just hard on the eyes).
Here's how it works.
Decide upon a "truth". Let's do "reptilians are taking over the earth". (OK, that's scary, the spell checker let it through). Find media outlets friendly to your position and only listen to those media outlets. Only buy from businesses that are "non-reptile zones". Don't allow your children to attend school because they teach vertebrate biology which includes reptiles. Instead, home-school your kids using a curriculum obtained from a special publishing house that only does non-reptilian-friendly literature. Hell, buy all your books from there. Read no other literature. Do not trust encyclopedias because they were written by reptilians. Everything you thought you knew about US history is wrong - it was written by reptilians. Do not listen to the radio except the one allowed non-reptilian station. Same with TV - only watch Fox News. The only website you're allowed on is Reptilian-free Republic. Drop all your old friends, shun all your relatives. If they aren't actively fighting reptilians, then they are against you. Don't let your children have any friends - they might be corrupted by reptilians. Go out in your back yard and start digging - the reptilians are coming and you'll need a nuclear-safe bunker.
OK, enough of that. Now substitute "liberals" for "reptilians" and you've got the Fox news mindset.
So they're finally going to build the Afghanistan pipeline
Turkmenistan agrees trans-Afghan pipeline gas deals
Besides being opposed to the Rabid Religious Right and a QUILTBAG activist, I'm also heavily involved in US and world politics. A number of years ago, I ran an anti-oil wars website that included a map of the Afghanistan pipeline. The site has since been taken down (not the first time that's happened to me, Diebold had my vote fraud site taken down). If you've seen Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, you've seen the map. He stole it from my site.
Besides being opposed to the Rabid Religious Right and a QUILTBAG activist, I'm also heavily involved in US and world politics. A number of years ago, I ran an anti-oil wars website that included a map of the Afghanistan pipeline. The site has since been taken down (not the first time that's happened to me, Diebold had my vote fraud site taken down). If you've seen Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, you've seen the map. He stole it from my site.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Of course it doesn't take the Phelps clan long to lose it bigtime
Shirley Phelps-Roper
@DearShirley
Rebekah Phelps-Roper @WBCVideo
Megan Phelps-Roper @meganphelps
Megan Phelps-Roper @meganphelps
Well of course he does! His pretense that he didn't want #FagMarriage was fraud! #GodHatesFagMarriage #ImminentDestruction @1PatriciaMurphy
Rebekah Phelps-Roper
Yawn...is this news?http://twitvid.com/RYZAT
RT @AP: Obama says he supports gay marriage, came to conclusion after talking to family, friends..
Megan Phelps-Roper
Surprise! Obama supports fag marriage,
the ultimate insult to that most beautiful husband/wife relationship
symbolizing Christ & the church.
Megan Phelps-Roper
Hey, @BarackObama! How many "person affirmations" does it take to change God's standard?
#OneManOneWomanForLife
#FagsAreAbominable
MargiePhelps @MargieJPhelps
MargiePhelps
Should've sent"Fags Doom Nations"sign. #perfect
MT @daveweigel: RT @kate_sheppard: RT @marcambinder Activist sent this: http://bit.ly/J1rXMa
MargiePhelps @MargieJPhelps
Rebekah Phelps-Roper @WBCVideo
MargiePhelps
It's absolutely exhilarating watching this nation-full of proud sin & hard speeches-sprint to its doom for fags w Beast @whitehouse in lead!
Rebekah Phelps-Roper
It fits. His faith=damnable heresies.
Via @AP: @BarackObama says gay marriage may rankle religious conservs but Golden Rule guides his faith
President Obama backs Gay marriage
Just announced a few minutes ago. I'll post a bunch of links.
ABC News (via Yahoo, video doesn't work in Canada)
Huffington Post (Canada)
CBS news
CBC news
Global News
President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president
described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this
place, based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and
lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own
daughters.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
In related news, Romney opposes it.
CBS news on Romney
ABC News (via Yahoo, video doesn't work in Canada)
Huffington Post (Canada)
CBS news
CBC news
Global News
President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.
"I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer.”
In related news, Romney opposes it.
CBS news on Romney
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Christian businesses
Click for picture Muffler Man - Christian Tech wanted
I had a brief brush with Fundamentalist Christianity. There were problems at work and one co-workers solution was to take me outside, preach and pray over me and have me repeat some sort of prayer and a pledge to embrace something-or-other. I soon discovered the insular nature of what I was getting into and realized that the only way it was going to work was to constantly immerse myself in it, subscribing to "Christian" radio stations (which weren't yet available my area) and only allowing myself to be around people of the same mindset - an echo chamber. It didn't last long.
I seem to remember the whole concept of "Christian businesses" starting about 10 years ago. Every year somebody would stuff a "Christian Yellow Pages" in my mailbox. When dealing with Fundamentalist Christians, they would often ask, when referred someplace, if it was a "Christian business". They want someplace where they are guaranteed that nobody will burst the bubble they live inside. I sat outside one of these businesses one night at closing time and was interested to watch them doing a prayer circle.
So, would I be a customer of a "Christian business"?
I'm a systems analyst. That means I'm trained to look at a business, its operation, its data flows, its business processes and rules, the various entities and how it all works together. Out of this analysis comes an overall goal of what the business does for a living, sometimes encapsulated in a "mission statement" and specific recommendations for how things can improved, usually by eliminating dead wood and duplication of effort.
Many Christian business's mission statement have first and foremost Fundy-babble. Something like "Our mission is to Glorify God and ...(the rest of stuff normally in a mission statement like customer service)". When I walk in the door, I don't want my time invested in this business spent on anything other than the core business activity - in this case fixing my muffler.
The other thing is the actual competence of the work. A full understanding of metalurgy requires believing in things that contradict Fundamentalist Christian thought. Certainly wouldn't take biology from a teacher who doesn't believe in evolution. I certain wouldn't trust a muffler repair guy who doesn't believe in particle decay because it would disprove a young universe.
I'm taking my business elsewhere, thank you.
I had a brief brush with Fundamentalist Christianity. There were problems at work and one co-workers solution was to take me outside, preach and pray over me and have me repeat some sort of prayer and a pledge to embrace something-or-other. I soon discovered the insular nature of what I was getting into and realized that the only way it was going to work was to constantly immerse myself in it, subscribing to "Christian" radio stations (which weren't yet available my area) and only allowing myself to be around people of the same mindset - an echo chamber. It didn't last long.
I seem to remember the whole concept of "Christian businesses" starting about 10 years ago. Every year somebody would stuff a "Christian Yellow Pages" in my mailbox. When dealing with Fundamentalist Christians, they would often ask, when referred someplace, if it was a "Christian business". They want someplace where they are guaranteed that nobody will burst the bubble they live inside. I sat outside one of these businesses one night at closing time and was interested to watch them doing a prayer circle.
So, would I be a customer of a "Christian business"?
I'm a systems analyst. That means I'm trained to look at a business, its operation, its data flows, its business processes and rules, the various entities and how it all works together. Out of this analysis comes an overall goal of what the business does for a living, sometimes encapsulated in a "mission statement" and specific recommendations for how things can improved, usually by eliminating dead wood and duplication of effort.
Many Christian business's mission statement have first and foremost Fundy-babble. Something like "Our mission is to Glorify God and ...(the rest of stuff normally in a mission statement like customer service)". When I walk in the door, I don't want my time invested in this business spent on anything other than the core business activity - in this case fixing my muffler.
The other thing is the actual competence of the work. A full understanding of metalurgy requires believing in things that contradict Fundamentalist Christian thought. Certainly wouldn't take biology from a teacher who doesn't believe in evolution. I certain wouldn't trust a muffler repair guy who doesn't believe in particle decay because it would disprove a young universe.
I'm taking my business elsewhere, thank you.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Phelps clan celebrates chopper crash
Apparently there's been a chopper crash somewhere. How do I find out? The Phelps clan starts celebrating.
Rebekah Phelps-Roper And to think I wanted to be a chopper pilot.@WBCVideo
Thank God for crashing the chopper to get His glory on His enemies! Via@BreakingNews 4 US troops confirmed dead after ISAF helicopter crash
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