LOVE. IT.

[ceebeegee]

In reading about the passage of Prop 8 in California this past Tuesday, I came across this wonderful clip of Anita Bryant getting pie'd.

HA. FUCKING. HA.

Here's an even better angle:

I want to feel bad for her for crying and being humiliated--and then I think of my gay friends and relatives who just want to live like the rest of us, and enjoy the rights most of us enjoy--and I don't feel bad at all. They suffer worse than humiliation. Don't give me your bullshit religion, Anita. I'm just as Christian as you. I pray, and talk to God all the time. He tells me you're full of shit. Jesus didn't say dick about dick. You're just afraid.

I love it that her career went south after teh gays boycotted and protested and harrassed her. Good. Actions have consequences. Boycotts are the natural weapon of the Adam Smith economy.

Comments

[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Ah, reminds me of the day I wore my "Anita Bryant Sucks Oranges" t-shirt to high school. Nobody had any idea what it meant.

[defy-gravity99.livejournal.com]

And where is she now? While the homosexuals have thrived and succeeded? Stupid cow!

Thanks, Clara, I'm gonna watch this every time I need a laugh.

[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

Last I heard she was doing breakfast shows in Branson. Seriously.

[son-of-ottie.livejournal.com]

Her husband turned out to be gay which is what started her on the path of righteousness. It was never about gays per se. It was about revenge...y'know that whole trun-the-other-cheek thing...oh wait....maybe it was an eye for an eye?
What the fuck do Christians BELIEVE?

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

An eye for an eye is in the Old Testament. When Christ came along, He started preaching complete forgiveness. "If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also." The gospel of Jesus Christ supersedes the Old Testament--mercy (the New Testament) is supposed to transcend justice (the OT). (This is also a subtext of The Merchant of Venice.) This is why it annoys me intensely when hate-filled Christians cite the Old Testament to try to justify their homophobia--the teachings of Christ (which all boil down to LOVE) supersedes the niggling laws and arcane requirements of the Old Testament.

[son-of-ottie.livejournal.com]

I actually knew that. But the evangelicals want to cherry-pick the WHOLE bible and use the jewish bits as well whether they even make sense in context or not, hence the whole Leviticus prohibition against homosexuality.....and crawfish and clothes made from different woven materials and stuff.
And they get away with it! Because it's religion they can say and do whatever they want. Including lying about the GLBT community...you know what I'd like? I'd like a "Scopes monkey trial" pitting the religious right against gay marriage and adoption.
Hmmmm...sounds like a play.....