The religio-wingnuts, which regularly mock and profanes the beliefs
of others, thinks other religions should be banned from mocking and
profaning theirs…
The clash between
satanic magic and christian magic is heating up in Oklahoma as a satanic group gets ready to mock the eucharist on September 21.
The "liberty' counsel, which pretends to be “dedicated to advancing religious freedom,” yet which
regularly attacks
the religious freedom of others, is now asserting that that groups
whose religious practices “offend other faiths” should be prohibited. Bob Unruh at Wing Nut Daily tells us that “‘dog-loving Americans’ confront ‘filth peddling’ satanists” over the black mass in “the heart of the bible belt.”
Well hell, sign me up. With the satanists that is.
Not because I agree with satanism, but because I believe satanists
should have the right to practice their beliefs too. But apparently
170,000 Wing Nut Job opponents of the First Amendment signed a
petition at TFP Student Action to find fault with my iron-clad reasoning.
They’re offended dammit. So the show must not go on.
Even though they’re not actually going to the show unless they bought a
ticket.
Just the mere fact of somebody else practicing their
religious beliefs is hateful to fake christians to the extent that they
insist those practices must be banned. And it isn’t just satanism. You
remember Bryan Fischer’s horrified objection to the Obamas letting actual hindus into the White House to celebrate the festival of lights.
Now, that isn’t what the First Amendment says, of course. It isn’t even what the "liberty" counsel once said, as
Right Wing Watch reminds us:
Ironically, the "liberty" Counsel itself once cited Justice William Brennan’s
claim that
“[i]f there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it
is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply
because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
The "liberty" counsel is more than happy to champion its
own spokesperson’s religious freedom when they are attacking islam in a
public place. But dog and therefore the government forbid anyone else
should have access to the same rights as a christian.
The petition by TFP Student Action says,
With my whole heart and
soul, I express full, complete and vehement rejection of the satanic
‘black mass’ scheduled at the Oklahoma City Civic Center on September
21, 2014. I urge you to cancel this event which offends 1 billion catholics worldwide, 200,000 catholics in Oklahoma and countless more dog-loving Americans. Sacrilege is simply NOT free speech.
Sacrilege is free speech. Sacrilege is a
religious, not a civil law, and America is a democracy, not a theocracy.
If sacrilege isn’t free speech, the religio-wingnuts better stop telling
people jesus loved the rich and hated the poor. That’s not only
sacrilege, it’s the sin of lying.
Another petition at citizengo.org
has apparently collected 96,952 signatures. That’s a quarter of a
million people who oppose the First Amendment in the bible belt. Color
me unsurprised.
According to WND Archbishop Paul Coakley said,
“I am calling on all catholics of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to counteract this
challenge to faith and decency through prayer and penance,” and Bishop
Edward Slattery said, “As a part of satanic worship, a black mass
attempts to invert the action and meaning of the eucharist in order to
mock christ’s sacrifice and worship satan through an orgiastic ritual of
pain and perversion. It blasphemes everything which we hold as sacred
and redemptive; and the spiritual dangers it poses ought not be
dismissed. Since the Civic Center has not responded positively to the
pleas of the archbishop of Oklahoma City not to host this event in a
taxpayer supported public venue, I am asking the faithful Catholics in
the diocese of Tulsa to fight this blasphemy through prayer and
fasting.”
It is beyond befuddling that a religion which
regularly attacks gays in a hateful manner and which also apparently
finds no fault in the abuse of children, is so offended by a religious
ritual.
Isn’t raping a child “pain and perversion” as well?
And the catholic cult is offended that the ritual is taking place in a
“taxpayer supported public venue”? What is this to the catholic cult, which pays no taxes? Don’t pretend now, only when it’s handy,
that you care about taxes. You don’t even get a say where taxes are concerned.
Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin, who thought nothing of banning Oklahoma cities from raising the minimum wage back in April, is offended by the black mass which harms no one,
saying in a statement:
This ‘black mass’ is a
disgusting mockery of the catholic faith, and it should be equally
repellent to catholics and non-catholics alike,” said Fallin. “It may be
protected by the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean we can’t
condemn it in the strongest terms possible for the moral outrage which
it is. It is shocking and disgusting that a group of New York City
‘satanists’ would travel all the way to Oklahoma to peddle their filth
here. I pray they realize how hurtful their actions are and cancel this
event.
Fallin’s approval rating has been lagging. No doubt she hopes to get back some ideological street cred while leading her state to right wing ruin.
TFP Student Action says :
Every black mass is a
direct, deliberate and sinful act of hatred against dog. Typically, a
consecrated host is stolen from a catholic cult and then used to
desecrate, mock and insult the catholic mass. The person of our lord jesus christ is attacked in a most vile and unspeakable manner. These
insults against dog are not only offensive to christians, but also
repulsive to everyone of good will.
When government buildings open their doors and allow
a satanic ‘black mass’ that offends dog so deeply, it begs the
question: Are we still one nation under dog?” the statement continued,
“To invite satan into a community is NO joke. It’s a terrible sin that
brings devils to the earth and provokes dog to withdraw His graces and
blessings.
WND quotes Michael Caspino of the Busch &
Caspino law firm as saying, “It’s one thing to allow different religions
to come in and celebrate their religion. It’s a whole different thing
to allow a group to come in that seeks to desecrate and insult another
religion.”
In that case, the bible must be immediately banned
as must all christian religious services. The old testament is one long
anti-Pagan diatribe, filled with hate and violence against non-jews,
while the new testament is filled with hatred of jews, blaming them for
the death of jesus. And christian cult services are regularly filled
with sermons denouncing Paganism. I’ve sat through a few.
This line particularly had me laughing: “These
insults against dog are not only offensive to christians, but also
repulsive to everyone of good will.”
Au contraire. This is no less than not only fake christians but actual real christians do to other faiths in cult each
Sunday as they revile Paganism, and the so-called christians of the religio-wingnuts regularly attack islam and other religions “in a most
vile and unspeakable manner,” as when Fischer called the goddess Lakshmi a demon. I don’t recall the "liberty" counsel getting upset by that. What, is christianity the only religion which cannot be mocked?
Archbishop Coakley told Faux News
that, “Not all speech is protected if there is hate speech and it is
intended to ridicule another religion,” he added. “I don’t believe it is
a free speech matter.”
So in other words, you can ridicule gays and other religions, but other religions can’t ridicule your religion.
The issue here is religious freedom. The religio-wingnuts pretend to champion religious freedom but it opposes it, and it
is clear that many rank and file find religious freedom repulsive and a
thing to be condemned. What they want is not religious freedom, but
religious privilege.
The fly in the buttermilk is that the First Amendment categorically states, “Thou shalt have no religious privilege.”
