Democracy Now: Conservative Website, Brooklyn Rabbi Blame Earthquake on Declining Morals, Same-Sex Marriage

Democracy Now: Conservative Website, Brooklyn Rabbi Blame Earthquake on Declining Morals, Same-Sex Marriage

The publisher of the conservative website WorldNetDaily has published an editorial blaming Tuesday’s earthquake on the East Coast to what he sees as the nation’s declining morals. Joseph Farah writes, “Washington, D.C., deserves more than the wallop it got today. It needs a much bigger shaking up than it got.” Meanwhile, a Brooklyn rabbi named Yehuda Levin, who has ties with the National Organization for Marriage, recorded a YouTube video blaming the earthquake on the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage.

Yehuda Levin: “The Jerusalem Talmud tells us that one of the reasons that God brings earthquakes to the world is because of the transgression of homosexuality. And the Talmud states, ‘You have shaken your male member in a place where it does not belong. I, too, will shake the Earth.’ So, to those who sent out the email, yes, there’s a direct connection between earthquakes and homosexuality. There was in Haiti, and there is here in New York and Washington, D.C., where they passed homosexual legislation and ordinances.”

Ah, so that explains all the earthquakes in the Castro District of San Francisco and West Hollywood, CA.  OH WAIT, THERE WERE NO EARTHQUAKES IN THOSE AREAS OF HIGH DENSITY GAY COMMUNITIES. >_<

YOUR GOD IS AN IDIOT.

…or, he doesn’t exist AND YOU’RE JUST MAKING THIS SHIT UP, YOU ASSHOLE.

Sorry, I know gay people and they’re really nice, so I don’t understand why you have to make stuff up about how they’re bad.  So, please, just stop.  

14 year-old kid stands up for gay rights—good for him! He draws a brilliant point about his city being the home to the KKK. Guess it makes sense that the school board hates gays.inothernews:dederants:totalfilm:azurefalls:dimitygirl:Fourteen-Year-Old Michigan Student Awesomely Stands Up for Suspended, Gay-Defending TeacherThe world needs more people like this.Read more on the story here: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=6880&MediaType=1&Category=26PLZ RE-BLOG.If the unscripted words of a 14-year-old boy don’t change your mind about things, then there really is no hope for you.Haha—wait—so I should automatically trust the words of a passionate 14 year-old? Uh, I’m not going to do that. George W. Bush has the education of a 14 year-old and the passion of this kid. Does that make him right? Also, I think it’s much easier for a kid to stand up for something like this because 1) he has less to risk and 2) he isn’t fighting against a lifetime of indoctrination. All that aside, the kid is right. But I came to that conclusion after listening to his words, not his passion or his youth. Azurefalls (quoted above) is right—not only do we need more kids like this, we need more adults like this.Let’s try and work out what the actual threats to our livelihoods and let things like “who you sleep with” and “who you pray to” remain private (or at least personal). We should only go after enemies that have harmed us in some way. In closing, I would like to add that it’s quite sad that the only idealists left in the world seem to be children.

Target (the French Store) boycott being called for--but where will I get my cheap-ass socks?

stephanieleroy:

Target Donates $150,000 To Fund Anti-Gay Politics.

jlamere:

feralnostalgia:

ifighttheonesthatfightme:

mohandasgandhi:

sweetupndown9:

Welp. Looks like I’m boycotting Target. 

A friend of mine posted this on Erika’s facebook. I’m really glad I saw this before I moved, so I can avoid there store when I shop for my new house stuff. 

From the article. 

Follow the money. At least, that’s the message delivered by an article at sfist.com by Matt Baume, who tracks $150,000 from Target’s coffers, through a political action committee (PAC) known as Minnesota Forward, all the way to Tom Emmer, who himself supports a Christian rock band in Minnesota that travels around the state saying that it’s moral and righteous for religious people to kill gays and lesbians.

For those into algebra, it looks a little like this: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And Target is cool with this?

Sign the Petition demand answers for this.

Oh, HELL NO.  What the FUCK, Target?  You’re done.

seriously?  the religious right was boycotting them a few years back because they were “pro-gay” - they’ve donated to gay rights causes and AIDS charities and such in the past too…now I’m just confused.

maybe instead of trying to be picky about which amoral-by-design corporations we consume from, we ought to switch to production instead.  Swadeshi Movement style…

 I think this might have more to do with bashing the founding family of Target and Emmers competition for governor, Mark Dayton. Either way, it’s pretty ridiculous.

OK, let’s boycott Target—but then where will we shop?  Wal-Mart? K-Mart? Actually, there’s really no source for anything we buy that doesn’t eventually connect back to some sort of horrible thing.  Whether it’s hating gays or paying pennies for hours of labor or buying conflict minerals or oil from terrorist regimes, there isn’t a dollar in our bank accounts that hasn’t paid for someone’s misery somewhere in the world. 

If there was a source for every day items that sold products that are made entirely within the US with materials originated inside the US, I’d agree with a boycott.  But boycotting Target just means you’re going to add support to some other company that is just as bad in the same or different ways. 

We’re living in an era of extremist capitalism, where the shortest route to profits is the highway (or low-way) nearly every damn company takes.  

In the end, which is worse? Hating gays or not caring about human dignity at all?