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elfsJay Sekulow is one of those people that socially liberal folks love to hate. The head of the American Center for Law & Justice, the "conservative antidote" to the ACLU (which, ironically, often finds itself working with the ACLU on behalf of kids deprived of their rights in public schools), Sekulow has been behind the mic every day on our local 820 AM radio station, arguing that Don't Ask, Don't Tell should stay the law of the land, that it's too important not to surrender to the "liberal agenda," going on and on in that vein. His biggest concern? That chaplains would be forced to choose between their faith and their orders.
Funny how that never comes up with the whole "Thou Shalt Not Kill" bit.
Today, Sekulow writes in the Washington Post, "As a Christian conservative broadcaster, attorney, and activist who recently discussed DADT and my opinion about it on-air, I can say that for the most part, social conservatives are not enraged about the end of DADT. In fact, the grassroots has not been engaged on this issue for a long time."
Huh? Really? Really?
The funny thing is, I can't recall the last time Sekulow said something like this:
(The article is an otherwise almost by-the-numbers recitation of the notion that "those who could not possibly have participated in the reproductive process [that leads to children]" (i.e. same-sex parents) do not have sufficient stake in the children's success to measure up to differently-sex parents, but the recognition that he can't argue against gay marriage without re(?)-establishing the evangelical (I can't say "Biblical") notion of marriage as a communal standard.)
Funny how that never comes up with the whole "Thou Shalt Not Kill" bit.
Today, Sekulow writes in the Washington Post, "As a Christian conservative broadcaster, attorney, and activist who recently discussed DADT and my opinion about it on-air, I can say that for the most part, social conservatives are not enraged about the end of DADT. In fact, the grassroots has not been engaged on this issue for a long time."
Huh? Really? Really?
The funny thing is, I can't recall the last time Sekulow said something like this:
Tragically, because of our own mistakes and sin, we evangelicals have almost no credibility on this topic. We have tolerated genuine hatred of gays; we should have taken the lead in condemning gay bashing but were largely silent; we have neglected to act in gentle love with people among us struggling with their sexual identity; and we have used the gay community as a foil to raise funds for political campaigns. We have made it easy for the media to suggest that the fanatics who carry signs announcing "God hates fags" actually speak for large numbers of evangelicals.That was Ron Sider, in an article entitled Bearing Better Witness.
Worst of all, we have failed to deal honestly with the major threat to marriage and the family: heterosexual adultery and divorce. Evangelicals divorce at the same rate as the rest of the population. Many evangelical leaders have failed to speak against cheap divorce because they and their people were getting divorced just like everyone else. And yet we have had the gall to use the tiny (5 percent or less) gay community as a whipping boy that we labeled as the great threat to marriage.
(The article is an otherwise almost by-the-numbers recitation of the notion that "those who could not possibly have participated in the reproductive process [that leads to children]" (i.e. same-sex parents) do not have sufficient stake in the children's success to measure up to differently-sex parents, but the recognition that he can't argue against gay marriage without re(?)-establishing the evangelical (I can't say "Biblical") notion of marriage as a communal standard.)
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Date: 2010-12-20 10:01 pm (UTC)No, you have actively and systematically fomented it, as a movement. There's a difference between "tolerate" and "do everything in your power to support and increase," and what they've been doing for decades is the latter.
Even in a mea culpa, they lie.
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Date: 2010-12-21 08:05 am (UTC)we have neglected to act in gentle love with people among us struggling with their sexual identity
Read: We need more of that ex-gay mythology in our schools!
That sounds just like how all good and decent Christians should "act in gentle love" to convert atheists because they're lost sheep.
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Date: 2010-12-22 03:50 am (UTC)Actually, military chaplains are unarmed which is also why the chaplains assistants which accompany them are also their assigned bodyguards. Here is a link with a photo of chaplain and aid in a training exercise (http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/10/19/28975-chaplain-assistants-are-more-than-just-bodyguards/). Note the patches. If any chaplains would be sort of gung ho, so to speak, it would be the 82nd Airborne (amongst others)
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Date: 2010-12-22 04:04 am (UTC)Oh, but they do speak for the rest of evangelicals. The other evangelicals just don't have the balls to say it in public.