Comments on: Obama, Bigotry, and Balance … and Death Threats http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/ A Blog by Jim Wallis and Friends Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:13:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Obama, Bigotry, and Balance … and Death Threats | Mission & Justice http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-2/#comment-95112 Obama, Bigotry, and Balance … and Death Threats | Mission & Justice Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:06:48 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-95112 [...] See: ; http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/ [...] [...] See: ; http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/ [...]

]]> By: Jonwards http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-2/#comment-111219 Jonwards Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:59:44 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-111219 [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]<br><br>In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big "signs" that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the "days of Lot" (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide "sign" (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture - you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint - San Andreas - may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!<br><br>[Other Google items you can read include "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."] [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]

In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big “signs” that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the “days of Lot” (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide “sign” (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture – you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint – San Andreas – may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!

[Other Google items you can read include "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]

]]> By: Jonwards http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-2/#comment-111220 Jonwards Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:57:55 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-111220 [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]<br><br>In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big "signs" that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the "days of Lot" (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide "sign" (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture - you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint - San Andreas - may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!<br><br>[On Google you can also run into "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."] [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]

In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big “signs” that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the “days of Lot” (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide “sign” (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture – you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint – San Andreas – may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!

[On Google you can also run into "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]

]]> By: Jonwards http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-2/#comment-107551 Jonwards Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:59:44 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-107551 [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]<br><br>In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big "signs" that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the "days of Lot" (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide "sign" (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture - you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint - San Andreas - may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!<br><br>[Other Google items you can read include "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."] [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]

In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big “signs” that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the “days of Lot” (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide “sign” (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture – you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint – San Andreas – may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!

[Other Google items you can read include "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]

]]> By: Jonwards http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-107552 Jonwards Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:57:55 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-107552 [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]<br><br>In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big "signs" that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the "days of Lot" (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide "sign" (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture - you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint - San Andreas - may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!<br><br>[On Google you can also run into "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."] [It's still legal - and always God-honoring - to air messages like the following. (See Ezekiel 3:18-19.) In light of government backing of raunchy behavior (such offenders were even executed in early America!), maybe the separation we really need is the "separation of raunch and state"!]

In Luke 17 in the New Testament, Jesus said that one of the big “signs” that will happen shortly before His return to earth as Judge will be a repeat of the “days of Lot” (see Genesis 19 for details). So gays are actually helping to fulfill this same worldwide “sign” (and making the Bible even more believable!) and thus hurrying up the return of the Judge! They are accomplishing what many preachers haven't accomplished! Gays couldn't have accomplished this by just coming out of closets into bedrooms. Instead, they invented new architecture – you know, closets opening on to Main Streets where little kids would be able to watch naked men having sex with each other at festivals in places like San Francisco (where their underground saint – San Andreas – may soon get a big jolt out of what's going on over his head!). Thanks, gays, for figuring out how to bring back our resurrected Saviour even quicker!

[On Google you can also run into "Obama Avoids Bible Verses" and "David Letterman's Hate, Etc."]

]]> By: Palosaari http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-107553 Palosaari Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:21:10 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-107553 If someone had yelled out "You lie!" to George Bush II during his speech in front of Congress, I would have considered them to actually be right. I would also have considered them to have engaged in a grave breach of decorum and to have done something completely inappropriate. If someone had yelled out “You lie!” to George Bush II during his speech in front of Congress, I would have considered them to actually be right. I would also have considered them to have engaged in a grave breach of decorum and to have done something completely inappropriate.

]]> By: Chinese martial arts Tai Chi offers effective treatment for … | Martial Arts Leisure Knowledge http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94578 Chinese martial arts Tai Chi offers effective treatment for … | Martial Arts Leisure Knowledge Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94578 [...] Obama, Bigotry, and Balance … and Death Threats - Ryan Rodrick … [...] [...] Obama, Bigotry, and Balance … and Death Threats – Ryan Rodrick … [...]

]]> By: NC77 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94507 NC77 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:18:29 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94507 Huh? Huh?

]]> By: BuckeyeDon http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94454 BuckeyeDon Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:22:43 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94454 You were in Pittsburgh? That's only about a three hour drive from where I live. Too bad; maybe we could have met somewhere.<br><br>And since you were there, how do you think those Penguins will do this season? You were in Pittsburgh? That's only about a three hour drive from where I live. Too bad; maybe we could have met somewhere.

And since you were there, how do you think those Penguins will do this season?

]]> By: canucklehead http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94453 canucklehead Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:26:42 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94453 Hey Don, good to see you back. I spent some time in your country the last few days, trying to bring some light to those you identify - those who live in darkness regarding true socialism...anybody else happen to notice that at the G20 last week they were asking the Canadians for advice on banking so as to avoid more debacles like you've had down there in recent months. To listen to many Americans, they are convinced the Canadian banking system is socialist b/c we have a handful of chartered banks as opposed to a gazillion who are out to promote and protect their...you get my drift.<br><br>Sadly, I was reminded again that there is none so blind as he who will not see. Hey Don, good to see you back. I spent some time in your country the last few days, trying to bring some light to those you identify – those who live in darkness regarding true socialism…anybody else happen to notice that at the G20 last week they were asking the Canadians for advice on banking so as to avoid more debacles like you've had down there in recent months. To listen to many Americans, they are convinced the Canadian banking system is socialist b/c we have a handful of chartered banks as opposed to a gazillion who are out to promote and protect their…you get my drift.

Sadly, I was reminded again that there is none so blind as he who will not see.

]]> By: Ashleigh101 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94195 Ashleigh101 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:32:14 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94195 "Yes. Zero."<br><br>You're in denial.<br><br>"Yet you dish your own hate on this blog with impunity because you have regularly projected your own attitude onto us and, frankly, I won't stand for it."<br><br>Apparently it is not me who cannot "stand any criticsm." Look at your own reaction. You "won't stand for it?" Oh brother.<br><br>"As far as I'm concerned, your bellyaching about "liberals" has no authority here."<br><br>Oh, I don't "bellyache," I just point out a whole heck of a lot of facts. And in typical fashion, those who are staunchly liberal can't stand it and deny what is factual. “Yes. Zero.”

You're in denial.

“Yet you dish your own hate on this blog with impunity because you have regularly projected your own attitude onto us and, frankly, I won't stand for it.”

Apparently it is not me who cannot “stand any criticsm.” Look at your own reaction. You “won't stand for it?” Oh brother.

“As far as I'm concerned, your bellyaching about “liberals” has no authority here.”

Oh, I don't “bellyache,” I just point out a whole heck of a lot of facts. And in typical fashion, those who are staunchly liberal can't stand it and deny what is factual.

]]> By: BlueDeacon http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94193 BlueDeacon Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:02:44 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94193 Yes. Zero. Due to your hypersensitivity you apparently can't stand any<br>criticism whatsoever of the conservative agenda; keep in mind that I have<br>consistently provided specific instances of what I'm talking about, which is<br>different from what you accuse me of. Yet you dish your own hate on this blog<br>with impunity because you have regularly projected your own attitude onto us<br>and, frankly, I won't stand for it. As far as I'm concerned, your bellyaching<br>about "liberals" has no authority here. Yes. Zero. Due to your hypersensitivity you apparently can't stand any
criticism whatsoever of the conservative agenda; keep in mind that I have
consistently provided specific instances of what I'm talking about, which is
different from what you accuse me of. Yet you dish your own hate on this blog
with impunity because you have regularly projected your own attitude onto us
and, frankly, I won't stand for it. As far as I'm concerned, your bellyaching
about “liberals” has no authority here.

]]> By: Ashleigh101 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94190 Ashleigh101 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:46:37 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94190 LOL! Zero? Really? Go back and reread all your comments at this website (on various blogs). It's not hard to "keep track" because those types of comments pervade most all of your posts. LOL! Zero? Really? Go back and reread all your comments at this website (on various blogs). It's not hard to “keep track” because those types of comments pervade most all of your posts.

]]> By: BlueDeacon http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94134 BlueDeacon Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:23:59 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94134 Zero, but you're keeping track because you seem to be so easily offended. Zero, but you're keeping track because you seem to be so easily offended.

]]> By: Ashleigh101 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94125 Ashleigh101 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:53:14 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94125 And yet another comment by BlueDeacon on the horrible, evil "white evangelical." How many does that make? And yet another comment by BlueDeacon on the horrible, evil “white evangelical.” How many does that make?

]]> By: Sojourners, multiple angles on Obama’s UN speech « Tracking American Evangelical Politics http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94114 Sojourners, multiple angles on Obama’s UN speech « Tracking American Evangelical Politics Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:47:13 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94114 [...] discusses the role of racism in opposition to Obama’s policies and what the Christian response should [...] [...] discusses the role of racism in opposition to Obama’s policies and what the Christian response should [...]

]]> By: BuckeyeDon http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94057 BuckeyeDon Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:01:07 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94057 Yeah, and I laugh every time I hear Obama being called a socialist. Define socialism, please. If Obama were a socialist, his health care proposal would be to have the government run all the hospitals and clinics and pay all doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, radiologists, etc. out of the government payroll.<br><br>The real socialist was--guess who?--George W. Bush! He's the one who nationalized the banks and the auto companies. THAT'S real socialism! Yeah, and I laugh every time I hear Obama being called a socialist. Define socialism, please. If Obama were a socialist, his health care proposal would be to have the government run all the hospitals and clinics and pay all doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, radiologists, etc. out of the government payroll.

The real socialist was–guess who?–George W. Bush! He's the one who nationalized the banks and the auto companies. THAT'S real socialism!

]]> By: BlueDeacon http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94039 BlueDeacon Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:49:42 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94039 <I>You hear cries of "Marxism" and "Socialism" against Obama because of his<br>POLICIES. Not because of racism.</I><br><br>Most of those people don't even know what Marxism and socialism represent, so<br>they don't know what they're talking about.<br><br><I>You know, I could very, very easily view all blacks as thugs, criminals,<br>and thieves based on what many blacks have done in this nation, and that would<br>be just like you are doing in the way you view white evangelicals.</I><br><br>Except that white evangelical <I>leadership</I> and <I>media</I> support such<br>things, and since conservatives tend to work from the top down and don't check<br>things out for themselves it's pretty easy to assume what most actually<br>believe. You hear cries of “Marxism” and “Socialism” against Obama because of his
POLICIES. Not because of racism.

Most of those people don't even know what Marxism and socialism represent, so
they don't know what they're talking about.

You know, I could very, very easily view all blacks as thugs, criminals,
and thieves based on what many blacks have done in this nation, and that would
be just like you are doing in the way you view white evangelicals.

Except that white evangelical leadership and media support such
things, and since conservatives tend to work from the top down and don't check
things out for themselves it's pretty easy to assume what most actually
believe.

]]> By: kansasmennonite http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94031 kansasmennonite Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:10:44 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94031 Ashleigh, at some point you're going to have to quit supporting Wilson or take the blunt of his "mistake" on this blog. <br><br>I've heard your arguments against BluleDeacon and I don't believe you can (or I) can understand him since we're not in his shoes. Just try and listen instead of argue for a change. Ashleigh, at some point you're going to have to quit supporting Wilson or take the blunt of his “mistake” on this blog.

I've heard your arguments against BluleDeacon and I don't believe you can (or I) can understand him since we're not in his shoes. Just try and listen instead of argue for a change.

]]> By: Ashleigh101 http://blog.sojo.net/2009/09/25/obama-bigotry-and-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-94007 Ashleigh101 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:25:19 +0000 http://blog.sojo.net/?p=11873#comment-94007 You hear cries of "Marxism" and "Socialism" against Obama because of his POLICIES. Not because of racism.<br><br>Tell me? What do you think of some blacks... like let's say those in the Crips, an L.A. criminal gang founded by two black men? Or how about this black guy in Oakland not long ago who shot and killed four officers, each of them white and/or Hispanic? Or how about some of the blacks in New Orleans, who during the flood, looted stores and stole things that did not belong to them?<br><br>You know, I could very, very easily view all blacks as thugs, criminals, and thieves based on what many blacks have done in this nation, and that would be just like you are doing in the way you view white evangelicals.<br><br>But, I know that not all blacks are thugs, criminals, and theives, just as not all whites and white evangelicals are not racist. You hear cries of “Marxism” and “Socialism” against Obama because of his POLICIES. Not because of racism.

Tell me? What do you think of some blacks… like let's say those in the Crips, an L.A. criminal gang founded by two black men? Or how about this black guy in Oakland not long ago who shot and killed four officers, each of them white and/or Hispanic? Or how about some of the blacks in New Orleans, who during the flood, looted stores and stole things that did not belong to them?

You know, I could very, very easily view all blacks as thugs, criminals, and thieves based on what many blacks have done in this nation, and that would be just like you are doing in the way you view white evangelicals.

But, I know that not all blacks are thugs, criminals, and theives, just as not all whites and white evangelicals are not racist.

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