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Man, do you ever have to look for it in order to find it, but here it is:
Valerie Tarico in the Huffington Post
Now, if you've ever read this girl's articles before (or, God forbid, her book The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, then you probably think I've taken yet another step off the beaten path, but read on. I'm going to cut and paste some selected pieces, but I recommend you go read the full article.
No, if we watch Fred Phelps, we think, "Ooh, that's a hero." If we're watching Nadya Suleman, something's dead wrong with our remote. Well, that and, "Ooh, that's nasty."
Well, in the case of the Octomom, she has quite a lot in common with Barack Obinladen. Like what? Well, she seems to have a preference for sex with negroes, for starters. Secondly, the two of them also seem to think that it's somehow the responsibility of white middle-class working folk (hereafter abbreviated to "taxpayers") to pay to support her 17 (SEVENTEEN) daddyless little blender-babies. Thirdly, when they realized that they had taken on impossible tasks by themselves, they immediately started backsliding.
You know, I was originally going to take out her "bibliolatry" accusation, but I'm not gonna. I think it belongs, because it demonstrates her ignorance. We do not worship the Bible, we worship the Divine Author! If following every word of the Author's work makes us bibliolaters in Ms. Tarico's eyes, I guess it makes her "Ordinary Evangelicals" Damned in ours (and in those of Revelation 22:19).
Stories like that of Fred Phelps, Nadya Suleman, and Barack Obama do indeed confront us with our own darkness. For those among us who have never stood and actively protested against a gay marriage initiative, Fred Phelps makes us question what makes us so weak. For those of us who have never acted to prevent the irresponsible mishandling of Satanic monkeying-with-birth-and-life experimentation, why not? If you're not stockpiling and preparing for the Second Civil War in this country, then what are you waiting for?
To be asking these questions shows plain and simple that SOMEBODY ain't been reading their Bible and ain't got any common sense. "Too many" is more than you can feed! The parents are responsible! They deserve what their parents can get for them! Ditto! (and for the big, grand finale) GOD DECIDES, STUPID!
This bleeding-heart lieberal treehugging tax-and-spender would have every one of us plugged into a machine, pulling the very blood out of us and giving it to anemics, given the chance, but in looking at what she has to say - and more importantly, what she asks - I think she can help us to get a line drawn in the sand.
Valerie Tarico in the Huffington Post
Now, if you've ever read this girl's articles before (or, God forbid, her book The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, then you probably think I've taken yet another step off the beaten path, but read on. I'm going to cut and paste some selected pieces, but I recommend you go read the full article.
...we watch Fred "God hates Fags" Phelps or Nadya Suleman and think, ooh, that's nasty.
What do they have in common with Barack Obama?!
If we're honest, the revulsion we feel toward Phelps and Suleman is partly because they confront us with our own darkness. Ordinary Evangelicals - decent loving people who are bound to homophobia by bibliolatry -- cringe at the horrid, hateful signs that Phelps waves in the name of their God.
Stories like that of Fred Phelps, Nadya Suleman, and Barack Obama do indeed confront us with our own darkness. For those among us who have never stood and actively protested against a gay marriage initiative, Fred Phelps makes us question what makes us so weak. For those of us who have never acted to prevent the irresponsible mishandling of Satanic monkeying-with-birth-and-life experimentation, why not? If you're not stockpiling and preparing for the Second Civil War in this country, then what are you waiting for?
How many is too many? Who is responsible? What do those children -- with their likely disabilities -- deserve in terms of care? What do all children deserve in terms of care? Who decides?
This bleeding-heart lieberal treehugging tax-and-spender would have every one of us plugged into a machine, pulling the very blood out of us and giving it to anemics, given the chance, but in looking at what she has to say - and more importantly, what she asks - I think she can help us to get a line drawn in the sand.
wasn't enough to teach them, and 
ain't managed to get it through their heads yet, then I can't see that they have no other choices but 
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