Have you actually read the original posts in question instead of the selections offered by Donahue? Because neither one is slandering Christianity in general, but both are raking down the illegal attempts of some Christians to legislate their morality over the lives of people, particularly women, in this country. As I do quite often myself, frankly - the push to make sure that women can't access contraception, or birth control, or abortion comes exclusively from Christians. So does the attempt to gut scientific standards in favor of creationism, or whatever its name du jour is.
Not to mention the hypocracy of mega preachers like Haggard harassing gay people for being gay... while he's so deep in the closet he can see Narnia. Or Fred Phelps protesting outside funerals.
Every single one of those people claims that it is their Christianity that gives them the moral right to do what they do, and that pointing out their illegality and immorality is vile, anti-Christian hate speech.
And yet, I (and Amanda, and Shakespeare's Sister) know well the difference between people of faith. I've always called it the "Fred to Fred Scale" because both Fred Phelps and Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers") are Christians, and their attitudes and actions are worlds apart.
Neither woman smeared all Christians. But oh, it's amazing how fast people will twist their words to claim so, to point to the unending "War on Christians" that's as real as the "War on Christmas."
Know what's really interesting? They weren't asked to leave the campaign because of the backlash. They both left because of the hate mail that came in waves when the backlash didn't get what Donahue wanted - those uppity women put in their place.
Amanda had someone pounding on the door of her house threatening her. Tell me again who the small, vicious, intolerate hatemonger is?
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Date: 2007-02-16 09:41 pm (UTC)Not to mention the hypocracy of mega preachers like Haggard harassing gay people for being gay... while he's so deep in the closet he can see Narnia. Or Fred Phelps protesting outside funerals.
Every single one of those people claims that it is their Christianity that gives them the moral right to do what they do, and that pointing out their illegality and immorality is vile, anti-Christian hate speech.
And yet, I (and Amanda, and Shakespeare's Sister) know well the difference between people of faith. I've always called it the "Fred to Fred Scale" because both Fred Phelps and Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers") are Christians, and their attitudes and actions are worlds apart.
Neither woman smeared all Christians. But oh, it's amazing how fast people will twist their words to claim so, to point to the unending "War on Christians" that's as real as the "War on Christmas."
Know what's really interesting? They weren't asked to leave the campaign because of the backlash. They both left because of the hate mail that came in waves when the backlash didn't get what Donahue wanted - those uppity women put in their place.
Amanda had someone pounding on the door of her house threatening her. Tell me again who the small, vicious, intolerate hatemonger is?