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problems. Currently, 300 students at Crane High have been diagnosed with the irritating but highly treatable condition. Members of the Texas educational system seemed confused by the Department of Health’s pronouncement, claiming that the presence of a sexually transmitted disease at the campus is virtually impossible, especially since Madonna has refused to play the senior prom for decades. The school does not offer sexual education -- Crane High instead relies on a faith-based abstinence-only program. “Our kids aren’t having sexual relations,” one administrator said. “It’s a sin, and they know it. The only explanation for this plague is that God has cursed us with the boils of Egypt.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ERepresentatives from the district, many of whom refuse to attribute the outbreak to an STD, believe the Lord has sent a blight to the school as a divine punishment. The reason, they claim, is that too few Texans showed up to participate in the intentionally offensive, anti-Islamic “Draw Muhammad” contest organized by Pamela Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), both registered as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeller’s event may trace its origins to 2010’s “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” which was intended as a symbolic movement to demonstrate support for freedom of artistic expression, and to protest the radical Islamic factions targeting satirists and animators such as slain cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the creators of “South Park.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe spectacle in Texas, on the other hand, was meant to exemplify the cruel might and majesty of Christ by taunting jihadists with blasphemous actions that, hopefully, would rile them to violence and set in motion the apocalypse, during which time the Christian God can destroy the heathens. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFarley Huntsacker, a PTA member, blamed the people of Texas, not the contest, for God’s displeasure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Poor attendance was a big part of it,” he explained. “A measly handful of folks showed up to desecrate the Muslim prophet in the name of our forgiving savior, Jesus H. Christ. It was such a bad turnout that only two terrorists even bothered to drop by. But what I think angered the Lord more’n all that was nobody there was carrying their guns. They had to wait for a cop to come and kill the jihadists. Now that’s a sin.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Texas, the school boards now recognize the U.S. Constitution as the creation of a Heavenly Father, not the nation’s Founding Fathers, although Moses is officially listed among that group. Weapons ownership, as much as prayer, is a spiritual expression of faith in Jesus and his message of peace. The fact that unarmed Texans attended Geller’s gathering is, in Huntsacker’s opinion, a worse moral transgression than homosexuality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If this is the state of Texas today, what are we going to do this summer when the Jade Helm 15 conquest begins -- when Barack Obama bin Laden sends his Islamic military storming through here to topple the country for the Iranians and the Chinese? If we’ve given up guns, I guess we should start fixing to eat cats and whatever the hell’s in Persian food.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for the alleged chlamydia outbreak, officials plan to implement mandatory prayer sessions throughout the regular school day, and base all academic lessons exclusively on the teachings of the Bible, across classes and subjects. They have no immediate plans to revisit their abstinence-only curriculum, as explained to parents in a recent letter:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Crane Independent School District does not offer a curriculum in human sexuality. State law requires more attention be spent on abstinence than other behaviors. Teaching our children about their bodies is, in fact, illegal. We’re Crane ISD, not Crane IUD. We would instead like to make our parents aware, or more aware, of a problem that has been identified in our teenagers and young adults of our community -- lack of faith. As we know from Deuteronomy 28:27, when offended or slighted, ‘The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.’ We firmly believe that our community is being punished for the sins of this nation -- for accepting sodomites as equals, allowing women to work or make choices about their bodies, and refusing to obey the laws of Leviticus. Only through prayer and atonement can we cure our stricken children of this pox.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2015. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/7566014600107305004"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/7566014600107305004"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2015\/05\/texas-school-says-biblical-plague-not.html","title":"Texas School Says Biblical Plague, Not Chlamydia, Responsible for Outbreak"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-YwsB-dJlk2w\/VUrcmXw-uRI\/AAAAAAAAaEA\/NpmFEdTIJ6A\/s72-c\/ChlamydiaHolyPox.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-2040130008668921245"},"published":{"$t":"2015-04-07T21:53:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-04-07T21:53:57.236-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Crime"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"neo-conservatives"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"NRA"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"police"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"shooting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"South Carolina Police Shooting Proves Whites Still More Afraid of Unarmed Blacks Than Gays"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hiTj0Vvxc1k\/VSSzO3_mO5I\/AAAAAAAAZ2E\/H0ZKjctpj44\/s1600\/150407-michael-slager-mn-1900_fc41a6f3a7a4e0c50fca22c46169863c.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hiTj0Vvxc1k\/VSSzO3_mO5I\/AAAAAAAAZ2E\/H0ZKjctpj44\/s1600\/150407-michael-slager-mn-1900_fc41a6f3a7a4e0c50fca22c46169863c.JPG\" height=\"548\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- On Tuesday, authorities in South Carolina announced that a 33-year-old police officer will face murder charges for the shooting death of an unarmed black man during a routine traffic stop. North Charleston Officer Michael Slager gunned down Walter Scott, 50, as he ran from the policeman’s drawn pistol. Video of the confrontation, captured by a bystander near the scene, clearly shows that the officer pumped at least eight rounds into Scott’s back. He then cuffed the hands of the corpse. Seizing the opportunity to divert attention away from recent controversies, relieved Republican lawmakers said the South Carolina tragedy settles a longstanding debate on the contentious topic of civil rights: uptight, conservative white people are still more afraid of unarmed black men than gays.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAlthough Slager displayed no outward signs of fear as Walter Scott fled, the act of placing restraints on the dead body demonstrates the terror consuming police officers today -- even dead unarmed black men are perceived as threatening. Officials in South Carolina responded swiftly and decisively in punishing Slager, actions that legislators in other states have downplayed or ignored. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERacially charged showdowns between law enforcement and unarmed citizens of color have dominated the national conversation. Similar slaughters rocked Ferguson, Mo., New York City, Sanford, Fla., and other communities in recent years. These encounters are overshadowed only by the debates raging over equal rights for Christians who want to condemn LGBT individuals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome white conservatives attempted to defend the police officer’s role in the shooting as the exercise of religious beliefs. “It’s not racism or discrimination, the Bible warns us against the inhabitants of Africa countless times, and tells us how they should be dealt with under the only law that matters in this country,” explained Ezekiel Buelford, an advocate for embattled religious freedom acts in several states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In Chronicles 14,” he said, “the Lord smites the Ethiopians. ‘Do not forgive them!’ the good book instructs us in Isaiah, referencing the idol-worshiping heathens of northern Africa. The actions of this peace officer are no more bigoted than a law that allows decent people to ban perverted, AIDS-riddled sodomites from infecting their stores.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBuelford also supports a proposed California initiative, The Sodomite Suppression Act, which would sanction the execution of LGBT persons under provisions described in Leviticus. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERepresentatives for the National Rifle Association, the nation’s outspoken weapons lobby, suggested their own remedy for the alarming number of police shootings involving unarmed black males. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We have tirelessly championed a law that makes carrying a gun mandatory for all U.S. citizens,” the NRA wrote in a press statement Tuesday evening. “If these people were armed, it would certainly justify the police slaying them. It would also make things tidier -- we’d only have the mess of yellow crime scene tape to clean up, not an endless coil of bureaucratic red tape.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2015. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/2040130008668921245"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/2040130008668921245"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2015\/04\/south-carolina-police-shooting-proves.html","title":"South Carolina Police Shooting Proves Whites Still More Afraid of Unarmed Blacks Than Gays"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-hiTj0Vvxc1k\/VSSzO3_mO5I\/AAAAAAAAZ2E\/H0ZKjctpj44\/s72-c\/150407-michael-slager-mn-1900_fc41a6f3a7a4e0c50fca22c46169863c.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-299275794015312536"},"published":{"$t":"2015-03-30T14:16:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-03-30T14:16:04.524-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"indiana"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"law"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"social conservatives"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Pence Says Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law Not Targeting Gays: It Discriminates Against All Groups Christians Oppose"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-c11KHjOnMH4\/VRm87l8OmDI\/AAAAAAAAZwo\/x2FOpgkTu0s\/s1600\/Indiana%2BSEA%2B101.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-c11KHjOnMH4\/VRm87l8OmDI\/AAAAAAAAZwo\/x2FOpgkTu0s\/s1600\/Indiana%2BSEA%2B101.jpg\" height=\"426\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- A controversial bill about religious freedom, signed by Indiana Governor Mike Pence, provoked national outcry from civil liberties advocates and drew harsh criticism against the Midwestern state. The law is reminiscent of Arizona’s discriminatory Senate Bill 1062, and also allows business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gays and lesbians. Pence defended his Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SEA 101) as a means to protect the religious freedoms of Christian-based enterprises. As most people know, the wealthy and powerful evangelical Christian community that runs the country has fallen under attack in recent years by a growing number of hysterical socialists who want to curb that community’s right to exercise its practice of bigotry and intolerance -- a fundamental U.S. freedom. But Gov. Pence claims that the law’s detractors have grossly misunderstood its reach. “The bill doesn’t discriminate against gays, that’s a false assessment and a narrow view of its scope; it discriminates against all groups of people that Christians hate,” he snapped during a recent press conference.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe legislation prohibits any state law that would infringe upon or “substantially burden” an individual’s ability to pursue his or her religious beliefs, so long as they are Christian, no matter how hateful, prejudiced or destructive they may be. In doing so, SEA 101 paves the way for open discrimination against members of the LGBT community, according to opponents. Pence, however, believes critics are focusing on one limited aspect. The law, he explained, would open the door for denying service and even employment opportunities to women, Jews, witches, wizards, atheists, blacks (who, the governor asserts, practice demon worship and voodoo), Asians (Buddhists, Shinto, Sikhs, Hindus, et al.), Muslims, divorcees, the poor and people who flagrantly indulge in Red Lobster’s all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligious critics who oppose the measure cite Matthew 22:21 in which Jesus states, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Jesus clearly understood that one’s faith and one’s obligation under established laws belong to two separate worlds -- the essence of the “separation of church and state” clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Indiana lawmakers, opponents charge, have misunderstood the nature of this message. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Such claims are not only gross understatements but misleading sentiments used by political opponents to further their own agendas,” Pence said. “The fact is, SEA 101 gives Christian entrepreneurs full license to refuse accommodations to any heathen, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligiously conservative lobbying groups have spent millions of dollars to back the bill, explaining that it promotes religious liberty for shopkeepers and service providers whose faith prohibits them from serving homosexuals. But again, Pence said the bill encompasses so much more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s cute when liberals call this a Jim Crow law for gays,” he quipped. “Jim Crow just targeted blacks. Our bill sets its sights on any distasteful group -- blacks, Christ-killing Jews, fruits, illegal aliens, women, you name it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, the bill’s aims are much loftier, although religiously righteous homophobia may have served as the catalyst. For lawmakers such as Pence, the bill defends biblically sanctioned homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny and more. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Look, I believe a bunch of dirty Jews killed Christ, so under SEA 101, I can now hang a ‘No Jews Allowed’ sign outside my establishment,” Pence explained. “I think Mormons pervert the factual history of Jesus as outlined in the Bible, so I can refuse service to their cult, as well. In Deuteronomy 7, God tells the Israelites to ‘smite and utterly destroy’ foreigners. He also says, ‘Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor shew mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them.’ So this dovetails nicely with our forthcoming anti-immigration bill. We’ll be able refuse service to Mexicans, for example, and deport them. Maybe even more.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChapter 25 of Numbers illustrates the Lord’s wrath at discovering occurrences of interracial marriage, He kills the offending parties. Under SEA 101, Christian restaurant operators would have no problem banning mixed couples from their diners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThroughout Corinthians, Ephesians, Timothy and Romans, to name a few books, the Bible mandates the silence of women and their subservience to their husbands. Under the provisions of Indiana’s new law, Christian shopkeepers can deny helping, or even acknowledging, unescorted or demanding women in their facilities. In Deuteronomy 22:5, women who wear similar attire as men are labeled “abominations.” Again, Indiana frees Christian-based men’s clothing retailers from having to deal with abominable women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s a much broader piece of legislation than gay rights groups believe,” Pence concluded. “I sincerely hope the true message and full breadth of the bill doesn’t get lost amid all the simpering, selfish and blasphemous noise of these mincing nancies.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2015. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/299275794015312536"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/299275794015312536"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2015\/03\/pence-says-indianas-religious-freedom.html","title":"Pence Says Indiana’s Religious Freedom Law Not Targeting Gays: It Discriminates Against All Groups Christians Oppose"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-c11KHjOnMH4\/VRm87l8OmDI\/AAAAAAAAZwo\/x2FOpgkTu0s\/s72-c\/Indiana%2BSEA%2B101.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-4053658107167043603"},"published":{"$t":"2015-01-14T23:16:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2015-01-14T23:23:50.736-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chick-fil-a"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Community News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay marriage"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Chick-Fil-A Gives Needy Man Food and Gloves, Then Snatches Them Back After Learning He’s Gay"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tF56YOSu6ZY\/VLdq_Ek-GkI\/AAAAAAAAZKI\/QDoVIry1qtc\/s1600\/Jesus%2BChic-fil-A.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tF56YOSu6ZY\/VLdq_Ek-GkI\/AAAAAAAAZKI\/QDoVIry1qtc\/s1600\/Jesus%2BChic-fil-A.jpg\" height=\"640\" width=\"452\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- Although temperatures are climbing back into the upper 70s and lower 80s -- the cool winter weather Californians are accustomed to -- January has been an unusually frosty affair, with daytime highs barely reaching the 60s. Yes, this brutal winter has hit the Southland hard. Hipsters say they’ve been forced to knit beard warmers. Beachgoers have resorted to wearing sarongs and hoodies. And many homeowners have confessed to firing up their jacuzzis, months before spa season. It was especially frigid on January 7 when locals packed the Bennington Vale Chick-fil-A to escape the cold for a spell. These diners were soon joined by a disheveled man -- clearly one of the homeless bankers from Hobo Gardens, the county’s “extro-urban” transient community. But Chick-fil-A, to the wide grins and approving nods of every patron in the restaurant, honored its Christian values by providing the hungry man with a free meal -- and then promptly wrested it from his grubby hands after identifying him as gay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAccording to diners, the man who entered the store was unkempt and wearing inappropriate clothes -- a rainbow colored sweater, old flip-flops and fraying denim jeans. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It was obvious to everyone that the guy had come from Hobo Gardens or off the interstate near the North Viaduct area, which is super sketchy,” said Zachary Butterfield, 19, the assistant manager of the Chick-fil-A. “Some people come in from time to time -- nothing designer on them, like used stuff from a Walmart or Ross -- so you kind of know.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs it turned out, Butterfield’s assumption was correct. The man revealed his plight when he asked to help out with chores or perform some work in exchange for food. Butterfield said he couldn’t let an unwashed and possibly diseased indigent handle any of the restaurant’s equipment or ingredients, but rather than tossing the man back to the cold streets without a morsel in his belly, Butterfield invited him to enjoy a complimentary chicken sandwich with waffle fries and a beverage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Butterfield personally delivered the meal, he noticed the transient rubbing his hands together for warmth. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“In this kind of weather, like around 59 or 60 degrees, your hands start shaking and your fingers freeze up,” Butterfield said. “I worried what might happen to this guy without gloves, especially at night when the temperatures can drop into the 40s.” So Zachary ran back to the office, fetched his own gloves and gave them to his guest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe touching scene inspired customers to snap pictures, record videos and post about the encounter on their social networks, which led to the story going viral throughout San Narciso and neighboring communities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that wasn’t the end of tale. As the man finished his food, he thanked Butterfield profusely for his generosity: “It’s hard enough being in this situation, but as an openly gay man in a very conservative area, nobody would even let me into their establishments, let alone serve me food.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWitnesses said Butterfield looked stunned, frozen in place, but quickly sprang into action as the homeless homosexual stepped outside the doors. Zachary grabbed the man, cursed his unclean and aberrant lifestyle choices, and then administered a violent sort of Heimlich maneuver until the abomination disgorged the food it had eaten. One Chick-fil-A representative reached for comment described this set of actions as a common practice in the company, informally known as an “exorcism.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaula Shawnery, a frequent customer, said the scene brought her to tears: “I was sobbing when Zach fed that poor creature, but the waterworks really kicked in when he tackled him outside. I was so appreciative for what Zach had done, and I’m going to use his example as a teaching moment for my son.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZachary Butterfield said other patrons expressed similar adulation, which he called a truly humbling experience. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It all comes from the Cathy family and the principles Chick-fil-A has been established on,” Butterfield explained. “To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A, who aren’t heathens or queers.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShawnery enthusiastically agreed. “It’s a different culture than most places. Within Chick-fil-A, you have the freedom to be that kind of person -- a person who stands strong in the grace of Christ to defy filthy, godless, child-molesting, puppy-kicking, dope-shooting, flesh-eating sodomites bent on the destruction of the American family, decency and taste.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn July 2012, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy outraged the LGBT community when he posted a controversial response to the gay marriage debate on his blog: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ And I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.” Cathy went on to arrogantly define marriage as between a man and a woman. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater that week, he held a press conference to clarify Chick-fil-A’s stance as maintaining the sanctity of marriage based on biblical doctrines, not merely opposing laws enacted to let “demonic sodomites copulate with impunity.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo months later, however, Cathy reversed his position and announced that Chick-fil-A would cease funding all organizations working to oppose same-sex marriage, choosing the almighty dollar over the Almighty’s hatred of gays. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena,” Cathy wrote to the advocacy group Civil Rights Agenda (CRA). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Whether gays have the right to wed is a different argument than whether they will go to Heaven, which we know they won’t,” the letter continued. “The voters will decide the fate of their marital status. God will determine when they get AIDS, perish after terrible suffering and pain, and burn for eternity in Hell, where poorly coiffed women in last season’s shoes will flay the skin from their roasting corpses while singing Broadway tunes off key and misquoting the lyrics. We hope our customers take solace in knowing we have not betrayed our belief in the values of Christ’s teachings or his divine love for all his straight children.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2015. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/4053658107167043603"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/4053658107167043603"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2015\/01\/chick-fil-gives-needy-man-food-and.html","title":"Chick-Fil-A Gives Needy Man Food and Gloves, Then Snatches Them Back After Learning He’s Gay"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tF56YOSu6ZY\/VLdq_Ek-GkI\/AAAAAAAAZKI\/QDoVIry1qtc\/s72-c\/Jesus%2BChic-fil-A.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-7336927309448256479"},"published":{"$t":"2014-03-05T13:41:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-03-05T13:41:27.915-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ash wednesday"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Community News"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"holidays"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"republican"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Uncommon Ash Wednesday Ritual Leads to Confusion and Confrontation in California Town"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-czKlDXSAjRA\/TXlHfDLhl8I\/AAAAAAAACSQ\/f7h2VjngmLI\/s1600\/Ash-Wednesday.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-czKlDXSAjRA\/TXlHfDLhl8I\/AAAAAAAACSQ\/f7h2VjngmLI\/s1600\/Ash-Wednesday.jpg\" height=\"601\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- A larger-than-usual gathering of Catholics celebrating Ash Wednesday in Bennington Vale caused confusion and havoc among the community's predominantly white Republican Evangelical Protestant population. According to Mike Fallopian, Yoyodyne executive and chairman of the conservative Peter Pinguid Society, the problem began with an incident at the area Whole Foods. \"At first I wasn't sure what I was seeing,\" Fallopian explained. \"These three women were standing in line with dirt smeared all over their faces. Normally, when you politely tell a person she has something on her face, she discreetly wipes it away and thanks you. Not so much on Ash Wednesday, it turns out.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EFallopian claimed that one woman became angry and vocal, which led to a confrontation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The store employees didn't even know what to do, with that harpy screaming the way she was about Jesus and stuff,\" Fallopian continued. \"We all know about Jesus here. This is a Judeo-Christian community, not a Catholic bayou hootenanny. The good people in this town don't go in for all that heretical hoodoo. There's some Jews here too. I can't imagine they were any happier. Those crosses the women drew on their foreheads in dirt -- they looked like swastikas. Can you imagine?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFather Preternature, who presides over the county's only Catholic church, said his membership had increased recently, but that most of the people in San Narciso County have limited exposure to Catholic rituals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It's the community's fault,\" Preternature complained. \"They've been dragging unprecedented numbers of immigrants here from Arizona for landscaping and such. These people are mostly Catholic, and I've been happy to open my doors to them. They didn't deserve the treatment they received.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFallopian said that new citizens need to make more of an effort to integrate to the social norms of the community, if they seek acceptance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It took years for us to understand why the only deli in Bennington Vale shut down before dark every Friday night, and stayed closed all Saturday,\" Fallopian continued. \"I can't imagine how long it will take to acclimate to yet another new religion in our Christian culture. Initially, I thought they were just unwashed immigrants. I suppose a Catholic priest smearing dirt on some kid's forehead is better than other things I've read about them smearing.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2014. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/7336927309448256479"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/7336927309448256479"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2014\/03\/uncommon-ash-wednesday-ritual-leads-to.html","title":"Uncommon Ash Wednesday Ritual Leads to Confusion and Confrontation in California Town"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-czKlDXSAjRA\/TXlHfDLhl8I\/AAAAAAAACSQ\/f7h2VjngmLI\/s72-c\/Ash-Wednesday.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-5033083109596694599"},"published":{"$t":"2014-02-26T13:57:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-02-26T13:57:13.710-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"anti-gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"arizona"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"discrimination"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"equality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jan brewer"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"racism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Arizona Lawmakers Say SB1062 Not Anti-Gay, It Discriminates Against Every Group Christians Oppose"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1fcSk90xvkg\/Uw5jBe5wgZI\/AAAAAAAAVZY\/nGTNgaNv1B0\/s1600\/Arizona+SB1062+Full+Scope.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1fcSk90xvkg\/Uw5jBe5wgZI\/AAAAAAAAVZY\/nGTNgaNv1B0\/s1600\/Arizona+SB1062+Full+Scope.jpg\" height=\"494\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has until Saturday to decide whether to veto Senate Bill 1062, which allows business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gays and lesbians. The controversial bill was introduced to protect the religious freedoms of Christian-based enterprises, but in doing so discriminates against members of the LGBT community, according to opponents. It has been dubbed “Turn the Gays Away”  by civil liberties groups and gay rights activists. State senators, however, accused detractors of misinterpreting the intent of SB1062. “The bill doesn’t discriminate against gays, that’s a false assessment;  it discriminates against any group Christians disagree with,” snapped Arizona legislator John Shillelagh-McPaddy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EReligious critics who oppose the measure cite Matthew 22:21 in which Jesus states, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's.” Jesus clearly understood that one’s faith and one’s obligation under established laws belong to two separate worlds -- the essence of the “separation of church and state” clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Arizona lawmakers, opponents claim, have misunderstood the nature of this message. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“To say this bill allows business owners of faith to discriminate against gays is a narrow understanding of its scope,” Sen. Shillelagh-McPaddy said. “Such claims are not only gross understatements but misleading sentiments used by political opponents to further their own agendas. The fact is, SB1062 gives Christian entrepreneurs full license to refuse accommodations for any heathen, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReligiously conservative lobbying groups, such as the Knights of Columbus, have spent millions of dollars to back the bill, explaining that it promotes religious liberty for shopkeepers and service providers whose religion prohibits them from serving homosexuals. But again, Sen. Shillelagh-McPaddy said the bill encompasses so much more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s cute when liberals call this a Jim Crow law for gays,” Sen. Shillelagh-McPaddy quipped. “Jim Crow just targeted blacks. Our bill sets its sights on any distasteful group -- blacks, Christ-killing Jews, fruits, illegal aliens, women, you name it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, the bill’s aims are much loftier, although religiously righteous homophobia may have served as the catalyst. For lawmakers such as Shillelagh-McPaddy, the bill defends biblically sanctioned homophobia, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny and more. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Look, I believe a bunch of dirty Jews killed Christ, so under SB1062, I can now hang a ‘No Jews Allowed’ sign outside my establishment,” Shillelagh-McPaddy explained. “I think Mormons pervert the factual history of Jesus as outlined in the Bible, so I can refuse service to their cult, as well. In Deuteronomy 7, God tells the Israelites to 'smite and utterly destroy' foreigners. He also says, ‘Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor shew mercy unto them. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them.’ So this dovetails nicely with our anti-immigration bill. We can now refuse service to Mexicans, for example, \u003Ci\u003Eand\u003C\/i\u003E deport them. Maybe even more.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChapter 25 of Numbers illustrates the Lord’s wrath at discovering occurrences of interracial marriage, He kills the offending parties. Under SB1062, Christian restaurant operators  would have no problem banning mixed couples from their diners.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThroughout Corinthians, Ephesians, Timothy and Romans, to name a few books, the Bible mandates the silence of women and their subservience to their husbands. Under the provisions of SB106, Christian shopkeepers can deny helping, or even acknowledging, unescorted or demanding women in their facilities. In Deuteronomy 22:5, women who wear similar attire as men are labeled “abominations.” Again, SB1062 frees Christian-based men’s clothing retailers from having to deal with abominable women.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s a much broader piece of legislation than gay rights groups believe,” Shillelagh-McPaddy said. “I sincerely hope the true message and full breadth of the bill doesn’t get lost amid all the simpering, selfish and blasphemous noise of these mincing nancies.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2014. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/5033083109596694599"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/5033083109596694599"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2014\/02\/arizona-lawmakers-say-sb1062-not-anti.html","title":"Arizona Lawmakers Say SB1062 Not Anti-Gay, It Discriminates Against Every Group Christians Oppose"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1fcSk90xvkg\/Uw5jBe5wgZI\/AAAAAAAAVZY\/nGTNgaNv1B0\/s72-c\/Arizona+SB1062+Full+Scope.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7536322267119235073.post-557242215809322323"},"published":{"$t":"2013-04-29T20:47:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-04-29T20:47:10.591-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"basketball"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"christianity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"civil rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fred phelps"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gay"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homosexuality"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"jason collins"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nba"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"religion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"satire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sports"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"westboro baptist church"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Westboro Baptist Church Forms Basketball Team to Protest NBA"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0YxZVWeL-PY\/UX89MtOOegI\/AAAAAAAAK-E\/3hTiNRhqmOk\/s1600\/Phelps+Basketball.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-0YxZVWeL-PY\/UX89MtOOegI\/AAAAAAAAK-E\/3hTiNRhqmOk\/s200\/Phelps+Basketball.jpg\" width=\"196\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cb\u003ESAN NARCISO, Calif.\u003C\/b\u003E (\u003Ci\u003EBennington Vale Evening Transcript\u003C\/i\u003E) -- The professional sports establishment has been an influential force for breaking down barriers over the years. The most obvious being the race barrier. But on Monday, NBA center Jason Collins shattered one of the final impediments when he announced his homosexuality, becoming the first openly gay male athlete to do so while being active in a major team sport. Other players have waited until their retirements to reveal their sexual orientations. Public reactions to Collins' disclosure spanned all ends of the spectrum, from support to condemnation. And not surprisingly, leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church -- the Almighty's constant gardeners, who root out the sinful weeds of homosexuality wherever they take hold -- were there. The extremist Christian sect said it will launch its most elaborate protest yet -- by forming its own pro basketball team.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe controversial group, led by Reverend Fred Phelps and known for its anti-gay and anti-America messages, posted on its website that its members would join the ranks of the NBA to teach the \"ball cupping sodomites\" an understanding of God. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhelps called Collins' decision to come out an \"open rebellion against the Lord and all decency in the world.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"There was a time in my life when I foolishly thought basketball was a lot like Iran -- a devout but belligerent realm devoid of gays,\" Phelps wrote. \"And with all the blacks in the sport, probably Islamic too.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite admitting his initial ignorance in this presumption, Phelps confessed that the sport had always unsettled him, referencing the \"womanish\" nature of a game in which participants \"mince about a school gymnasium, scantily clad in tank tops, short shorts and designer footwear, handling each other's balls.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The NBA is a mockery of America's grandeur and God's patience,\" Phelps stated on his website. \"Lest we forget, this is the house of cards Dennis Rodman built and then defecated on with his transvestism and outlandish gender-bending antics. He perverted an American institution by turning it into a David Bowie concert without music. Then Mrs. Rodman went to befriend our enemies in North Korea, defecating on America itself. So apparently, basketball is the sport of scat queens and traitors.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhelps warned his followers to beware basketball's dangerous, homoerotic symbolism, citing men who \"love nothing more than to hold balls in their hands.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe described the mechanics of the sport as encouraging players to \"stuff their balls into a puckered metal and netting sphincter, while trying not to double dribble. It's aberrant and disgusting, this obscenely choreographed pantomime of sodomy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike the other public gatherings Westboro typically protests, such as celebrity and military funerals, a major sporting event poses unique logistical challenges for the church. Phelps emphasized the need to deploy out-of-the-box strategies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This is a paid venue, so we can't just march into the arena with our banners and signs,\" Phelps explained. \"We'd have to purchase tickets, and we don't have that kind of capital available. So we've decided to start our own team and hit the NBGay from inside.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhelps harbors no illusions about his team's chances against skilled, highly trained athletes. But that's not his goal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Without a doubt, the Westboro Baptist Church will lose every single game we play,\" Phelps told his followers. \"But every game we lose for the sport is a game we win for morality. Our presence there, and the messages we shall deliver, will make us champions. Our losses on the court will become victories for God. Who, I remind you, hates fags and the NBGay.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2013. 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Instead, the episode courted controversy among viewers who claimed the actor portraying Satan bore an uncanny resemblance to President Barack Obama. In a statement issued by the show's producers, reality television mogul Mark Burnett, who developed the series with his wife, called the comparison unintentional and \"utter nonsense.\" Burnett described Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, the actor cast as Satan in human form, as a \"highly acclaimed Moroccan actor. He has previously played parts in several Biblical epics -- including Satanic characters long before Barack Obama was elected as our president.\" Joel Osteen, a neo-conservative megachurch leader who consulted on the project, surprisingly agreed with Burnett, saying the casting decision was not meant as a veiled political attack but a realistic characterization of the devil as \"probably Islamic and black.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca name='more'\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhen Burnett and his wife -- both devout Christians -- approached History Channel with their blockbuster-budget labor of love, they struck a deal to include a group of fundamentally conservative religious advisors to serve as an interfaith panel of experts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We weren't qualified to teach the Bible, but we knew plenty of people who were,\" said Burnett.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe group assembled included pastors Joel Osteen, Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes, Bishop Michael Sheridan, Focus on the Family President Jim Daly and Reverend Samuel Rodriguez. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo really get at the heart of Jesus' parables of love and acceptance, the producers felt, they had to drive home the message of fear, intolerance and cruelty in the scriptures. Burnett's rabidly conservative, literalist, commercial and vocally anti-gay team strove to create the most accurate imaginings of the Bible's tales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENoah's ark, for example, was created using elaborate CGI to fully demonstrate the true scale of the fabled vessel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We know the ark measured 300 cubits, its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits,\" Burnett explained. \"And we know the archaic cubit was determined as the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. So, about 18 inches. That's absurd, though. The ark never could have contained its cargo at those dimensions. Given that races of giants and 700-year-old humans still existed during the antediluvial epochs, we conducted a great deal of historical research to more or less arrive at the average person's forearm being about eight feet long. That would then justify the capacity of the ship.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first concept sketches of Satan were admittedly different as well, the team revealed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We wanted to show Satan as a creature of sin and deceit and corruption,\" Osteen said. \"Something despicable and reviled. A pariah. Our first thought was that he should be gay.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe original Satan was envisioned as a poncy male go-go dancer attired in drag. A renowned Brazilian fashion designer who specializes in making costumes for Rio's annual Carnival was hired.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"But then we learned over half the workers on the crew were homosexual, so we scrapped that idea,\" Osteen added.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActor Mel Gibson also auditioned for the part of The Prince of Darkness, offering his own interpretation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Mel showed up in Orthodox Jewish attire. Yarmulke, big hat, black robes, prayer shawl, chest-length beard and a bloody axe for some reason -- the whole shebang,\" Burnett recalled. \"Even though the Jews murdered our Savior, from my experiences working in Hollywood, I knew the production would be shelved immediately if we had continued in that direction.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe interfaith consultants then spent another three months performing collaborative theological studies until ultimately arriving at the decision to cast Satan as a black man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You know, the answer was right in front of us the entire time,\" Osteen told reporters. \"The Lord works in mysterious ways, it's true. But we're very confident with our final selection. The evidence has been overwhelming throughout Earth's 6,000 year history. Islamic terrorists have plagued and attacked Christian civilizations since The Crusades. Then there's demon worship in places like Barbados, and voodoo in Haiti. The unsavory and often violent pagan practices in the tribal recesses of Africa, the Dark Continent, offer further proof. In the end, it's difficult to picture a better adversary for the wholesome, blond-haired, blue-eyed Jesus than a swarthy black man. The fact that the actor may bear a passing or even striking resemblance to our president is coincidental. I mean, they all look alike.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E2013. Licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" rel=\"license\"\u003ECreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License\u003C\/a\u003E. See \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/p\/company.html\"\u003Edisclaimers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/6749747151347704280"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/7536322267119235073\/posts\/default\/6749747151347704280"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.benningtonvalepress.com\/2013\/03\/history-channels-bible-producers-say.html","title":"History Channel's 'Bible' Producers Say Satan Not Meant to Resemble Obama, Just a Black Man"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"BC Bass"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03955077314348723159"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-MIYHN6OoEwc\/U2l7x9al6lI\/AAAAAAAAWqI\/RQs7GfIsfto\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cnzF7gHBohQ\/UUjoicNWBAI\/AAAAAAAAKBs\/A2DMOoXaQmo\/s72-c\/Obama+Satan.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"}}]}});