Speak
For Yourself, Fred.
There
is no Islamic version of Fred Phelps, unless you
count the little pieces he'd find himself sliced
into within seconds if he appeared on a streetcorner
in Tehran
waving a sign saying "Allah Hates You".
He and his Westboro pals get away with that nonsense
in America not only because we have the blessed
First Amendment, or what's left of it, but
also because Americans don't really take the Bible
seriously.
I mean, have you read the thing? It's full of all
these delightfully
insignificant crimes that require
the death penalty, like practicing magic or being
a
false
prophet
(Does that include standing on street corners interpreting
God's word? Hmmm.) or having sex with a chicken.
Some of these crimes require death by stoning,
by the
way,
not anything
silly like lethal injection. A baker's dozen Islamic
countries
still
use
"death
by large
rock" but not America. We believe the Bible
is only God's holy written word in a vague, general
sense, which is mighty handy when it
comes to limiting the sale of beer,
controlling
women's
reproduction, or deciding who marries who. That's
the kind of stuff God's really interested in.
All I know is, if I ever see someone sporting a
"Darwin Hates Fags" poster there's gonna be trouble.
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