Hi mom. Hello dad.
posted by jeremy on March 04, 2004
These men of god, they lie & scheme & wait... They lurk. What it is, exactly, that they want, I do not know. Only that they are trying to rob of us something, as their kind always have. Steer clear, goddam, please, steer clear.
America, theoretically, was based on something other than this fundamentalist travesty. Though we have failed in so many ways, there is still a chance for us. This is one of those chances. Enclosed, you will find a series of quotes. Their relevance, I'd imagine, should be self-explanatory. So please read this, don't turn away, it matters to me.
Christians must be prepared to fearlessly (and immediately!) invade the culture with the Gospel of Christ to counter the godless effort to bring radical social change to our nation. This effort has no end because these social extremists will never be satisfied; if they achieve homosexual marriage there is literally no telling what they will want next.
- Jerry Falwell, Falwell.com.
This doctrine ["that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are we must tread with awful reverence in the footsteps of our fathers"] is the genuine fruit of the alliance between Church and State, the tenants of which finding themselves but too well in their present condition, oppose all advances which might unmask their usurpations and monopolies of honors, wealth and power, and fear every change as endangering the comforts they now hold.
- Thomas Jefferson, Report for the University of Virginia, 1818.
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
-Thomas Jefferson (ref. Bartlett's 16th Ed., p.343)
I hope I live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!
- Rev. Jerry Falwell, America Can Be Saved, 1979
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith.... We need believing people.
- Adolf Hitler, April 26, 1933.
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
- Jerry Falwell (source unknown)
I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status.
- Rev. Jerry Falwell, USA Today Chat, quoted from The Religious Freedom Coalition.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82.
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes.
- Thomas Jefferson, to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814.
The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992.
God's pattern is for men to be the leaders, both in the church and in the family... "Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them."
- Pat Robertson, reciting a passage from I Timothy in his book, Bring It On.
Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals -- the two things seem to go together.
- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 21, 1993, ignoring the facts that the Nazis killed homosexuals as ruthlessly as they did jews.
If the widespread practice of homosexuality will bring about the destruction of your nation, if it will bring about terrorist bombs, if it'll bring about earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, it isn't necessarily something we ought to open our arms to.
- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, August 6, 1998, on the occasion of the Orlando, Florida, Gay Pride Festival.
I have known few homosexuals who did not practice their tendencies. Such people are sinning against God and will lead to the ultimate destruction of the family and our nation. I am unalterably opposed to such things, and will do everything I can to restrict the freedom of these people to spread their contagious infection to the youth of our nation.
- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, May 24, 1994.
When the Know-Nothings get control, it [the Declaration of Independence] will read: "All men are created equal except negroes, foreigners (gays?) and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855.
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.
- Pat Robertson, interview with Molly Ivins, 1993. Worse than the plight of the Jews in Nazi Germany? Worse than the plight of the Natives and the African Slaves in North America? Worse than the plight of the "witches" and the "atheists" in Europe and America at the hand of christians? Worse, even, than the plight of the Midianites, allegedly exterminated without remorse by Robertson's hero, Moses?
If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
- George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789.
[The] best principles [of our republic] secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
-Thomas Jefferson, Reply to the Citizens of Wilmington, 1809.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are are created equal; That they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
- Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson, 1776.
Do you think Thomas Jefferson was fucking kidding when he wrote this? Do they?
America was based upon equality for all, even those with whom you disagree. Equal rights for all citizens... All citizens, even the fags... & I say, love it or leave it, Robertson, Falwell, Roberts, Bush. Accept what the Founders wrote... Or get out. Go create your little bigoted nation elsewhere. You are not patriots but liars & thieves... You are but charlatans & pimps, tricking humanity out to some cheap version of god.
These fuckwits probably haven't ever even hung out with those of the gay persuasion... But I have, everyone I know has. We've all had many good friends & irritating enemies who just happen to be gay... & you wanna know what? Who gives a fuck? They are just like anyone who happens to be goddam straight. They have morals, manners, passions, beliefs, religious beliefs, bad breath, over-drawn bank accounts, cats, lice, house plants, bad or good fashion sense, they fall in love, they fall out of it, they... They are just like any human, no different at all.
They just happen to be attracted to the same sex for whatever myriad of reasons. They are equal to straights in every way, no question. These people that are saying that gays shouldn't have equal rights are the same people who once said that blacks shouldn't have equal rights or be allowed to marry honkys... These are the same people that opposed voting rights for women. These are the same people that have been fucking humanity since time immemorial...
Fuck them. Fuck them & the sad nag they rode in on.
I sincerely hope you don't buy this crap that these scared monkeys are spouting. There is no gay 'conspiracy' any more than there was a black 'conspiracy' to sit at the front of the bus. It's just that nobody wants to be a second class citizen & besides, isn't equality what America is all about? Huh... shit. I suppose not, anymore.
Love, Jeremy.
(Notice to Shrike readers. This is an actual letter to my fundamentalist Christian if big-hearted & ultimately, in-the-end, very sane parents. They just have a propensity for believing in the odor of such sad pieces of shit as Rush & Falwell. Hell, they voted for Bush. Both of them, I think... & fuck, Reagan too. Sometimes I feel like the parent, trying to explain what actually goes on in the world & often enough, they believe me, if I throw enough of the ugly facts in their face anyway. So, the quotes, maybe 75% of them, were culled off of positiveatheism.org. Check out that particular website, if you want... It certainly won't hurt anything but your belief in that giant monkey in the sky, Jehovah or Allah, whatever the fuck that imaginary sociopaths name is...
& I leave you with one final quote, one that really hit home with me.
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our education system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
-Charles Bukowski)
