Jon Stewart just took a great stab at the fundie nutjobs just now!

[Initech]

"Only in New York City - the Billy Graham Bible Crusade is going on right now. And just a mile down is the gay pride parade. But who is trying to get more people to convert to their lifestyle and agenda? Uh............... the Crusade!"

[FreedomAngel82]

1. LOL

That was great.

[Initech]

2. Yup.

I got a good laugh out of that joke. Take that, fundies!

[Hippo_Tron]

3. Billy Graham is actually one of the more sane ones

He's friends with Clinton and got pissed when some of the assholes in the crowd booed him. I wish that he would call Fallwell, Dobson, and Robertson on their "God is a Republican" bullshit, but I don't see that happening.

[Initech]

4. I would like to think that there's people who would...

At least have SOME balls to call Dobson and Robertson on their bullshit, but I dont think that it will happen.

[nicknameless]

5. Billy Graham has been a life-long Democrat, actually.

Why he isn't more outspoken about that, I have no idea.

Here's a link to a theo-repug site about it:
http://www.earnedmedia.org/ncc0624.htm

Evangelical Leader Disappointed by Graham's Democratic Loyalties

To: National Desk

Contact: Reverend Rob Schenck, Faith and Action, 703-447-7686, 202-494-2092.

WASHINGTON, June 24 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Reverend Rob Schenck, a minister and former board member of the Evangelical Church Alliance, and now president of the National Clergy Council, a politically conservative activist group in Washington, DC., is a longtime admirer of Billy Graham. But when the soon to retire evangelist announced to NBC's Katie Couric in a recent interview that he is a life-long Democrat, it took a few points away from that admiration.

Mr. Schenck has met Dr. Graham personally and has attended his schools of evangelism and conferences for itinerant evangelists.

"I'm disappointed that my role model of 25 years retained his membership in a party that promotes the expansion of abortion and homosexual marriage," said Mr. Schenck, who will attend Graham's last crusade this weekend. "Whoever replaces him will need to hold unequivocal stands on these two paramount moral issues."

[nicknameless]

6. Hmm... What I would really like Billy Graham to do is to allude to * being

the anti-Christ like the former pope did!

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_9_27/ai_108881880

WASHINGTON DC -- According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, "George W Bush's blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to 'evil doers,' in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations--the anti-Christ."

Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New Testament.

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[Hippo_Tron]

8. I've gotta say, it sure would've helped if he'd campaigned for Kerry

If anybody could help clear up the preception that Democrats are anti Christian, it's him.

[nicknameless]

10. I KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A life-long Democrat, plus someone who is seen as a model of Christianity. But he didn't speak up. ... Although, these days, that's almost the mark of a Democratic leader.

The Pope thought Bush was the Anti-Christ. Why didn't we hear more about that? I suppose Faux News and their ilk would have just painted him as senile if the word about that had gotten out.

[adnelson60087]

7. Billy's son is a hardcore Republican

and is not afraid to play hardball. He may have his dad's looks, but that's about it in my estimation.

[MsTryska]

9. Btw - a friend and i figured out the Gay Agenda

it's gentrification.


the gays want to:

1. Increase your property values
2. manicure your lawns
3. adopt your unwanted children.


who knew their evil plot?!

[nicknameless]

11. Molly Ivins had a great story about a town meeting where older guys from

a conservative small town, having observed another community become beautified and prosperous after some gay people moved there, wondering when gays might move to their area too.

She described one who stood, clutching his hat in his big gnarled hands and asking, "Do you know when any of them gays might be moving here?"

[MsTryska]

12. *lmao*

ya know i always thought this was only happening in Atlanta - but i guess the gay gentrification thing is far more widespread. And more power to them - some of our neighborhoods here needed to be turned around.