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by Steven D
Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 07:37:06 AM EST

I'm sure this news item will up the Rapture Index a few notches.

A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight, is to be published by an American film producer. [...]
The film studio said it would also adapt and direct the revised Bible as a two-part mini-series, The Gay Old Testament and The Gay New Testament, once it is completed.

Hey, with a Gay Bible, we could have a Gay Religion, with Gay Communion and Gay Baptism, and even (wait for it) Gay Marriage. God is Gay! And then we could sue each state where gay marriage is prohibited to enforce gay people's first amendment right to practice their religion free from government interference or oppression. Freedom of Religion. What a concept, eh?

Deep Thought | 7 comments (7 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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god is gay, by the Frogs (sorry no youtube video for this one):

As God as my judge, God is gay
As God as my judge
There was something strange about Lucifer
Something wrong with his hand
There was something strange about Jesus
He didn't follow Lucifer's commands
Lucifer said, "Jesus, be straight"
And Jesus said, "The gates would never open if this was true"
Oh, something about a vision in a park
Of Jesus holding hands with an angel named Clark McGee
Lucifer therefore lost his wings
And all the angels sing, all the angels sing
God is gay, God is gay

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 08:02:49 AM EST

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And, naturally, the gay church would qualify for tax exempt status, like all other religious institutions. I think Sarah Palin and company would suffer a massive case of cognitive dissonance. I can hear their mental circuits burning already.

Our parents project the repressed feelings of their childhood upon us and, unaware, blame us for the things that once happened to them. Alice Miller

by Daredevil Don on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 09:07:06 AM EST

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Maximus headus explodus.

by BooMan on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 10:01:29 AM EST

Brilliant! (none / 0)

Couldn't a church that recognizes gay marriage sue the government for infringement of the first amendment by restricting its right to marry people? Has this been tried?

by red moon dog on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 12:25:42 PM EST

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A Church of the Gay God would at least be good for a few laughs and provoke a few well-deserved aneurysms. It would also yet again expose the inherent self-serving nature of organized religion.

Unfortunately the religious freedom ploy has been much tried without success: Native Americans, Mormons, Santeria, and on and on. Like history itself, religious freedom is defined by what suits the parochial interests of the powerful.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 12:47:57 PM EST

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We can all condemn this and then marriage seems normal. Wow, the producer just made gay marriage the conservative position.

Clever.

by MNPundit on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 01:30:28 PM EST

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OM...umm...G!

We need to push for Progressive change, now more than ever.

by keepinon (jaukkuri@sbcglobal.net) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 08:12:41 PM EST

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