All we need now if for Dick Cheney to hit a fire hydrant with his car, be trapped in the wreckage with the water spraying on his face (a la “waterboarding”) and we will KNOW there is a God with a sense of humor!

Didn’t know which post would be the best to grace with my *holiday greeting card,* but this one on the Blood of Jesus Visual Kit will do nicely. So I am providing a link to Sam Harris’ site for this picture that I really wanted to use for this year’s Christmas cards:
Give the Gift of Reason.

My best wishes to you and Mickey for a lovely holiday season and good health, happiness and propserity and perversion in the new year.

Kochanie

This is something that I’ve been thinking about quite a lot lately. My girlfriend Mickey and I are domestic partners, and have been for about a year. But our families would definitely like for us to get married in the traditional sense. I’ve always been hesitant, partly because my parents’ divorce made me gun-shy. They divorced when I was about 12 or 13, and it hit me like the world’s worst sucker punch. Worse, it seemed like everyone adult couple I knew was divorced or getting divorced. So in the end, I just started seeing marriage as a short-cut to misery and mutual loathing.

But ceremony or no, I feel married. We’ve been shacking up for over four years now, and it increasingly feels weird to refer to Mickey as my “girlfriend.” The last four years have married me more firmly than any judge or priest could.

We are legally domestic partners, and have been for over a year. We went down to the Brooklyn City Hall with forms, got them notarized, paid our fee, and went home legal. That’s not available to Elizabeth where she lives.

Chris.

Many of us involved in this organizing campaign are involved because we support our colleagues who need this recognition, and because we believe strongly in equal rights, in civil rights, in human rights. We will work hard together, regardless of our own family status, to win recognition and rights for all the families in our community. And we need to hear from people who have successfully done this, especially where it’s been done in a conservative county.

In solidarity,
Elizabeth

Eternal Forces is a real-time strategy videogame, meaning that a player manipulates an entire army simultaneously, as opposed to the common first-person shooter games in which a player controls only one character. In essence, the player becomes the commander of a virtual army, deciding when to unleash weapons from an arsenal of guns, tanks and helicopters. Of course, since this is an evangelical game, soldiers lose “spirit points” each time they kill an opponent, leaving them prey to the Antichrist’s forces and in dire need of replenishment through prayer. To top it off, each time a soldier slays one of the Antichrist’s soldiers (who are UN Peacekeepers, remember), he triumphantly cries, “Praise the Lord!” (link)

 I think that if you look at the Left Behind phenomenon and the toys that these people foist on their kids, you get a lot of very, very scary insights into the culture that birthed GWB, ideologically speaking.  While they may accuse us, the liberals and perverts, of fostering a “culture of death,” theirs is a culture that can see nothing but death.  Remember that 20 years ago, Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, declared that we didn’t need to conserve the environment because Jesus would be returning in less than fifty years.  He might have seemed a freak to America at large, but within the evangelical culture, he was fairly mainstream, and now that view is even more conventional.  When I see how hateful and fucked-up these people are, it makes me cherish my lovely, lovely pervert friends <looks alluringly at Tess> even more.