Will the fundamentalists support this monument?

[Some Friggin Guy]

Putting the "fun" in fundementalism.

 

[Malachi151]

I live in Nashville, pretty much the Fundy capitol of the world. You would be surprised how many people I have mentioned this to actually are in FAVOR of it. Ayone looking for a computer netowrking professional in an area a little LESS fundy driven? I'll take the job!

I don't even care how much it pays!


GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!

Dude, the whole South is this way unfortumately. Its why I'm trying to get a job in New York or North Carolina or something. Georgia, Florida (except Miami and Orlando and Tampa), Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and South Carolina are all like that, and to a degree Texas and Oklahoma are as well.

The only "safe" places are the east and west coasts and the Greal Lakes region and Arizona and Colorado.

 

[Tricky]

I live in Nashville, pretty much the Fundy capitol of the world. You would be surprised how many people I have mentioned this to actually are in FAVOR of it. Ayone looking for a computer netowrking professional in an area a little LESS fundy driven? I'll take the job!

I don't even care how much it pays!


GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!

I'd recommend moving a hundred miles due south to Huntsville Alabama. It is an oasis of sanity in the desert of the Bible Belt. Populated mostly by scientists and educators. Lots of high-tech jobs. Very big part of NASA. Only problem is that much of it is government work. Can you deal with that?

Oh yes, and I've lived in Nashville too, so I know everything you say is true. Hey, those country and gospel singers have to have something to write about, right?

 

[Some Friggin Guy]

I'd recommend moving a hundred miles due south to Huntsville Alabama. It is an oasis of sanity in the desert of the Bible Belt. Populated mostly by scientists and educators. Lots of high-tech jobs. Very big part of NASA. Only problem is that much of it is government work. Can you deal with that?

Oh yes, and I've lived in Nashville too, so I know everything you say is true. Hey, those country and gospel singers have to have something to write about, right?

Hmmm...That's a tough call, since as much as I am desperate to get out of "the Bethlehem of America", I also have a severe dislike of our current administration. I'll have to think on that.

Actually, as far as living in the south goes, I'd like to get to Orlando. I figure it may be just as religious, but at least they have a bunch of theme parks (the above referenced on not included) to help me keep from having to deal with it.

So, anyone in the Orlando area...

 

[Brown]

Why are local governments so surprised when issues like this come up? There's loads of precedent.

One local jurisdiction allowed a Christian group to come on its premises and erect a Christmas display. No one saw the harm in it.

But then a Jewish group demanded to erect a Hanukkah display. And so the next year, there was a Christmas display and a menorah. Some people were a little irked by having a Jewish display that was on par with a Christian display, but for the most part, no one saw the harm in it.

And then groups demanded the right to create displays for Ramadan and Kwanzaa. Permission was reluctantly granted, but some people started to see what harm might come of it, especially because the Christian display was being diluted by the other displays.

And then the Ku Klux Klan demanded the right to erect a cross. And at this point, the harm was evident, and permission was denied. (I do not know whether a lawsuit resulted.)

There's a moral to this story, but many local governments seem unable to grasp it.

 

[AmateurScientist]

I'd recommend moving a hundred miles due south to Huntsville Alabama. It is an oasis of sanity in the desert of the Bible Belt. Populated mostly by scientists and educators. Lots of high-tech jobs. Very big part of NASA. Only problem is that much of it is government work. Can you deal with that?

Oh yes, and I've lived in Nashville too, so I know everything you say is true. Hey, those country and gospel singers have to have something to write about, right?

Ssshhh! We're trying to keep this a well-kept secret. We like it just the size it is now.

Anyway, thanks for the rare endorsement of Huntsville. I know you've said so in the past. You're welcome here anytime. Beers or whatever are on me.

AS

 

[Skeptic]

Your mission, Mr. Phelps, should you choose to accept it, is to show that you are not a flaming hypocrite.

Want to bet he's a flaming you-know-what, as well? How many gay porn magazines, do you suppose, we'll find on a surprise visit to Phelps' home?

I don't really think Phelps is "anti-gay". Pat Robertson is anti-gay; "Dr. Laura" is anti-gay; Phelps is a f***ing paranoid with delusions of granduer. With such people, WHO they decide to hate--gays, lesbians, blacks, jews, whatever--is almost an afterthought, as long as they hate SOMEBODY.

 

[Skeptic]

The 73-year-old Topeka, Kan., pastor has designed a granite monument engraved with Shepard's face followed by these words chiseled in the stone: Matthew Shepard Entered Hell October 12, 1998, at Age 21 In Defiance of God's Warning: "Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22.

I'd bet the monument he REALLY would like to build is shaped like the gravestone for "Mother" in Kurt Wonnegut's "Cat's Cradle". Seriously, though, if he does it on private property, f--k it--he has the right to do so, and to add the nazi flag and a Ku Klux Klan robe to the staute, for all anybody should care.

Silence, I believe, is not only the only legal response (again, if this is on private property) but also the best response against his antics. You might notice that Phelps' stunts are getting more and more extreme... which means that he is trying desperately to get more and more attention. Like a four-year-old, he will probably just go away when he notices that his "threats" to be more and more outrageous result in nothing more than yawns.

 

[evildave]

I do like that idea. Very American. Capitalism, state and church all combined in one dubious moneymaking scheme that makes the whole rest of the world shake it's head in wonder.

You should really go for this before someone else beats you to it, evildave!

Too apathetic to.