tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post4295776325011274203..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: Methinks They Do Protest Too MuchAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-35413248228623736282010-05-13T19:19:10.669-04:002010-05-13T19:19:10.669-04:00Heartbreaking. Poor little girl.Heartbreaking. Poor little girl.Kristen Eatonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10643974205311266203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-91579206190881629482010-05-06T17:20:00.655-04:002010-05-06T17:20:00.655-04:00she's a beautyshe's a beautyyellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-11360937779391420172010-05-06T15:10:07.786-04:002010-05-06T15:10:07.786-04:00I remember going to the Hill Cumorah Pageant one y...I remember going to the Hill Cumorah Pageant one year (the Mormon telling of their religion) and walking through the protesters to get to the amphitheatre. I remember seeing a little girl, who was maybe five or six, standing like a deer in the headlights as a corpulent man wearing a sandwich board and carrying a sign both proclaiming the sins of Mormonism was actually leaning down to scream in her face. I have to assume that she was going to the Pageant, which would be why she was the object of such venom. And the cops just watched this display of sadistic bigotry, probably because the protester would cry police discrimination if he was stopped from screaming at this little girl. Lots of people are disgusting, but the most important thing is to remember that not all of them are.ekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059041909333576560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-54032707805288379032010-05-06T13:09:09.569-04:002010-05-06T13:09:09.569-04:00The Spare looks delightful!
When I was an AIDS ac...The Spare looks delightful!<br /><br />When I was an AIDS activist in New York in the early 1990s, I attended a Catholic mass at St. Patrick's cathedral. I wore an ACT UP T-shirt when I went in. A parishioner (who in hindsight was clearly a closeted gay--my gaydar just told me so) stood up and blocked me from going to communion--and the ushers let him. It was an NYC cop who came up to us and pulled the guy off of me, but by then communion was over. I said loudly to the cop and the man blocking me, "I am a Catholic and have as much right to go to communion as any of you." <br /><br />Your protestors remind me of those small-minded, small-hearted parishioners at St. Patrick's, whose actions made it all-so-easy for me to abandon a religion whose attention to its Messiah's message of love for all (the parable of Zaccheus, anyone?) was lip-service only. "You shall know they are Christians by our love." Hmmm. Really? Can't say that was my experience. <br /><br />I'm much happier as a post-Christian--the Pagans actually live with the beauty, balance, and delight that I think Jesus was trying to teach his followers.Rick Loftus, M.D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-35320472479637813092010-05-06T12:16:40.494-04:002010-05-06T12:16:40.494-04:00We'll all just have to clap even louder!We'll all just have to clap even louder!Maevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852349354673305704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-42002831546248189702010-05-06T08:43:15.042-04:002010-05-06T08:43:15.042-04:00That's so sad. I'm going to have to think ...That's so sad. I'm going to have to think happy thoughts for that poor little girl, that she learns to think for herself and leaves the hate behind. <br /><br />(My word verification is 'tracks'. I wonder how blogger comes up with these)<br /><br />~IllisseIllissenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-42710795128944088392010-05-06T07:43:08.955-04:002010-05-06T07:43:08.955-04:00Poor little girl. It's a shame she has to put...Poor little girl. It's a shame she has to put up with those nasty thinkers.<br />And yes, spare looks great!Lori F - MNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-87265107341507334582010-05-05T23:52:28.570-04:002010-05-05T23:52:28.570-04:00That's terrible. The little girl doesn't k...That's terrible. The little girl doesn't know any better, and she never may if this keeps going. <br /><br />People can be so awful sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-9223843119386689732010-05-05T23:09:01.106-04:002010-05-05T23:09:01.106-04:00Spare is a vision of faery splendiferousness!Spare is a vision of faery splendiferousness!Debra She Who Seekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845703092794695023noreply@blogger.com