All Aboard!!

We have reached the place that the media has been saying, for some time now, that we have been headed towards. The place where politics dictates violence. With the shooting at the offices of the Family Research Council yesterday (8/15/12), we have arrived at the point where your political views are now the targets of would-be killers and thugs.

Why do I say we arrived here yesterday, and not before? After all, wasn’t the shooting of  Democrat Gabby Giffords, in Arizona last year, political? No, it wasn’t, although the left and the media (I repeat myself) screamed that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party was to blame. Palin’s map, with gun sites over close elections, was cited as the reason for the coarsening of political dialog, and that she and the Tea Party were inciting violence and had made targets out of wonderful, sweet, water-walking Democrats.

Jared Loughner

I guess the fact that the shooter actually turned out to be a total loon, who had been on the radar of the Tucson Sheriff’s Department for a while didn’t really matter. After all, just because the boy was a loon didn’t meant that Sarah Palin didn’t inspire him. And even if she didn’t, why let that fact spoil a good attack line.

And this year, when James Holmes shot up the midnight showing of Batman, in Colorado, wasn’t it a great chance for ABC’s Brian Ross to go on the air to report that there was a James Holmes with the Denver Tea Party organization? It didn’t matter that the James Holmes of the Denver Tea Party was 52, and shooter was only in his 20’s. Why let facts get in the way of a good meme? Jump on it; after all, we know that all right-wingers are liars, loons, and/or losers. They deserve it!!

But, wait a minute. It turns out that there was no political connection at all in the Batman shootings, It seems that James Holmes, the loon, was known about for weeks, had been seeing a psychiatrist, who had reported him to the authorities. WHO DID NOTHING!!

And now we come to yesterday. Floyd Corbin, a volunteer at the DC Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual & Transgendered offices, legally purchased a gun in Virginia, five days prior, with intentional malice. He walked into the FRC lobby, tried to say that he was an intern at FRC, and when challenged by the security guard, said, “I don’t like your policies,” took out his gun and shot the guard.

This was political, intentionally political. Tony Perkins, president of FRC, and FRC itself, had taken a position supporting Chik-Fil-A in their stance against same-sex marriage. This LGBT volunteer bought a gun and tried to kill people because he didn’t like the policies of the FRC, and believed it was his right and duty to try to kill those whose politics he didn’t like.

So yes, we have arrived at the place that the liberal left has said that we were coming to: the time when one side will use violence to try to suppress the other. Only, it is the left doing the suppressing, using the violence to bully, to hurt and to try to silence the other side.

Be Angry...

I am really starting to get tired of trying to be nice when nice is no longer called for. Recently, I pointed to an article that talked about how it was incumbent on Christians to dialog with the “Other”, to show compassion for those who saw themselves excluded by Christians. The Other might be homosexuals, or the poor, or the “disenfranchised” (whatever that means.) But I’m having a hard time getting  my head around being nice to those who want to be evil towards me.

I can be civil, but that doesn’t mean that I have to make nice with them, does it? Am I called to sit and sing Kumbayah with every foul-mouthed, abusive twit who screams for attention, bawling out maledictions in my face? I can keep from killing the dastard; isn’t that enough for his mommy?

Two videos make my point. As you know, if you’ve not been living under a rock for the past month, Chick-Fil-A restaurant was tagged as the Victim-of-the-Month by the homosexual community and their supporters. “Hate-mongers!” was the cry and protest that rang across the media. MIke Huckabee, tired of the media crucifixion of decent people, asked that decent people support Chick-Fil-A on Aug. 1, and decent people came out in record numbers.

Unfortunately, so did at least one scumpuppy.

(This jerk, thinking that everyone would applaud his protest “against hate”, found out to his shame that being a jackass for the sake of righteousness doesn’t always work. He got fired when his video went viral.)

While that’s interesting, the point I want to make is this - because I’m a Christian, am I obligated to say, “Well, that’s alright, you’re an scumbag but Jesus loves scumbags just as they are.” I don’t think so. Sometimes a turd is just a turd, and it’s alright to point out the fact.

The next video, to me, is even more disturbing. Adam Smith, above, at least had the ‘decency’ (if you want to call it that) to vent his spleen at Chick-Fil-A. (It was his misfortune to be a total d’bag to the nicest, sweetest, cutest counterworker in America, and so come off as a total loser.) But in this video, these bellends don't have that excuse. They are mean and cruel to a homeless man with no connections to Chick-Fil-A. The reason that he merits their display of homosexual “tolerance”? He’s reading a Bible to himself.

Belabor me for a bad Christian, but seeing those abusive homosexuals tormenting that man for reading a Bible just makes me angry.

And anger is not necessarily a sin.