I have a problem with loose-lipped preachers, especially regarding homosexuality. They pretend to know the causes; the devil, sin, weakness, godlessness, society (of which they are a part) bad parenting, abuse, etc. They say their viewpoint is “factual”, yet "highly controversial"!
Few, if any, will admit there is a genetic factor that outweighs all their religious mumbo-jumbo regarding homosexuality. Dr. James Dobson and all the ignorant godsmacking lips should just keep their lying mouths shut.
(Larry King interviews Reverend Dobson.)
DOBSON: I said that on your program one time and both of us got a lot of mail for it. I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay because they don't.
It usually comes out of very, very early childhood, and this is very controversial, but this is what I believe and many other people believe, that is has to do with an identity crisis that occurs to early to remember it, where a boy is born with an attachment to his mother and she is everything to him for about 18 months, and between 18 months and five years, he needs to detach from her and to reattach to his father.
It's a very important developmental task and if his dad is gone or abusive or disinterested or maybe there's just not a good fit there. What's he going to do? He remains bonded to his mother and…
KING: Is that clinically true or is that theory?
DOBSON: No, it's clinically true, but it's controversial. What homosexual activists, especially, would like everybody to believe is that it is genetic, that they don't have any choice. If it were genetic, Larry — and before we went on this show, you and I were talking about twin studies — if it were genetic, identical twins would all have it. Identical twins, if you have a homosexuality in one twin, it would be there in the other.
KING: Right.
DOBSON: So, it can't be simply genetic. I do believe that there are temperaments that individuals are born with that make them more vulnerable and maybe more likely to move in that direction, but it usually is related to a sexual identity crisis.
KING: My guest, Dr. James Dobson, always great to have him with us. By the way, his book came out last year, "Family Man: The Biography of Dr. James Dobson," still available anywhere books are sold. (Read more of the interview)
PALE SAINTLINESS
O! Deceitfulness!
O! Pale saintliness!
Must you eradicate all sound reason?
Must you tread upon all of the globe
With your loose-lipped godlessness
While the red droplets of heaven
Are collapsing on the meek and tired,
And the empire’s bombs plummet
Upon the offspring of hearts and souls?
What gains have you in this; your delusion?
Surely the path to heaven is not covered
In falsehoods and charlatans handing out flowers.
Your lips smack of devout hypocrisy!
Your reasoning, a blunt object upon the head!
Your god smacking lips quiver in vagueness!
Your words refuse to venture out with humanity,
Instead they lounge upon uncomfortable faith
Cracking hope with the weight of your coffers!
It is immense within mankind.
It is yielding and graceful.
Dampness and the soil congregate there
While we set out to destroy the living;
Words as bullets ripping through
Piercing the downtrodden and weak!
We need take these hateful terms,
This small, narrow-minded language
And rip them all to shreds
Then, with the hand of humanity open,
We must unlearn our gradated wants and needs.
We must unlearn these ugly traditions
Of lies, murder, war, and greed.
We must open our hands.
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman
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After nearly four years of letting the Bush Administration set the terms of the national debate over Iraq, some major news organizations are finally calling the conflict there what it is: a civil war. The White House is howling in protest.
Here's what Matt Lauer announced on NBC's Today Show this morning: "As you know, for months now the White House has rejected claims that the situation in Iraq has deteriorated into civil war. And for the most part, news organizations, like NBC, have hesitated to characterize it as such. But, after careful consideration, NBC News has decided the change in terminology is warranted -- that the situation in Iraq, with armed militarized factions fighting for their own political agendas, can now be characterized as civil war." Here's some video of Lauer discussing the decision with retired general Barry McCaffrey.
Caution: Strong images.
Oh, you pitiable, puny little dismal cretins,
digging around desperately for something- anything!
A pack of eyeless and earless canine eager to alleviate your connivance.
You’ve bowed to the man,
traded away integrity,
let slip your soul,
pawned your intellect,
and asphyxiated legitimacy!
Read my lips:
“For over two miserable years now it’s been a Goddamned civil war!”
Do you think this clears you? Your veracity it proves?
Read them once more: “Not on your life!”
O! In the wake of the familiar landscape of language
we’ve now but this;
The scourge-rattled thoroughfare.
The bone-blunted blade.
The terror-stained warfare.
The narrow-minded loyalty.
The red-barreled bludgeoning.
The death-prattled prayer.
The bursting furrowed bradawl.
The blackened scream of mothers.
The hate-mottled father’s glare.
The soldiers’ futile anguish.
The caskets draped in glory.
The liars-shank inside our care.
O! In the wake of the familiar landscape of language
might you need consider your own casualty?
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman
What is a Civil War? "Objectively, it must be concluded that the disorders in Iraq do not constitute a civil war but are nearer to a politico-military struggle for power. Such struggles in Muslim countries defy resolution because Islam is irreconcilably divided over the issue of the succession to Muhammad. It might be said that Islam is in a permanent state of civil war (at least where there is a significant minority of the opposing sect) and that authority in Muslim lands can be sustained only by repression if the state takes on a religious cast, since neither Shia nor Sunni communities can concede legitimacy to their opponents."
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Whatever it is or turns out to be, civil war or a politico-military struggle for power, it is a situation that the US must exit... and in rather short order!