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.
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"Haggard was listed by Time magazine as one of the 25 most influential Evangelicals in America last year, and this is one of a handful of religious leaders with immediate access to the Bush White House. Harper's recently wrote, "No pastor in America holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism than does Pastor Ted."
You’ve drawn this land into your mystery,
Deep in silky words of shadowy deceit,
Slumping across the fatigued stillness
You’ve traipsed around in doublespeak
Across our acumen, atop our sacrament.
Now your deficiency cuts away deception
And your shaming secrets roundly plunge
And soundly expose the misconception
Of your false smirk through empty tongue;
A slithering serpent pinching away holy myths
Forming an odd two-faced grinning holiness.
You’ve spent your last soul, spun the finish,
We’ve not much left to give but your penance.
Now what you’ve preached as sin for coffers
And has come around in this fall from grace;
Using the shroud of God to cover your face.
Haggard,
Godless afflicted,
Meth addicted,
Apocalyptic,
Hypocritic,
Systemic...
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