[This could quite well be my shortest ever post.]
The amazingly inane Tory backbenchers' straw-clutching objection to same-sex marriage:
But it'll mean bigots might not be able to act out their bigotry any more!
This is a downside?
—Daz
Posts Tagged ‘gay rights’
Not Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
Posted in General, tagged atheism, gay rights, politics, religion, secularism on May 21, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Not Mockery: Analogy
Posted in General, tagged atheism, gay rights, law, politics, religion, secularism on May 9, 2013 | 9 Comments »
In which I don't so much try to make a new point, as try—yet again—to drive an old one home.
I have been accused, at various times and places, of mocking religion. Damn right I do. Any powerful institution needs a certain amount of "Memento mori," and mockery is a bloody good tool for eroding pedestals.
I have been accused of not taking religious sensibilities into account. Damn right I don't. If you want to believe crazy shit that's fine, but don't expect me to pussyfoot around and not call it what it is, when it spills out of your church and impacts on my life.
Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh…
Posted in General, tagged atheism, fundies, gay rights, loons, religion on April 26, 2013 | 3 Comments »
Yes this video really does appear to be real. I had to check the site linked from the description, to be honest; the acting is so OTT cheesy I suspected it might be a Poe. Nope. Real. Sickeningly, cheesily, false-equivalence-ily. Real.
Because behaviour which harms real people is exactly like behaviour which offends the non-existent sensibilities of mythological invisible beings in the sky. And don't you forget it!
—Daz
H/T: Preliator pro Causa
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A Modest Proposal
Posted in General, tagged atheism, catholics, fundies, gay rights, humour, law, politics, religion on March 26, 2013 | 4 Comments »
Regarding every priest, pastor, imam, vicar, rabbi or other clergy who has made the statement or makes it in the future, "Marriage is for the purpose of creating children, and therefore should only be between a man and a woman," or variants thereof.
I propose a new law.
Any marriage officiated over by one of these clergy shall be deemed null and void, if the couple have not produced children within a space of two years† from the date of their wedding.
† Time span open to negotiation, ± six months.
Because, obviously, the couple in question aren't using their state of Holy Union for the purpose which God intended it for.
—Daz
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Because I Wanted To Put “Stephen Green” & “Heartwarming” In The Same Title…
Posted in General, tagged atheism, fundies, gay rights, humour, poetry, religion on March 23, 2013 | 4 Comments »
So Birdshit Green approaches those oft-fabled Pearly Gates
(Which, by the way, is proof that God don't punish those who hate)
And is met by Simon Peter, who proceeds to book him in—
But Green is rather puzzled; there's no weighing of his sins.
I Can’t Find the Doorknob
Posted in General, tagged atheism, gay rights, music, personal, politics, religion on March 21, 2013 | 2 Comments »
I was going to write yet another rant about homophobic clergy who claim to represent my interests, but, Gentle Reader, it's been an 'orrible day and I really can't be bothered. So instead, here's the first five songs which came to mind on viewing the above picture. Well, some lines from The Raven came first, but I've done that gag elsewhere.
—Daz
[Source of the picture: The Freethinker]
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New Leopard; Same Old Spots
Posted in General, tagged atheism, catholics, education, feminism, gay rights, religion on March 15, 2013 | 6 Comments »
I wasn't going to bother again, with the news that an organisation which just lost its CEO has taken the startling and unprecedented step of appointing a new one. Problem is, I can't escape it. It's all over the TV news, most of my online feeds, et-bleedin'-cetera and ad nauseam. (The telly's on downstairs and as I passed by just now, with a fresh cuppa, I was breathlessly (literally—he was almost whispering) informed by some suited nitwit reporting on the BBC from outside the Vatican, that the head of the Catholic church is, in fact, the head of the Catholic church, and has the power to tell people in the Catholic church what to do. Well, bugger me sideways; I never knew that! What would we do without such brilliant in-depth investigative journalism?)
Anyway, since we've been hearing—non-stop, over and over and bloody over—what a nice fellow the new pope is, compared to the outgoing criminal-at-large chappy, let's have a look and see just how nice a bloke he is, shall we?
Christian Research Group Unveils Cure For Baldness
Posted in General, tagged atheism, fundies, gay rights, humour, law, loons, religion on February 25, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The Reverend Doctor Lily D. Pink, of the self-styled "Bible believing" research group, Lord In All Research (LIAR), today announced a "miraculous" new medicinal compound which she claims is "most efficacious in every case of follicalogical lackingnessosity."
Pastor Harvey Rabbit, leader of the Love In Christ For All church (motto: 'Jesus hates everyone we hate' ), which sponsors LIAR, has announced a petition to lobby government to make baldness illegal, given the news that it can now be cured.
The Unknowable Plan
Posted in General, tagged atheism, gay rights, musings, poetry, religion on January 24, 2013 | 1 Comment »
If your son dies young, please understand
That we can't know God's unknowable plan—
But if he wants to get married to another man,
Then we know God's mind like the back of our hand.
—Daz
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New Boom Industry: Could Sudden Upsurge In Handcuff Manufacture Pull Britain Out Of Recession?
Posted in General, tagged atheism, fundies, gay rights, humour, politics, religion on January 14, 2013 | 4 Comments »
In business news today, it has been revealed that sales of handcuffs and other restraining devices have rocketed, as heterosexual couples across the UK prepare for the impending legalisation of same-sex marriage.
Taking to heart the non-stop blathering warnings from the various Christian churches that traditional marriage, as defined by them, will be undermined by same-sex couples getting married, thousands of British married couples are cuffing themselves together in the hopes that this will prevent one or both partners from acting on a sudden desire to run away with a person of the same sex.
