While radical Muslims are threatening to burn down half of Europe because of some cartoon portrayals of Allah, here in the United States, our own fundamentalists have their own bad ideas:
Christian ministers were enthusiastic at the early private screenings of “End of the Spear,” made by Every Tribe Entertainment, an evangelical film company. But days before the film’s premiere, a controversy erupted over the casting of a gay actor that has all but eclipsed the movie and revealed fault lines among evangelicals.
***“Does anyone really believe that Chad Allen was the best possible actor for Nate Saint?” Mr. Janz asked in his Jan. 12 Web log entry, referring to one of the characters in the movie. “That would be like Madonna playing the Virgin Mary.”
***One Web log, nossobrii.blogspot .com, written by Kevin T. Bauder, president of Central Baptist Seminary in Minneapolis, stated in a Jan. 13 entry: “Granted, we must not overreact. And it would probably be an overreaction to firebomb these men’s houses. But what they have done is no mistake. It is a calculated strategy.“
You know what- I am just not going to say anything anymore when the left-wing calls these lunatics the America Taliban. They are.
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And this is the kind of dishonest crap that gives these lunatics the cover they need to operate. Jimmie at the Sundries Shack now wants to pretend I am somehow smearing all religious people- I am not. I am merely reacting to the responses of these members of the lunatic fringe.
My father is one of the most deeply religious people I know, born a Southern Baptist, practicing his entire life, and dedicating thousands of hours to the local church. I would never think he or those like him, or my deeply religious friends at Red State, are members of the “American Taliban.” But these lunatics, in particular the ones who have been waging jihad against homosexuals and who would even THINK to firebomb someone’s house because a gay actor appeared in a movie, are precisely as they have been labeled.
If you want to lump yourself in with them- go for it, Jimmie. Br proud that you are providing these idiots with the political cover they need. Even Focus on the Family thinks these people are nutters.