RIGHT WING WATCH: Paranoia-Rama - How Common Core Will Turn Kids Into Gay Muslim Communist Slaves

RWW’s Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week’s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.

It seems President Obama will stop at nothing in his effort to destroy America, as he attempts to diminish the military, turn kids gay through Common Core, kill America’s livestock, blackmail the Supreme Court and grant himself a third term.

Of course none of this is actually going on, but that is just a dose of what you will find this week in the land of right-wing conspiracies.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-how-common-core-will-turn-kids-gay-muslim-communist-slaves#sthash.0LVYgCN6.dpuf

THANKS TO RIGHT WING WATCH, SIDEBAR
THANKS TO BRIAN TACHMAN

Attn ++JUSTIN WELBY -- IT´S NATURAL: ¨I always knew I was Gay¨ Andy Cohen with Larry King (video)

Thanks to On Top Magazine, sidebar 
Thanks to Larry King 
Thanks to Andy Cohen

UPDATED - LET US STOP PLAYING ¨ANGLICAN PRETEND¨ WITH THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY AND YORK (When celibate is not enough assurance of priestly purity vs. heterosexual sexual bliss)

The Archbishops of York and Canterbury, Church of England
Ebor and Cantuar tickled Pink?

I think it is just plain stupid...++Justin and ++John lead the pack of the ¨sheltered/worse¨ who live in a world of such DENIAL, POSTURING and PRETEND. It  is a wonder they can find their way out from under any dilemma without DEMANDING that God issue special tablets of Gold with their personal names on them!

I think, I truly do, that God wants me, a member of the LGBTI community, to be the authentic person that God created me to be..self accountable and responsible in all my affairs..I almost killed myself trying to deny my basic moral decency, or adhere to their kind of appropiateness for my being..I WILL not allow my silence as EBOR or any of the THOUGHTLESS and brutal GLOBAL SOUTH/GAFCON archbishops set any religiouslike standard that endorses the TORMENTING of fellow human beings at Church. 

Archbishop Justin Welby may be bordering on passive/masochistic-aggressive or is plain dim-witted/ego-protecting but that will NOT excuse the harm he does.  ++Justin  ought quickly speak out about the  full-fledged validity and worthiness of (equal to heterosexual) LGBTI Anglicans at all levels of churchlife.

Imagine the lifetimes of prejudice/discrimination he endorses by doing his current jig of prancing Lambeth Palace dance of death (on the misery and graves of LGBTI Anglicans). Of course I have little respect for those who make lives living HELL for LGBTI Anglicans/others,..respect is earned and I have little for neither self-righteous bigots, hatemongers, cowards nor thieves/greedy grandstanding *leaders* at Church. Leonardo Ricardo/Len

Stop the denial !

¨The Church of England has announced that it will support civil parnerships for gay priests, as long as they don't have sex for the rest of their lives.  Here Richard Haggis, a practising priest and homosexual, calls for his superiors to see the error of their ways...¨

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/26/gayrights.religion

THANKS TO THE GUARDIAN, UNITED KINGDDOM

THANKS TO RICHARD HAGGIS, PRIEST, CHURCH OF ENGLAND

THANKS TO JANE MASON, SOUTH AFRICA

UPDATED ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON - CENTRAL AMERICAN
 TIME

SORRY ARCHBISHOP, 

THIS WILL NOT DO

http://thewoundedbird.blogspot.com/2014/05/sorry-archbishop-this-will-not-do.html

THANKS TO WOUNDED BIRD, sidebar

Getting Real
¨The leadership in the Church of England is in the difficult position of wanting to oppose homophobia while retaining a doctrine that gives homophobia its underpinning. They ran into a similar bind when, in an effort to scuttle last year’s changes in civil marriage, they tried to pretend (contrary to the facts) that they had been supporters of the alternative of civil partnerships. Until the church can free itself both from mendacity and illusion, it will make little progress...¨

http://jintoku.blogspot.com/2014/05/getting-real.html

Thanks to ¨In A Godward Direction¨, sidebar

GUATEMALA: The World around us truly astounds us (don't miss this video)...Leonardo

TOXIC CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM: ¨ The lies Christian fundamentalism taught me ¨ Christy Cain

We recently published here a piece called Getting Over “Get Over It,” in which Sylvie King Parris asked the question:

How does one “get over” discovering that everything they’d been taught about God and religion since childhood was a lie?

Since then we have received comments challenging the idea that so much of what Christian fundamentalism teaches is, in fact, a lie. We’ve also been asked why some people can’t simply stop believing what they were taught as children. As one commenter to Ms. Parris’s piece put it on our Facebook page:

Everything they’ve been taught is a lie? Who has the authority to say this? … We CHOOSE what we believe – all of us.”

I was raised a fundamentalist Christian. Here is some of what we were taught, both explicitly and in a million different little ways, every single day of our lives:

• You are worthless.
• God hates you, unless you love him.
• Obedience is love.
• Punishment is love.
• The Bible is infallible and not to be questioned.
• The pastor is infallible and not to be questioned.
• Our interpretation of all Scripture is without error and not to be questioned.
• Outside the church bubble waits evil.
• Everyone who is different should be feared.
• Bad things happen to you because God is trying to teach you a lesson.
• Bad things happen to you because God let Satan tempt you.
• Bad things happen to you as a punishment for disobedience.
• Depression is a sign of sin in your life.
• To resist what you are taught is to rebel against God.
• Women have to cover themselves so as not to tempt men.
• If a man lusts after a woman it’s her fault.
• Women need to submit to male authority over them.
• There are many things girls can’t do.
• Men are more important than women.
• A woman who is raped must forgive her rapist and not report it to the authorities, in order that the rapist, his family, and the church remain protected from outsiders.
• Children are to be seen and not heard.
• Children need to have their will broken through painful “child-training” and punishment.
• A child who is not hit until he or she screams will not learn.
• Our church is the only true church; all others churches are filled with Christians who are untrue and destined for hell.
• Catholics aren’t Christians. They are idol worshippers.
• You are so full of sin God can’t even look at you.
• When the Communists take over America and force us to burn all of our Bibles, you’ll need to have memorized it so they can’t take away what is written on your heart.

Those are lies. And they are deeply damaging.

And if you are unfortunate enough to be raised a Christian fundamentalist, you have no choice but to believe those lies until, because you are very lucky and/or very strong, you break free from the controlling, brainwashing environment in which you and your family exist. Yours is a world in which not only all outsiders, but all television, music, movies and books are shunned. So what you are taught is literally the only truth you know.

And that is why, as toxic and harmful as they can certainly be, whenever I deal with Christian fundamentalists I bear in mind Jesus’ “Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.” Because I know how true that is.¨

Thanks to The Lies of Christian Fundamentalists

Thanks to Christy Cain

UnChristianFundamentalists: Above All Love

Thanks to Jane Mason, South Africa

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unfundamentalistchristians/2014/05/the-lies-christian-fundamentalism-taught-me/

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to The Kossoy Sisters, Irene Saletan and Ellen Christenson, BRAVA/BRAVA!

The Kossoy Sisters

The Kossoy Sisters
Traditional and original songs
The Kossoy Sisters, Irene Saletan and Ellen 
Christenson, performed at the first Newport 
Folk Festival, sang in the original 
Production of Woody Guthrie's Bound for 
Glory, and recorded their legendary Bowling 
Green for Tradition Records. They are 
known for their clear bell-like harmonies, 
which have inspired and influenced other 
singers. Although they sing mostly southern 
mountain songs, they have also adopted 
other traditional and contemporary songs, as 
well as written some of their own.

Irene and Ellen began singing in harmony at the age of 8 or 9, singing mostly what they
heard around the house: songs of the 20's and music hall songs. In their early teenage
years, they became immersed in traditional songs and became part of the music scene in
Washington Square in Greenwich Village. By the age of 20, they had performed widely
in New York.

In addition to Newport, the Kossoy Sisters performed at many other festivals and coffee
houses, including the Fox Hollow Festival, University of Chicago Folk Festival, and the
Eisteddfod in eastern Massachusetts. In 1997, Bowling Green was reissued as a CD by
Rykodisc. The Kossoys resumed performing for the Folk Song Society of Greater
Boston, the Folklore Society of Greater Washington, the Pinewoods Folk Music Club of
New York, and participated in the Truly Acoustic Folk Festival in Cambridge, MA and
the Summer Solstice Festival in southern California, among others. In 2001, the Coen
Brothers included the Kossoy Sisters' version of “I'll Fly Away” in their movie, O
Brother, Where Art Thou. Their CD, Hop on Pretty Girls, produced by Living Folk, Inc.
was released in the fall of 2002.

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY FROM GUATEMALA (we realize you are hanging out in Boston with your *other* family, oh well)

Calvin (not Klein) de las Gemelas

Coban de las Gemelas

To contact the Kossoy Sisters, visit their web site at www.kossoysisters.com

ATTN ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBY, DESPOTIC POLITICAL LEADERS and THOSE WHO DEMONIZE OTHERS AT CHURCH: ¨The common enemy today, defined as the ‘Western corruption' are LGBTQ people and ‘gay rights’

'Homophobia is part of a wider xenophobia which is cultivated by these ‘governments’. Most of these countries are ruled by despots. Xenophobia is essential to the maintenance of the status quo. Isolationism facilitates the need to keep the populace ignorant and resistant to outside influences. With knowledge comes power, and people power is inversely proportional to dictator power. So, certain people and ideas are deemed to be alien to the culture; indeed, to be a threat to the culture. Lies, fear, suspicion are fostered. No one questions what exactly the ‘culture’ of the country is that is under threat. It is sufficient for a common enemy to be identified.

Primarily that enemy is defined as ‘Western corruption’. This is appealing because the richer countries of the West do indeed have a sorry history of exploiting the developing world and riding roughshod over traditions and rights. Thus, even the more educated sections of the population can quite readily be attuned to categorising everything Western as somehow corrupt and threatening their welfare. It is essential to the despotic government that the population reject any advancement of their knowledge and understanding of the world. So, the Western threat is condemned as absolutely corrupt, to be resisted at all costs. It is a calculated move to prevent change, progress, awareness and everything that threatens the leaders’ hold on power. In countries where there are ingrained frictions, tribal, sects, class, historical disputes, past genocides, pogroms, etc it is important for dictators to identify a common enemy to unite the factions. This is true of countries on the African continent, North Korea, Putin’s Russia.

The common enemy today, defined as the ‘Western corruption' are LGBTQ people and ‘gay rights’. They fulfil the criteria perfectly: individuals that can be identified and discriminated against with impunity. They do not belong to any particular group or party, they are have no legal protections, and the general population is encouraged to unite against this insidious common foe. An easy target. So we are witnessing the same forces at work that produced the holocaust in Germany. Except this century, on the African continent, Russia and elsewhere, the victims are LGBTQ people. This is not primarily a religious problem, but it is exacerbated by the fact that religious groups especially Christian ones, could actually make a positive difference for good if they stood up for the teachings they claim to hold sacrosanct. Christians are condemned by both their active complicity in the new Holocaust and by their silence in the face of such gross cruelty and inhumanity.'

THANKS TO ERIKA BAKER
THANKS TO THINKING ANGLICANS
THANKS TO ANONYMOUS AUTHOR OF THE ABOVE

JAPANESE FIRST LADY AKIE ABE JOINS GAY PRIDE 2014 PARADE IN TOKYO

TOKYO — Thousands gathered in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya business and shopping district for LGBT“I want to help build a society where anyone can conduct happy, enriched lives without facing discrimination,” she wrote. “I had the pleasure of spending fun time filled with smiles. Thank you.”Akie Abe, 51, known for her liberal inclinations, wrote on herFacebook page later that she has been involved in the issue since joining a commission set up by UNAIDS and the Lancet medical journal last year, reports AFP.

Unlike traditional Japanese first ladies, Akie Abe has projected a cheerful confidence, freely speaking her mind and making remarks that often resonate with the modern public.

The Prime Minister did not join her at the event, and instead spent the day visiting victims of the 2011 tsunami.

Check out more photos of Tokyo Pride, courtesy of Getty Images:

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/04/japans-first-lady-joins-thousands-marching-in-tokyo-lgbt-pride-parade/

ATTENTION JUSTIN WELBY, ACCOMPLICE to POGROMS in AFRICA and ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: Get thy grandstanding butt to UGANDA and help RESCUE LGBTI ANGLICANS/others from bloody murder!

Another  feckless coward at the Anglican Communion:  Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

THE POGROM IS REAL: Persecution of Uganda’s Gays Intensifies as Rights Groups Go Underground

KAMPALA, Apr 23 2014 (IPS) - As she sits in a Kampala hotel holding a mobile phone that rings frequently, Sandra Ntebi tells IPS: “I’m really exhausted. I don’t know where to start. We have many cases pending.” Ntebi manages a hotline and is helping Uganda’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community find alternative, safe accommodation after they have faced harassment.

“Right now, some people have been thrown out of their homes, some are in jail. Every day there are cases.”

It’s nearly 4.30pm on Tuesday, Apr. 22, just over two months since Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed a draconian anti-gay bill that further criminalises homosexuality in this East African nation...¨  

read it all, read about the real consequences of the persecution of LGBT citizens in Uganda, thanks to the ANGLICAN CHURCH in Uganda and other religiouslike THUGS in robes and mitres:

http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/04/persecution-ugandas-gays-intensifies-rights-groups-go-underground/

Thanks to Erika Baker

Thanks to Inter Press Service, Africa

Thanks to Amy Fallon

Thanks to Sandra Ntebi

ARCHBISHOP Stanley Ntagali, Anglican Church of Uganda, Opportunist, bigot and demonizer of lgbti human beings!

NO THANKS TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN UGANDA

NO THANKS TO ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBY

NO THANKS TO GAFCON and GLOBAL SOUTH BIGOTS

NO THANKS TO PERSECUTION AND LEGALIZED/ENDORSED OUTCASTING and MURDER OF GAY PEOPLE, OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS!

More on ¨His Grace¨ the Archbishop of Canterbury:
http://leonardoricardosanto.blogspot.com/2014/04/attention-justin-welby-arcchbishop-of.html

NYC ARTIST DOUG BLANCHARD: ¨Doug Blanchard's haunting contemporary paintings of the Passion of Christ are an emotional reminder of the courage it takes to resist the powers that be...

¨Artist Doug Blanchard's series of 24 paintings depicting Jesus as a contemporary gay man in a modern city add a realistic backdrop to the emotional drama of the story. His work reimagines the dramatic events of Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, and Jesus' arrest, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection.

A book to be released later this year, The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision, includes Blanchard's paintings and text by Kittredge Cherry. The complete set of paintings will be exhibited as they are released daily to celebrate Holy Week on the blogJesusInLove.blogspot.com. You can also learn more about the author and the painter there, as well as find information on purchasing prints and other products.

Below and on the following pages are a selection of Blanchard's retelling of the Easter story.

http://www.advocate.com/2014/04/18/passion-christ-gay-vision¨

Thanks to the Advocate, sidebar

Thanks to Christopher Harrity

Thanks to Doug Blanchard, sidebar