Saturday, August 22, 2009

Likening gays to murderers, pedophiles and those evil atheists, via Vox Day

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Oy. Here's your latest nugget of grade-A moronity from Vox:

The ELCA joins the Episcopalian church suicide pact:

After an emotional debate over the authority of Scripture and the limits of biblical inclusiveness, leaders of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination voted Friday to allow gay men and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as members of the clergy.

Having grown up in Minnesota, I know a lot of Lutherans. And I don't think too many of them are going to continue to attend an ELCA-affiliated church now that actively practicing homosexuals are not only welcomed within the church, but to serve as church leaders. It's now apparent that this sort of step became inevitable once Protestant churches began accepting divorcees and women in the pulpit. I wonder how long it will take before murderers, pedophiles, and open atheists are permitted as well

Right, comparing the allowing of openly homosexual folks to serve as members of the clergy, to then allowing divorcees and women (um, the article's use of "lesbians" makes it sound conspicuously like women are already allowed, ya know), and then murderers, pedophiles and – *LE GASP!* – admitted atheists to serve as well ...

Hard to count the number of ways in which such an analogy fails miserably (not to mention how both disingenuous and vile it is). But then, miserable failure (along with disingenuousness and vileness) is all we've come to expect from the boorish cretin that is Vox Day. Business as usual and all that, eh?