Best part:
And of course, the left-dominated world of pop culture has embraced the bigotry. From the “Book of Mormon” musical to numerous Obama supporters’ ridiculing art, the mass of collective intolerance is overwhelming.Yes, you read that right -- Sorock thinks Trey Parker and Matt Stone are liberals, and the "ridiculing art" of somebody you never heard of is the proof of "collective intolerance" that ices the case.
But there's one thing missing -- where's the standard issue rightwing complaint in cases like these about filthy liberals not having the guts to make fun of Islam? Didn't 20 years of fist-shaking since "Piss Christ" drill that one hard enough into their heads that it would come second nature?
Well, that's only common when they're defending the One True Religion or its adjuncts. Could it be that Sorock considers Mormonism too exotic to be similarly defended? Bigot! (Hey, I can play that game as good as they can! Too bad it doesn't give me the same pleasure. Well, we can't all have been raised in Skinner boxes.)
Have you forgotten that noted liberal Andrew Sullivan has run a couple of articles pointing out that until 1978 LDS was openly racist and that there is no sign of Romney, 31 in 1978, having any problem with that?
ReplyDeleteSullivan's vicious anti-religious rhetoric is just the kind of thing we get from his branch of atheistic anti-God liberalism
"the mass of collective intolerance is overwhelming"
ReplyDeleteI'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends hold crackpot religious beliefs.
ReplyDeleteActually, most of them do ;-)
I'm just now trying to imagine the physical and logical contortions to which various right-wing nutballs would subject themselves in order to defend Rmoney if he were, say, a closet Scientologist....
ReplyDeleteJaysus, do I ever want Tom Cruise to run for high office as a Republican.
Anne doesn't mention Planet Kolob. How does she feel about that and the whole men get a planet when they die, whilst the women get to have babbies for ever? What's to not mock?
ReplyDeleteLemme try..."From Stephen King's liberal propaganda vehicle Carrie to noted Bolshevik Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls, the mass of collective intolerace against busty teenage girls is overwhelming." Hey, I'm good at this!
ReplyDeleteBoy, is Sorock gonna be molded when she finds out that Billy Graham has been calling Mormons "cultists" for decades.
ReplyDeleteI'm too lazy to check. Does Sorock bring Angels in America into her screed or would that have required too much cultural (warfare) awareness?
ReplyDeleteWhat would you think if you were told that the most bigoted, intolerant, hateful, and xenophobic political messages this election cycle are being spread by Obama supporters?
ReplyDeleteI'd think, "rant on, right-wing loon...at someone else, please."
You don't have to imagine. http://slate.me/S3Nfk9
ReplyDeleteLiberals' bigotry against Mormons must be why Harry Reid is Majority Leader in the Senate.
ReplyDeleteIt would be irresponsible NOT to ridicule!
ReplyDeleteThe Church of LDS was so horrifed at the intolerance displayed by the road production of The Book of Mormon, it took out no fewer than three (3) full-page ads in Playbill (for the L.A. production) saying, "You've seen the show. Now read the book!" and "The book is always better." Not QUITE the same as when The Daily Forward ran four blow-in subscription cards in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but close.
ReplyDeleteNo worries. They've been scrubbing their website like crazy ever since Franklin stuck his hand up his old man's ass and wiggled his fingers at Mitt. Remember, there was a full-page ad in numerous Sunday newspapers from "Billy" Graham, urging people to vote "Biblical values," IYKWHMAITYD. Franklin's been using (tax-exempt) Decision magazine to give Mormonism and Mitt Romney sloppy blowjobs for months now ... almost as if the fundamentalist Christian leadership's views on LDS changed for some completely inexplicable reason this spring. I don't think any of them have actually used the phrase "no longer operative," which is a shame (not least as a call-back to the last time Billy explicitly endorsed someone: Richard Nixon).
ReplyDelete"You've seen the show. Now read the book!"
ReplyDeleteWait, what book is that? As I repeated above (and no doubt will again, given my fundagelical family members), a vote for Mitt is a vote for "Biblical values." Nothing in there about a book that ranks above the Bible.
You've got great things in front of you, as the bishop said to the actress.
ReplyDeleteYou might remember how assiduously Mia Love was promoted during the RNC, not just as the token du jour (J.C. Watts, Alan Keyes, Michael Steele and Herman Cain all having outlived their usefulness in that position) but also as proof that Mormons aren't all mighty whitey. As someone pointed out in a previous thread, the requirement for missionary work has the effect of making Mormons into salespeople.
ReplyDeleteWell, they baptized a man--Martin Luther King, Jr--into a church he wasn't permitted to be a member of when he was alive.
ReplyDeleteThat's my reason.
OOPS. Wrong link:
ReplyDeletehttp://famousdeadmormons.com/index.php?id=26
Right, because disagreeing with what others believe in is exactly the same as disagreeing with the color of someone's skin.
ReplyDeleteBigotry indeed.
You know, quite apart from anything else, I was wondering what it would take for the scum to finally turn on Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It was bound to happen at some point; selfish, over-hyped, under-talented, feckless little "libertarian" shitheels they may be, but the boys' genuine love for cheap potty humour was going to piss off the Church Lady types within the GOP sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteAlso, disagreeing is not the same as discriminating. I would never refuse to hire or serve someone because they were a Mormon. I would never support any restrictions on a Mormon's right to worship, marry, vote, fly on a commercial airline, or build a temple in downtown NYC. I respect their freedom of religion. That does not mean I have to respect their religion though.
ReplyDeleteNot to endorse the LDS church but how is their founding myth so much more ridiculous than all the others?
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