I'm starting to fill out my mail-in ballot for the Orgegon 2004 election. I stumbled onto Measure 36, a thinly veiled attack on the separation of church and state, and noticed that the first four arguments (and the last one) in the Oregon Voter's Pamphlet were paid for by M. Dennis Moore. Mr. Moore is a church organist who paid to have his opinion published in the voter's pamphlet. He is also publishing a web site, Hetersexualbreeding.com, to further explain his beliefs:
My friends, did you know that heterosexual fornication, heterosexual adultery, heterosexual rape, heterosexual domestic violence, heterosexual child abuse, heterosexual divorce, heterosexual murder, and all other heterosexual threats to the family are 100 percent caused by homosexuals? Likewise, shotgun weddings, Las Vegas elopements, Britney Spears weddings, and all other perversions of holy matrimony are entirely the fault of the homosexual conspiracy! There hasn't been a greater threat to the "traditional family" since Demon Rum! But Prohibition failed to "save the family," so now prohibiting gays and lesbians from getting married is "the last great battle in the Culture War!"Traditional prejudices must be respected! It is immoral to place a book by a male author on the shelf next to a book by a female author, unless the authors are married! It's tradition!
And teenagers going on dates should have traditional Victorian chaperones to prevent heterosexual out-of-wedlock pregnancies. It's tradition!
And non-virgins must be stoned to death (Deuteronomy 22:21). It's a timeless tradition!
And Christians should remain single and abstain from sex (I Corinthians 7:1, 8-9). It's a sacred biblical tradition!
So, um, yeah, let's do things the way the Bible tells us to. I bet a lot of problems in society exist because we abandoned that whole "Stone people to death when they break the sabbath" thing the Bible tells us to do. Posted by Barry at October 17, 2004 06:07 PM | Trackback