Monday, November 07, 2005
Choking On The Fumes
The National Association of Evangelicals has officially announced its support in the fight against global warming, citing Genesis 2:15 ("The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it") as evidence that God is green. But, of course, whenever the issue of making sure that penguins don't have tanlines comes up, James Inhofe, head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has to deny the obvious:
"You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Mr. Inhofe said in an interview, dismissing the position of Mr. Cizik's association as "something very strange."
Oh, so Scripture can be misquoted to say nearly anything, Senator Inhofe? Then I'm glad you haven't used it to put forth a position on the Senate floor.
That is really what this is all about. We can dance around it and try to cater to certain groups, but I find something that has served me well for a number of years when something like this comes up, and that is to go back to the law, go back to the Scriptures. In Genesis 2:18, 21-24, God said:
It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him ..... and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He broughther to the man. And Adam said, ``This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.'' Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus said.
Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh .....
Oh. Oops. Still, I guess when you say it, it has to mean what you want it to mean, right, James?
Mr. Inhofe said the vast majority of the nation's evangelical groups would oppose global warming legislation as inconsistent with a conservative agenda that also includes opposition to abortion rights and gay rights. He said the National Evangelical Association had been "led down a liberal path" by environmentalists and others who have convinced the group that issues like poverty and the environment are worth their efforts.
Emphasis mine. Yes, because we all know Jesus said, "Fuck the paupers," and spent every minute of his waking life shouting down choice and homosexuals. I'm glad to know that James Inhofe has held on to this proud tradition of self-serving fuckitude.
James Inhofe: yet another toddler in the Parliament of Whoresons.
"You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything," Mr. Inhofe said in an interview, dismissing the position of Mr. Cizik's association as "something very strange."
Oh, so Scripture can be misquoted to say nearly anything, Senator Inhofe? Then I'm glad you haven't used it to put forth a position on the Senate floor.
That is really what this is all about. We can dance around it and try to cater to certain groups, but I find something that has served me well for a number of years when something like this comes up, and that is to go back to the law, go back to the Scriptures. In Genesis 2:18, 21-24, God said:
It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him ..... and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He broughther to the man. And Adam said, ``This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.'' Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
In Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus said.
Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh .....
Oh. Oops. Still, I guess when you say it, it has to mean what you want it to mean, right, James?
Mr. Inhofe said the vast majority of the nation's evangelical groups would oppose global warming legislation as inconsistent with a conservative agenda that also includes opposition to abortion rights and gay rights. He said the National Evangelical Association had been "led down a liberal path" by environmentalists and others who have convinced the group that issues like poverty and the environment are worth their efforts.
Emphasis mine. Yes, because we all know Jesus said, "Fuck the paupers," and spent every minute of his waking life shouting down choice and homosexuals. I'm glad to know that James Inhofe has held on to this proud tradition of self-serving fuckitude.
James Inhofe: yet another toddler in the Parliament of Whoresons.
