Friday, March 17, 2006
Gefilte! Putz! Latke! Oy!
So Donald Wildmon, head of the AFA, has proposed to respond to Soulforce's Equality Ride, a tour of Christian campuses to call awareness to how gayness isn't all that bad, with a fundamentalist tour of bath houses. Now, let's look at the disparity of this, shall we? The Soulforce riders visit a location where a bunch of evangelical Christians get together to do hundreds of different things: study, pray, eat, play sports, and all the other activities of daily life. As a result, Wildmon proposes to take evangelicals to a place where gays do only one thing, and that thing is what evangelicals already think gays do 24/7. For comparison, this would be like if the Soulforce riders made a tour of Pentecostalist hell houses during the Halloween season.
Of course, it wouldn't be Donald Wildmon without some loosely veiled anti-Semitism:
BENSON: Yeah, I mean, this is -- this is what you call -- what? -- chutzpah. This is -- this is --
WILDMON: That's a Jewish word, right? Be careful.
"Yeah, don't you know? Say five Jewish words, and the Gefilteman pops out of the mirror and uses your blood for his matzo!"
Yeah, I know, real surprise. Donald Wildmon is a narrow-minded anti-Semite who has no fucking clue how gay people really function. It's just, the depths some so-called "moralists" can sink to amaze me.
Of course, it wouldn't be Donald Wildmon without some loosely veiled anti-Semitism:
BENSON: Yeah, I mean, this is -- this is what you call -- what? -- chutzpah. This is -- this is --
WILDMON: That's a Jewish word, right? Be careful.
"Yeah, don't you know? Say five Jewish words, and the Gefilteman pops out of the mirror and uses your blood for his matzo!"
Yeah, I know, real surprise. Donald Wildmon is a narrow-minded anti-Semite who has no fucking clue how gay people really function. It's just, the depths some so-called "moralists" can sink to amaze me.
