Christianist leaders fight to be allowed to discriminate

ENDA stands for the Employee Non-Discrimination Act of 2009. Senator Jeff Merkley, D (OH), introduced it as S. 1584, which corresponds to H.R. 3017 in the House. It would bar employers from discriminating on the basis of "actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity."

Attempts to pass an anti-discrimination policy began back in 1997, but have been unsuccessful. Now, however, it appears that it may receive the blessing of Congress and President Obama will sign it.


That possible success is driving certain christianist leaders nuts. Well, nuttier than usual. It matters not to these fruitcakes that the bill actually contains an exemption for religious groups. Which is pretty funny. Religious groups pretend they are all about love and inclusion, especially christianist religious groups who go about quoting what they think Jesus meant about everything, but they really are more about hatred and exclusion than anything else.

So, they are now claiming the exemption is just a subterfuge. Craig Parshall, representing the rightwhitewingnut christianist fundamentalistic National Religious Broadcasters, wailed that this bill would "impose a crippling burden on religious organizations" because they would no longer be able to discriminate against homosexuals, etc.

Dear God, please let us religious folks continue to discriminate! We know YOU hate homosexuals (well, actually you love homosexuals, you just hate their homosexuality) and would never want a christianist group to knowingly hire one of "them."

Heh. Heh.

One wingnut by name of Frank Wright, president and CEO of National Religious Broadcasters, accused someone [I guess the "liberal left"] of hypocrisy, saying of this bill:

"[I]t purports to address discrimination, all the while visiting a pernicious viewpoint discrimination against people of deep religious conviction. In the final analysis, ENDA is an attempt to subjugate First Amendment freedoms while advancing the political orthodoxy of the liberal left."

Heh. Heh. Pernicious! Big word. I like it. It fits the NRB and other christianists very well!

Let's see. According to this logic, if christianist groups want to follow God's law and stone adulterers to death, any attempt to stop them would be "discrimination against people of deep religious conviction." It would be "an attempt to subjugate First Amendment freedoms while advancing the political orthodoxy of the liberal left."

What an asshat! Having a "deep religious conviction" is not an asset; it usually means the person is mentally unstable. And anyone who talks about "the political orthodoxy of the liberal left" is exposing to the entire world a monumental stupidity about American politics. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that the so-called "liberal left" has no "political orthodoxy" at all!


But, hey, lovers of Jesus unite! Carry your banner high. Let it read "We hate homosexuals and don't want to hire them, work with them, go to lunch with them or share a company picnic with them!"


[Much of this material, minus my own rants, of course, was taken from the article, "NRB Leader Warns Congress of ENDA's 'Chilling' Effect on Christian Groups," at Christian Post.]