Deconstructing Tony Perkins vile, brilliant and late reaction to Obama's prayer breakfast speech
You know - I realize that I tend to shit on xtians here. Let me again remind you that xtians aren't Christians. Christians believe that Jesus died to save the world from sin. They believe that He walked among us calling for peace, love and tolerance, healing the sick, and telling people not to act like assholes.
xtians believe that Jesus believed in free market economy, that the poor (especially the non-white poor) were leaches and fuck the sick. xtians lie through their stubby teeth ground down from years of gnawing on the bones of the suckers who donate money to their mega-churches.
Most, but not all of them, suffer from a psychosis that renders them incapable of seeing the world anything less than a festering pit of sin that God will destroy because everyone in it (except them, of course) sucks. Sure, when backed into a corner, they'll claim that they, too, need salvation. But they don't really mean it. They know God really likes them best and the rest of us will roast.
In the movie, True Romance, Christopher Walken (as a crime boss) has an amazing scene where he tells Dennis Hopper about the 17 pantomimes that every liar plays. That kept going through my head as I listened to Tony "Not The Gay Guy That Killed Janet Leigh In Psycho" Perkins sound so unbelievably since in his agreement with Obama that the country needs unity.
HUH? Perkins who spouts the most miserable characterizations of the President of the United States (remember, dissent is no longer treason anymore) agrees with him on something. That just can't be true! Well, listen for yourself!
1 - Agree That Unity Is A Good Thing...Well...Civility
He's so reasonable! Kind, calm, thoughtful. He agrees that Obama seems headed on the right track. However, no sooner does he say that then the pivoting starts. "Unity" can't be achieved since...well, Obama is a scumbag that wants to destroy America BUT if we change "Unity" to "Civility" it's kind of the same thing so he still agrees with the POTUS. He's just a man that loves God on an island reasonableness stuck in a stinking sea of Satanists.
2 - Put Yourself On The Defensive
He still agrees that Obama's call for <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Unity </span>Civility only helps the country. Notice how in this part how he continues this "hat in hand" bit. Yes, the democrats won the election. He's an American. He believes in democracy. Oh, yeah, and civility. The US used to be a Godly country and now it's run by...well, maybe not Satan but at least his advance guard. Perkins knows that in this new America sooner or later, Christians will get their throats cut because believing in God is "controversial". "It's ok," he assures us. He "gets it". I love God. The US hates me. No biggee!
3 - Be A Uniter Not A Diviner
Tony Perkins, during his time in the House, got along with everybody! Just because he believed in God and everyone else didn't...that didn't mean that they all couldn't hang out together. Why? Because he doesn't hate. At all. Yes, homosexuals want to rape children in bathrooms. Yes, the only reason that we have AIDS is because gays and Democrats aren't shipped off and quarantined from 10% of Americans that go to church regularly. Yes, the fictitious "homosexual agenda" runs our schools teaching our kids to like homosexuals rather than beat the living shit out of them the way they deserve. And, yes, gay people (with the help of Obama) want to pass laws that will make heterosexuals get divorces and force them to marry gay people. BUT - he doesn't hate them. He prays for them. What's so bad about praying for a group of people that want to destroy the American way of life and kill God? Answer: nothing.
4 - Trust But Villify
Ok, with Perkins' "God is Love" bona fides, firmly in place, it's time to re-affirm that Obama's basic message of <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Unity </span> Civility can be gotten behind. However...Obama still likes that homosexuals that that want to destroy the American way of life and kill God and even wants to help them. That's a problem. And it shows up in the way he poo-poos and twists the meaning of the good work that xtians want to do in Uganda with killing gay people. "Oh, you silly gays and liberals", he intones, "we...errrr...the Ugandans don't want to kill gay people. They simply want to kill any gay person capable of killing an innocent person because of their gayness. See, only gays have AIDS. When gays have sex they transmit AIDS. A lot of times to children...poor orphaned children! AIDS kills people. So whenever a gay guy (because it's never lesbians with these folks) has sex, he's killed someone, which is to say, he commits murder. So Obama condones murder and...well...how can you reason with someone that does that?"
5 - Logically, It's All His Fault
Using the above, Perkins, rather abandons the "hat in hand-aww-shucks-we're-the-underdog" posture and passive-aggressively weasels his way from the oppressed to the victor. You can't be civil with someone who supports crime. It's a helluva trick considering that last step.
6- Civility Is Absolute Bullshit With The Godless
This is a brilliantly fucked up sentence - "When you have the conflicting world views, you are not going to be able to resolve those simply by calling for civility. Now, again, we treat each other with kindness and speak out of love..."
This is where a dictionary comes in handy:
Civility: Courteous behavior; politeness.
Hm. Kindness and love almost sound like civility. But it can't be civility. Because in order to have a civil discussion about homosexuals, Perkins says, "you have to drop the truth" about murderous homosexuals raping children, destroying America and trying to kill God and "friends, that...will...never...work."
Now. Go back and play the first clip again where he talks about "Unity and Civility" as a "laudable goal".
Why did it take Perkins a week to get around to talking about Obama's prayer breakfast speech? Because the shit that he spewed is so complex, targeted and evil that it took that long to write. Or maybe his doG ate it.