I have wanted to diary this for a couple days, and have just found the time. Since I have not seen it on the site anywhere else, I thought it would be fun to share.
James Dobson and John McCain are getting backing for their anti-marriage stance from 9-11 Mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. From the LA Times
The California ruling did draw sharp criticism from one person: confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who used his June 5 arraignment to show that news of California's same-sex marriages had reached the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
"Evil laws are not the laws of God," Mohammed told the U.S. military and civilian officials at his trial, citing "laws allowing same-sex marriages" as an example.
Im going to rant now.
The phrase "got your back" has been rolling around here a lot lately, and it's clear that when Dobson and McCain want to align secular law with the religious opinion of a minority, one guy who's ready to lend is support is the guy who brought down the WTC in the worst act of terrorism in American history.
And while Focus on the Family is not out there signing members up to learn how to fly planes, but not to land them, they share many of the tools of terrorists: brainwashing, manipulation, and of course maintaining influence and power through the cultivation of fear of perpetual evil.
The fact that these men share the same opinion is not of little consequence. Both have taken themselves on a career of terror in the name of self-righteousness, versus the evil that is a society of secular laws. While there is difference in their methodology, the goal and result of their actions is the same: a fear-obsessed society, distrusting in their shared humanity, and in need of God's punishment to straighten them out.
Terrorism has a physical toll, a body count, reverberating images of violent destruction, blood, and death. It also has a psychological component, which can be just as damaging. It takes away the feeling of safety and trust in one's fellow man that makes them vulnerable to hatred of not only outsiders, but neighbors. It is not the body count that causes the most psychological trauma. We live through, and sometimes quickly forget, natural disasters -- tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes -- that leave far more carnage than most terror attacks. But the loss of trust in one's fellow species is what opens to door for people to feel deep and devastating fear. The kind of fear that can make them lay down their rights of freedom in the name of security.
James Dobson and John McCain would rob you of that trust just as fast as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would. They would have you believing in a segment of the population, like gays, that were sub-human, evil, waiting in your school to molest your children, spreading disease through society, destroying the fabric of your family and community through the very act of their existence. They do this for no better reason then the maintenance of their power and position.
James Dobson is a terrorist, and the 9-11 mastermind has got his back.