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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Sat Feb 21, 2015, 01:49 PM Feb 2015

The South’s true face of hate:Oozing nonsense from demented & influential corners of religious right

The South’s true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious right

Celebrating the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination? Disturbing people are pushing sick alternative history

PAUL ROSENBERG

When a federal court recently struck down Alabama’s same-sex marriage ban, it wasn’t Governor Robert Bentley who insisted on repeating George Wallace’s ludicrous theatrics of treason, defying the authority of federal law and the Supreme Court. It was Alabama’s Chief Justice Roy Moore, ordering probate judges to ignore the federal court order and refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses. The local media, to its credit, knew exactly what was going on:

Bentley refused to become the next Alabama governor making a show of defying the law in front of TV cameras and in the process sending the message that our state is still intolerant and a lawless place for some of its citizens who happen to be different from the majority.

But what Bentley refused to do, Moore did do. He is trying to stand in the courthouse door as surely as Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door. Shame on him.

At “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart went for the foolish hypocrisy angle—or at least one of many: Moore and the probate judges following his lead explicitly invoking the Bible as the reason to reject same-sex marriage violates the Alabama Constitution, as just amended in the last election. Stewart played a clip from WSFA 12 news, last Nov. 3, describing the newly passed, so-called “Sharia Law” constitutional amendment, “It would prohibit judges and other state officials from basing any of their decisions on ‘foreign law,’” the newscaster explained in the clip. Pregnant pause. Then Stewart asked, “Where was the Bible written, again?”

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http://www.salon.com/2015/02/21/the_souths_true_face_of_hate_oozing_nonsense_from_demented_and_influential_corners_of_religious_right/

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The South’s true face of hate:Oozing nonsense from demented & influential corners of religious right (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2015 OP

Regional Hate Arwinnick Feb 2015 #1

I'm not calling out anyone.... DonViejo Feb 2015 #2

I'm from Alabama. There's no need to sugar-coat what's happening in Alabama, cheapdate Feb 2015 #4

I'm not sugar coating or dancing around anything... DonViejo Feb 2015 #6

I think you might have misunderstood my post. cheapdate Feb 2015 #7

Okay, I stand corrected... DonViejo Feb 2015 #8

Sorry Arwinnick Feb 2015 #3

No problem... DonViejo Feb 2015 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author Duppers Feb 2015 #10

These haters are truly insane csziggy Feb 2015 #9

Arwinnick

(39 posts)

1. Regional Hate

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:03 PM

Feb 2015

is very unbecoming.The south and southerners cannot all be lumped together.I hate that we have a Roy Moore in Alabama,but I only have one vote.By calling out the south in general you insult 1000 plus members of DU whom have been here supporting democrats wherever they may be from.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

2. I'm not calling out anyone....

Reply to Arwinnick (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:12 PM

Feb 2015

This is a published article on a liberal/progressive news site. I post articles from reliable/reputable sites. Please don't think because I post articles you disagree with, that I agree with the piece or what is written. I make recommendations on articles I don't agree with, too, solely for the reason I believe an article is worth reading, even though I disagree with the content.

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

4. I'm from Alabama. There's no need to sugar-coat what's happening in Alabama,

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:23 PM

Feb 2015

or to dance around it with disclaimers and qualifiers, not on my behalf anyway.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

6. I'm not sugar coating or dancing around anything...

Reply to cheapdate (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:43 PM

Feb 2015

just made a simple statement of fact about the how and why I post news articles here on DU.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a child of the 50's and 60's, I remember Alabama, Bull Connor, George Wallace, Selma, fire hoses and mad dogs. Now I'm an adult, it's deja vu all over again, especially since I am a gay man. I have no desire to visit Alabama, never had a desire to and will not, based solely on the state's "oozing nonsense from demented & influential corners..." Perhaps it's my loss but, I can live with that loss.

cheapdate

(3,811 posts)

7. I think you might have misunderstood my post.

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #6)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:54 PM

Feb 2015

That seems to happen a lot with me, third time in a week.

I was affirming your right to post articles critical of Alabama and the south. By "sugar-coat" I meant that I don't require critical statements about Alabama to come with heavy caveats and qualifications to spare my feelings.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

8. Okay, I stand corrected...

Reply to cheapdate (Reply #7)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:56 PM

Feb 2015

thanks for clearing up that confusion!

Arwinnick

(39 posts)

3. Sorry

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:19 PM

Feb 2015

I mistook the title as your own statement.My bad

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

5. No problem...

Reply to Arwinnick (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:35 PM

Feb 2015

apology accepted.

I use the published headline 99% of the time. The original headline on this article is, The South’s true face of hate: Oozing nonsense from demented and influential corners of religious right. I reworked the headline to read; The South’s true face of hate:Oozing nonsense from demented & influential corners of religious right; I eliminated the space between the colon and the word "Oozing"; I also used the symbol "&" in place of the actual word, "and." I did the editing to ensure the actual headline would fit in the subject line.

Response to Arwinnick (Reply #3)

Duppers This message was self-deleted by its author.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

9. These haters are truly insane

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:57 PM

Feb 2015

For instance, from the article linked in the OP:

The League of the South recently announced it will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s assasination this coming April, in case there were any lingering doubts about where their sentiments lie. And as for our current president, Peroutka’s organization, the Institute on the Constitution, proudly hosted a speaker who argued that “President Obama is not eligible to be president of the United States because he is not a ‘natural born citizen’ as defined by Article II of the Constitution, which was based on Deuteronomy 17,” as reported by Sara Posner of Religion Dispatches.

OK, they're going to "celebrate" the assassination of a legally elected US President. Just for a minute, ignore which president it was. If they truly support the US Constitution, they cannot be in favor of assassination as a mode of succession of power.

Then the birther claim about President Obama - the verses of Deuteronomy 17 he must be referring to are:

14 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 15 be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+17

Uh, when has the US had an Israelite as king? Hell, when has the US had a KING?

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