Okay, let’s try to balance right-wing (actually, amorphous neocon ) Christmas gay bashing hysteria with reality…or more likely, at least let the vast majority of folks know what’s being said.

To start, one neocon voice has recently claimed that Washington State atheists are tantamount to Osama bin Laden because they dare to have a Constitutional right to NOT believe in ANY deity(ies) whatsoever; it appears the atheist group simply wants to have a “disclaimer” adjacent to Nativity scenes on public property…if you can’t stand that, don’t agree with them…just like atheists simply can look at your crèche and pass on. Story currently at http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/guest/2008/fmb_12131.shtml .

Notice that most neocon yappers deal exclusively in emotionalism over, say, RESULTS: “When we hit Afghanistan, our economy will recover”; “When we remove Saddam, our economy will recover”; “When we delete Tom DeLay, our economy will recover”; “When we delete Rod Blagojevich, our economy will recover”….you get the idea.

When it comes to neocons now emotionalizing over atheists, well, how much “influence” would these folks have without neocon objectivists engaging 24/7 hammer-time money to scare us with (note, the ONLY kind of “jobs” they seem to create…or KEEP). Perhaps neocons fear their grip on dogmatic Pavlovistic control via auto-God-pilot is slipping; no, there’s still a difference between atheism and agnosticism/apathy…you can still believe in God (as many of the hundreds of millions “unchurched” on Sundays now do), but be turned off by Calvinisms such as “all people in Africa or Asia live in huts”, or “almost all Muslims are nomads and killers”,  or “all Latinos are but Mexicans living in mud”, or “all but the most useless American nationals have plenty and should share THEIR wealth with the rest of these global hut-dwellers, even if the USA already for decades gives foreign aid to their leaders”…again, you get the idea.

Such Calvinism is most odious when it preaches “God is NOT punishing this or that nationality through their being in the same boat as those in say America, but God IS punishing or viewing as a plaything vessel of wrath gays, or Americans, or whoever needs to do as benefits government leaders globally”; note that many of these preachers in every faith are the government-installed or faith-initiative/funded types, and would never suggest THEY need to give up a mansion (as many USA Cardinals live in), limousines, platinum cufflinks, what have you. In a word, listening to such stereotypings and commandments for sharing, if following ipse dixit preachers’ own words, self-proves that doing things their way for decades accomplishes nothing more than continuation of the status quo they claim they’re trying to defeat…and for those believing in “vessels of wrath God destroys anyway”, how do THEY know their God isn’t sending them for pronto destruction via some abortions, which they oppose?

Sorry for that last one…but it carries another dynamic: it would seem not atheists, but uber-right pan-Christian Calvinists are the ones with fundamentalist, “God tells us who to destroy” Laden-like emboldenment.

Which brings me to conclude that recent neocon efforts to hook up homosexuality with abetting terrorism (q.v., e.g., http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/colson-gay-marriage-causes-terrorism , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fill-blank-gays-are ) are just an extension of pure emotionalism tethered to no reality(ies) except to perpetuate the influence over the minds and pocketbooks of people by neocons; the only “results” their troupe as President and once majority Congress brought was emotionalism to distract from attention they were themselves doing everything they could in opposition to what they emotionally screamed and promised.

Sure…gays are more an aid to terrorists than calling Pakistan, which for some time has housed the USA UN Permanent Mission of Iran in the USA Embassy of Pakistan, a “let them be, do as see fit partner in war on terror”…even when under Mushareff they admitted using Qaeda well post 2003 to “destabilize” Pashtun chiefs, and then speaking of Mumbai… .

We’ve heard just about everything an American can conceive of doing or saying be tacked on as an “aider of terrorism”; if we sacrifice our intentions of change with the new Congress and President and fall for making gay life the end-all/be-all definition of the legislative/executive calendar, we’ll be chasing our tails, opening the door to further claims like State/County-issued vital record abstracts are “renditionable/say-so detainable non-proof of anything”, and see little if any change to anything; now, who would that benefit, heh heh heh?