July 06, 2006
Celebs imitating Team America: World Police imitating caricatures of celebs. The response to HIV/AIDS has gone from tragic to beyond surreal. I see these signs up all over Los Angeles. I've been trying to figure out their purpose. Do these people really believe that Americans want people to die from AIDS?
Saying we should find a cure for AIDS is like saying we should find a cure for malaria. Who could possibly be against it?
A public campaign orchestrated by Kenneth Cole aimed at convincing the public that celebrities feel worse about AIDS than every one else maybe?
Because you selfish bastards don't really care about AIDS as long as there isn't a cure.
I, for one, welcome our new caring celebrity overlords.
I do not have AIDS. I do, however, wish we could all have AIDES.
Will Smith has AIDS.
Rosie O'Donell has AIDS.
Nelson Mandela has AIDS.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has AIDS.
Sir Elton John has AIDS.
Richard Gere has AIDS.
Sharon Stone has AIDS.
Ashley Judd has AIDS.
Whoopi Goldberg has AIDS.
Harry Belafonte has AIDS.
Tom Hanks has AIDS.
I proclaim today national AIDS joke day. Because AIDS is funny. South Park told me so.
PS-Consider this a vacation post.
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Posted by: Mark at July 06, 2006 02:55 PM (UN2Uu)
Husband: "How can we find out which?"
Doctor: "I need you to run a little experiment this weekend. Take your wife to a park and leave her there. If she finds her way home; dont have sex with her."
Posted by: Rusty at July 06, 2006 03:04 PM (h/402)
Posted by: HD Wanderer at July 06, 2006 03:12 PM (nA9AR)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 03:21 PM (8e/V4)
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 06, 2006 03:25 PM (v3I+x)
Indeed, but the group who put this out has an advertising budget and if they don't spend it, they won't get it next quarter. Now as to why they have an advertising budget, I can see the reasoning, but I do agree the money could have been better suited used as something else. Unfortunately though, these scientific labs who hire advocacy groups feel they need to advertise in such ways. Why, I don't know. As Rusty wrote, a cure for AIDS? Well, yeah, that would be nice.
Posted by: Chad Evans at July 06, 2006 03:28 PM (+0rMT)
Posted by: XBradTC at July 06, 2006 03:41 PM (JYMV6)
And Brad, what do you think Christ's message to people with AIDS would be? Tough luck about the gay sex, now die?
Posted by: jd at July 06, 2006 05:12 PM (aqTJB)
Not to their faces. Jesus would show compassion for AIDS victims, but he also told sinner to go and sin no more. And for that you Libs would have called him a hateful bigot.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 05:26 PM (8e/V4)
I don't call modern Christians bigots for believing that homosexuality is wrong. I do call them bigots when they vote for things that would deny health benefits to children of gay partners, as is happening in Virginia and other states.
And remember--the Bible was used, for decades, as a support for slavery. They took the Noah story, and then took all the passages approving of slavery and said, see--Jesus had no problem with slavery. A better reader of the Bible saw the deeper truth...
Jesse Helms used to use the bible to support segregation on the air in NC...when he was NC's Rush Limbaugh before he became a senator.
Posted by: jd at July 06, 2006 05:44 PM (aqTJB)
Jesus said nothing about pedophilia or child sacrifice either. Proves nothing. He was silent precisely because he had no need to repeat himself or teach them something new on the matter. He had every opportunity to correct them, and he didn't. If Jesus believed homosexuality was ok, he would have told people so, given their views. Christians read the Bible in it's entirety, and nothing in it condones homosexuality. On the contrary. If you don't agree with the Bible, fine. But don't try to hijack it.
The fact is, christians the world over and throughout history DO believe their views on homosexuality are biblically-based. And that's why they hold their views on homosexuality, not because they're hateful bigots. In fact, I wish the Bible wasn't as explicit about homosexuality. I don't hate gays, and it would really simplify things. But your Liberal attempts to label folks as bigots is nothing but scare tactics and political maneuvering. I don't personally don't know any conservative christians who hate gays, but they simply cannot deny God's word. Period.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 05:58 PM (8e/V4)
Posted by: Leatherneck at July 06, 2006 06:37 PM (D2g/j)
Posted by: Rusty at July 06, 2006 07:38 PM (HdEeR)
A: Trying to explain to your parents that you're Haitian.
Posted by: This is just a joke at July 06, 2006 07:49 PM (utJ4A)
are you kidding me? I've been singing the Everybody Has AIDS song all day long. I can't get it out of my head. lol!
Everybody has AIDS! AIDS, AIDS, AIDS! AIDS!
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 07:56 PM (8e/V4)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20
Posted by: Rusty at July 06, 2006 08:26 PM (HdEeR)
Posted by: jesusland joe at July 06, 2006 08:35 PM (rUyw4)
And surely you aren't serious about saying that anyone who tolerates of or approves homosexuality isn't a Christian? That's one possible reading of your words, so I hope it's not the accurate one.
I actually didn't think the Team America movie was as good as the first South Park movie...although Everyone Has Aids was damn funny.
Posted by: jd at July 06, 2006 10:43 PM (DQYHA)
However, it is jarring to see that with this massive ad budget, and this professional website, they still have "people Effected by AIDS". One of its effects is apparently poor grammar...

Posted by: jd at July 06, 2006 11:39 PM (DQYHA)
jd,
Jesus said that he came to fulfill the Law not to destroy it. He also said that not one iota of the Law would pass away until the end of the world. So according to Jesus, yes, they are still in effect. Peter seemed to say the same thing. Messianic Jews believe that. We don't stone adulterers anymore because Jesus took that upon himself. He paid that price. The laws are still there. But Paul is interpreted as giving gentiles leniency from the Biblical dietary codes, etc. I myself have problems with that interpretation, but it has 2,000 years of history behind it, so who am I to argue.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 11:46 PM (8e/V4)
you can tolerate homosexuality and be a good christian, but not if you accept it. Christians who accept homosexuality show ignorance of their own religion. Tolerating it is simply living and letting live, but accepting it is embracing it as good. That's not biblical.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 06, 2006 11:54 PM (8e/V4)
Two Christians meet. One says, I believe the Bible reflects not only the story of God's only son dying for our sins, but also some of the prejudices and beliefs of the Hebrew people at that time, as reflected through the scribes and those who approved the myriad versions of the various gospels and epistles. Thus, I don't think that the anti-homosexual language in the OT and the NT reflects what Jesus believed. But I do believe Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light, and none shall come to the father save through him (ie, he's born again).
The other Christian says: I respect your views, but in my opinion, the Bible is what the Bible is. It is the Holy Word of God, the One word of truth.
Is the former person a Christian?
(and if you say no, believe me, I have a follow up!)
Posted by: jd at July 07, 2006 12:02 AM (DQYHA)
Posted by: Falcon at July 07, 2006 12:55 AM (6Uk/n)
if you believe Jesus Christ is your lord and saviour, that makes you a christian. But if you don't believe the Bible is innerrant, then it's useless to talk about it. It's one of those, oh well agree to disagree type of things.
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at July 07, 2006 08:54 AM (8e/V4)
Posted by: Ed Banky at July 07, 2006 10:09 AM (X9LlJ)
Poor JD. Afraid his muslim boy friend will give him aids.
If he hasn't already.
Posted by: greyrooster at July 07, 2006 10:12 AM (Cha30)
Posted by: Ed Banky at July 07, 2006 10:14 AM (X9LlJ)
Posted by: YBP at July 07, 2006 02:25 PM (gZnyq)
Did anyone else order the shirt yet?

Posted by: thirdee at July 07, 2006 04:51 PM (lm+0X)
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Now wasn't homosexuality a sin under the Law? Why yes it was!
Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
The fact is that the Law is starting to sound like a pretty good idea, considering the level of depravity to which our society has fallen.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 09, 2006 09:48 AM (v3I+x)
Mixing different types of fabric.
Violating the entirety of kosher dietary laws.
Having sex with a woman during her period.
Sitting on something that a woman sat on during her period.
Cooking by a woman having her period.
You tell me you abide by those, and I'll accept that you have a biblically inspired, not bigoted reason for hating homosexuality. Otherwise, shut your pie hole.
Posted by: jd at July 09, 2006 11:06 AM (DQYHA)
Posted by: YBP at July 09, 2006 11:35 AM (gZnyq)
For example, the admonition against masturbation in Leviticus was once taught as mandatory, God-revealed truth. Now, all except the most conservative Christians spend very little time campaigning against masturbation, because the rest of the culture would laugh at them, and they would lose members.
Ditto for divorce. It used to be absolutely anathema, forbidden by the Bible. Remember the scene in the new Cash movie, where the bigoted bitch in the drug store goes up to June Carter Cash and rakes her over the coals for the "sin" of being divorced? Well, our fundies today don't do that, because so many Americans (tithing Americans!) are divorced, or will be. Someday, the fundies who today believe that gay marriage is banned by God will adjust their views. Or, those still in their churches will. It is almost, but not quite, inevitable. It is also possible that we will have a resurgence of stricter sexual morality. The evidence from the youngest generation is mixed. they are less sexuality active, but more sexually open. Less inhibited, but less promiscuous. And VERY very pro-gay rights. Even fundy kids are far more pro gay rights than previous young fundies.
Posted by: jd at July 09, 2006 01:32 PM (DQYHA)
The Catholic Church still teaches that masturbation is always wrong and that divorce is permisable under certain circumstances if the marriage is deemed valid, although in these cases, remarriage is not allowed.
The Church also teaches that all humans have dignity anre should be loved, but that homosexual acts, just like out-of-marriage heterosexual activity, are morally wrong. I find it odd how so many people who scream about the evils of homosexuality have very little to say about this latter issue.
Posted by: YBP at July 09, 2006 02:19 PM (gZnyq)
Oh, and if the Catholics oppose masturbation, they do so today VERY quietly. It's a pro-forma opposition, it's nothing like it was 50 years ago.
Posted by: jd at July 09, 2006 10:12 PM (DQYHA)
And then there are other churches...
Posted by: YBP at July 10, 2006 09:59 AM (gZnyq)
Posted by: jd at July 10, 2006 12:30 PM (12Jpa)
I wholeheartedly agree that many a sermon today is on the touchy-feely side, but I maintain that the Church officially, although not as loudly as She should, denounces things like masturbation. Check Fr. Stravinskas' (of Our Sunday Visitor fame) very recent Q$A book. Oddly, the Q&A books I have dating from the 40's don't even adddress the matter, although missals printed in the 50's and up to today mention "impure acts against self" in things to ponder on the way to the confessional.
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