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Showing posts with label westboro church. Show all posts
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06 December 2013
HAS BILL O'REILLY JOINED THE WESTBORO CHURCH? Bill O'Reilly speaks on behalf of Jesus about the scourge of Food Stamps 4DEZ13
WHAT a sad perversion of the teachings of Jesus Christ. In the Beatitudes and other teachings of Jesus He doesn't tell us to care for the poor, the needy, the least among us but only if them meet certain conditions. He gave love, sustenance, support, grace, healing, resurrection, forgiveness to all who needed and would accept it, regardless of who they were and their lifestyle. His life was given the same way, and His offer of salvation is still offered the same way. bill o'reilly's Christianity isn't much different than that of the westboro church's. I just can't reconcile that with the Christianity of Jesus Christ.
It is no secret that Bill O'Reilly is an ass of gigantic proportions.
However, in a segment on last night's O'Reilly Factor, Bill manages to
outdo his own gigantic assiness. In response to recent Republican
efforts to dismantle SNAP and the Vatican's new-found concern for the
poor, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) made a comment in a conversation
with Al Sharpton that when Jesus fed five thousand people with five
loaves of bread and two fish, “he didn’t charge food stamps.”
This made Bill O' ooh so mad and he simply wasn't going to stand for it. Letting his hatred for all things perceived as "nanny state" fly, he graciously acknowledged that Jesus would be just fine with feeding the poors so long as it didn't inconvenience anyone with actual money.
In a conversation with Pentecostal Pastor Joshua Dubois, Bill tries to school the good pastor on all those alcoholics and drug addicts picking his pocket for free food. In actuality, it was Pastor Dubois who schooled O'Reilly. The video and juicier bits of the conversation transcribed below.
http://youtu.be/9vTuEHX81Eo
This made Bill O' ooh so mad and he simply wasn't going to stand for it. Letting his hatred for all things perceived as "nanny state" fly, he graciously acknowledged that Jesus would be just fine with feeding the poors so long as it didn't inconvenience anyone with actual money.
In a conversation with Pentecostal Pastor Joshua Dubois, Bill tries to school the good pastor on all those alcoholics and drug addicts picking his pocket for free food. In actuality, it was Pastor Dubois who schooled O'Reilly. The video and juicier bits of the conversation transcribed below.
O'Reilly: The problem I have, as I stated is that you’re helping one group by hurting another group and a bigger group, and so I don’t know if Jesus is going to be down with that. Dubois: Jesus would be down for the poor. He would want to make sure every single person in this country had enough food to eat. And the bottom line is if you add up every single private charitable dollar that feeds hungry people in this country, it’s only 10 percent of what we would need to make sure everyone has food in their stomachs. The rest comes from the federal government.I have to applaud Pastor Dubois for standing up to O'Reilly so pointedly. O'Reilly only served to come off as the cruel, heartless Republican he is. In his mind and in the minds of so many Republicans, being poor is just exactly what you deserve for having the audacity to be poor. In order to expunge his putrid soul for these uncharitable thoughts, he must convince himself that these people are subhuman addicts not worthy of wiping his shoes on. I am not a Christian and I do not pretend to speak for Jesus and how he would have felt about food stamps, but having read a great deal what he was purported to have stood for, I'm pretty sure that Bill O'Reilly has this exactly wrong.
O'Reilly: You’re making a powerful argument, but there is one huge mistake in it. And that is that some of the people who don’t have enough to eat, it’s their fault they don’t have enough to eat. Particularly with their children.
If you’re an alcoholic or heroin addict or a drug addict and you can’t hold a job, alright, and you can’t support your children — and that’s a circumstance of millions and millions of people, not most, but a lot, a substantial minority — then it’s your fault, you’re bringing the havoc, that you’re asking people who may be struggling themselves to put food on the table to give their tax money to you. And then you’re not even going to buy food with it, you’re going to buy booze and drugs with it.
Dubois: With all due respect, there’s a lot of misconceptions in what you just said. The vast majority of that program goes to elderly people, people who are disabled, 46 percent are children and most people are working families.
O'Reilly: My parents didn’t make a lot of money and they were able to put food on the table. I give a lot of money — and you probably know this — to children’s charities, okay? Children who have derelict parents. And I say, it’s not the kids’ fault so I’m going to give the money to the kids. But I don’t give it to charities unless the charity hands it to the kids, gets it right to the kids. So, I’m circumventing the drugs and the alcohol and the other craziness, alright?
Dubois: I don’t live in a derelict country. There are some folks that have the problems that you described, but that is not the vast majority of food stamp recipients.
Originally posted to Steveningen on Wed Dec 04, 2013 at 09:31 AM PST.
Also republished by Hunger in America.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/04/1260075/-Bill-O-Reilly-speaks-on-behalf-of-Jesus-about-the-scourge-Food-Stamps?detail=email
09 August 2012
Honoring America's Veterans Act Signed By Obama, Restricting Westboro Military Funeral Protests 6AUG12
IF a court challenge on this law reaches the Supreme Court it may be overturned. The people from the westboro church are perverting Christianity and their actions do not represent Christian values on the US Military, the American nation or the LGBT community. They are not following Christ's teachings in the Bible, but because we live in a Republic and not a theocracy (thank God!) their freedom of speech, as disturbing and disgusting as it is, maybe be upheld by SCOTUS again. Best for communities to show up en masse and nonviolently block them from any event they plan to protest. What the fools at westboro fail to realize is that every protest they hold they end up strengthening the local communities resolve to be a more inclusive community defending the civil liberties, civil rights and human rights of everyone. From HuffPost....
(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
President Barack Obama signed the Honoring America’s
Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012 into law on
Monday, providing a wide-ranging package of benefits to military
personnel and enacting new restrictions on protests of service member
funerals.
"We have a moral sacred duty to our men and women in uniform," Obama said before signing the bill, according to a pool report. "The graves of our veterans are hallowed grounds."
The new law will have strong implications for the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based organization which the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have labeled a hate group. Westboro Baptist Church has drawn media attention for its brand of protest, which frequently links the deaths of soldiers to America's growing acceptance of gays.
Under the new legislation, protests must be held at least 300 feet from military funerals and are prohibited two hours before or after a service. The law counters a 2011 Supreme Court ruling, which found that displays such as Westboro's were protected under the First Amendment.
Members of the church responded defiantly to a Huffington Post report following Congress' passage of the bill, claiming that the law's restrictions could also have an effect on counter-demonstrations organized in response to Westboro's attempts to disrupt military services.
Two of these counter-efforts drew national attention last month, when large groups of people turned out in both Missouri and in Texas in an attempt to create "human walls" to shield attendees of military funerals from Westboro's demonstrations.
(Photos of the Texas event below)
In an interview over the weekend, Westboro spokesman Steven Drain told CNN that the new law was "not going to change our plans at all."
According to the Army Times, future violations of The Honoring America’s Veterans Act would include the possibility of $50,000 in statutory damages.
For more on The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, click here.
"We have a moral sacred duty to our men and women in uniform," Obama said before signing the bill, according to a pool report. "The graves of our veterans are hallowed grounds."
The new law will have strong implications for the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based organization which the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have labeled a hate group. Westboro Baptist Church has drawn media attention for its brand of protest, which frequently links the deaths of soldiers to America's growing acceptance of gays.
Under the new legislation, protests must be held at least 300 feet from military funerals and are prohibited two hours before or after a service. The law counters a 2011 Supreme Court ruling, which found that displays such as Westboro's were protected under the First Amendment.
Members of the church responded defiantly to a Huffington Post report following Congress' passage of the bill, claiming that the law's restrictions could also have an effect on counter-demonstrations organized in response to Westboro's attempts to disrupt military services.
Two of these counter-efforts drew national attention last month, when large groups of people turned out in both Missouri and in Texas in an attempt to create "human walls" to shield attendees of military funerals from Westboro's demonstrations.
(Photos of the Texas event below)
In an interview over the weekend, Westboro spokesman Steven Drain told CNN that the new law was "not going to change our plans at all."
According to the Army Times, future violations of The Honoring America’s Veterans Act would include the possibility of $50,000 in statutory damages.
For more on The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012, click here.
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