{"id":2183,"date":"2013-01-15T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/press-continues-to-worship-at-the-feet-of-jodie-foster.html"},"modified":"2013-01-15T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:24:00","slug":"press-continues-to-worship-at-the-feet-of-jodie-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/press-continues-to-worship-at-the-feet-of-jodie-foster.html","title":{"rendered":"Press continues to worship at the feet of Jodie Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>And again, for the second straight day, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jodie-foster-kicks-open-closet-door-means-gays-020033638.html?bcmt_s=m#ugccmt-container\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the press\u00a0continues\u00a0to gush over Jodie Foster\u2019s brave and bold confession of her lesbianism<\/a>. \u00a0Really. \u00a0A woman who made it\u00a0official\u00a0years ago that she was a\u00a0lesbian\u00a0 and did so on prime time\u00a0television\u00a0 comes out and says what everyone already knew, that she\u2019s a lesbian. \u00a0Not that it was a shock then, but it sure isn\u2019t a shock now. \u00a0And then \u2013 and this is the hilarious part \u2013 the press acts as if this is some bold,\u00a0courageous\u00a0thing because she made this confession in \u2026 Saudi Arabia? \u00a0Afghanistan? \u00a0A\u00a0fundamentalist\u00a0tent meeting? \u00a0No! \u00a0She made this bold declaration of what we already knew in a Hollywood awards assembly. \u00a0Hollywood. \u00a0Ground zero for the entire gay rights movement. \u00a0The primary backing and promoter regarding all\u00a0things\u00a0homosexual\u00a0and post-Christian sexual ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing. \u00a0I could almost begin to have a shred of regard for the progressive juggernaut\u00a0if it would\u00a0just\u00a0stop with the bull. \u00a0Just admit that its basic teaching \u2013 that all religion is an evil lie made up by evolved animals to make sense of the world, and therefore life is whatever we define it, especially when it leads to sex, legal drugs, and bathroom humor,\u00a0while\u00a0being assured of the right to abort (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/01\/if-helen-keller-was-alive-today.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">and eventually euthanize<\/a>) anyone getting in our way \u2013 is the up and coming philosophy of\u00a0the\u00a0century. \u00a0Furthermore, admit that the Western educational system, the media, and the entertainment culture have\u00a0indulged\u00a0in an ideological\u00a0<i style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 19.200000762939453px\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois<\/span><\/i>, more than willing to support each others\u2019 backs and fronts, while ruthlessly advancing their desire to demand conformity to their\u00a0indisputable\u00a0dogmas. \u00a0Just admit it. 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