{"id":35788,"date":"2012-06-04T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T07:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=35788"},"modified":"2014-12-30T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T23:25:28","slug":"ignorant-armies-clash-by-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/06\/ignorant-armies-clash-by-night-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Ignorant Armies Clash by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So some hyper politicized right wing culture warriors in some little Indiana church decide to draft their four year old kid as a child soldier. They press him into singing some ditty about \u201cno homos go to heaven\u201d, never stopping to ask themselves why, in the name of sanit,y a kid that young should be press- ganged into have to think about homosex\u2013or any sex\u2013at all. In this, they live out the curse of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism by making themselves, yet again, into the mirror image of the thing they hate rather than setting their minds on Christ Jesus and becoming like him. Result: exactly like gay extremists, they wind up trying to sexualize children at an extremely early age in their narcissistic need to win a culture war battle that is rooted in their own egoism. It\u2019s as disgusting as creeps who want to force pre-schoolers into classes to \u201cexplore their sexuality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, opposite evils feeding off one another,gay extremists can\u2019t let these selfish jerks vanish in well-deserved silence. Nope, the church is now receiving death threats from the Gay Legion of Menacing Visigoths for Tolerance. <\/a><\/p>\n

These people are peas in a pod. They need each other. There\u2019s something incestuous and vampiric about the way they feed off each other. I feel compelled to make a nerdly pop culture reference<\/a> to describe the inescapable impression I get from stories like this.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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