1. Satanic baby-killers released: “Texas prosecutors reached a deal [Monday] to release three women imprisoned since 1998 on sexual-assault convictions that critics say were based more on mistaken ideas of lesbian behavior than evidence presented in court.”
That Reuters lede is misleading. The San Antonio Four weren’t wrongly convicted on the basis of “mistaken ideas of lesbian behavior.” They were wrongly convicted on the basis of lies told by liars — lies that those caught up in the self-righteous delusion of the Satanic Panic were eager to hear, to believe and to help spread.
2. “Mourn with those who mourn.”
3. Betsy McCaughey has begun serving her karmic sentence for inventing and propagating the “death panel” lie. In apparent punishment for this crime, the universe conspired Wednesday to force McCaughey to sit with 700 Club host Pat Robertson, the first of many such persons — Robertson, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bryan Fischer — with whom McCaughey will now be forced to discuss health policy … forever. (Or until she stops lying, whichever comes first.)
4. It’s even worse than the religious right says. President Obama also leaves out the words “under God” when singing “The Star Spangled Banner,” when reciting the preamble to the Constitution, and when quoting Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
(No, civil-religious Christianists haven’t yet tried to insert the phrase into that Frost poem. Not yet. Give them time.)
5. “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”
6. Yaholo Hoyt sees the link between hospitality and evangelism:
Hospitality is an intentional decision to put the needs and comfort of others above our own. Sometimes this means inviting those we are “uncomfortable” with into our homes, but often it means visiting others in their homes, places, and environments which make us uncomfortable. Either way, hospitality powerfully says “you are important and of great value to me.” Declaring people’s own value to them is often the best way to start sharing the Good News.
Almost. “Declaring people’s own value” is the Good News. Hospitality is not a means to evangelism, or a first step to evangelism. Hospitality is evangelism.
7. It would make me very, very happy if some Hawaiian grocery chain sought to press charges against Democratic state Rep. Tom Brower for vandalism and destruction of property.
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