{"id":9835,"date":"2013-06-11T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theamericanjesus.net\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:31:49","slug":"star-trek-into-darkness-promotes-bestiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zackhunt\/2013\/06\/star-trek-into-darkness-promotes-bestiality\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Promotes Bestiality?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For all the cool technology the Star Trek<\/a>\"\"<\/em>\u00a0series has inspired, one of its overlooked, but perhaps most praiseworthy elements was its approach to race relations.<\/p>\n

Yes, the aliens were cool to look at, but Gene Roddenberry\u2019s vision of a utopian future where humans and aliens intermingled equally in a free society was a not so subtle critique of race relations in the United States, particularly the racially charged United States of the 1960s when Star Trek<\/em> made its television debut.<\/p>\n

Or was it?<\/p>\n

According to radio show host and ardent homeschool advocate host Kevin Swanson<\/a>, Captain Kirk\u2019s interspecies frolicking in the new movie Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> is actually a not so subtle nod of approval to bestiality.<\/p>\n

Seriously, I\u2019m not making this up.<\/p>\n

Not only is Swanson terrified at the thought of interracial relationships<\/del> convinced that Star Trek<\/em> is encouraging his son to have sex with animals, he is also under the distinct impression that interspecies sex is how evolution works.<\/p>\n

But just when you thought things couldn\u2019t any crazier, his co-host Dave Beuhner piped in with this gem: \u201cI\u2019m not sure that the bestiality and the homosexuality are really all that different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a listen to the audio for yourself (courtesy of Right Wing Watch)<\/a>, but don\u2019t try to wrap your mind around the madness.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing to be learned here.<\/p>\n

Except that apparently there\u2019s nothing so crazy that a fundamentalist won\u2019t<\/em> believe it if it affirms their paranoid delusions<\/del> fundamentalist beliefs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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