I'm praying that after Folger has raised all the money she's trying for, she stuffs the whole thing in her pocket and flies off to Rio.

I'll join you in prayer on that, Rev. Bob. :)

This reaction is so over-the-top. I swear, some of these fundies really are drama queens. I don't understand how or why they feel this is going to bring the Apocalypse. I mean, come on--you mean all the other world wars haven't brought it on, but my wanting to be able to marry a man will?

Riiiight. Whatever it is these people are smoking, they need to let up a bit.

Heck, the Myan calendar says the world will end on 12/21/12, gay marriage or not. Folger can't stop it, unless she finds the other 5 crystal skulls. Let the debotchery proceed!

Let's party like it's 2001!

Heck, the Myan calendar says the world will end on 12/21/12, gay marriage or not. Folger can't stop it, unless she finds the other 5 crystal skulls. Let the debotchery proceed!

Let's party like it's 2012!

Because 911 changed everything........

If gay marriage is such a powerfull destructive force, why aren't they demanding the military develop it for use against potential enemies. Hey - it would have to work better than what they've been using against Osama for the last 8 years.

Be a patriot - support gay marriage.

I am trying to think of ways to egg them on. One thing I learned a long time ago, the greater the hyperbole, the greater the fall.

In the USSR, some of the propaganda was so outrageous about the west, that once people began seeing the truth and hearing the truth, the folks running the propaganda machine lost all credibility with the actual populace. Maybe if the social conservative keep racheting up this kind of junk history they will finally achieve the same reaction--at which point we may finally be able to make some serious headway on rights for LGBTIQ in the rest of the country. Bets on the date of national gay marriage anyone?

Shannon, I thought the same thing. This jump in the fundie rhetoric will surely start chipping away at their already fragile crediblity.

Or just line their pockets even more, which is the real goal for most of them.

Shouldn't she be packing up to leave with The Rapture?
Why is she wasting precious time bothering US?

Kewl! Bring on the flood. I could use a vacation.

Oh Waymon I just don't know what's in the drinking water in our fair city. I find it hard to believe that Folger and the Mayor take themselves seriously. The strongest insult is that they really think that people are gullible enough to believe them. I'm not worried because I think that history (both pre and post the deluge) shows that their kind eventually fade away. I have confidence in the overall intelligence of our race, and I am convinced that we are continually evolving into superior beings. Meanwhile, thanks for being vigilant about stamping out the nasty little fires that threaten our camp.

Mercedes, have I told you how much I just adore you? :) Maybe we can get a houseboat together to survive the apocalyptic flood.

Father Tony, I'm glad you have confidence in the overall intelligence of our race. That makes one of us that does... :)

And I don't know what's in our water. We seem to grow the crazies down here- Anita Bryant, Naugle, Folger, Dozier, Kennedy... They are like crazy fundie weeds that thrive here.

Wouldn't it be ironic if The Rapture happened, and the fundies were the ones 'Left Behind' and the gayborhoods were empty?

That settles it, I'm switching to Nescafe! It is a meaningless gesture, but it makes as much sense as this looney!

"Crazy", as sung by Janet Folger

"I'm crazy
crazy for being a fundie
I'm crazy
crazy for feeling so screwed

I knew
you'd work as hard as you needed
so someday
you'd get the right to get married, too.

(bridge)
worry
why do I let myself worry
wondring
what in the world did God do

crazy
for thinking that my hatred could change you
I'm crazy for crying
I'm crazy for trying
I'm crazy for hating you"

All apologies to that great American, Willie Nelson, although I think "I've Gotta Get Drunk" is a better song of his.

Hey Monica, your thought reminds me of an episode of Family Guy called 'Road to Rupert' where Stewie makes reference to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell getting left behind after the Rapture.

"Dammit, Jerry, why are we the only ones still here?" "I don’t know, we hated all the right things."

A friend of mine brought up a good point: these folks are plagued by or prey upon paranoid delusion, but whereas those with a legitimate mental illness have to write their own manifestos to support their outrageous claims, these people already have one placed in their hands by the Gideons. How can you counter something or hope to shed light into the world of someone who bends fact to fit their worldview? I mean, if Ms. Folger is using alternative sources of books for her claims, then why doesn't she go back to the oldest recorded story of the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh? I don't remember any mention of gay marriage in that story, but maybe there was no word in Sanskrit for "Queers." And on top of all that, What the hell is she, as a Woman, doing interpreting scripture in the first place? Mayhaps we could get away with a nice stoning of her...

...just a thought - tasty, satisfying, rib-sticky thought.

Janet, let me quote from the play Inherit the Wind,

"Read Your Bible!"

I don't know why I was so moved by the absurdity of her statements to do just that but I guess my strict Presbyterian upbringing compelled me to double check just in case she might be onto something.

However, I don't see anywhere in the Biblical account of Noah and the flood any reference to homosexuality and the only reference to marriage seems to refer to heterosexual marriage--"...the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose." Genesis 6:2 NIV

Later in the story we find a direct quote from the architect of the deluge himself, "So God said to Noah, 'I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.'" Genesis 6:13 NIV (If God was miffed with the gays why didn't he just round them up and drown them like a litter of unwanted kittens?)

Now let's leave aside the whole illogic inherent in Janet's Old Testament view of a god who a few chapters earlier created the heavens and the earth and all its inhabitants and pronounced them "good" only to come to the conclusion a few chapters later that He may have made a boo-boo somewhere and had to flush that first experiment down the drain (so to speak).

And let's not get distracted by the whole wacky Lucy-Ricardo-Ethel-Mertz-kind of plan to preserve a handful of the boo-boos on a cruise ship so that they can generate a new family of inbreeds. Let's just leave that on the shore (so to speak).

And speaking of the shore, let's also let go of the confusion I remember having in Sunday school about what sort of an all-powerful god comes up with a massive world-wide destructive flood that somehow doesn't manage to wipe out an olive tree. (Where DID that olive tree come from anyway? Noah sent out a dove and the dove found an olive branch.) But I do digress.

Let's not quibble about some of the inconsistencies and lapses in the account and stipulate, as Janet would I'm sure insist, the account is all literal and true as written. (Albeit rewritten, reinterpreted in several languages and written again. But I do digress)

Based on what I read, it wasn't gay marriage (or gay anything for that matter--the gay thing doesn't show up in the Bible until Genesis 13) but willy-nilly straight marriages and the growth of violence among humans that brought on the God's wrath. Perhaps there is a day of reckoning coming but it might be because of today's world of violence, hate-crimes, senseless foreign wars and fundamentalism that pits group against group world -wide, not because Adam and Steve want to tie the knot.

Janet, read your Bible.

Melanie Davis wrote:

Mayhaps we could get away with a nice stoning of her...

(Mercedes sings off-key: "everybody must get stoned...")

Except maybe she already is.

Is there an echo . . . echo . . . echo . . . in here? It's got to be the Rapture. It seems that Mercedes was taken, then sent back, taken and sent back all in the blink of an eye. Welcome back, Mercedes . . . Mercedes . . . Mercedes.

SM - I freaking love you for quoting Family Guy!

Waymon, I think somebody needs to stop sniffing the Jesus paste.