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SilentPatriot on Thursday, June 28th, 2007 at 10:20 AM - PDT
Lewis Black goes to town on the “liberal media” paranoia that pervades the right-wing and leads them to do things like counter the “biased” Wikipedia with Conservapedia — which has a quite unique definition of homosexuality.
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Like the great philosopher Stephen Colbert once said: “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
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Brilliant. Daily Show and Colbert Report make it possible to get through these strange times.
The one that struck me:
“Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals”
That pretty much excludes the whole Religious Right (Giuliani, Gingrich, Thompson, Allen, etc)
It’s pretty clearly there in black and white.
Why aren’t they condemning their own leaders?
Again Black proves that he is one of the best comics alive..
Keep rockin….
four thumbs up!
Sound is broken
Oh bah… it didn’t show mine. Love Lewis Black!
To quoth Robin Williams, “Reality, what a concept!” End quoth.
Conservapedia — what a joke! Truly pathetic. What sayeth they about good ‘ol Ted Haggard?
Wingers are such chuckleheads.
Heh. The audience booing was delightful.
I bet ya Lewis is hella’ fun in bed.
From Conservapedia:
1 Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals . . .
What version of the Bible is this? I’m quite sure there was no word “effeminate” at the time, and the word “homosexual” is a word that was coined in the Century.
Shouldn’t it be called Christofascistpedia or something like that?
should read “coined in the last Century.”
I remember there being a gay son of Phyillis Schlafly, Could the founder of Conservapedia’s Andrew Schlafly be one in the same?
Don’t you just love him. And guess what I found out he is from my old state of Maryland. He is without a doubt one of the funniest and prophetic comics around.
Strawberry @ 13:
But surely not in Fred Thompson’s league?
HomeRUN!!
Lewis is perfect for my black mood!
That is so funny.
jay severin has a small pen1s @ 3:
Stewart/Black in 08! :-)
best lewis black rant ever.
There’s only one thing to do, we must raid conservapedia in the name of wikiality!
There are 2 versions of America: Conservative America and Regular America.
that colored fella @ 16:
Nope. That would be John Schlafly
yuh-uhuh! @ 27:
There are two separate universes: reality and conservative fantasyland.
Big big thumbs up for including “Dramatic Chipmunk”!!
Cantor de Mambo @ 14:
Well here’s a cross comparison for ya on the Online Parallel Bible
http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/6-9.htm
Piano playing cat? Liberal pussy!
Tee-hee. Lewis Black nails it. Brilliant. brilliant. brilliant.
Dr. Acula @ 10:
Here’s your answer:
Ted Haggard is a former Pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado and a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches. He was leader of the National Association of Evangelicals from 2003 until November 2006 when he stepped down after a scandal.
In November 2006, he was removed or resigned from his leadership positions after allegations of homosexual sex and drug abuse were made by Mike Jones, a male prostitute. Originally, Haggard denied even knowing Mike Jones, but due to an investigation he was forced to acknowledge that some accusations, such as his purchasing methamphetamine, were true. He later confessed to “sexual immorality” as well.
“The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There’s a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,” he said.[1]
The man who accused him was quoted as saying afterwards[2] “It made me angry that here’s someone preaching about gay marriage and going behind the scenes having gay sex,”. (It should be noted that Haggard supported homosexual civil unions, but not marriage.)[3]
Mike Jones, for his part, was given a lie detector test. He passed the section about Ted Haggard’s drug use, but showed deception when it came to the claim of actual homosexual sex.[4]
On February 6, 2007, Tim Ralph, one of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for Haggard, stated that Haggard “is completely heterosexual.” Ralph later explained himself further saying that therapy “gave Ted the tools to help to embrace his heterosexual side.” The long-term efficacy of such therapy, however, is yet to be established.
“If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.”
So um,how’s that working for you?
Thats um..*cough* ..some God you have there kids.
Strawberry @ 13:
I bet ya Lewis is hella’ fun in bed.
Strawberry, you are sooooo right! I can just see him with his flailing arms. :)
Thank you guys for posting Lewis Black, I don’t have access to the Daily Show and I really miss his rants.
The whole effeminate points to the boys that were used as prostitutes in Greco-Roman society and Sodomites, the men that used these boys for sex.
That Lewis Black guy… Pretty darn funny… I’d pay money to see his routine at a comedy club.. Yep a thumbs up fer sure..
Also in reading technolinguists post about our ol buddy Ted Haggard I noted the comment from Tim Ralph that the good rev was given the ‘tools to embrace his heterosexuality’… OK, I’m just going to skip the whole phony side of that so-called conversion and just ask… What tools? Straight porn books and movies? The phone number of some hottie girl escorts? Maybe an all paid vacation to the playboy mansion… Just what kinds of ‘tools’ are necessary to make gays desire straight sex??? I have a lot of gay friends and I think they’d get a kick out of whatever kind of B.S. claims this amounts too.. I’m thinking they’d get a huge laugh from that….
Oh yea, and what do I have to do to merit this intervention.. If I claimed to gay would they hunt me down to help too??? Jus wonderin, forced celebacy is gettin kinda old.. I could use a little straight sex in my life too…jus sayin……JD
‘An individual’s beliefs regarding creationism and the theory of evolution appears to influence their views on homosexuality.’ —The Conservapedia article on homosexuality
Can’t deny the truth of that statement! Denial of creationist hokum and acceptance of science often leave us a wee bit tolerant of others. I’ve never condemned a creationist to hell, though I tend to roll my eyes a lot–I must be a demon sent by God to test the Faithful.
1/2 hour news hour … fake news show … should report real news!
Awesome!
Ted Haggard is leader of the Crystal Methodists.
It’s interesting how Wiki’s alleged liberal bias comes up in the context of gay rights, because Wiki is actually biased against gays if anything. While racism is treated as an absolute wrong in Wiki’s world, and racist positions are never presented as legitimate, gay rights is treated as a debatable issue. Everything pro-gay is carefully balanced with the anti-gay position, when they never feel the need to similarly prop-up racism. That’s why I also laugh when I see Wiki begging from funds, they’re not getting a dime from this faggot until they have the backbone to affirm equality for ALL.
From the religioustolerance.org cite:
The full text of the American Standard Version reads:
“Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.” (emphasis ours)
Unfortunately, the two behaviors shown in bold above are ambiguous. The meaning of the original Greek has been lost.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_sav1.htm
So, I was correct that the words chosen are modern “interpretations” and nothing more.
Not that it makes any difference to me what the Bible has to say about anything. I just find it interesting how people put so much value on translations of translations of old stories that lack any authenticity whatsoever. Any knowledge acquired in the last 5000 years is irrelevant to these crackpots.
“Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals”
I read that two Greek terms in this translated in this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts. But I don’t know Greek.
The Vulgate reads “an nescitis quia iniqui regnum Dei non possidebunt nolite errare neque fornicarii neque idolis servientes neque adulteri”
I translate this to
“Do not be ignorant, the kingdom of God does not possess or allow error, injustice, nor worthless idols, nor service to worthless adulteries.”
But my Latin probably isn’t reliable.
I missed the fornicarii… also nor fornicators
pinkobait @ 34:
jay severin has a small pen1s @ 3:
“I heard they turned down four white cats that could play the piano just as well…”
brilliant.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Wine almost came out of my nose.
The sound is screwy on this and many other videos on c&l. Both Windows Media and Quickime versions are so messed up as to be incomprehensible.
I’m using Safari on MacOSX 10.4.10
Rock on, my babies!
Of course he didn’t really expose anything. He just made jokes about how liberals think all conservatives think.
“You know what a fake news show on Fox news should give you? Real news!!!” Hahaha. Excellent.
I need to get a sex change so I can have Lewis Black’s babies.
Yet another part of the ultra-right-wing’s continuing effort to built an entire alternate universe out of pure bullsh!t. (Too bad they can’t move there and leave the rest of us alone…)
Remember Lewis Black on getting gays out of schools:
“There goes the school play!”
LMAO!
What the hell do you expect of a Web site run by a bunch of paranoid right-wing “Christian” THEOCRATS? I purposely put “Christian” in quotation marks because as far as I’m concerned, they’re NOT Christian by any stretch of the imagination. Rather, they are “Paulists” following the teachings of St. Paul — whose outright misogyny is well-documented in the Bible — rather than of Jesus, who never said a word about homosexuality, either pro or con.
That these people are THEOCRATS who have have utter contempt for the Constitutional separation of church and state is made quite obvious by their “definition” of homosexuality in “Conservapedia.”