Bill Maher's bizarre anti-vaccine rant: Stop calling these people "kooks and liars"
COLIN GORENSTEIN
Congratulations, Bill Maher! The winner of the first televised Bruce Jenner joke contest
SALON STAFF
I don't know much about the "Bruce Jenner" gossip that's all over the place, I do think it's rather bizarre for people who are allegedly so interested in dignity and respect for transgender people to think it's a good topic for a "joke contest". Just to show you how the "liberals" are not liberals, these days, they are libertarians. Maher is the poster boy for that phenomenon.
Update: And now Salon has another "top story" anti-religious bigot, Jeffrey Tayler defending Maher against the charge that he does what he does, being a bigot.
I just got photos a family member took at the 80th birthday of an uncle. It was held at their church, a Primitive Baptist church. Small place in a rural part of Dallas County (or were we over the line in another county? I'm not sure). Anyway, extremely kind people there; church members as well as family members. The community that shaped the kindness of my mother's family: uncles and aunts and cousins. It was comforting to be among such people again; I'd forgotten how quietly good Christians could be.
ReplyDeleteTheir theology is not mine, by a long shot. But they are the kindest, gentlest, most generous and open-hearted people I've ever known. Everyone in their church is family, is "Brother Madison" or "Sister Ernestine." It's remarkable what that alone does for group bonds and community.
Should I laugh at them? They are staunchly conservative in their Christian beliefs, but they exclude no one from their love. Still, it's religion, so it should be laughed at, right?
No. I don't think so. Neither should Maher and Tayler be laughed at; ignored, maybe.