Jesus Wept

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

This is bad. The NYT article below provides a lot of evidence that the religious right got "Welcome to the Neighborhood," a reality TV show, killed before it even aired a single episode because ABC/Disney thought the religious right would pull its support for the movie Narnia if the gays were shown to win the reality show (the gay couple did win).

What's worse, a big part of the religious right's problem with the reality show is that many of the neighbors of the gay couple in the show were quite homophobic Christians and by the end of the show they ended up loving their gay neighbors. The religious right objected especially to the fact that real Christians embraced their gay neighbors.

That's right. Because Jesus, as you know, said, "Death to fags!" Oh wait...he didn't. In fact, it seems he liked to hang out with those rejected by the larger society, even to the point of talking with Samaritan women and--god help us--touching lepers!

The Religious Right--a double oxymoron if ever there was one.

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