Earlier today I posted a long quote from Kathy Baldock, an Evangelical Christian, about how the supposed “persecution” of Christians in this country simply doesn’t exist. Fundamentalists these days have taken to professionally and loudly whining about how they’re suffering at the hands of the rest of the population, when what is actually happening is a lot simpler — namely, they’re finally starting to get treated more equally to the rest of us, slowly but surely. For many years, people really didn’t question the idea of conservative Christians having a special place in our society. Now people are questioning it more and more, and it’s making our country better.
As a counterpoint to Kathy’s quote, here’s convicted Watergate felon Chuck Colson emitting his best whine:
“We’ve fallen into the spiral of silence in which case the people who might be a tiny minority but are controlling the conversation intimidate the rest of us. Now where have we seen that happen most vividly? We’ve seen it in the gay rights movement. The gay rights movement is a tiny minority in America, so what you get is a passionate movement of 10 percent of the people, 5 percent of the people maybe in the gay movement, maybe 4 percent, 3 percent, and they control what the rest of us think because the rest of us are intimidated into silence. Folks, brothers and sisters, I tell you I believe in the depths of my being that the most important thing we can do today in obedience to Christ is to break the spiral of silence, to speak out, to point out unrighteousness.”
Yeah, Chuck Colson and Tony Perkins and the rest of them are so obviously being “intimidated into silence.” That’s why we’re quoting their words verbatim to spread to a larger audience. Everyone boo hoo for Chuck.
[h/t Joe]
Yeah, because the religious right is so quiet and demure about their beliefs.
“We’ve fallen into the spiral of silence in which case the people who might be a tiny minority but are controlling the conversation intimidate the rest of us.”
The irony, of course, is that he’s actually describing the Dominionist Fundie Reich (that he’s no doubt a card-carrying member of) and how their hysterical screaming has intimidated so many Christians into silence.
Would that we could control their thoughts. Then maybe we wouldn’t constantly be inundated with their lies and hate.
…the most important thing we can do today in obedience to Christ is to break the spiral of silence, to speak out, to point out unrighteousness.” — you can start by looking in the mirror Chuckie. (Although with that twisted sour puss, he probably avoids mirrors).
ps…”intimidated into silence” – he should have lived as a gay person before 1969!
Isn’t it the height of hypocrisy to whine about the awful way you’ve convinced yourselves you’re being treated when it is, in reality, the way you have always treated gay people, you know, your fellow citizens, neighbors, friends (?), family, co-workers, etc. And Chuck Colson of all people – one of the dirt bags from the Nixon administration who was proud to trample anyone to do what he wanted or was ordered to do. Now he imagines he and his fellow delusionists are being put upon so they’d better start re-trampling gay people.
Chuck Colson is a douche-bag for Jeezus. I’ve always had a special disdain for his self-righteous arrogance. His “repentance” seemed to make him a lot of money and lacked any of the humility one would expect a reformed convict to show. Just another gig to rip off the gullible.