In one handy sentence, too! This comes from a larger post, which I will discuss a little bit below, but first, here is John Shore, being John Shore, describing the daily lives of all of us who go up against Religious Right wingnuts in the quest for equality:
Sometimes it just feels like you’re wearing roller skates while trying to climb Mt. Stupid.
That’s about it! There is a reason one of my most used tags on Truth Wins Out is, simply, “dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.” John, of course, points out that it’s not entirely true, but that it just feels that way sometimes:
Which, of course, we’re not. We’ve got on exactly the right gear for this trip—and we’re already so far up the mountain we’re starting to jog to the top. And the opposition is way back down toward the bottom somewhere–old, tired, unprepared for the hike, their compasses broken and supporting ropes frayed, forever taking the wrong paths that lead them either lower still, or into the shadows of dark gorges and ravines in which they stumble blindly about, tripping over roots and jagged rocks.
Ugh. What plodding, resource-wasting clods.
That’s right: clods.
The quote comes from a piece he wrote responding to a letter from a woman in North Carolina. Said woman is fighting against that state’s hateful anti-gay Amendment One, which would write marriage discrimination into their constitution, and said woman was informed by her pastor, publicly, that she deserved to die for supporting gay rights. Because if there’s one thing Fundamentalists know, it’s how to be Christlike!
John, of course, being John Shore again, decided to write a letter to the pastor, wherein he first asked if the pastor was drunk Facebooking when he wished death upon the nice woman. And he goes on from there:
If you weren’t drunk at the time, and actually mean what you wrote to her, then you are a disgrace to everything Jesus Christ stood for. You are a moral abomination, a huge, stinking, festering pocket of rot on the very face of God. To Jesus you are a dank pit of bottomless shame; youare the reason Jesus weeps, because in place of the divine and affirming love that he literally slaughtered himself to prove—the same love you swore an oath to represent and embody—you insert your own base and condemning hatred.
READ IT ALL.
Best post tags ever.
As a resident of NC, I am hopeful that this evil amendment will fail, but I am guarded at the same time. I hear people talking, read what they post on the news websites and on facebook and it angers and saddens me to know my neighbors are so hateful. I try to be responsible and warn them that if they do not protect the rights of all then they are giving away their own, but I fear it falls on deaf ears and hardened hearts.
The fact that this is on the ballot when mostly Republicans will be out voting is another reason for my fear this will pass. And ‘fear’ is the correct word to use because it is exactly how I feel about this. I’m scared. Any advice on what more I can do, should do, should not do is greatly appreciated.
@John Those tags are TAME for me lol
@Evan: Oh, MAN, that is so funny. And SO how I used to do it–and should start doing again, now that the whole Vital SEO thing is basically over. (I don’t even tage my posts at all anymore, even though for all I know that’s actually stupid.) But when I first started I had no idea what tags were. So I was always putting in stuff like, “Too bad about your mom,” or “complete dipshits” or “waste of time,” or whatever. And I’d pile about a million of them onto one post. “Help me.” “I’m outside your house right now.” All that kind of stuff.
Ah. Good times
God, I really should grow up.
Anyway, thanks for the love on this piece. We’ll plant our flags atop that mountain yet. Into the gently yielding soil will we sink our poles of sturdy steel, gripping them with hearty resolve, ruggedly and insistently pressing them downward until … wait … . Never mind.
The best tags on the entire internet are at The Awl.
And really, people don’t use tags that much to search for things, unless it’s a specific person or something, but ALL blogs have them! So might as well make jokes. Wonkette’s tags are great too.
Okay, I’m going back to my old Absurd Tag jokes. SWEET! I’ve actually missed doing those. But I figured I was just wasting my time, and cracking up no one but me. But now I was right: there ARE people out there who actually look at those. Whoo. Hoo.
Haha, that’s actually why I like them. They are like hidden jokes!