“Give it a rest,” a conservative Christian family member today told a gay Navy officer. In their Facebook conversation, the officer had just provided Bible verses which countered the antigay “clobber verses.”

The relative continued: “I love you, but you shouldn’t make enemies out of your loved ones who don’t agree. If God sees fit, maybe not in your lifetime or mine, things might change. I don’t know His will but when I pray I ask ‘Your will be done.’”

Just imagine Jesus of Nazareth telling God and the Apostles, “Give it a rest, guys. Find something better to do.” This Christian can’t quite be bothered to correct herself or right a wrong. Nor does she even pray for justice, not even for a soldier who defended her country. The most that she can muster is, “God, I can’t be bothered. You deal with it. Where are my earplugs?”

Skillfully restated with false piety, of course.

Joe Sudbay is right about this one: Pawlenty is working extra hard to burnish his anti-gay credentials so that he can run for president.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a bill Saturday that would have given same-sex partners the right to decide what to do with the body of their loved ones, should they die.

Pawlenty had said he would veto the bill, calling it unnecessary because partners can draw up a living will. But advocates argue that married couples do not have to do that and that legal documents often cost money to draft.

There is absolutely no reason to oppose such a bill, besides the sheer self-centered meanness that seems to be a prerequisite for being a member of the modern teabagging GOP. It’s also pretty revelatory of the modern state of conservative Christianity. Pawlenty feels the need to kick gay people for no reason in order to impress the people who claim to love Jesus the hardest.

Pathetic.