It’s probably not over DADT repeal.

You’ll remember yesterday I posted a video of prophetess Cindy Jacobs doing her loopy preaching thing, wherein she claimed that God was making birds fall out of the sky in Arkansas because DADT was repealed.

PZ Myers has now responded:

Again, I don’t quite get the logic. God hates gays, so he’s taken to randomly smiting birds in Arkansas. What’s the sense in that? Were these gay birds? Were they wagging their cloacas heavenward and bragging in bird song about coming out? It’s a confusing message that really doesn’t come across well.

If this god really wanted to communicate the idea that gay sex is bad, and somehow do it using birds, it would have made more sense to, say, have birds smash through windows and throw themselves across any orifice about to be penetrated by a gay man. That would shake people up.

And don’t do it in Arkansas — try New York and San Francisco. Birds dropping dead in Arkansas is more likely to be interpreted as a sign of offense at NASCAR or country music or committing incest while barefoot with a corncob pipe in one’s mouth (I know, it’s an unfair stereotype, but you know god doesn’t seem to be operating on the basis of individual behavior, any way).

We who hail from Arkansas say “touché, P.Z., touché!“

P.Z. Myers, reacting to Tony Perkins’ latest caterwauling about DADT repeal (something about how the military will be “forced” to abandon religious myths about people changing their sexual orientation or something):

Oh, I believe you can change how people behave sexually, and this policy change won’t change that at all. Of course, forcing people to act sexually in ways which bring them no joy is also a great way to cause deep misery. I just look at all the tightly puckered smarmy jiveweasels inhabiting right wing Christian think-tanks, for instance, and see a horde of frustrated, tightly-wound self-flagellators ‚Äî it’s no wonder they so look forward to an afterlife in their death-cult, because this one is giving them nothing but priggishness.

Grin. I think “tightly puckered smarmy jiveweasels” may have to be a new catch-all tag for anti-gay fundamentalist leaders.

Bonus longer quote, from the same piece:

[W]hat about [Perkins'] claim that this change in policy will drive out good god-fearin’ gay-hatin’ soldiers and chaplains?

Screw them. Let ‘em go. We’re better off without those fundagelical frauds in the military anyway. And just think how much this will hurt their efforts to infiltrate and take over our military forces!

And in case you’re feeling some pity for good ol’ boys with a hatred for gays who’ll be forced to change their professions and leave a military career because they feel so deeply that the faggots need to be caged, don’t. Martyrdom is a very Christian ideal.

Of course, they only like the pseudo-martyrdom of being compelled to tolerate others. Voluntarily quitting a career isn’t quite a sacrifice on the scale that Matthew Shepard made, or comparable to the kind of persecution they’ve been perpetrating on gay citizens for a long, long time.

God, he gets it.

Read it all.

I just do not know what to do with this, but PZ Myers posted it, and that means I have to pass it on to you. It’s the website of a guy named “Herb Grossman,” dedicated to exposing the “evil” of acknowledging the fact (he calls it a “belief”) of evolution:

Hello, My name is Herb Grossman. Let me give you a preliminary idea of why I am so against evolution.

I’ve spent a lifetime solving problems for a living, and you don’t solve problems unless you use good logic and good data. The theory of evolution became my concern several years ago, and when I looked at some of its basics, its explanations just did not look right. I decided to make a serious study of this so-called “science” and became utterly amazed that evolutionists can use their childish thinking, make their claims, and still keep a straight face–how can adult human beings think that way? To be more precise–How can people use bad logic, ignore good data, and still have the nerve to claim to be scientists?

Yeah, so you can tell this is going to be totally sensible and chock full of factual citations.

Mr. or Miss Teenager of America, please read my articles closely. Your life will be much improved if you reject evolution and its way of thinking.

Ho-kay! He addresses most of his website to “Mr. or Miss Teenager of America,” so you can tell he’s got some weird fixations.

Let’s just get to the part about gayness, shall we? (Read More)