assuming phelp’s is right of the mainstream, the majority of christians still don’t live according to “hate the sin, love the sinner”… when was the last time you heard a fundamentalist preacher say, “homosexuals, come to our church so you can be one with God. we may not like what you do, but we love you because Jesus loves you?” Never! you saw the absolute uproar when homosexuals were given a constitutional right to have sex in their beds or when, god forbid, alabama adheres to separation of church and state. it’s naive to think most people can separate the act from the actor or one’s beliefs from objectivity… people love hate speech if it validates their beliefs– rush limbaugh has a HUGE following

You could make a connection between these beliefs and the beliefs of more mainstream Christian Nationalist groups.
After all, if you really belive we’re surrounded by demons, governed by a vengeful, bigoted God, and required to guess his will based on a collection of myths, wild tales, lies and gibberish written down over a period of centuries, garbled, embroidered, mutilated and translated through several languages successively, then no one should be surprised when you beat an autistic child to death or picket that sodomite Bob Hope’s funeral. No one should be surprised because anyone who reasons this way is a fucking whistle ass.

By the way — c’mon, that’s dorky. Phelps really is way out of the mainstream. The majority of fundamentalists think of him as such a non-entity that it’s not even funny, and in fact the average extremist protofascist — the ones I’ve been ranting about as Nationalistic Christianists — would very much OBJECT to the notion that “God Hates America.”

The threat of fundamentalism-out-of-control is not Fred Phelps’ blind hatred of everything; it’s in the other direction, with a co-option of patriotic symbols. It’s more likely to arise from “hate the sin, love the sinner” philosophy than from “God hates fags.”

Plus, which lefties, exactly, were cheering on ELF?

–Kynn

–Kynn