tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post1848570363163550691..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The Death of the ConfederacyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-51119330815392557552015-06-29T03:18:02.197-04:002015-06-29T03:18:02.197-04:00The ability of the wingnut Right to be simultaneou...The ability of the wingnut Right to be simultaneously 1) the ONLY TRUE American Patriots, and 2) threatening to secede from the U.S. if they don't get their way never ceases to amuse (by which I mean annoy, by which I mean <i>disgust</i>).<br /><br />NPR had a story about the Mennonites (a particular Mennonite denomination whose name escapes me) today. Stop me if you've heard this before: a college-town congregation has decided to welcome LGBT members . . . and now another congregation (not far away: I know this area, having lived smack dab in the middle of it, in Central PA) wants to BREAK AWAY from the denomination, because they think the denomination's gone soft on Teh Gays. No, seriously, stop me if you've heard this before: says the threatening-to-schism pastor, "We're not leaving them, they left us!" Saints preserve me...<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/2015/06/28/415742055/for-mennonites-question-of-lgbt-membership-yields-few-easy-answersJCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.com