- North Carolina pastor urges parents to “man up” and punch effeminate children – From Ashley.
- Religious websites riskier than porn for online viruses – “Websites with religious or ideological themes were found to have triple the average number of “threats” that those featuring adult content, according to Symantec.”
- Thousands join girl in urging Seventeen magazine to publish unedited images – From Ron.
- One in seven thinks end of the world is coming – The rest of us are just entranced by the terribleness that is Doomsday Preppers.
Ahh, that christian love.
I am from NC and am so ashamed of this!
I am from Earth and am so ashamed of him.
Kind of ironic that every quickies link today (including the one about Religious websites being riskier than porn) caused a Trend OfficeScan message to popup on my work computer notifying me of a blocked high-level security risk URL.
Really? :( That’s sad since 3 out of the 4 are large news websites.
Is it just me, or have there been a ton of stories this year about awesome teenage activists? Way to go, Julia!
“Dear Parents, at the first sign that your pastor shows signs of being a homophobic jackwagon, I recommend a swift kick to the balls. How else is he ever to learn?”
Or how about a…boot to the head?
Pop culture reference, plus a chance to knock sense into said pastor.
That Louis CK quote in the Forbe’s article regarding the evil pastor… So perfect.
I don’t know whether I’m more appalled at the thought of punching little boys in the face or of inspecting little girls to make sure they look and smell nice enough. I hope the parents in his community have the sense to keep their children far away from him.
Hmm. Sadly, I suspect religion itself isn’t being correctly labelled as one of the viruses you can pick up while visiting their sites.
I thought the same thing but couldn’t marshal it into a coherent comment. :)
I know I’m just sizin’ him up from a YouTube video, but I think I can totally take that pastor dude…
I used to live less than a mile from that church, and I’m disgusted, but not surprised.
Kudos for those young women to get Seventeen to use untouched images. Makes me wonder what else in the media is altered to create an askew and practically unachievable view of beauty?
Perhaps the N.C pastor should be the one we hit each time he acts like an asshat. See how he likes it.
I’m totally convinced the world will end.
Too bad I’d have to wait, oh, four billion years to see it happen. ;)
Of course you would by now have seen this:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-04/vogue-bans-under-16-models/3990762
Reason begins to prevail!
Ah, world ending, again? The Mayan calendar has rolled over 839024 times since the Earth collapsed from a cloud of gas and dust… and the world hardly ever ended, less than
3%5% of the time. And mostly no one even noticed. On the plus side, I’ll probably only need to do my laundry about 15 more times. I think the last time, I won’t bother folding it, since that’s the part I like least.P.S. Cool! An Edit button!
Surprised the number of people who think the world is going to end in their lifetime isn’t higher, given that religion, the media and crazy guys on street corners have been telling us this our whole lives.
Let’s not forget that the History channel made up that 2012 nonsense. As far as I can tell, neither the Mayans nor the New Age people predicted it prior to the 2007 episode of “Decoding The Past”.
I’m all for free speech, but I draw the line at shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. Someone’s going to drown their children over this.