I’ve got a piece over at The Nervous Breakdown today about how I was schooled by an anonymous motorist on the basis of my moral beliefs. While taking Clio to the Jimmy Fund clinic, no less. (Always nice to be condemned for one’s convictions while driving one’s child to a day of chemo.) Here’s a quick excerpt. Read the rest here.
The other day as I was driving my daughter to a doctor’s appointment, a woman pulled up alongside us, leaned over and held a book up to the passenger-side window. I gave her a friendly wave, because I’m always up for a good book recommendation. But she continued to hold it there, staring straight ahead, as we both edged forward in the traffic.
Gosh, I thought. She really likes this book. And seems to think that it’s just the book for me!
I took a closer look: the title was The Marketing of Evil, and on the cover was an apple being temptingly proffered. Later that day, I looked the book up online and read the description:
“Americans have come to tolerate, embrace and even champion many things that would have horrified their parents’ generation—from easy divorce and unrestricted abortion-on-demand to extreme body piercing and teaching homosexuality to grade schoolers. They have fallen victim to some of the most stunningly brilliant and compelling marketing campaigns in modern history.”
Yup. We are screwed! Hell is looking good though by comparison with the “party scene” in heaven.
Did I ever tell you about the aunt who won’t let her son put on temporary tattoos because real ones are sins? Yeah, good times. I’,mm pretty sure I stamped my ticket to hell when I argued with her ove rthis.
Now I’m almost curious about the book. Always happy to question my assumptions.
Easy gay divorce, so long as each partner is equally pierced!
A drive-by bigot attack huh. Whatever happened to just having to put up with your semi-racist/bigoted aunt on Christmas? Now I have to be on guard while driving down I-90? It’s a new world folks.
Wow what a bitch! I dare someone to start in on me about the evils of gay marriage. Considering my father is gay and married. My sons will grow up thinking it is totally normal for two men to be married because their grandfathers always have been as long as they can remember. It makes me so proud. I am a devout Christian too. I will happily argue with them because I can guarantee I can find something in their life they are not doing according to the Bible and blow up their argument.
God does not like hate and judgement. I am not always pleased with how some things have become okay but gay marriage is not one of them. In the end, I can’t control anyone else and we can’t expect non Christians to follow and believe in Christian morals. I don’t believe in other religion’s morals so why should they believe in mine? Everyone is responsible for their own morality. We met another older gay couple at Disney World and it was so cute seeing my Dad and his husband chatting them up and congratulating them. They were celebrating their 19th anniversary of being together. I don’t know many straight couples that stay together that long anymore. So take that.
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