July 5, 2008

Will Donnie McClurkin MC Obama’s “Christian Rock Concerts”?

Forget all the other stuff you already knew about Barack Obama’s shameless pandering to evangelicals at the expense of LGBTs and other true progressives — catch this barf-marking bit reported by the NYT (”Obama Courting Evangelicals Once Loyal to Bush“) a few days ago:

Between now and November, the Obama forces are planning as many as 1,000 house parties and dozens of Christian rock concerts, gatherings of religious leaders, campus visits and telephone conference calls to bring together voters of all ages motivated by their faith to engage in politics. It is the most intensive effort yet by a Democratic candidate to reach out to self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians and to try to pry them away from their historical attachment to the Republican Party.

Christian rock concerts?

Excuse me for just a second…

puke puke puke

I don’t know whether I’m more sickened by the spectre of thousands of right-wing evangelicals whipped into a frenzy by another HomObamaPhobia Tour, or Christian rock itself. Both are equally revolting. Hey, “shout to” your, like, most “awesome God” (don’t tell me you haven’t seen that annoying late-night TV commercial for that annoying CD set of annoying Christian “favorites”) all you like — but the plain fact is, Christian rock sucks. Always has, always will. As Greg Saunders put it:

It doesn’t make sense. Rock and roll (mostly) doesn’t suck. Christianity (mostly) doesn’t suck. But when you put the two together, you get an abomination. Christian rock is stereotypically the kind of crap that offends music fans as well as the ultra-religious

Well, look at the bright side: If this Christian rock crap is offensive enough, maybe even evangelical Obama fans will run screaming.

Hmmm… Nahhhhh.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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