November 22, 2008
“Militant gays will take over Salt Lake City.”
Ya think the Mormons got a little persecution thing going on? I swear, the more they talk, the more convinced I am Mormonism (along with all radical-fundamentalist religions, from Osama bin Laden-style Islam to Appalachian snake-handling) is a mental illness:
Seriously, read it — I can’t begin to summarize it, even with excerpts. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
Done? Now pull your jaw up off your chest.
Did you catch the second comment?
But as I read your Soylent Pink (yes, you may use it) scenario, it reminded me of back in the day when the mudslides threatened Salt Lake, and in a couple of hours the Church mobilized an army of brethren to sandbag and stave off destruction. If unruly mobs of malcontents push themselves harder— and I have to believe there’ll be at least one attempt at Kristallnacht (with a lemon twist)— heaven help them if the Church declares Rameumptom and cuts loose its attack dogs.
They’re aching for a literal, violent showdown.
“Rameumptom,” by the way, is another one of those cute, made-up Mormon code words that appears to mean: “A tower for all the good Mormons to stand on when the evil homos invade, and then die a bloody, painful death below.” I think of it like Notre Dame in the climactic scene from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the screen version, the one with Lon Chaney) when the molten lead comes pouring out of the gargoyles’ mouths onto the hapless invaders below.
From the Book of Mormon, “Alma” (the Mormons are the perfect and righteous Nephites, and we homos are the wicked and doomed Zoramites):
8 Now the Zoramites were dissenters from the Nephites; therefore they had had the word of God preached unto them.9 But they had fallen into great errors, for they would not observe to keep the commandments of God, and his statutes, according to the law of Moses.
10 Neither would they observe the performances of the church, to continue in prayer and supplication to God daily, that they might not enter into temptation.
11 Yea, in fine, they did pervert the ways of the Lord in very many instances; therefore, for this cause, Alma and his brethren went into the land to preach the word unto them.
12 Now, when they had come into the land, behold, to their astonishment they found that the Zoramites had built synagogues, and that they did gather themselves together on one day of the week, which day they did call the day of the Lord; and they did aworship after a manner which Alma and his brethren had never beheld;
13 For they had a place built up in the center of their synagogue, a place for standing, which was high above the head; and the top thereof would only admit one person.
14 Therefore, whosoever desired to aworship must go forth and stand upon the top thereof, and stretch forth his hands towards heaven, and cry with a loud voice, saying:
15 Holy, holy God; we believe that thou art God, and we believe that thou art holy, and that thou wast a spirit, and that thou art a spirit, and that thou wilt be a spirit forever.
16 Holy God, we believe that thou hast separated us from our brethren; and we do not believe in the tradition of our brethren, which was handed down to them by the childishness of their fathers; but we believe that thou hast aelected us to be thy bholy children; and also thou hast made it known unto us that there shall be no Christ.
17 But thou art the same yesterday, today, and forever; and thou hast elected us that we shall be saved, whilst all around us are elected to be cast by thy wrath down to hell; for the which holiness, O God, we thank thee; and we also thank thee that thou hast elected us, that we may not be led away after the foolish traditions of our brethren, which doth bind them down to a belief of Christ, which doth lead their hearts to wander far from thee, our God.
18 And again we thank thee, O God, that we are a chosen and a holy people. Amen.
19 Now it came to pass that after Alma and his brethren and his sons had heard these prayers, they were astonished beyond all measure.
20 For behold, every man did go forth and offer up these same aprayers.
21 Now the place was called by them Rameumptom, which, being interpreted, is the holy stand.
We want legal recognition and protection of our civil marriages, without interference by their life-sapping, oppressive, anti-gay religious beliefs and practices — and they want war. Real war.
They’re nuts. They’re absolutely nuts.
And, taking into account this sort of sabre-rattling (read the comments, too), I’m starting to wonder, quite seriously, how genuinely dangerous they are.
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