by leslie robinson qnotes contributor
All aboard the crazy train .
Lately the crazy train has picked up speed.
I don't know if it's the upcoming midterm
elections or people are scared by gay court
victories orvyhat, but we're in a period of
nutty.
Take David Barton. Please.
An evangelical minister, teacher at (Glenn)
Beck University and former vice chairman of
the Texas Republican Party, Barton, a self-
styled historian, is the founder otWallBuilders,
a group devoted to the idea that America was
founded as a Christian nation.
On his WallBuilders radio show recently.
Barton discussed with Rick Green how health
conscious America is, regulating cigarettes
and trans fats and salt, yet allowing something
to slip through that is such an obvious threat
to the health of Americans: "Jersey Shore."
Okay, he didn't say that Instead, Barton
reeled off fanciful statistics, like, "Homosexuals
die decades earlier than heterosexuals," and
"nearly one-third (of homosexuals) admit to a
thousand or more sex partners in a lifetime."
Barton said, "I mean, you go through all this
stuff, sounds to me like that's not very healthy.
Why don't we regulate homosexuality?"
That's the moment he boarded the crazy
train.
Barton, the quack historian, cited a 1920s
study that found nations that “rejected sexual
regulation like with homosexuality" didn't last
"past the third generation from the time that
they embraced it"
Have gays been embraced? When will
the third generation appear? It’s important
to know when we're supposed to make this
country collapse. We have a schedule to
keep.
Rick Green's role in this production was to
be properly aghast that the breathtakingly un
healthy gay lifestyle is promoted and protected.
That makes Green — recently a candidate for
the Texas Supreme Court—the porter on the
crazy train.
If David Barton wants the government to
regulate gay sex, Andrew Shirvell's goal is
much more modest. But Shirvell is the con
ductor on the crazy train.
For almost six months Shirvell has railed
in a blog against Chris Armstrong, the openly
gay University of Michigan student assembly
president Shirvell, a Michigan grad, accused
Armstrong of so many things, including being
anti-Christian, hosting a gay orgy, trying to
recruit freshmen to be gay, and my favorite,
sexually seducing a conservative student and
influencing him to the point that he "mOrphed
into a proponent of the radical homosexual
agenda."
Good strategy, that seduction. Armstrong
should be able to convert everybody on cam
pus by the time he's 106.
During his anti-Armstrong crusade,
Shirvell protested outside Armstrong's house,
and called him "Satan's representative on the
student assembly."
Paranoid much?
All this would be plenty bad enough, but
the fact that Shfrvell is a Michigan assistant
attorney general launches the affair into the
realm ohhe bizarre. Rod Serling couldn't have
made this up.
Shirvell's boss, Atty. Gen. Mike Cox, cited
the guy's right to free speech, while also tell
ing CNN he’s a "bully." Cox said that Shirvell's
"immaturity and lack of judgment outside the
office are clear."
This is more than a case of bad judg
ment Shirvell is obsessed with Armstrong's
homosexuality, f have to wonder if Shirvell
—now on a voluntary leave of absence — is
an immense closet case or a few ties short of
a railroad track.
Either explanation or both might apply to
Fred Phelps, leader of the infamous Westboro
Baptist Church, but it's his daughters who
recently clambered on the crazy train. Margie
Phelps represented Westboro at the Supreme
Court in the dispute over protests at military
funerals and after, while addressing the press,
she and sister Shirley Phelps-Roper broke into
song.
They warbled a few lines of a variation
on Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train." Osbourne
declared his displeasure that they used his
music to advance "despicable beliefs."
When the Prince of Darkness looks civilized
compared to you, your caboose is loose.::
[Leslie Robinson assumes the Phelps
daughters will never sing Indigo Girls.]
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