God seen to hate Dobson, GOP

This just KILLS me. The assclown reverend blamed Katrina on faggots in NOLA. Who dislikes whom, weasel boy?


Be careful what you wish for
Posted by Michael W. Dominowski September 01, 2008 11:00AM
Categories: Michael W. Dominowski

Associated Press
UPSTAGED BY BAD WEATHER: As television coverage of Hurricane Gustav plays on a TV monitor, there's not much happening on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. Is it God's will?
Selfish preacher calls for Biblical rain on Obama's speech and discovers why some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

Talk about miscalculations.

Somewhere along the line the fringe nuts at James Dobson's right-wing cult "Focus on the Family" thought it would be a good idea to entreat whatever kind of God it is they worship to wash out Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the close of the Democratic National Convention the other night. One of the group's producers, Stuart Shepard, appeared on camera near Mile High Stadium in Denver, site of the speech, and did just that. His attempt to harness the power of prayer as a political weapon seems to have backfired big-time.

A most un-Christian appeal


Shepard
As the Democrats began gathering in Denver, Mr. Shepard strolled in front of the stadium, microphone in hand, and in a theatrically whiny, sniveling voice that can only be described as creepy, wondered aloud "if it would be so wrong to pray for rain ... Not just rain, abundant rain ... urban and small streams advisory rain ... umbrella ain't gonna help ya ... swamp the intersections ... network cameras can't see the podium rain."
An almighty God who takes advice from jerks and is willing to consider all requests, no matter how petty or mean or selfish? This is a pretty perverted Talibanesque twist on Christianity. Nevertheless, the entreaty has not gone unanswered. Of course the results were probably not what Mr. Shepard had in mind.

The Good Lord delivered up a beautiful, balmy, clear, starry night in Denver. Then the Republicans came to Minneapolis and God sent Hurricane Gustav to Louisiana. Not a direct hit on the hapless city of New Orleans, mind you. Just wind and rain. Abundant rain. Urban and big-rivers advisory rain ... umbrella ain't gonna help you, swamp-the streets, network cameras abandon Minneapolis for the storm scene rain. You know. Just enough to showcase, in the timeliest of ways -- the third anniversary of Katrina -- the flagship Republican domestic failure of the worst presidency in American history.

The wages of intolerance


Dobson
Wingnut nonprophets of the Dobsonian persuasion are practiced in selectively reading the Bible and glossing its words to perfume their message of intolerance and bigotry. Mr. Shepard, for example, apparently overlooked the admonishment of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
Now the Republican National Convention has been disrupted by bad weather. Did Shepard's sheer hubris tick off the Big Guy? Did God send Hurricane Gustav as a lesson to the radical right? Who is to say?

Had events gone the other way you can bet the motley assortment of sawdust Billy Sundays out there would have been tearing their shirts and bellowing from the pulpit about their being in league with the almighty, etc., etc. Instead the opposite happened. It could be bad luck, it could be God's will. Whatever it was, there's no crowing in the extremist "Christian" camps today, and Focus on the Family has pulled the video.
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HIS WORDS ENDURE: Stuart Shepard's intemperate wishing of ill unto others still exists here, on YouTube.
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IS TURNABOUT FAIR PLAY? Reaction to the Shepard video produces parodies purporting to be counter-requests to the almighty to disrupt the GOP convention. Pray for a tornado | Pray for diarrhea (Avoid this one if you are offended by scatological talk.)