Wow, this was a beautiful couple of minutes. And it happened on Fox News, which, we are told, is chocked-full of troglodytic hatemongers.
Shirley Phelps-Roper is reprehensible, and the antithesis of every Biblical principle. I’m surprised that she’s still given anything that resembled serious press. I hope that every one of her future TV appearances go just like this one did.
Julie Banderas is now my favorite TV-host and I’m not sure how anyone’s going to topple her, short of wearing Osama bin Laden’s head like a hat and dancing in the studio to Joe Cocker’s “You Can Leave Your Hat On”.
UPDATE: If you like your smackdowns more gently-delivered but no less firm, then The Anchoress has what you need. A taste:
Hmmmmm……so this woman stands outside of military funerals and harrasses the mourners because she looooooooves everyone so much in the Lord. She calls down hell upon homosexuals because she looooooooooves them so much in the Lord.
Sometimes I wonder if there are people out there who embrace scripture simply so they can distort it and try to use it to excuse all of their twisted hate and bitterness.
I’m guessing “hate the sin and love the sinner” is not a big motto in this Phelps-Roper household. And I guess she doesn’t give credence to the idea that to “rebuke” or “admonish” does not mean “stand in judgement of…” but rather that we sinners, having tasted the Milk and Honey, are called to bring our fellow sinners to understanding of where we fall short and how we distance ourselves from God, that we may help them know Christ and his mercy and grace.
Nothing I read in scripture tells me that the job of a Christian is to pronounce doom on a nation, use words like “fag” (homosexual is a perfectly useful word for what you want to say, Mrs. Phelps, and I doubt Jesus would call a homosexual a “fag”) and decide in a matter of discourse with another person whether that person is going to heaven or hell. That judgement belongs to God, alone, and it seems to me a grave sin against humility for any human to point their finger and tell another the state of their soul.
Me, I like the moments when I can do the whole “driving the moneychangers out with a switch” moments, but you have to admit, The Anchoress sure knows how to deliver a soft but effective word.
