Boycott Will Smith!
Dec. 3rd, 2004 06:25 pmIn Alabama you have that wonderful man trying to take all books with reference to homosexuals from the bookshelves. I have a question... If you go by the religious fundamentalists*, you are supposed to ban everything that isn't considered pure and appropriate (or what makes their list as) - does that mean that their faith and will power is so crappy that they have to get rid of anything that would tempt them?
I thought it was some sort of joke, but it isn't (I pasted the Salon article behind the cut, for those interested).
Here you go, patriotism as a twisted tool news:
( A Will Smith boycott? )
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*fun·da·men·tal·ism n.
I thought it was some sort of joke, but it isn't (I pasted the Salon article behind the cut, for those interested).
Here you go, patriotism as a twisted tool news:
( A Will Smith boycott? )
Another Christmas/Channukah present suggestion - give your Freedom of Speech paladin the ultimate cool gift: a CBLDF membership card! Check it out >here<!
*fun·da·men·tal·ism n.
- A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism.
- often Fundamentalism An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century in opposition to Protestant Liberalism and secularism, insisting on the inerrancy of Scripture.