Doug Murphy1
Member since Sep 5, 2010
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Re: “Beer Me, Jesus”
Hey, ease up Mendes. Seems obvious, doesn't it, a person must be black if they support civil rights? So, since you're a self-proclaimed gay-agenda supporter, you must be gay? Go figure, interviewing Pastor Dan and not having an agenda like a good objective pundit. Sure, "verbatim" like pieces of a puzzle...it's how you put them together, isn't it? Now, what's this business about saying Activision "created the boycott of Catalyst?" Activision simply posted a link to Craigs List? Be real here - it's obvious to all that your article "sparked" discussion about the hot topic of the day--prop. 8. Duh, everybody knows that the "gay agenda" is huge - and especially you should know since you're into taking a big position on the issue - for "so-called gay rights." No, you backed Dan into a corner and you know it - certainly on this issue. It wasn't until Activision threatened the boycott that Pastor Dan "backed off" and said he'd vote NO on 8. We still don't know if Activision will call off the sit-in/boycott, notwithstanding your injunction to do so...hard to believe you and Activision aren't doing a two-step here.
Re: “Beer Me, Jesus”
If you google "Beer Me Jesus" you'll get to see the current feeding frenzy taking place on the net. "Wifey" isn't happy...it appears the above writer had it pegged. And now this thing is going way beyond Humboldt County.
I'm wondering, just wondering, if perhaps, Mendes, who is a self-declared gay-atheist-anti-theist-activist who wrote the Beer Me Jesus piece, and Activision, who at least directed people to the Craigs List boycott/sit-in of Catalyst, are in cahoots?
Looks like you might have gotten framed Dan. Like backed into a corner big time. Maybe you should have taken a class on how to deal with the media; especially, the gay media types? Don't you know that the gays know how to play the "media agenda card" way better than, let's say, an Emergent Church Pastor?
Shall we pray...?
Re: “Beer Me, Jesus”
Man, this thing goes on and on … but as I expressed at the outset of the Deric-Dan outburst upon the world scene (mostly around Humboldt Co.) - Dan the Man must grid up his loins, apparently along with his leadership at Catalyst, and determine two salient issues confronting their evangelical persuasion…
(1) elect to bring in gays/lesbians into their (Catalyst) leadership; and (2) will the Catalyst pastorate/leadership bequeath and sanctify same sex marriage? Dan gave himself 2 months (August 20 to approx. October 20, 2010 - not even close to Dec. 21, 2012). So it goes in today's laisse-faire evangelicalism. There's a choice to be made here - not just a “style” of behavior. If you were to listen to the decisively “save the homosexual” - the LGBTQIA (leaving off bestiality for the time being - although “A” allies (straights, etc.) could expand to such and could be a real + for PETA) - coming from THE CALL held at the Sacramento State Capitol the last two days (and, I might add, a media-mesmerized pro-prop. 8 fest) … there's little doubt where the over-the-hill Bethel Church of Bill Johnson in Redding and The Call folks stand juxtaposed to the Rick Coles and apparently the Emergent Church folks like Dan, who stand or want to somehow stand somewhere betwixt and between the two polarized groups. The Call folks might not let that happen - I mean, they're just down Hwy 299 and seem to be multiplying like rabbits - grief, everyone at the rally was young and every other person I saw was either pregnant or strolling/holding a newborn with kids dangling all over the place - occasionally I saw someone yelling and running through the crowd babbling something about “pray for equality” and then fading fast, as if a would-be Titanic had just hit an iceberg and 'twas time to abandon ship! They even had a “former gay” guy get up with wife and baby in hand declaring his deliverance from the gay lifestyle with the obviously multi-racial 10,000 participant crowd going berserk as he declared he was “free at last!” Finally, that conservative rag sheet, The Bee, proclaimed with incredible insight - a sort of sop to the Emergent Church as it concluded its front-page/back-page piece with an exchange between an “event volunteer” and a gay-rights group known as “Equality Action Now” - with EAN saying: “We are much more alike than different…that makes me happy.” Wonder if Dan and Crew dare say the same? Hey, it would be meeting the gay community half way…