Jesus Taught Fear

The story goes that a gay rights bill in Washington State was backed by various heavyweights, including Microsoft Corp. The story also goes that the bill was defeated by a single vote when it finally came up, and the results were due, apparently, in no small part to Microsoft Corp having withdrawn its support of the bill that would have officially banned discrimination based on sexual orientation. That means that as a gay man, if I lived in Washington State, I could no longer exercise my freedom as an American to fire someone's ass because they were one of those nasty breeders*.

Anyhow, Microsoft Corp withdraws its support. The bill fails. People investigate and discover that the Right Rev. Hutcherson—a man who used to sin against Leviticus and get paid for it and is now controls the spiritual lives of his sheep-like followers in a “mega-church” in Redmond—put pressure on Microsoft to back away from its support of the bill, saying, “I told them I was going to give them something to be afraid of Christians about.”

So, beyond the egregious sin of dangling his participle in front of people other than his wife, the Good Reverend clearly no longer needs to wield God as his weapon: now he wields his flocking parishioners.

Having been raised a Catholic, I had little exposure to the Christian Bible, but my favorite parts of it were always those times when Jesus, tired of cajoling, went around threatening friends, Romans and countrymen. Because, as Mark 29:1 states: And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, 'show them the love of my Father, and if that doesn't work, a well-placed threat or two should do the trick.'

* and by breeders, I mean those evil heteros. And by saying 'evil breeder heteros', I'm being sarcastic.