coinspinner: "I want to get a shirt with a rainbow on it, but I don't want to seem gay. I'll have a rainbow, and under it I'll put, 'Not Gay' ... 'But supportive.' How did one group of people get to claim refracted light? Greedy gays."

That's always been my philosophy. 'Cept I know it belongs to the Floyd.

"The gays stole this one from Pink Floyd, but tonight we're stealin' it back!"

Mikey1969: Holy Christ n a Crutch, don't you guys have ENOUGH religious symbols? Seriously, how many ways do you need to tell me that you're Christian? More, more, more... Never enough for you, is it?

That righteous indignation you got goin' on...also a symbol. We'll be taking that back, too.

Tatsuma: The biblical origin of the rainbow is that it signified a new covenant between mankind and G-d, and one of the clauses of that covenant was not to have homosexual relationship.

The rainbow actually predates the bible, and is actually formed by water droplets in the atmosphere refracting light, which results in a spectrum of colors.

/The More You Know.

Mikey1969: Holy Christ n a Crutch, don't you guys have ENOUGH religious symbols? Seriously, how many ways do you need to tell me that you're Christian? More, more, more... Never enough for you, is it?

Here's a great group that wants to do away with organized religion and it's iconography by introducing their own organized religion with it's own iconography. Except this is the current Mountain-Dew, Extreeeeme Culture type of Iconography. They also show up at high schools to proselytize young kids with their kick ass motor home and counter-culture version of Jesus. Freaking whacks.

The Whosoevers(pop)

Leviticus 25:44-45 However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property.

Back to the fields, Hutch... like a good Christian.

Come to think of it, God sure does do a lot of killing or demanding of killing in the bible. Why do we worship that one again? He seems to require murder to do anything of note.

It's like getting a greeting card from the guy who killed your whole family, that says "Next time I won't use a gun. XOXOXO"

<b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7059531/76332810#c76332810" target="_blank">Mr. Coffee Nerves</a>:</b> <i>To end this controversy the gays should cede the rainbow and instead just use the image of a well-muscled man wearing only some cloth draped around his groin -- he could be mounted on some kind of wooden apparatus.

Perhaps, even, that man's arms could be spread out and his hands restrained in some fashion to let everyone know he's "Open For Business"</i>

We already have something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code

Tatsuma: what_now: It originated in the 1970s as a way to symbolize that the LGBT community was open to people of all races.

well, they chose poorly

Considering the popularity of the symbol, I think you might be mistaken.

We need this in its rightful place between two equivalent mathematical expressions.

I want to just laugh at the sheer idiocy of WND, but I've been reading about the Spanish Civil War lately, and so now they scare me. People like the idiots who contribute to and read WND do sometimes gain power, and when they do lots of people on the List of People Conspiring Against the GOP, and therefore, America (LOPCATGOPATA) die.

Feel free to put up a rainbow flag in front of your church - I'm sure the attendees of your church would love it.

Diogenes: This is bad news.....for Skittles.

yet, this was good for anybody owning stock in the skittles company

Diogenes: Mikey1969: It's like this guy thinks there is a specific 'Gay Church' or something.

I suspected there was a little bit of that connotation. The same way they claim atheism and being environmentally-minded are religions.

Man, I try SO hard to be a Centrist. I usually see both sides of any situation, and that includes politics.

Problem is; I stopped being able to put up with the Right about 10-12 years ago. It was almost like flipping a switch, too. All the people who actually made sense got renditioned or something. McCain was the last holdout, and he pissed away every bit of respect I had for him in 2008, all at once. Palin was the final nail in the coffin.

Tatsuma: when you choose a symbol that represents your oppression, hunt, torture and death at the hand of the church for hundreds of years as your own symbol, you might want to hire a new PR firm.

I'm rather sure no deep thought or intense research was put into the selection of a rainbow flag to represent a community (which took two decades to take hold btw). Matter of fact - I'm pretty sure drugs were involved.

/and you can read horrific histories into most symbols used by all sorts of groups - especially religious organizations
//you know who else liked symbols?

gingerjet: Feel free to put up a rainbow flag in front of your church - I'm sure the attendees of your church would love it.

jigger: We need this in its rightful place between two equivalent mathematical expressions.
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Don't get me started on the HRC - completely worthless organization.

Tatsuma: impaler: Wrong covenant. You're thinking of the one with Moses.

No, the covenant between Noach and G-d certainly included that prohibition. Look up 'Noahide Laws'.

Oh, the punishment for violating the covenant - for example, worshiping a false god - is decapitation. Sounds kinda like radical Islam.

jigger: gingerjet: Feel free to put up a rainbow flag in front of your church - I'm sure the attendees of your church would love it.

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I actually meant that against the idiot who wrote the article.

/but all buildings do need a hint of color

gingerjet: jigger: We need this in its rightful place between two equivalent mathematical expressions.
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Don't get me started on the HRC - completely worthless organization.

OFFICIAL: You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering the name of our Lord, and so, as a blasphemer, you are to be stoned to death.

MATTHIAS: Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

OFFICIAL: Blasphemy! He's said it again!

CROWD: Yes! Yes, he did! He did!

OFFICIAL: Did you hear him?!

CROWD: Yes! Yes, we did! We did!

WOMAN #1: Really!

[silence]

OFFICIAL: Are there any women here today?

CROWD: No. No. No. No...

OFFICIAL: Very well. By virtue of the authority vested in me--

[WOMAN #2 stones MATTHIAS]

MATTHIAS: Oww! Lay off! We haven't started yet!

OFFICIAL: Come on! Who threw that? Who threw that stone? Come on.

CROWD: She did! She did! He did! He! He. He. Him. Him. Him. Him. He did.

WOMAN #2: Sorry. I thought we'd started.

OFFICIAL: Go to the back. Always one, isn't there? Now, where were we?

MATTHIAS: Look. I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying 'Jehovah'.

CROWD: Oooh! He said it again! Oooh!

OFFICIAL: You're only making it worse for yourself!

MATTHIAS: Making it worse?! How could it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!

OFFICIAL: I'm warning you. If you say 'Jehovah' once more...

[MRS. A. stones OFFICIAL]

Right. Who threw that?

[silence]

OFFICIAL: Come on. Who threw that?

CROWD: She did! It was her! He! He. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him. Him.

OFFICIAL: Was it you?

MRS. A.: Yes.

OFFICIAL: Right!

MRS. A.: Well, you did say 'Jehovah'.

[CROWD stones MRS. A.]

OFFICIAL: Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah'.

LectertheChef: List of People Conspiring Against the GOP, and therefore, America
(LOPCATGOPATA for short):


You need to add the Secret Service, since they're oppressing Ted "Pantshiatter" Nugent.

Tatsuma:I mean, seriously. Why not a flag of Judy Garland's face or something?

And why not replace the Star of David with a penny pinched so tight it looks like copper wire.

Oh goddamm. His church is just a few miles from my house.

Rainbow Sunday, anyone?

codergirl42: Diogenes: AdolfOliverPanties: I always thought rainbows were signs in the sky that moisture was reacting to light shining through it.

Don't be stupid. They're roadmaps to pots of gold.

I thought they were the path between earth and the realm of the gods.

Bifröst

The road to Bifrost lies between a boy's cheeks.

Tatsuma: rufus-t-firefly: Oh, the punishment for violating the covenant - for example, worshiping a false god - is decapitation. Sounds kinda like radical Islam.

No, decapitation is for either premeditated murder or being part of an idolatrous city, worshipping a false deity gets you stoning.

From the Jewish Virtual Library:

One additional element of greater severity is that violation of any one of the seven laws subjects the Noachide to capital punishment by decapitation (Sanh. 57a).

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_ 1 4892.html

Maimonides' Law of Noahides

14 In what way must [Noahides] fulfill the commandment to establish courts of justice? They are obligated to set up judges and magistrates in every major city to judge according to the above six laws, to warn the nation [regarding their observance]; A noahide who breaks one of these seven laws - is executed by decapitation. [additional text: for example: an idolater, or blasphemer, or muderer, or someone who has had one of the six illicit relations according to [Noahide law], or robbed even the worth of a peruta, or consumed any amount of "torn limb" or "torn meat", or witnessed someone breaking one of these laws, and did not judge and sentance him - all these people are executed by decapitation.] For this all the inhabitants of Shechem were liable for capital punishment. This was because Shechem kidnapped [someone] and they witnessed this and knew [what he had done], but did not judge him. A Noahide is [may be] executed [on the basis of the testimony of] one witness and [the verdict of] a single judge. No prior warning [is required]. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge [in Noahide law].

The Why Not Guy: Tatsuma:I mean, seriously. Why not a flag of Judy Garland's face or something?

And why not replace the Star of David with a penny pinched so tight it looks like copper wire.


What you did there, I sees it.

Maimonides' Law of Noahides

14 In what way must [Noahides] fulfill the commandment to establish courts of justice? They are obligated to set up judges and magistrates in every major city to judge according to the above six laws, to warn the nation [regarding their observance]; A noahide who breaks one of these seven laws - is executed by decapitation. [additional text: for example: an idolater, or blasphemer, or muderer, or someone who has had one of the six illicit relations according to [Noahide law], or robbed even the worth of a peruta, or consumed any amount of "torn limb" or "torn meat", or witnessed someone breaking one of these laws, and did not judge and sentance him - all these people are executed by decapitation.] For this all the inhabitants of Shechem were liable for capital punishment. This was because Shechem kidnapped [someone] and they witnessed this and knew [what he had done], but did not judge him. A Noahide is [may be] executed [on the basis of the testimony of] one witness and [the verdict of] a single judge. No prior warning [is required]. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge [in Noahide law].

/forgot to bold

rufus-t-firefly: OFFICIAL: You have been found guilty by the elders of the town of uttering the name of our Lord, and so, as a blasphemer, you are to be stoned to death.

MATTHIAS: Look. I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

OFFICIAL: Blasphemy! He's said it again!.

Where'd you get that story from? It is funny, although just to clarify, the Bible in no way prohibits saying the name of God, Jehovah. The second commandment prohibits you from taking the name of Jehovah in vain, or cursing it in some way.

As to this rainbow issue, I honestly don't care too much if the gays use it.

Tatsuma: what_now: It originated in the 1970s as a way to symbolize that the LGBT community was open to people of all races.

well, they chose poorly

Really, ya think?

I always thought the Catholic Church picked the worst symbol EVAR.

A guy being tortured to death on a stick?

It's kind of Goth but I don't really see the mass appeal.

/And don't you smirk, Tats, you adopted a faith that has a symbol that could double as a weapon in an old Bruce Lee movie.

Once they get it back from the gays, they'll have to fight the New Agers off too. Back when I was a child in the early 80s, my fundie mom was convinced by various books that the rainbow was a symbol of the New Age movement and that children were being brainwashed into the movement by being exposed to rainbow themed toys, like Rainbow Brite and the Care Bears. She was terrified of this for years. Nevermind that I was a boy and wanted Transformers and GI Joe, but whatever. The New Age movement was an insidious front for the devil, and we had to be very careful regarding the devil toys and entertainment. I'm still not sure just how exactly the devil and the New Agers all tied in with each other, but now I that I am thinking back, I also recall that the Force was a real problem for her too. Strangely, never a mention regarding gays and the rainbow at that time.

exick: The fact that they would even want it back is striking to me. Firstly, since it's a reminder that their god is an amoral, vindictive, genocidal douchebag who decided that all the imperfect life he created wasn't perfect enough for his taste. Secondly, since it reveals that they're gullible enough to believe the story of Noah and the flood in the Bible is a factual accounting of an event that actually took place.

To be fair, many christians wear a CROSS on around their neck, so there is precedent to the whole "remember horrible event" thing.

heavymetal: The religious nuts and the gays got it all wrong. When you see a rainbow you are supposed to be reminded of the late great Ronnie James Dio.
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Only if it's in the dark.

I thought that the ball-gag was the symbol for the gay rights movement....