Now can we call them anti-Christian?

July 29, 2012 | Filed under Christianity,Islam,Leftist Tolerance,Liberals,Tolerance | Posted by

I don’t know how else to square the logic:

MeninosketchGiven his stance on Chick-fil-A, would Mayor Tom Menino grant permits to a group that has counted among its leaders a man who has repeatedly called homosexuality a “crime that must be punished” by death?

Actually, he has done that  . . . and more! Menino effectively gave away city land valued at $1.8 million to the organization, and he gave a speech at its ribbon-cutting ceremony.

It’s the Islamic Society of Boston’s mosque, and when it comes to anti-gay sentiment, one of its early supporters makes Chick-fil-A look like the Provincetown Men’s Chorus.

During the (understandable) controversy over the city selling land for a house of worship at a below-market rate a decade ago, reporters discovered that the Islamic Society of Boston counted imam Yusef al-Qaradawi as one of its spiritual guides. As the Weekly Standard reported at the time:

“The ISB does not dispute the fact that they have repeatedly used al-Qaradawi as a tool to raise funds for the Boston mosque, printing a brochure that highlighted al-Qaradawi’s enthusiastic support of the mosque and playing a videotaped message of support from him at a 2002 gathering.”

Also in attendance at the gathering, listening to al-Qaradawi’s message: Mayor Tom Menino.

I’m sure Menino, should he be confronted with what was just read, would atempt to wriggle out of it in some way by pointing out how may Muslims are moderate and how many would not take seriously the Quranic command to put the homosexual to death.

But that benefit of the doubt the idiot won’t extend to Christians and so in the mental gymnastics tumbling forth from the excuse for a brain that sits in the man’s head, he finds Christians more threatening in some way than Muslims.

Yea, I think we can call him anti-Christian.

And I think we can do the same for his buddy Obama.  Bowing to Muslim leaders, extending the open hand of friendship while in the same breath attempting to shove the HHS mandate down the throat of Catholics who actually believe in the tenets of their faith.

Yea, I think we can call him anti-Christian as well.

Originally published at Brutally Honest.

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  • http://opinion.ak4mc.us/ Scribe of Slog (McGehee)

    Yea, I think we can call him anti-Christian.

    Well, he damn sure isn’t pro-liberty. He isn’t even reliably anti-”anti-gay.”

    • jim_m

      In this case I think you are correct. The one thing Menino is realiably is anti-Liberty.

  • Commander_Chico

    It’s also been pointed out that Menino attends Mass every Sunday and hasn’t hassled the Catholic Church on permits, even though the Church is at least as against gay marriage as Cathy is.

    One rule of politics: you never beat up on the powerful and popular, only the weak and marginal.

    • jim_m

      Menino attends Mass every Sunday

      Which signifies nothing about his faith or what he really believes. When the dems call Nancy Pelosi a good Catholic they don’t say that because she adheres to church doctrine.

      If obama can attend the racist, marxist church of the rev Wright for 20 years and never hear a word that was said I think that we can safely assume the same for Menino.

    • Vagabond661

      Oh so it’s just Protestants then.

      • Commander_Chico

        yes, evangelicals are not a big group in Boston.

      • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

        Apparently so. Earlier this year I saw a bumper sticker that said, “No Catholic Church = No Salvation”. That bumper sticker is an attack on Protestant Christians, who are indeed saved and Heaven-bound. If some Catholics are willing to attack the salvation of Protestant Christians (something that the late Pope John Paul II refused to do), then it should not be surprising if some Catholics are willing to attack Protestant Christians in order to score political points with potential voters.

        • http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice

          Perhaps you should post on the prevalence of Protestant persecution by Catholics.

          • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

            The issue here is the appearance of a double standard. There is something amiss when a Catholic politician criticizes a Protestant citizen for having a belief that is shared by the Roman Catholic Church. I didn’t say that the RCC was attacking Protestants. Indeed, I pointed out that the late Pope John Paul II defended the Christianity of Protestants.

          • http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice

            Why don’t you provide us with some evidence… or is that only something you ask of others?

        • jim_m

          Please David. Have you ever talked to a member of the Church of Christ? They’re down right nuts and nearly a cult. They will claim that everyone is going to hell because they play music during worship.

          There’s enough division within Protestantism to go around.

          • Brucehenry

            The other day you commented that the Mormon church was founded “by a con man in the 19th century, so what do you expect?” Today it’s the Church of Christ who are “down right nuts and nearly a cult.”

            But it’s OTHER people — you know, “leftists” — who are anti-religious bigots, right, Jim? LOL

          • jim_m

            Actually, if you are familiar with the Church of Christ you would know that the Boston Church of Christ, which grew out of that movement, actually is considered a cult. I have had direct personal experience with these people and they basically believe that there can only be one true church in any city. They believe in a number of aberrant beliefs that even conservative Christians would find strange.

            You probably are confusing the Church of Christ with the United Church of Christ, which is a mainstream denomination and is not anything like a cult. But it would not surprise me to find that you are grossly ignorant on yet another subject.

            And yes, there is also a difference between thinking that someone’s church or their beliefs are wrong and the bigoted and hateful attitude toward people of faith that the left demonstrates daily.

          • Brucehenry

            Oh, I see. I see where I was wrong now. I thought making flippant, derogatory remarks about a particular denomination demonstrated a kind of casual bigotry. Thanks for clearing that up.

          • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

            You missed my point. Please read my response to Rick.

  • GarandFan

    Just another opportunistic Boston pol who will pander to any group that can lay claim to ‘minority status’. It burnishes the liberal image.

  • Walter_Cronanty

    As noted on this site previously, both Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who this week welcomed Louis Farrakhan to his City in an attempt to close the spigot of blood flowing in Chicago’s streets, and Democrat Mayor Rom Merino have no problem fawning over Muslims who openly advocate killing/stoning gays. At the same time, they are trying to run Chick-Fil-A out of town on a rail for advocating on behalf of traditional marriage.
    Thus, Mr. Rice is correct. It’s not gay hating, or even Jew hating, that makes one unfit to do business in these bastions of Democrat political machinery. Rather, it’s believing in traditional Judeo-Christian values.
    The only question remaining is whether Democrat Obama is as anti-Christian as the two Democrat Mayors of large Democrat cities, one of whose Mayors was Obama’s former Chief of Staff. What would make anyone believe that Obama doesn’t share the values of the two mayors?

  • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

    Stop the presses. Calling President Obama “anti-Christian” is jumping the shark.

    • http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice

      how so?

      • http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice

        ** Chirp **

        • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

          If you are going to accuse a party of being anti-Christian, then you need to provide evidence that the party is opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. You have not provided evidence that President Obama is opposed to the Gospel.

          • http://www.brutallyhonest.org Rick Rice

            David, the evidence is out there for anyone to see it… Google is your friend… Here’s something from the Washington Times that seems to make the case but I’m sure there’s more out there… http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/7/state-sanctioned-anti-christianity/ Methinks that youthinks you have to bend over backwards to give the secular Left the benefit of the doubt, which is fine if that’s what you want to do… but it would seem, in your quest to be so Christian while giving that benefit, that you’d extend it to Christians as well… but naw… that’d be asking too much of you now would it Mr. Robertson?

  • ackwired

    Leviticus 20:13 says homosexuals shall be put to death. Is that the basis of the conservative Muslim’s view? If so, conservative christians who take the bible literally are in the same boat with the conservative Muslims.

    • jim_m

      The difference dumbass is that you cannot point to a single conservative Christian who has advocated the murder of gays, whereas you can find numerous examples of gays being put to death in the muslim world.

      You are ideologically blinded to the fact that your political allies are actually far worse and far more totalitarian than your enemies, but then totalitarianism is what you are after in the end isn’t it?

      • ackwired

        So your argument is that conservative christians are more moral because they don’t do what the bible says?
        My political allies, libertarians, are quite the opposite of totalitarians.

        • jim_m

          Your political allies, muslims, are not libertarian.

          And no, I am saying that the part of the Bible you refer to is in the OT and the Mosaic Law of the OT is not applicable today. Obviously, you seem to have missed the part where Jesus Christ died fulfilling the old law and freeing us from it.

          Ignorant anti-Christians like you like to make stupid arguments about how the OT law is supposed to be still in effect. I don’t suppose it ever occurs to you that Christians don’t keep Kosher.

          • ackwired

            The flks at my church will be surprised to learn that my poltical allies are your hated muslims, and that I am anti-christian. But if that what it takes for you to make sense of the world, go with it.

    • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

      ackwired, you are using a straw-man argument. During the first Church council (Acts 15:1-29), the Apostles decreed that Gentiles are not required to adhere to Mosaic Law.

      • ackwired

        Ah…I can see that. Tell me then, why is the Ten Commandments such a big deal with conservative christians?