;)

a fun little survey i borrowed from gyngalyn...*halo*...

Kinky bastard! Grats! You're 83% kinky!

Well well well, you kinky bastard! Most likely you're into some weird shit, which is always great. Consider mailing the author of this test, and keep up the good work ;)

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 90% on kinkpoints

Link: The Kinkyness Test written by nilnisicruce on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

scary sam brownback

senator brownback scares me, makes me quite uneasy.

this is an article i read this morning. it's an article about senator brownback and his leadership in covert fundamentalist operatives in washington. it's an interesting article, definitely critical of him but in a well-written, almost subtle way...using his words and deeds to let him dig his own hole, instead of using editorial content to produce that result.

the scariest part, at least on principle?

"The most bluntly theocratic effort, however, is the Constitution Restoration Act, which Brownback co-sponsored with Jim DeMint, another former C Streeter who was then a congressman from South Carolina. If passed, it will strip the Supreme Court of the ability to even hear cases in which citizens protest faith-based abuses of power. Say the mayor of your town decides to declare Jesus lord and fire anyone who refuses to do so; or the principal of your local high school decides to read a fundamentalist prayer over the PA every morning; or the president declares the United States a Christian nation. Under the Constitution Restoration Act, that'll all be just fine."

thank goodness court-stripping plans have been generally less-than-successful in the last century or so. here's hoping that trend remains.

also unnerving...

And yet compassionate conservatism, as Colson conceives it and Brownback implements it, is strikingly similar to plain old authoritarian conservatism. In place of liberation, it offers as an ideal what Colson calls "biblical obedience" and what Brownback terms "submission." The concept is derived from Romans 13, the scripture by which Brownback and Colson understand their power as God-given: "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

To Brownback, the verse is not dictatorial -- it's simply one of the demands of spiritual war, the "worldwide spiritual offensive" that the Fellowship declared a half-century ago. "There's probably a higher level of Christians being persecuted during the last ten, twenty years than . . . throughout human history," Brownback once declared on Colson's radio show. Given to framing his own faith in terms of battles, he believes that secularists and Muslims are fighting a worldwide war against Christians -- sometimes in concert. "Religious freedom" is one of his top priorities, and securing it may require force. He's sponsored legislation that could lead to "regime change" in Iran, and has proposed sending combat troops to the Philippines, where Islamic rebels killed a Kansas missionary.

Brownback doesn't demand that everyone believe in his God -- only that they bow down before Him.

must i go on about the inconsistencies here? first of all, the whole "persecuted christian" mentality that's been so prevalent among the fundamentalists nowadays. if the christians were as persecuted as the fundamentalists believe they are, why would the fundamentalist right be as powerful as they are? the fact that there are many citizens who are not christians, the fact that there are people who tolerate such things as religious plurality, homosexuality, or secular spheres in life...does not mean that there is persecution of christians going on.

and, "religious freedom"? the idea that muslims and secularists are fighting a war against christianity? i think the fact that people are allowed to be muslim, secular, christian, or anything else is a better indicator of actual religious freedom than a nation where you're really only free to be christian.