A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ+. It didn't end well for the writer.
A Christian writer attacked Dolly Parton for being pro-LGBTQ+. It didn't end well for the writer.
Ericka Anderson ended up apologizing to fans of the super-ally country star.
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“I regret using Dolly as the example for the point I was making in the article,” she told Yahoo! Entertainment Saturday. “As I wrote in the piece, I love her and think she does some incredible things for the world. We all make poor choices in how to frame things sometimes. This was one of those moments for me! Dolly is one of the few people who is beloved by all and who loves all. The world is lucky to have her.”
You don't get to pretend that it was an error in framing your message. You meant what you said and the only thing you regret is the backlash. You picked on an angel and everyone else rightfully gave you shit for it.
"I used Dolly Parton's name to gain infamy. I am glad that it happened, as I have been offered a one hour weekly show on NewsMax."
The piece, titled “There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel,” [...]
“Parton’s version of love, which includes condoning immoral sexual behavior (‘be who you are,’ she’s said), is unaligned with God’s vision for humanity,” Andersen writes.
This is not a "Sorry, I didn't mean it that way, I just framed it wrong." This person meant exactly what she said.
God’s vision for humanity
You know a religion is utter bullshit when its followers use phrases like this.
God’s vision for humanity
Translation:
Our cult leaders' vision for humanity
Its always weird how people can be so conceited to think that "God's vision for humanity" perfectly aligns with "the way I want things to be done"
When you have no disagreements with god, then you are absolutely full of shit.
They don't even follow their own religion. Christianity is about being nice and kind to people. Which seems somewhat incompatible with these peoples world views. Of course it was also incompatible with the whole religious crusade thing, so perhaps it's not surprising that they still think like this.
It's generally the atheists who know more about their religion than the religious.
If all or even most of Christianity's followers were actually kind, generous people, it would be harder to criticize, but it's so blatantly just another hateful cult like the rest of them.
I'm an atheist, but I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic high school. People like this honestly amaze me. If there's one message that's repeated over and over in the new testament, it's "love everyone, regardless of anything about them, and treat them with kindness." People like this are somehow unashamed to say "Loving everyone is wrong because it condones sinful behavior." And so many will nod their heads with that.
I'm happy to see that when they use a person like Dolly, who actually lives the values, as an example of what they mean, people will say "Hey, wait a minute..."
Funny that a so-called Christian doesn't know how to say she's sorry and ask to be forgiven.
She knows in her heart that Jesus forgives her because she prayed to him for forgiveness, and that's all that's important.
That's the convenience of Christianity. Commit a sin, ask Jesus for forgiveness, get forgiven automatically just because you asked, commit another sin, the process repeats until you die.
I immediately get my guard up when I learn that about someone. Never trust a person that can assuage their conscience with 10 seconds of talking to their bed.
Christians don't apologize to anyone but Jesus. The Bible dictates in clear terms this is all that's required of them.
That's not an apology.
It’s only an apology as far as ‘I regret the blowback’. essentially they are only sorry to themself for doing a dumb dumb. Not to Dolly. And not to LBGTQ
That's not an apology.
It's a "sorry I got busted" statement.
Anyone else notice how often the party who won't shut the fuck up about "personal responsibility" whenever social services and such are discussed accepts absolutely zero "personal responsibility" when they are the ones who need to display some?
It seems to be a universal across countries and cultures. Those who spend their entire time telling everyone else how to behave are never able to behave themselves. Perhaps it's simply that everyone with any brains isn't stupid enough to say that sort of thing. At least in a public forum.
The flaw in the Christ stories, said the visitor from outer space, was that Christ, who didn’t look like much, was actually the Son of the Most Powerful Being in the Universe. Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again:
Oh, boy–they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!
And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Who? People not well connected. So it goes.
Slaughterhouse 5 is a great novel. I haven't read it in a long time. Maybe time for a re-read.