This weekend, some of the nation's leading conservatives - from Tony Snow and Attorney General Gonzales to Sen. George Allen (R-VA) and Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AK) to Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity - appeared at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit."
An hour and a half after Snow's speech, Bishop Wellington Boone, founder of the Wellington Boone Ministries, took the stage and announced, "I want the gays mad at me." Boone said that while "the gays" are "saying a few things" about him, "they're not coming at me strong." In an effort to change that, Boone declared:
"Back in the days when I was a kid, and we see guys that don't stand strong on principle, we call them 'faggots.' ... [People] that don't stand up for what's right, we say, 'You're sissified out!' 'You're a sissy!' That means you don't stand up for principles."
[Of course these people don't represent what the Bible really says about homosexuality. The Bible doesn't say to call homosexuals dirty names. It says to kill them, and Jesus Himself agreed. What a bunch of fags.]
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."