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"To make matters worse, this advertisement has aired during family viewing time such as football ... "

That's right! This commercial is so distracting from this manly sport! How will anyone be able to focus on these beefcakes bending over in front of each other in spandex tights and playing with their balls once they see this ad?

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Hey Monica!

The only sexual perversion on display here is yours. A prurient obsession with catching other people "sinning".

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Jan 9, 2022·edited Jan 9, 2022

Monica Cole is such a pervert, her mind immediately assuming the most salacious possibilities. She cannot see two men together without thinking of their having sex with each other. I know for <i>a fact</i> that that is a young widower and his cousin, who just introduced the former's child to his great grandparents.

The horror is that the grandparents are members of a cult that worships tigers and the boy will be offered to their god tomorrow as a sacrifice.

The child smiles as he pretends to sleep knowing that the tiger gods favor him and in the morrow, the Old Ones will meet their due fate.

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"(Large portions of this article were published earlier, because Cole hasn’t had a new idea in several years.)"

Hemant has learned snark from us. We are SUCH a bad influence.

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I feel so guilty for this that I am going to punish myself with an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

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All I have within reach is Baskin Robbins, Nestle, and Wall's...

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I just might have to take my dog for a walkies.

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I saw that commercial multiple times & never even noticed the two men. My focus was on the sleeping toddler, who is indeed adorable. Don't people have better things to do irl other than scan commercials for "immoral" content for hours at a time? Imagine living one's life that way. No wonder these folks are frustrated, angry, and bitter!

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That’s why it took her so long to get outraged, this ad has been airing since September. It isn’t blatantly obvious the men are teh gayz.

Monica Cole’s job is to scan commercials for offensive content. That way Focus on the Family gets donations for all the outrage they keep their followers in.

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I have almost stopped watching T.V. due to the barrage of commercials. Fortunately, in Germany there is a pretty good public T.V. service, with easily avoidable commercial slots, and an even better online program.

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I don't see anything in the ad indicating the two men are a couple (not that there would be anything wrong with that). Maybe the mom dated both men then died without divulging which one was the father.

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Considering the things I've seen happen in foster care, I am thrilled when a kid has someone who loves them.

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Jan 11, 2022·edited Jan 11, 2022

And at the rate they [the Fundamentalist/conservative churches] are trying to do away with abortion, who do they think are going to be adopting all the unwanted/uncared for children they and their ilk spawn? They won't even approve tax increases to take care of the children the western-world already has in its care, as it currently exists!!! As I look at it even more closely, I wonder how we as a society in general expect to care for all the children who will be conceived and later potentially born, after the ban on abortions that the conservatives so desperately want/crave for/protest over, ad nauseam?!? Love and care and concern for all these little ones who may be in the system in - say - five years - are going to have to go somewhere, and I sincerely doubt there will be many couples or even singles who will be able to qualify for fostering them, let alone adopting any of them. Sad to say, it's the people like Ms. Cole and the others whose choices to hold onto ideas and ideals that were hopelessly outdated 100+ years ago, and don't hold water to simple logic and reason. Taking that one advertisement, alone, shows me how little compassion she has for others. The boy is being well cared for, and loved. What difference does it make if it is two males who are parenting the child, he is being cared for. The people who have the nerve to call themselves "Christians" rarely act like it, think like Him or take His concerns into consideration. The term "Christian" means "Little Christ," and I don't see her acting, talking or being like the man they SAY they follow. Sadly, Ms. Cole worshipping her bible, not the man she says it says we are supposed to act like, and taking everything FAR too literally. I am like David Graf, here, and thrilled no end that a couple cared enough to go through the process of fostering and then adopting a little boy whose chances of being adopted are not very good, and giving him some hope and knowledge that he is loved and cared for. That, alone, is a great deal of compassion and care, which Ms. Cole does not seem to showing she is capable of, only "ape-ing" the thetoric she hears spewed from a pulpit every Sunday about the "Evil" of abortion.

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Or like "3 men and a baby?" But in real life? That some random lady just abandons her kid with babysitters, whose roommate is the real father, but out of town?

Probably these things happen all the time to other people with more interesting lives.

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They could be brothers -- one the boy's father and the other his uncle. The fact that Cole jumped straight to what she thinks of as perversion says a lot about her character.

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"Hilton should avoid aiming to please a small percentage of customers while pushing away conservative customers."

No, they're trying to attract customers who spend money, not bitter witches that think fun is sinful.

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Methinks the real numbers are actually reversed...

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"...God will not tolerate this sinful nature."

O.K. So what is he gonna do about it? Go ahead! Show us! (crickets)

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Are you trying to get a worldwide flood because that's how you get a worldwide flood. ; )

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No, I think gay sex just gets a tornado somewhere in the midwest? Or maybe a flood in Louisiana.

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“ One Million Moms must remain diligent. Scripture says multiple times that homosexuality is wrong, and God will not tolerate this sinful nature.”

Yeah, the Bible says to execute gay people, are you advocating for that?

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Yes. Yes, she is.

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It is her bigist secret desire.

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Apart from maybe the hot housewife down the road.

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Who won't have anything to do with her once she found out her idea of foreplay was condemning her for what they were about to do.

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It showed during a football game? Where the players pat each others' asses and nobody has a screaming fit about that being "perversion"?

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But those are manly man's men doing manly man things!

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With other men!

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Like men in tights.

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Jan 9, 2022·edited Jan 9, 2022

If football is family time, how come I'm watching a game by myself? : )

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That's what happens if you keep buying cheap beer.

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And chips from the dollar store.

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Jan 9, 2022·edited Jan 9, 2022

Dear Monica, you may not have noticed before, but it's not called the Evangelical States of America for a reason.

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Sadly I don't think she cares. I would be willing to bet that she has praised Russia's disgusting, anti gay "propaganda" law on multiple occasions

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I'm sure she is all supportive of that tyrannical law.

I mean, look at Russia, how well it's doing since that law was approved: no more widespread and massive alcohol and drug abuse, and the severe social ills that come with those, no more widespread and massive domestic violence, no more painfully high suicide numbers, a striving and flourishing economy at the forefront of technological innovation, Russia, a cultivated, democratic, advanced nation that lives in peace and harmony with its neighbors under the wise and benevolent guise of "Dear Leader" Wladimir.

See? No gays, no problems!

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The Russians have always been their go-to Communist bogeyman, until they released their anti-gay stance.

So now the Evangelicals have Always Been Besties With The Ruskies.

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And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

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Especially since Putin is openly trying to court the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Fuck you SubStack.

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It manages to suck more than Patheos, and that’s quite an achievement.

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Come on, we can post links, there is no nannybot infantilizing us, and we can stay in touch until OpenSky launches. That's something, don't you think?

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Hang on, I'm thinking...

I'll give it a yes, but just barely. Is that OnlySky we're waiting patiently for?

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Instead of getting upset over ads, Christians ought to start getting upset and start doing something about situations in which Christians abuse others both sexually and otherwise.

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not gonna happen .. they would have to examine their selves.

All those exploding heads would make such a mess

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You may be right but I recall how I was once part of that movement when I was younger. Getting to know atheists and gays and seeing how we were targeting them and treating them in hateful ways opened my eyes.

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The least she could do is put on a show of her supposed piety by whining about something that doesn’t concern or affect her based on deliberate misinterpretation of scripture that she’s never read.

Sounds about right.

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Yikes! I've never gone on one of those trips since, to be honest, I'm a wimp. To me, the idea of roughing it is staying at a Holiday Inn Express. However, I have been told that part of the benefit is that overseas Christians see that they are not alone since they are often in the minority where they live. Plus, projects like well digging will do good long after the visitors have left.

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I would have greatly prefer to go on a missionary trip with Mittens than where I ended up going at the time.

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Mittens? Where did you go?

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Mitt "Mittens' Romney did his Moron Missionary in France which got him out of going to the Vietnam war.

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Lived in splendor where he was waited on hand and foot.

This was the same chickenhawk who protested Vietnam protestors. The same chickenhawk who had 5 sons who never volunteered for serving their country in the Middle East (read: Iraq and Afghanistan).

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Jan 9, 2022·edited Jan 9, 2022

Makes you wonder why someone is shouting PERVERSION! when no one else is talking abut it. That's usually a dead giveaway when it comes to homophobes who are deeply-closeted.

That she throws a child into the mix also indicates she might also have things in her laptop's search history deserving of close scrutiny. She could very well be another Josh Duggar.

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Indeed, she could. How are you NOGODZ20?

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Still having trouble adjusting to posting on Substack. I never seem to know when to log on. The posting of articles seems completely random and chaotic. Hope OnlySky is a huge improvement.

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Don't know if you remember me or not, but I used to post as Schlukitz...with a raccoon holding kitty cat logo. We exchanged quite a few nice, enjoyable posts and commentaries over the years. ;-)

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I do remember and we did. :)

A number of people here are using new nyms and I suspect we might see more old friends with new handles when OnlySky launches.

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Gee, I sure do hope so. It would be nice to re-establish contact with them again. Yours was the only handle that I recognized while reading all of the comments here. When is OnlySky supposed to launch? Do you have any idea?

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They said early January but they seem to have their own ideas about what early January is.

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mersonlaw.com:

"You can search through the priest sex abuse list (priest list of sex offenders; catholic priests molestation list) by using your browser’s search function, simply by pressing “ctrl + f” for PCs, “command + f” for Mac’s."

(This quote is copied from the webpage.)

Here, Christian Mom. Check out this site and direct your self appointed vigilantism to a place you can do some good. You should chose to go after only those convicted priests snd bishops. There is enough to keep you busy without having to make assumptions about those who are simply accused.

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And what is she accusing them of? Loving each other? Loving a child? Checking in to a hotel???

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She is jumping to delusions. She sees something that she considers not agreeable with the dogma she has been fed by theists who depend on her ignorance to further their own grip on 'the faithful.'

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"Jumping to delusions."

Stolen!

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"Jumping to delusions."

Stolen!

Stolen? Am I a thief?

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Honestly, the woman is stupid. But even so, who picks a hotel is based on their advertisements? Not a great fan of Hilton, but in this case I might make an exception – so maybe I do.

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