Shows how well these goof balls know or understand what’s in the bible. Decorated trees and Santa have N9THING to do with the christian religion except for them coopting it to get people to join.
'Tinsel Town.' Kiefer Sutherland's new film is out soon and will tell you all you need to know about panto. He plays a washed-up filmstar who takes a role in a UK small town pantomime. My 14yo daughter was very shy so I was pleased when her bbf invited her to audition for our local am-dram pantomime. I thought going on stage would help her come out of her shell. All the characters in a panto are flamboyant and loud. She got the part of the back end of Jack and the Beanstalk's cow, clinging on to the bum of the actor playing the front end inside their cow costume bent double....two Christmases running!
Umm, Mr Uthmeier? Not every Christian is a trinitarian. There are unitarian Christians out there, a number of which reside in Florida.
𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦-𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑦
𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
And yet, you do not hesitate to disparage non-Christian religions, as well as the non-religious. I guess, like most Christian Nazionalists, you think that the only thing that counts as religious discrimination is when anything dies not bow down and revere your particular variety of Christianity.
The well deserved smackdown from the elected officials directly involved. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. However, it is the assholes who try to enforce their opinions as law. Uthmeier, you are an asshole.
Good night, Irene! Did you ever hear such a lame collection of excuses as to why a given form of entertainment has to be cancelled / prohibited / disallowed / whatever? It is yet one more indication of Christians' micrometer-thin skin and utter inability to tolerate anything that they deem "blasphemous." Sum it up, yes, they have excuses galore. What they lack are substantial REASONS.
I have a suggestion for those who are upset about A Drag Queen Christmas: If you don't like it, DON'T GO!!!
It's a tenth of a billionth of a metre and SI units are scaled in orders of one thousand so centimetres and decilitres though they consistent with the metric system are not accepted under the relevant international treaty
Troublesh00ter, They want to dictate WHAT they deem watchable while supporting the trump admin international crimes, rape and convicted felonies, gun deaths. After the republican scum party is collapsed, we need a Constitutional re-write. No public religion. No guns without a panel of judges & MDs and psychologists determining exceptions. If religionist scream that they should be in public…call it what it is…public nuisance. Or do they claim silent prayer is ineffective? In addition, bring proof of each gods’ existence, otherwise keep the fantasies to themselves.
Yeah, they run their mouths a lot, and they're getting support from the dumb-ass in the White House ... but they're also up against the internet and social media, which has this nasty tendency to CALL THEM on their bullshit, even as Hemant is doing here. There's also the matter of organizations like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Americans United, and American Atheists, all of which are dedicated to free speech and the separation of State and Church.
Yours truly is a member of FFRF and American Atheists, as it happens ... and I keep a weather eye out.
Yes, from dumb fundies catholics against the Hellfest. Even one of Clisson priests said while he wouldn't go, he has no problem with the festival. People who struggled financially converter their homes to B&B. The festival brought this town beck to life.
That's an awful lot of pearl-clutching. And then, of course, when it comes down to brass tacks (covering the obvious legal fees associated with canceling the performance,) nobody wants to be responsible. Because it wasn't really a question of legality - just performative nonsense to please a voting demographic.
"The council members—who don’t seem eager to get in the middle of this at all—seemed far more concerned about the legal challenges that would occur if they canceled the show than if they allowed it to continue.
So the city council called Uthmeier’s bluff. They said they’d at least consider canceling the show if the state would pay their impending legal bills.
Uthmeier’s response? Silence.
WEAR News asked the attorney general both Friday and Monday if they would cover legal fees related to the show’s cancellation and have not gotten a response."
Fucking prude party pooper christains. I saw parents take their preteens to a Raphael concert and in one of his song, he literally says "I want to fuck you", and a woman taking her 13 or 14 years old nephew to a Rammstein concert, and "Pussy" was listed on the published songs track.
When Passion of The Christ was showing in London it was a double bill with The Life of Brian. The Gibson film had more audience restrictions than the Monty Python.
A lot of parents took their kids to see Passion of the Christ in theaters years ago. Then the movie was re-released in theaters where all the violent scenes were omitted from the film so the parents can find it easy to take the kids to see the film.
Then the theatres would have to omit the actual crucifixion scene, that scene alone is the stuff of nightmares. Yet, if the theatres did omit that scene then the whole movie makes no sense!
Then again, religion itself makes no sense either!
Yet, I would think the actual crucifixion scene would be more horrifying than any whipping scenes, but I detest all forms of torture including crucifixions!
Christians are the original killjoys. They can't stand for anyone to have fun... H.L. Mencken said it best: "Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be happy."
It really shows in that one renaissance painting depicting The Last Judgement where none of the saved souls and the cherubs were smiling and being happy to save from being thrown into Hell, but are rather mad, moody, and stern-faced.
I keep having flashbacks to my younger years when Texas had " the Blue Laws"- businesses could not open on Sundays, etc. To this day beer cant be sold after or before certain times related to normal church service times.
And there were mandatory prayers in school. Those used to bug me because they always said "in Jesus name" the loudest at the end. I would think " but we dont do that at home". So I stopped saying them.
And when I read in a required text " man emerged from the Fertile Crescent 6000 tears ago" I asked the teacher "where was man before that?" and was told to ask my clergyman.
Pornography was forbidden, and police would raid sellers and adult theatres like they were heroin markets.
Once when one of the last places in this town to sell dirty magazines was being harrassed by picketting members of a Baptist church and threatened by police I decided to deliberately cross their picket line and buy something in this guys shop. I did it because I saw this as an encroachment on peoples rights to buy or sell literature some religion deemed evil. The experience was akin to buying drugs.
I see the same Taliban like legalisms creeping back now.
I refer to these fanatics as "Talibaptists"- polititians and their Dominionists supporters who wish to return this land to pre Constitutional days when one might be killed for being a witch or arrested for heresy. Coincidentally during those good ole days ethnic cleansing via Indigenous Genocide and Slavery were God's will accoding to the Pharisees of the time. Wife beating and child abuse were a man's God given Rights. Etc. Kinda like we are heading toward again, especially in the Republican South.
Conservatives, there is a simple solution: Don't go to drag shows and mind your own business. Stop martyrbating in public. Mind your own damn business and leave folks who want to feel joy and happiness alone.
You don't own Christmas. It's too late for that. You already sold it to capitalism to hawk colas and toys.
With all the christian pastors and congregants in the news for raping children, none of them drag queens, you'd think this AG could find actual crimes to be worried about.
Our back deck is covered and we removed the screens when we moved in and never got back to replacing them. It’s in shambles right now though, it was pulling away from the house and getting dangerous. We just got some money to fix it, but we can’t even start that for several months now.
"Pensacola residents categorically reject this show’s content" - How many tickets have been sold? I bet it will sell out.
"pronounced threats to the health, safety, and welfare of children" - Citation needed. The parents might get the vapers, but the kids will be all right.
"no threat of a meaningful First Amendment challenge" - FAFO
“All that matters is an ability to pretend anything that bothers conservatives is illegal and throwing the full weight of your office against it, even if that has no basis in the law.”
That is all any of these are, from the Gothmas art fair, to this drag show, the complaints of blasphemy and religious infringement are just pretending anything that offends these abused chihuahuas must be illegal.
Blasphemy is not a crime in the USA. The first amendment protects people from blasphemy charges.
Hey, Urethrameier...
Your religion does not own the holiday. In fact, Christians ripped off Pagans to get what they think of as Christmas. Fuck you.
Shows how well these goof balls know or understand what’s in the bible. Decorated trees and Santa have N9THING to do with the christian religion except for them coopting it to get people to join.
Shit, Jeremiah 10:1-5 tells YHVHs followers NOT to cut down and decorate a tree like the pagans.
Cristers don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
NEVER get memos.
Waiting for newest fiirst
Once again waiting for newest first. FUCK THIS SHIT.
That's because they don't actually read the bible.
He’d lose his mind were he ever going to the theatre here at Christmas time and see a panto …. It’s very much a Christmas thing!
For anyone interested in finding out about panto - the Wiki page is under ‘pantomime’.
Apologies but I can’t post any links at the moment.
I found out about panto through Doctor Who ages ago. :)
That’s an intriguing comment …. Please tell us about the connection of Dr Who and panto.
Thankyou.
tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Pantomime
Thankyou.
Glad to help.
'Tinsel Town.' Kiefer Sutherland's new film is out soon and will tell you all you need to know about panto. He plays a washed-up filmstar who takes a role in a UK small town pantomime. My 14yo daughter was very shy so I was pleased when her bbf invited her to audition for our local am-dram pantomime. I thought going on stage would help her come out of her shell. All the characters in a panto are flamboyant and loud. She got the part of the back end of Jack and the Beanstalk's cow, clinging on to the bum of the actor playing the front end inside their cow costume bent double....two Christmases running!
Everyone has to start somewhere ….
Re panto and theatres, it’s the income from panto which keeps the theatres going!
Still not a drag queen raping kids but James Uthmeier's base is.
𝑈𝑡ℎ𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 “𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦,” 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 “𝑛𝑜𝑡-𝑠𝑜-𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.”
Umm, Mr Uthmeier? Not every Christian is a trinitarian. There are unitarian Christians out there, a number of which reside in Florida.
𝑆𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦-𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑦
𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
And yet, you do not hesitate to disparage non-Christian religions, as well as the non-religious. I guess, like most Christian Nazionalists, you think that the only thing that counts as religious discrimination is when anything dies not bow down and revere your particular variety of Christianity.
“𝑊𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠.”
The well deserved smackdown from the elected officials directly involved. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. However, it is the assholes who try to enforce their opinions as law. Uthmeier, you are an asshole.
Well stated.
Good night, Irene! Did you ever hear such a lame collection of excuses as to why a given form of entertainment has to be cancelled / prohibited / disallowed / whatever? It is yet one more indication of Christians' micrometer-thin skin and utter inability to tolerate anything that they deem "blasphemous." Sum it up, yes, they have excuses galore. What they lack are substantial REASONS.
I have a suggestion for those who are upset about A Drag Queen Christmas: If you don't like it, DON'T GO!!!
Micrometer thin skin? You give them too much credit. It's best measured in angstroms.
True enough. Angstroms or nanometers, if you prefer!
Alas, angstroms are not accepted as SI units.
What is it and why is it not accepted?
It's a tenth of a billionth of a metre and SI units are scaled in orders of one thousand so centimetres and decilitres though they consistent with the metric system are not accepted under the relevant international treaty
Troublesh00ter, They want to dictate WHAT they deem watchable while supporting the trump admin international crimes, rape and convicted felonies, gun deaths. After the republican scum party is collapsed, we need a Constitutional re-write. No public religion. No guns without a panel of judges & MDs and psychologists determining exceptions. If religionist scream that they should be in public…call it what it is…public nuisance. Or do they claim silent prayer is ineffective? In addition, bring proof of each gods’ existence, otherwise keep the fantasies to themselves.
Yeah, they run their mouths a lot, and they're getting support from the dumb-ass in the White House ... but they're also up against the internet and social media, which has this nasty tendency to CALL THEM on their bullshit, even as Hemant is doing here. There's also the matter of organizations like the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Americans United, and American Atheists, all of which are dedicated to free speech and the separation of State and Church.
Yours truly is a member of FFRF and American Atheists, as it happens ... and I keep a weather eye out.
ditto,ditto,ditto, (but doan' tell jaysus)
Yes, from dumb fundies catholics against the Hellfest. Even one of Clisson priests said while he wouldn't go, he has no problem with the festival. People who struggled financially converter their homes to B&B. The festival brought this town beck to life.
they also 'lack' any education beyond the THIRD grade (sigh)
Not sure they have had any education at all.
yes,ofcourse you are correct ! Floriduh is flat,hot n Dumb....
And lack reading comprehension, critical thinking, self reflection, etc.
"Republicans ignore climate change and want guns everywhere. They just can’t handle openly queer people who refuse to be silent. "
THIS !!!
Yet they love exploiting children, in child beauty pageants. Tarting toddlers up to look like women.
That's an awful lot of pearl-clutching. And then, of course, when it comes down to brass tacks (covering the obvious legal fees associated with canceling the performance,) nobody wants to be responsible. Because it wasn't really a question of legality - just performative nonsense to please a voting demographic.
"The council members—who don’t seem eager to get in the middle of this at all—seemed far more concerned about the legal challenges that would occur if they canceled the show than if they allowed it to continue.
So the city council called Uthmeier’s bluff. They said they’d at least consider canceling the show if the state would pay their impending legal bills.
Uthmeier’s response? Silence.
WEAR News asked the attorney general both Friday and Monday if they would cover legal fees related to the show’s cancellation and have not gotten a response."
Christian morals=money.
Good bluff
Fucking prude party pooper christains. I saw parents take their preteens to a Raphael concert and in one of his song, he literally says "I want to fuck you", and a woman taking her 13 or 14 years old nephew to a Rammstein concert, and "Pussy" was listed on the published songs track.
I bet that same parent would let their kids watch Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson! Christian=hypocrite!!!
When Passion of The Christ was showing in London it was a double bill with The Life of Brian. The Gibson film had more audience restrictions than the Monty Python.
John, great point!
A lot of parents took their kids to see Passion of the Christ in theaters years ago. Then the movie was re-released in theaters where all the violent scenes were omitted from the film so the parents can find it easy to take the kids to see the film.
Then the theatres would have to omit the actual crucifixion scene, that scene alone is the stuff of nightmares. Yet, if the theatres did omit that scene then the whole movie makes no sense!
Then again, religion itself makes no sense either!
I don't think they omitted the crucifixion scenes, only the whippings.
Yet, I would think the actual crucifixion scene would be more horrifying than any whipping scenes, but I detest all forms of torture including crucifixions!
💯
Christians are the original killjoys. They can't stand for anyone to have fun... H.L. Mencken said it best: "Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be happy."
It really shows in that one renaissance painting depicting The Last Judgement where none of the saved souls and the cherubs were smiling and being happy to save from being thrown into Hell, but are rather mad, moody, and stern-faced.
I keep having flashbacks to my younger years when Texas had " the Blue Laws"- businesses could not open on Sundays, etc. To this day beer cant be sold after or before certain times related to normal church service times.
And there were mandatory prayers in school. Those used to bug me because they always said "in Jesus name" the loudest at the end. I would think " but we dont do that at home". So I stopped saying them.
And when I read in a required text " man emerged from the Fertile Crescent 6000 tears ago" I asked the teacher "where was man before that?" and was told to ask my clergyman.
Pornography was forbidden, and police would raid sellers and adult theatres like they were heroin markets.
Once when one of the last places in this town to sell dirty magazines was being harrassed by picketting members of a Baptist church and threatened by police I decided to deliberately cross their picket line and buy something in this guys shop. I did it because I saw this as an encroachment on peoples rights to buy or sell literature some religion deemed evil. The experience was akin to buying drugs.
I see the same Taliban like legalisms creeping back now.
I refer to these fanatics as "Talibaptists"- polititians and their Dominionists supporters who wish to return this land to pre Constitutional days when one might be killed for being a witch or arrested for heresy. Coincidentally during those good ole days ethnic cleansing via Indigenous Genocide and Slavery were God's will accoding to the Pharisees of the time. Wife beating and child abuse were a man's God given Rights. Etc. Kinda like we are heading toward again, especially in the Republican South.
Conservatives, there is a simple solution: Don't go to drag shows and mind your own business. Stop martyrbating in public. Mind your own damn business and leave folks who want to feel joy and happiness alone.
You don't own Christmas. It's too late for that. You already sold it to capitalism to hawk colas and toys.
"Martyrbating" 👏 👏 👏 STEALING!
"angry Christians no one purposely invites to Thanksgiving dinner:"
Spot on!
With all the christian pastors and congregants in the news for raping children, none of them drag queens, you'd think this AG could find actual crimes to be worried about.
🎯 Clean up your own house b4 harassing the neighbors
That not what MY jeezysaid. LOL.
Don't like the show? Don't go. What crimes are they covering up with this flap?
I don't like the snow, but I have to go ... out and shovel it. ☃️
When I read you, I am happy that I live on the top floor, and that I don't have a balcony.
I live on the top floor (second story of the house), and I don't have a balcony.
I do have a big deck. The snow plow guy can't get everywhere.
There are pieces of machinery that can be used on your "deck" but I'm thinking that a snow plow is not one of them.
The deck has a ramp, so I use the snowblower for most of it. There is still some hand shoveling around the edges and the steps.
I have big deck envy. We have a patio.
It's not that big and hardly ever gets used.
I guess that saying is true: "It's not how big your deck is, it's how you use it."
🤣
We just had a deck built at our new place, 15 x 15 feet. Only problem is that it'll be March or April before we can actually USE it! 😁
Our back deck is covered and we removed the screens when we moved in and never got back to replacing them. It’s in shambles right now though, it was pulling away from the house and getting dangerous. We just got some money to fix it, but we can’t even start that for several months now.
I keep part of our patio, which wraps around two sides of the house, partially cleared, only so I can get to the grill in winter.
Braggart 🤣
Deck, d E c k.
😁
Did my driveway this morning, not long before Hemant published.
"Pensacola residents categorically reject this show’s content" - How many tickets have been sold? I bet it will sell out.
"pronounced threats to the health, safety, and welfare of children" - Citation needed. The parents might get the vapers, but the kids will be all right.
"no threat of a meaningful First Amendment challenge" - FAFO
"no threat of a meaningful First Amendment challenge"
But this is Floriduh, so all bets are off.
"“With all due respect to the Attorney General’s office, this was an unsolicited opinion,” councilman Charles Bare said. "
What he should really have said is, "Unless the actual law is broken, this is none of the AG's business."
"Think of the children!"
If Christians cared about the children, they wouldn't be Christians. I'd rather leave my kid with a drag queen than a priest.
“All that matters is an ability to pretend anything that bothers conservatives is illegal and throwing the full weight of your office against it, even if that has no basis in the law.”
That is all any of these are, from the Gothmas art fair, to this drag show, the complaints of blasphemy and religious infringement are just pretending anything that offends these abused chihuahuas must be illegal.
Blasphemy is not a crime in the USA. The first amendment protects people from blasphemy charges.