{"id":50180,"date":"2015-04-27T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/the-crackpots-are-out-in-force.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:25:01","slug":"the-crackpots-are-out-in-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/the-crackpots-are-out-in-force.html","title":{"rendered":"The crackpots are out in force"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I hate calling people crackpots. But it's hard to not see these folk as the equivalent of the guy wandering the streets in his bathrobe with a sign reading "THE END IS COMING!" Their arguments are zany, and either lacking evidence or ignoring the evidence to date (e.g., the idea that the Gubbiment will force<\/i> ministers to marry gay people or else be sent to anti-Christian re-education camps, just like is already happening all over the place.)<\/i> <\/p>\n

The level of rhetoric is so super-heated and froth, I half want to see SCOTUS rule against these dolts not so much for the justice involved but to see them run screaming to their Armageddon Bunkers, never to be heard from again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAnti-Gay Activists Warn Supreme Court of ‘Tyranny’ & God’s ‘Wrath Upon America’ Following Marriage Decision<\/a><\/span>
\nIn a press conference today in front of the Supreme Court, Faith 2 Action’s Janet Porter gathered a who’s who of radical anti-gay activists and “ex-gays” to deliver “rest\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I know, I hate calling people crackpots. But it's hard to not see these folk as the equivalent of the guy wandering the streets in his bathrobe with a sign reading "THE END IS COMING!" 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