Fuck -God and the Pledge of Allegiance

Fuck - God and the Pledge of Allegiance
by Dennis Bejin

If you’re a born again Christian these two words "Fuck - God" can bring up a variety of thoughts and feelings. That’s because in our culture "fucking" and "god" don’t go together. It’s because of this dichotomy between god and pleasure that I’d like to see our nation step out from under him in the Pledge of Allegiance

As most people know by now, the words "under God," were added to the Pledge of Allegiance by Congress in 1954. "Congress added "under God" during the Cold War after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus who wanted to distinguish the nation from what they regarded as godless communism."

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3018541.html

My conflict with god began as a child when I discovered that masturbation was fun but punishable by everlasting damnation. The Catholic Church is not a friend to a growing boy. My animosity towards god grew stronger as I entered the teenage years and discovered that boys were more appealing than girls. The other kids said, "God hates fags."

I still remember my mother saying, "Keep away from that Sammy M...He’s a homosexual." I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I was the one inviting him up to my room.

"The Pleasure Principle, Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom," by Michael Bronski is a great book for people who want to understand why I think I’d be happier if we left god alone for awhile.

http://www.stonewallinn.com/Features/PleasureIntro.html

Bronski’s zooms on "god" and the limited perimeters this deity has set for enjoying our brief stay on earth in a ZNet Commentary, July 1, 1999, "The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name." He says:

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/1999-07/01bronski.htm

"Sodomy" is commonly understood to mean anal intercourse, although the word has a complicated history. Coming from a misreading of the biblical story of Lot and Sodom (which is now generally believed to be about inhospitality not homosexuality) "sodomy" began as a theological term in the early eleventh century that described many non-reproductive sexual activities including masturbation.(Mark D. Jordan's The Invention of Sodomy gives a complete, readable history of this.) In early Christian attempts to establish reproduction as the "only" justification for intercourse it evolved from a smallish, general sin to an enormous, deadly and pernicious one. It was in this form that it was codified into early legal codes, usually carrying the death penalty. Today nearly half of the states still have some form of sodomy law on the books and the crime is defined as loosely as "the crime against nature" to explicitly defining it as various contact between genitals, anus, and mouth. A third of them are specifically aimed only at homosexuals, others stipulate heterosexual contact as well although it is almost never used against straight people. While "sodomy" is a theological and legal term, culturally it's normative usage overwhelming denotes male homosexuality."

God’s not much nicer to boy-lovers as mIke Echols an alleged child-advocate states on his web site Better A Millstone:

http://www.shadow-net.com/

Jesus said: "As for the man who is a cause of stumbling to one of these little ones who have faith, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone round his neck." Mark9:42, The New English Bible

I’m not surprised that George Bush is outraged by the courts ruling that the term "under God" should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. In the article, "Religious Right Finds Its Center in Oval Office," published in the December 24, 2001 issue of the Washington Post, and written by Dana Milbank, it becomes clear that President Bush is now the official leader of the religious right.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1224-02.htm

Ms. Milbank states the following:

"Pat Robertson's resignation this month as president of the Christian Coalition confirmed the ascendance of a new leader of the religious right in America: George W. Bush."

It’s easy to see how our Presidents vision of god is being reflected in national policy. Consider Bush and his obsession with "good and evil." Consider his focus on sex education which can be summed up in one word. "abstinence." Or consider the recent Supreme Court ruling on School vouchers which has been denounced by some as "the worst church-state ruling in 50 years."

I hate to say it, but the god this nation "stands under" just isn’t a very nice guy. He thinks kids are bad for liking their bodies, and thinks he knows what’s best for everybody else. He sounds like a dictator to me, but than again who am I to judge? So does George Bush.

Dennis Bejin