Reply #208: You know what, I call bullshit

[Chovexani]

Because you know what it is? It's just plain ignorance. These are people who don't know a damn thing about Tammy Faye other than shit her husband did 20 years ago (and she really didn't even have a hand in). All it is is knee-jerk Christian bashing and it's mindless and stupid. I danced as hard and as joyfully on Jerry Falwell's grave as anyone did on DU, but you will not catch me doing anything of the sort now that Tammy Faye has passed. Why? Because she was NOT of that ilk. Even at the height of the PTL days Tammy Faye was never like that. Jim Bakker was a greedy SOB but one thing I can say is that they never preached hatefulness or fearmongering. Tammy Faye was at worst a misguided, somewhat ditsy woman whose heart was in the right place but got caught up in a whole lot of BS of her husband's making. And you know what? She rose above it after she hit bottom, got her life together, and reached out to people that the REAL villainous fundie types condemned. This is why this queer Pagan will fight to defend this woman's honor despite the fact that I don't share her belief system by any stretch. Tammy Faye truly looked out for the "least of these" in her later years. She stood against the Pharisees and the hatemongers simply by doing what Jesus taught, and that was loving people.

It's the broad brush that irritates me. It shows a lack of knowledge as to what really went on.