American jesusfreaks protest Obama in Oslo

[Lars77]

http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/12/10/nyheter/innenriks/obama/democrats/9441475/

Translation:

Many people has gathered in the city center as Barack Obama visits Oslo today. Outside city hall five American protestors has gathered. They have brought large posters saying "Homo sex is sin" and "Homo sex is a threat to global security".

- Barack Obama is not worthy of the peace prize. He is a sinner who has put his hand on the bible, but does not abide by its word, protestor Ruben Israel says.

He has travelled the world protesting American presidents for 30 years. Now he is in Oslo, hoping to bring his message to Barack Obama.

- Jesus should have recieved the award. I could have accepted it as his representative on earth, Israel says to Dagbladet.

He is especially angry at Obama's liberal stance towards gays. That is why the message on the posters is mostly about gay sex.

While Dagbladet are talking to the protestors, they are asked to pack up by the police.

- The police has confiscated our posters. We were told to leave the area or face arrest, protestor Larry Craft says.

- I thought you had freedom of speech in this country, he says and continues:
- Now i am dissapointed with Norway for two things. One, you are awarding the prize to Obama who is at war with God. Second, you do not have freedom of speech in this country.



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Not really sure why they were told to leave, except that they seemed to be protesting on the grounds of parliament. But freedom of speech doesent give people the right to bother everyone else. During the summer we had a bunch of Americans running around our main street with bloody fetuses screaming at we would all go to hell.

So i guess i'll see you there :)

[saltpoint]

1. I strongly hope the jesusfreak protestors spent every dime of their life

savings getting to Norway, and hope they catch their death of cold from being outside waving stupid signs and finally, that when they do catch their death of cold subsequently collapse in spasms and wheezes of acute pain.

I'm also not quite sure what "homo sex" has to do with the President's address this morning in Oslo.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

2. Sign: God Hates Norwegians

Seriously. He does. Ask any Swede and he'll confirm it.

[d_r]

11. I sort of wish

they'd run into the guys who burned down those stave churches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_black_metal

[elocs]

3. The term "Jesus freaks" is sure being used differently now than in the 70s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_freak

Jesus freak, a pejorative term for those involved in the Jesus movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, was quickly embraced by some and soon broadened to describe a Christian subculture throughout the hippie and back-to-the-land movements that focused on universal love and pacifism, and relished the radical nature of Jesus' message. Jesus freaks often carried and distributed copies of the "Good News for Modern Man," a 1966 translation of the Bible that fit the bill by including only the New Testament in its initial editions, and by being in modern English.

Conservative or Evangelical Christians of today would have had nothing to do with the original Jesus Freaks of the 1970s. Even back then most of them were thought of as hippies by the established churches.

[Tsar_Bomba]

8. The worst thing the left has done is embrace religion

[Perky]

15. Excuse Me?????????

I did not embrace Christianity because of my politics.

I embraced my party because of my faith!

As did MLK, as did RFK, ad dis Teddy, as did Jimmy Carter.


I don't push my faith on anyone, but is mind-numbingly arrogant to suggest that it is a "mistake" for people on the Left to embrace religion. Just as it is for the fundies on the right to suggest you can't be a good Christian unless you embrace the GOP. Both views are utterly asinine and bigoted.

[AspenRose]

17. Right on.

[Hekate]

22. Thanks, Perky. Yeesh, what a thing to say. nt

[Deep13]

4. He looks like a maniacally evil Burl Ives. nt

[Rebubula]

12. I imagine...

...that he is VERY popular with the closeted Christian Bear-loving crowd.

Bears for Jesus!

[Soylent Brice]

5. K for the lols to come

[The_Commonist]

6. What I wanna know is:

Does Romans 1:24-28 actually say "Homo Sex is a Sin"?

I think somebody just needs to find himself a cute boyfriend and quit with all this self-loathing...

[Deep13]

7. No, it says that when a man lays with a man as if he were a woman...

...it is an abomination. Now it does not specifically say "...and has sex with him..." but the Bible never spells that out anywhere else either. The fear here seems to be that any exposure or whatever with male genitalia is seen as shameful. For example the provision in Leviticus that prohibits a dude from marrying his (presumably dead) brother's wife states the reason for the prohibition is that it exposes the brother's "nakedness." Also, nothing in the Bible prohibits female homosexuality.

[Undercurrent]

9. Thank you Lars from Norway!

Sorry the US exported this crazy bunch of loons to your fine country.

[kenfrequed]

10. Well

America does seem to produce an excessive amount of crazy moronic religious lunatics. Exporting them ought to be good for our economy or at least it would improve my sanity.

[and-justice-for-all]

13. The locals just point and laugh...nt

[krispos42]

14. Lucky Norwegians. We have to deal with them EVERY day.

Unless, perhaps, their passports got accidently revoked sometime before their return flight boards.

O8)

[Drunken Irishman]

16. It looks like that guy is breaking one of the seven deadly sins - gluttony.

Hope he enjoys hell.

[Blue_Tires]

18. don't those clowns have jobs? or are they part of the 'paid astroturf' pool?

[treestar]

19. He'd have a fight with the Pope on his hands

The Pope thinks the HE is Gawd's Rep. on Earth!

[mrbarber]

20. In Norway, they are mocked.

In America, there views are held by many of those in powerful positions.

This country really needs to grow the hell up.

[Hekate]

21. How embarrassing. I have to say that at least your people seem to know how to handle these idiots...

What became of the anti-abortion crowd from the summer? Did the police also tell them to go away?

Thanks for the update, Lars.

Hekate

[Lars77]

25. re: Hekate

The anti-abortion guys came on the news, they were chased away several times i think. I guess they moved in in the end, they were probably on a "European tour" :) But we legalized abortion on demand in 1978 so that debate is pretty old.

Only legalized gay marriage this year though.


To be honest we really don't have anything like this over here, i mean we do have protests but anyone using quotes from the bible in any sort of political discourse would be ridiculed.

[mitchum]

23. Bears in denial

[BreweryYardRat]

24. Yeesh.

Sorry to hear that they're bothering ya'll over there.