Pastor: Kermit deserves ‘death penalty’ for taking ‘sodomy route’

[LynneSin]

Pastor: Kermit deserves ‘death penalty’ for taking ‘sodomy route’


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/31/pastor-kermit-deserves-death-penalty-for-taking-sodomy-route/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

A Christian pastor recently recalled a time when “a Christian perspective ultimately brought the death penalty upon homosexuality” and suggested that Muppet characters Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy deserved the same for breaking with Chick-fil-A over the company’s opposition to LGBT rights.

During his Friday radio broadcast, Kevin Swanson said he wanted to see “Miss Piggy on a bun” because The Muppets had dumped Chick-fil-A after restaurant founder Dan Cathy insisted the company was “guilty as charged” of funding anti-LGBT organizations.

“A Christian perspective ultimately brought the death penalty upon homosexuality between roughly 350 AD and roughly 1850 or so, for about 1,500 years that form of life had pretty much been eliminated except here and there, it was in the closet, but it was almost unheard of for over 1,000 years, until recently,” Swanson explained. “Of course, now you have a massive, massive increase in this kind of thing.”


“It’s pretty obvious to anyone who’s on looking that tolerance only runs one direction, you only can tolerate gays, you can’t tolerate those who don’t support gays,” co-host Dave Buehner observed.

“And Kermit the Frog is not eating Chick-fil-A either,” Swanson continued. “Maybe Dan Cathy should consider doing a frog filet for one of the sandwiches.”

Really? Attacking a PUPPET!?!?!

What a bunch of loooneys

BTW I can't tolerate anyone who has refuse to tolerate others. If you can't learn to accept people for who they are then why should we accept you?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Doc Hopper, is that you?

[Lint Head]

2. Kevin Swanson obviously has a hand puppet fixation. Just saying.

[backscatter712]

18. Something about putting his hand up someone's ass... n/t

[mysuzuki2]

3. Miss Piggy on a bun would also violate the Levitical laws.

not sure about frog legs.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes it would, for you shall not eat wild animals

but the selective reading of Leviticus is funny... or the fact that the paragraph in question was about SLAVERY and slave masters taking advantage of their slaves.

WUT?

Yup, that is the interpretation from scholars since, yes homosexuality was common in the ancient world and even accepted, I know... SHOCKING.

[SlimJimmy]

21. What about that whole Sodom and Gomorrah thing? Just saying.

In Christian and Islamic traditions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath.[Jude 1 ] Sodom and Gomorrah have been used as metaphors for vice and homosexuality viewed as a deviation.

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

Disclaimer: I'm not agreeing with the above statement, just pointing out that it exists in both Christian and Islamic religious traditions.

[yardwork]

49. Many scholars believe that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning against inhospitality

The people of the cities on the plain were guilty of abusing their guests. The passage has nothing to do with homosexuality. It's a warning not to abuse, rape, and mistreat one's guests. A quick google search gave me this link, but there are many others. Take a look:

http://www.libchrist.com/other/homosexual/sodom.html

[SlimJimmy]

53. I read your link and several others that say that inhospitaity was the reason for the

destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In researching this, I also found this link. I guess the debate rages on. Personally, as an agnostic, I have no reason to believe or disbelieve either version.

Ezekiel 16:49-50 declares, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me..." The Hebrew word translated "detestable" refers to something that is morally disgusting and is the exact same word used in Leviticus 18:22 that refers to homosexuality as an "abomination." Similarly, Jude 7 declares, "...Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion." So, again, while homosexuality was not the only sin in which the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah indulged, it does appear to be the primary reason for the destruction of the cities.

http://www.gotquestions.org/Sodom-and-Gomorrah.html

[LynneSin]

8. Wouldn't a frog be considered a creature from the seas without scales?

I mean frogs mainly live in water and they don't have scales

Leviticus 11

'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales.

Frogs have no fins or scales thus they are considered unclean.

Just saying!

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Here s the one I am thinking off.

Leviticus 5:2 "'Or if a person touches anything ceremonially unclean--whether the carcasses of unclean wild animals or of unclean livestock or of unclean creatures that move along the ground--even though he is unaware of it, he has become unclean and is guilty.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Swanson is one of the voices of mainstream religion....

He has lots of followers among the 'faith community'. This is why Henson is to be commended, taking on the heat that is reserved for the hated 'other' while Harper Collins cashes it's checks and hopes for the best.

[XemaSab]

28. Kevin Swanson is not one of the voices of mainstream religion

Just... no.

[Bluenorthwest]

47. Huge Church, large radio following, tied to a denomination with all the bells and whistles....

Presbyterian is not exactly the far out radical fringe, now is it? Who do you claim is a voice of mainstream religion? Rick Warren? Or is it just that anyone who is too obvious in their dogmatic hat is 'not a true Scotsman'? The Pope is no better than Swanson, says worse things, and if the Pope of Rome is not mainstream, there is no mainstream.
http://www.opc.org/

[XemaSab]

48. Rick Warren is way more mainstream

Swanson's about one degree away from the Duggars. Their faith is NOT mainstream.

[99Forever]

6. I don't suppose we can get 'The Death Penalty" for...

... corporations and churches that have stupid bigots as their main players, can we?

[cali]

7. I can't stop laughing

how stupid can you possibly be? The Pastor is a moronic piece of pig shit or frog shit or both.

[bullwinkle428]

9. Are you SURE this isn't sourced from the Onion?

[XemaSab]

30. It's not

He's really like that.

[cthulu2016]

10. It isn't easy being Green

[FSogol]

45. Duzy!

[starroute]

11. It's time for a Biblical plague -- frogs in the bedroom!

"This is what the great LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials."

[Initech]

12. This just in - Jesus has quit!

[RKP5637]

29. Ain't no brains on that planet! Send it back to the drawing board. "If" LGBT

only represent 2% of the population as some RW'ers claim, then why the F do they get so worked up about it ...

And some say it's going to wreck their marriage. If that small a number of people are going to F up their marriage, they've got a lot more problems going on in their marriage than LGBT.

[hifiguy]

13. Ladeeeez and gennulmen, Mister Spike Jones!

[KamaAina]

14. If this guy's seriously worried about puppet sodomy

I suggest he look into this:



Oh, the hugh manatee!!11!!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. I told them...

that they shouldn't have made that "home movie" back when they were in college. But would they listen to me? Nooooo...

[slampoet]

15. Sounds Like this asshole needs to get a visit from Harry

[KurtNYC]

17. what's next? Will Chick-fil-A hunt down Big Bird ?

[closeupready]

19. These people are truly mentally ill. Disturbing the violence

they seem to push for.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. I'll see you in hell Kermit!

There an especially hot little corner they save just for sock puppets.

[cali]

22. god, I love this thread.

[dimbear]

24. Attn: America's children. Muppets or Christianity. Choose right now. n/t

[nolabear]

25. Don't worry Kermie. I'll never desert you. We have a Rainbow Connection.

Yeah I know I don't look like Debbie Harry but, *sigh*. What a lovely song. And gay as the day is long.

[Confusious]

39. Why is it gay?

I like that song, and Debbie Harry made this boys shorts burn at 7 years old.

[yardwork]

50. Both rainbows and Debbie Harry are gay icons.

The skit contains many references to gay icons. Ultra-feminine divas, including Debbie Harry, are an important part of gay culture. Many gay men love divas, and there's a whole gay subculture around them, as seen with drag queens. Rainbows are also a gay cultural icon - probably the single most important one - partly because of the song 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' sung by Judy Garland, herself one of the original gay icon divas. The gay rights flag is a rainbow flag.

[OverseaVisitor]

26. All thise scandal of kids being abused

Where were you then Pastor.
Where were you.

[XemaSab]

31. Gays = pedophiles

I wish I wasn't serious.

[undeterred]

27. Kermit did what?

[OverseaVisitor]

35. He is sentence to death

By the mentally retarded.

For no specific crime.
Pastor my arse

[jberryhill]

38. He watched the whole thing

[undeterred]

41. Oh thats funny.

[RKP5637]

32. These folks have some really serious mental issues to say the least. n/t

[vaberella]

33. I think I understand. Kermit does engage in interspecies sex. n/t

[XemaSab]

34. Kevin Swanson is an odious patriarchal freak

He is not only the fringe of the fringe...

...he's also a pencilnecked jerkass.

[LibertyLover]

43. OMG - yuck!

Really, you should have posted a warning above that picture that it contained graphic stupidity and ugliness and might not be suitable for viewing by children or adults with a low tolerance for same.

[hifiguy]

54. Freddie Blassie's classic "Pencil Neck Geek"

comes to mind for some reason.

[kestrel91316]

36. This smacks of the whole Teletubbies gay purse-carrying thing.

[jberryhill]

37. Hey, that's a private matter between him and Miss Piggy

[DCKit]

40. Kermit is all powerful. Be afraid of the green frog with the porky pinky. nt

[NYC Liberal]

42. I like that he thinks there were no gay people (except "here and there") from 350 to 1850.

Just keep your head in the sand, Kevin.

[obamanut2012]

44. I thought this was the Onion -- I swear

[tanyev]

46. Hey, if he wants to eat a felt puppet on a bun, I say let him.

As long as there's a camera crew filming it.

[lunasun]

51. Oh WTF??? Who stuck their hand up that false puppet prophet???

and made him speak gibberish like that
everyone go to a 2nd store for a Kermit/Piggy dolland/ or send a card wiith muppets on it to him!!!!

[Kalidurga]

52. Nice he is advocating the death penalty for gays...

and scaring small children by saying that Kermit deserves the death penalty and he wants to eat Miss Piggy.

[Bake]

55. They seem to have forgotten that the Romans executed/crucified Christians back in the day.

They need a reminder. They're awfully quick with the violent talk.

Bake

And yes, I'm a Christian.