Shocking Announcement

The totally irreverent, freewheeling Mark Morford writes a weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle. I get it delivered into my online mailbox hot off the press. Today's piece is one that I advise people like our current favorite commenter "Anonymous" to avoid. Anon might have the Ultimate Flameout, all brain cells cooked simultaneously by terminal fury, upon reading it, and then I'd feel bad. I know. I know, I know, I know. We'll get the "why do you hate Christians so much?" remarks, it's inevitable. Or maybe they've all given up on us. Anyway, the column: Jesus Bans "Christian" Group. Shocking announcement sends militant Focus on the Family organization into crazed tailspin is offered here for your delectation. A short snippet:

"J-Dog," as he is known to his friends, was referring, of course, to the recent story about how the militant, Colorado-based "Christian" group has just pulled all its accounts from Wells Fargo Bank after learning that the bank had donated a small sum of money to gay rights causes, including GLAAD, a sum totaling about $50,000, or about one-tenth of what Wells Fargo gave to the GOP last year.

The Christ, apparently, had had enough.

"This is what I realized: Rampant homophobia, ignorance of sex, derision of women's rights, a decided love of tepid dogmatic sameness at the expense of the luminosity and uniqueness of the individual human soul -- it was all just too much," Jesus said, this time appearing as a curiously shaped oil stain on a freeway underpass in Saragossa, Spain. "Then the bank thing happened and it was the straw that broke the Mary's back."

Mark also brings the Mississippi-based American Family Association into it. But, hey, I'll shut up. Just read it. Start your weekend off with a grin.

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