Posted on 09/10/2015 12:49:35 PM PDT by markomalley
In a satirical essay appearing Tuesday in The Week, Michael Dougherty suggested that the only appropriate punishment for Kim Davis given her contumacy before the law is to “actually martyr her” by burning her alive.
“Any normal punishment rewards her with the comfort of solidarity from right-wing Christians or her own sense of moral self-approval,” Dougherty notes. “Therefore the only way to avoid granting her such ‘martyrdom’ is to actually martyr her.”
Comparing the current stand-off between religious liberty and state authority to the Protestant Reformation, Dougherty said that Christians who make a spectacle like this are “perverse” and declared that the “only way the state can really punish them is to inform them that their suffering is meaningless and proving that God doesn’t exist by sending them to the darkness of oblivion in torment.”
Let Kentucky officials in defiance of the Supreme Court ruling “be put on a pyre,” Dougherty wrote. “When the smoke settles there will be no GoFundMe campaign, save perhaps for a small carbon offset.”
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So, the angry little homo is threatening death to someone?
When does the SWAT team come through his door?
The sodomites ALWAYS express their vilest hatred under the guise of satire.
good way to deal with Libs , no ?
they talk tough , but can they stand the heat ?
That could be construed as a terrorist threat.
I don’t believe it’s satire, any more than than David Letterman’s comment about Willow Palin being raped by Alex Rodriguez was humor.
He may cast this as satire but make no mistake, these leftists want her dead.
This isn’t satire. It’s typical Leftist abusing the word satire in effort to dodge responsibility for his actions.
She would not partake of the sacrifices to god Caesar. BURN HER or throw her to the Lions!
Becket.
Thomas Moore
John Bunyan
Now her.
Given how fast things are changing for the worse, I think many people would fail to ‘get’ even this seemingly extreme satire. The same fate, as I recall, befell Swift’s “Modest Proposal.”
Not satire. A clear statement of intention.
Let’s assume that being a WITCH is the first criteria for considering who is eligible for this fate.
Isn’t there somebody else at the front of this line?
I’m reading that twitter post looking for any indicator of sarcasm ... and I see none. (All it would need is two characters /s) Michael Dougherty should be charged with incitement to murder.
I tried to Google if he’s homosexual, but all I found out is he’s Roman Catholic.
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