On Monday we told you about Max Mitchell's plan to rewrite the Bible to make it more gay. World Net Daily, the social-conservative right-wing "news agency" picked up on the story in a piece called "New 'Bible': Heterosexuality is sin" and quoted a Queerty commenter in the process:
According to the pro-homosexual website Queerty.com, Mitchell has described his work as divinely inspired.
"Jesus was gay. In Biblical times homosexual relationships were so commonplace that no one gave it a second thought. It was heterosexuality that was considered sinful," he told the website.
On the website's comment page, one participant said, "Aida and Eve are a breath of fresh air upon the face of repressed homosexulity (sic) in America. Finally, a version of the bible everyone can relate to."
The only problem? None of our readers ever made the comment. World Net Daily just made it up!
Instead our readers said things like "I could care less about the Bible – but this guy is an idiot. I'm all militant these days about fighting the stupid Christians who are putting us down – and this crap sets everyone back" and "Satire is an effective weapon when one wants to change minds and hearts." We love that the World Daily Net hack who made up the quote (we don't have a name because WND doesn't bother with bylines) went to all the trouble of including a typo in his fanciful made-up quote so that he could use a "sic", which is probably something he saw once in a book one time. Note to hack writer, sic's are bracketed, not parenthetical. Also, stop making up quotes.
We may be "pro-homosexual", but we're definitely anti-bullshit.
UPDATE: Justin McLachlan notes on his site that:
"Actually, it looks like they were just real sloppy (but what can you expect from a "news agency" that doesn't even byline its pieces?). The comment actually appears here, on the Princes Diana Bible's official blog, and not on Queerty's site. The comment was first published days before the Queerty article."
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Leave it to the religious right to make up crap, it how they work. It amazes me that the hard core bible thumper break so many of their 10 commandments, but say we are the sinners and abominations, maybe they will pratice what they preach, but i won't be holding my breathe for that one.
I am loving the new editor of queerty. The subjects and writing are much improved.
As if a commenter on Queerty would have misspelled homosexuality. :P
According to the rumors I'm starting now, the staff of World Net Daily drinks the blood of muslim babies. True story!
Better to be pro homosexual than amateur homosexual, as most rightwing religious bigots seem to be nowadays.
@alex the sea turtle: I completely agree!
This "news" agency is obviously intentionally derelect in passing on information. On a related note though even when (most) of these right winger religious' are serious, they are crazy and stupid. I linked to another site (Columbus Dispatch Newspaper?) about Anti-gays crashing Gay friendly churches – One of the "Minutemen" stated "The Bible is not open to private interpretation"
Duh, obviously it is, that is why we have 5,000 different Christian sects! Oh I forgot, Jesus passed out Bibles when he was on earth, even though it wasn't yet printed and 99% of the population of earth couldn't even read until the middle 1800's.
Joseph Farah, publisher and creator of WorldNut Daily divorced his first wife, Judy, in 1995. He, a divorced man, is remarried to Elizabeth Farah.
Joe honey, Jesus condemned adulterers like you and didn't say one BLIP against people like me.
Of course, what can you possibly expect from a Kristian?
Hey! I'm a Christian and a big 'Mo. Go figure!
I have to chuckle at the thought of the "ace reporter" at WorldNet, hunched over the computer, doing all kinds of "research" that linked him/her to Queerty.
When you claim certainty about the existence of a creator, his nature and will, and what happens after death – all of which is unsupported by evidence and no honest person can possibly claim to know – it's a very short leap to lying about other things.
Don't be surprised when Christians lie; be surprised when they tell the truth.
World Net Daily lies about queers, and the sun again rose in the EAST.
Why do you even monitor these F*CKTARDS, it's not as if they have ANY political clout to harm us for at least 4 years, and 8 years is a very safe guess. Let them spew to their "faithful"..er SUCKERS who are all over 70 yrs old and racing to their Depend's decade and dirt naps. They aren't worth our effort.
I kind of love that they made up a fake "(sic)"
Wait…the World Net Daily isn't the same thing as the Weekly World News? I thought it was just as entertaining.
Look, you all need to know that the 'religious right' is not religious. They are 100% political. They made up that quote because they have a seriously conservative agenda and rely on THEIR supporters being ignorant.
That observation is proven by what just happened in the election. The Republican party gathered into its fold the so-called 'religious right', some of who are 'religious', but most of who are simply political conservatives in the GUISE of religion. Given the extreme amount of total BS they passed as 'truth' during the campaign, and how their sheep lapped it up like sweet antifreeze on a filthy garage floor, it's more than obvious that they simply rely on STUPIDITY to get their messages across.
It's really that simple. Fight religion because it has nothing at all to do with the 21st century. Fight conservatives because they're liars and rely on complete and total ignorance to get their lies heard.
Well….Queerty used to just makes stuff up, so…..what goes around comes around, I guess. (Admittedly, though, Queerty seems more accurate under this new guy than under Hauslaib & Belonsky).
@Mark:
You're right on the money, Mark. I will fight religion and conservatives until I take my last, drying breath.
I strongly urge others to do the same.