And they call us drama queens.
Wednesday night arrived with a surplus of feelings in the form of Republican Congressman Randy Weber, who couldn’t contain himself while asking God to forgive America for legalizing gay marriage.
As he begged and prayed, he openly wept in front of God and everybody.
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The performance took place at the annual “Washington — A Man of Prayer” event in Washington, D.C., attended by the spooky likes of Paul Ryan, Rep. Tim Walberg, Senator Steve Daines, and the assiduously antigay host, pastor Jim Garlow.
According to Right Wing Watch, Weber apparently did a sort of freestyle mashup of “The Lord’s Prayer” a la Siouxsie and the Banshees, deciding to just have fun with it: “thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth in the halls of Congress.”
As some shapeless, bog-like frumps in the audience choked up at his stirring piece of performance art, Weber, goosed by the crowd, decided to just totally go for it and be that person.
Here’s an animated GIF demonstrating how moved the crowd was:
Here’s another one:
More unstoppered emotion:
Feel free to add these GIFs to your own emails and comments.
Here’s why everyone was so overwhelmed with feeling:
“We have endeavored to try and kick your word out of public schools,” Weber chimed.
“Father, we have endeavored to take the Bible out of classrooms, the Ten Commandments off the walls. Oh, Lord, forgive us. Father, we think we’re so smart, we have replaced your word and your precepts with drug-sniffing dogs, with metal detectors, with uniformed police officers in our schools. Oh, Lord, forgive us.
Father, we have trampled on your holy institution of holy matrimony and tried to rewrite what it is and we’ve called it an alternate lifestyle. Father, oh Father, please forgive us.
Lord, we have gone to killing the most innocent amongst.
Your servant Moses warned in Deuteronomy 19 for us to choose life so that we and all our descendants might live. Father, we’re killing our descendants and we’re calling it a choice. Oh, God in heaven, forgive us, please.”
Okay, but why you gotta bring the drug-sniffing dogs into this?
Watch the bizarreness below:
ivanw222
All this, and a terrible haircut too.
Mo Bro
Ever hear the term, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity”?
Newsflash: All religions hate us.
ALL of them.
Ignoring them is what they deserve, not a headline.
Happy Friday.
BigWill
Dear Fake Biracial Bisexual…I mean Troll (doh!) I mean Mo: You’re adorable, you really, really are. Happy Friday to you too, my little man doll.
dwes09
But wait, “mobro” YOU hat us too, regularly excoriating those who support our cause, and lauding those who wish to see us back in the closet, re-criminalized or worse. All religious are ambivalent about us, some of the hate us. YOU, who clearly are lying when you present yourself as one of us hate us as well. We all see that and know what a lying POS you are.
Mo Bro
@dwes09:
I’d think that by the time one has reached your advanced age, you’d have mastered basic English sentence structure and spelling . . . but your statement that I “hat” you and I’m a “lying POS” is all I need to know for certain that you’re a hateful, angry old man who’s bitter life hasn’t turned out as you’d hoped and enjoys lashing out at strangers to satisfy the seething resentment in you. Not to mention that your unprovoked, semi-literate attacks on me officially qualify you as a gay bully who bullies other gays.
@BigWill:
It’s true, I am adorable, but I never quite understood why you think I’m an impostor. I assure you that, without exposing my identity, I’m an open book willing to divulge anything you want to know about my sexuality and lineage.
jlizze
Dear God, forgive me for reading this article that makes me laugh at the ridiculous and insane moments in history. Even though we are born in your likeness, we fail daily. But God, this shit is funny!
1EqualityUSA
Both are compromised, and neither are satisfied, mixing religion and politics. Those who cannot win hearts in appropriate houses settle for political realms, inappropriate houses. You will not burden other citizens with your personal beliefs, whether it is Hindu, Halakha, Sharia Law, or Christianity’s Canon. Get your ardent beliefs out of our civil laws. We were born gay. Get over it. Spend more time with the flock, helping those in need. Christ was not a politician, so only a knave would choose political paths.
Transiteer
How many IQ tests do you need to fail to be a bonafide Conservative? Do they go to each others houses to celebrate Hitler’s birthday? How many more fairy stories do they believe in (or participate in)? Amazing in the 21st Century, in a Western country, that there are this many dumb people around. And how dumb do you need to be to vote for someone this dumb?
Tête Carrée
American dumb apparently. You can put a man on the moon and now this?
I was going to mention the nuclear weapon but that turned out to be pretty dumb too.
Atldeuce
He makes Jeff Sessions sound like a Shakespearean actor. Why is it so difficult for him to read? He is a Congressman. I know the bar is low, but…
Thomas
Christofascists.
DCguy
Anybody who has friends or was raised Mormon or Evangelical recognizes this B.S.
The fake crying when you are up at the podium is supposed to prove to everybody how Pius you are and how much feeling you have. It is a scam, all about trying to outdo everybody else at the service.
Remember, Good Mormon boy Chaffets tries the same thing and was mocked for it, and surprise surprise it never happened again. Why? Because it was fake the first time, he just didn’t realize that outside of his church people would see it as something fake and ridiculous. But as soon as he learned he was never “Overcome” with feeling again.
This douchebag is exactly the same.
AngryRobert
Randy’s from Texas, North America’s largest free range insane asylum AND he’s a Baptist, spelled B A P T I S T, but pronounced “batshit.”
natekerchel
Mo Bro suggests ignoring the homophobes. Well he wouid of course being a trump apologist himself. Funny how he does not suggest ignoring other religions who also hate gays – he wants them banned and locked up. Ignoring something so destructive and dangerous and deluded as christianity – or any religion for that matter – will not make it go away. Remember the school bully? Did he go away just because he was ignored? No. Those christians are like the school bullies – we have to stand up to them and refuse to accept their abuse. Progress in civilisation has only ever been made because people refused to accept what was abusive and unfair. Those who have power never want to give any of it up. For 2000 years the church has been allowed to control and bully and abuse freely. Now they scream about religious freedom. Well no one is saying they cant believe whatever nonsense they want – just that they now cant impose their delusional views on the rest of us.
1EqualityUSA
The power sought, and the extent to which common thinkers glom onto it are symptoms of worldliness. Spiritual power is an afterthought. A man of the cloth, sidling up to Senators, is powerless. natekerchel, you may not need to worry about something that is destroying itself from the inside out. Oppression and strife, when Church and State commune; panderers, they. We are a nation of problem solvers with a Constitution that breathes when we breathe. Let’s resist the GOP. Let’s solve our problems. We need an amendment reestablishing bi-partisanship when choosing a Supreme Court Justice. The GOP abuses its power. Mr. Gorsuch is deemed illegitimate by many. Judge Merrick Garland will resurrect, every time Judge Neil Gorsuch rules. His rulings will forever have additional scrutiny. If he were worth his salt, he would step off of the ride and go home. A politicized Supreme Court is unjust. Favoring religion over the rights of other citizens is dangerous. Citizens United and invalidating Section 5 of The Voting Rights Act was egregious. Trump’s promulgation of GoldmanSacksters, frolicking behind the scenes, is not a friend to the working class. Unions are next, lo, the pangs of Labor. We have the tools needed to rectify this. Healthcare neglect is slow genocide and financially impractical. Trump may quit, rather than wait for impeachment. I wondered if an announcement ensued last week when he bussed all of the Senators to the White House as if they were all going to see banana slugs in a rainforest at Science Camp. Orange looks beaten and tired. The muscles in his face distort under the burden. He’s lost weight. He can’t get to his happy place with secret service crawling all over him. Lincoln’s ghost won’t stop staring at him. I hope he leaves before his youngest son even has a chance to pack his bags. Separation of Church and State has never been more relevant. We will solve these problems. 2018. Mobilize.
natekerchel
I wish I had your faith that they will destroy themselves 1Equality. They have survived this long by being ruthless and determined to impose their delusions on the rest of us. We need to be just as ruthless in the fight back. We became complacent in recent years because of the important victories. For me at least, we now have to return total resistance and opposition with zero tolerance for the homophobes. We are sometimes too nice and that is seen as a sign of weakness by the extremists and their defenders – some of whom are are spreading their message of division and hate on this site.
1EqualityUSA
This is how wheat from the chaff is determined, and it’s not in Washinton, D.C.
1EqualityUSA
Sorry for the missing “g” up there^ I’m so impaired. Sometimes it looks like alphabet soup. My brain plays such tricks on me.
hithere2
Love the Siouxsie and the Banshees reference
stevetalbert
He was crying for the one who got away.
Kevrj
Steve Daines, representing Montana, Woot woot! /s
wld8hrt
Oh for educated persons sake! Are we sure this isn’t a scene from a new John Waters film?
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B Stallone
If god is almighty as they claim, couldn’t he have stopped same-sex marriage? Since he didn’t that must mean he is for it
Billysees
Your comment is reasonable. I’d go further and say that same-sex marriage is a ‘Godsend’ to the gay community if there ever was one. Marriage equality that encourages two people to team up with one another ’till death do us part’ is divinely brilliant.
Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed….Ecclesiastes 4:9
Tête Carrée
Apparently the countries that legalized same-sex marriage before the U.S. aren’t god’s country. Thank god.
Sluggo2007
I’d post something snarky if I could stop laughing long enough.
scotty
if you could reason with religious people, there would be NO religious people