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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Notes from the Prayer Warrior

Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM

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Thursday, 19 November 2009

Dear Prayer Warrior,

This morning I spoke at the Microsoft stockholders meeting. Chris Liddell, CFO; Bill Gates, Chairman; Steve Ballmer, CEO; and Brad Smith, General Council were there. I talked about their Charitable Giving in support of gay marriage and the intolerance that the gay’s have shown to Christians and anyone that opposes them. Please pray for the stockholders that were there that they heard the message and will understand the truth.

Pastor Hutch

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gloomy gus 1
His prayers were answered: they understand very well that his message had nothing to do with truth.
Posted by gloomy gus on November 19, 2009 at 1:46 PM
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Hey Hutch, how's that threat you made several years ago to bring down Microsoft for their support of teh gays? How's that going for ya? Yeah, just what I thought.
Posted by Justy on November 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM
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How's that cancer coming along there, Hater?
Posted by JusticeIsMine on November 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Julie in Eugene 4
I love that "I spoke at the stockholders meeting" makes it sound like he gave a speech. When, really, he just asked a question during the Q&A and everyone there was probably like, when is the crazy nutjob going to sit down. We actually would like to hear something about the business now.
Posted by Julie in Eugene on November 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM
danindowntown 5
Why hasn't Jesus called this jackass to his embrace yet?
Posted by danindowntown on November 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
merry 6
You know, when these so-called 'Christian' haters shuffle off this mortal coil and wake up to find themselves on the other side in the presence of Jesus, he is gonna be sooooooooo pissed at them.

Myself, I sure wouldn't want to face an angry, angry Jesus. Just sayin'.
Posted by merry on November 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
David Schmader 7
3: Come on. (By which I mean "shut up.") Also, you know that making jokes about cancer is the number one cause of cancer, don't you?
Posted by David Schmader on November 19, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 8
I couldn't care less about Hutch, but I do feel sorry for his kids. You thought you had a rough childhood? Can you imagine having that whackjob for a father?
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on November 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Nofo 9
"Intolerance"? Is that what the followers of mythology call "addressing lies" and "defending your rights" and "reacting to brutal attacks"?

Sounds like Pastor Hutch needs to brush up on the definition of "bearing false witness."
Posted by Nofo http://nofo.blogspot.com on November 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Matt from Denver 10
LC will be on in any second praising Hutch and saying that we can't handle the truth and blah blah blah...
Posted by Matt from Denver on November 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM
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To the best of my knowledge, this kind of stuff isn't happening to gay rights opponents:

Puerto Rico: http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/killer-…

Texas: http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/princip…

Baltimore: http://www.towleroad.com/2009/11/questio…

Hey, Hutch. Get back to us when we start hearing about the "Christian panic" defense.
Posted by Punditwatch on November 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
kk in seattle 12
Merry @6: You've got that right. Jesus said:
There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, "Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire." But Abraham replied, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us." He answered, "Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment." Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them." "No, father Abraham," he said, "but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent." He said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."

Luke 16:19-31.
Posted by kk in seattle on November 19, 2009 at 2:17 PM
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@6 - I assume you meant that when they finally shuffle off from life, they simply cease to be, yes?

anyways, ooooh! those damn intolerant gays, pissed at anyone who tries to fuck them over! how dare they be so intolerant?

s,d.
Posted by diggum on November 19, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Dexter 14
It makes me cranky and sad to know that Hutch and others like him exist in this world and have a very real influence on people around them. I wish I could make them see how very, very wrong they are.
Posted by Dexter on November 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM
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Why does the Stranger provide national coverage to bigots but refuse to provide coverage to local lgbt political events?

Celebrating an LGBT victory in Washington

SEATTLE--Some 200 people came out to Westlake Plaza in downtown Seattle on November 14 to celebrate the historic victory of Referendum 71 on Election Day.

Referendum 71 was a ballot initiative that asked voters whether or not they approve of a domestic partnerships law passed last May by the Washington state government. The domestic partnerships grant same-sex partners the same state benefits and rights as civil marriage, but without calling it marriage.

Thanks to the hard work of many volunteers and activists, Referendum 71 was approved by 53 percent to 47 percent. Support for domestic partnerships was strongest in the urban and liberal areas around Seattle and Puget Sound, but weakest in rural areas and Eastern Washington. A full 80 percent of voters in Seattle voted to approve.

With marriage equality defeated in Maine's Question 1, Referendum 71 marks the first time that same-sex couples have gained or maintained rights that were put up for a popular vote anywhere in the U.S. While demonstrators celebrated this feat and a victory for LGBT rights, everyone was also clear that there are so many rights in so many places that are still denied to LGBT people.

As Stuart Wilber--who is 71 years old, has been with his partner for 32 years and recently marched in Washington, D.C., at the National Equality March--put it, "This election is over, and we won. But now it's time to have a conversation about human rights, equal rights and civil rights--rights that are guaranteed to everyone by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."

"I'm tired of waiting," he continued from the rally stage. "I've been waiting my whole life, and I don't have much more time to wait."

In a moving visual display, he was joined on stage by his partner and dozens of other couples who can now receive domestic partnership rights like sharing health benefits, death benefits and hospital visitation rights.

Lt. Dan Choi--a West Point graduate, combat veteran and Arab linguist who was fired from the National Guard under "don't ask, don't tell" after coming out on the Rachel Maddow Show--was the rally's featured speaker. He fired up the crowd, declaring, "I was discharged for saying three simple words: 'I love you.' Now if that's illegal, then give me the death penalty, because I will say it until the day I die!"

Choi went on to address those who would tell LGBT people to wait for their rights. "Some people tell us to be good little gays," he said. "'You have domestic partnerships now. Can't you just be happy?'" The crowd responded with a resounding, "No!" "I am not satisfied," Choi roared back. "We are not satisfied. The era of asking is over! Now is the time to fight...In the face of discrimination, silence is not a strategy--waiting is not a plan."

Josh Castle--a volunteer who mobilized grassroots visibility to Approve 71 with street tablings, bar crawls and freeway overpass sign-waving--summed up the mood of the event: "Let's savor this sweet moment and then get back to work!"

Other speakers at the rally included Ann Levinson and Josh Friedes, leaders of the Approve 71 campaign; Steve Williamson, community affairs director for UFCW Local 21, which donated money and phone-banking space to the campaign in addition to calling all of their 35,000 members; Marsha Botzer, co-chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a member of the National Equality March steering committee; Emily Juhre of University of Washington Students Organizing for LGBT Equality (UW SOLE); Carmen Rivera of the Seattle University Triangle Club; and Eduardo Brambila of SeattleOUTProtest.

The rally was organized by SeattleOUTProtest, Seattle Gay News, UW SOLE, SU Triangle Club, Pride at Work, Join the Impact, Washington Marriage Alliance, and the International Socialist Organization and MC'd by Aleksa Manila, a local drag queen celebrity.
More...
Posted by Iamme on November 19, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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Let's try a little game: "I talked about their Charitable Giving in support of desegregation under the 14th amendment and the intolerance that the blacks have shown to the KKK and anyone that opposes them."

If the shoe fits.

And another thing--I don't think the Christian right really understands the word "intolerance". They seem to believe that toleration is not accepting people/behaviors you personally don't like but that society as a whole must adhere to their narrow moral code or they are "intolerant". Jeeze, crack a fucking dictionary.
Posted by Westside forever on November 19, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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The gay's WHAT??? Their partners? Their dogs? Maybe their parents. Parents are always intolerant.
Posted by STJA on November 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Posted by Heather on November 19, 2009 at 3:13 PM
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Or even better is Matthew 25:44-46
"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
"Then they will go away to eternal punishment."

Yep, going to hell they are.
Posted by seattle mike on November 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM
stevema14420 20
Allahu Akbar!!!

-boom-
Posted by stevema14420 http://www.aebn.net on November 19, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Arsenic7 21
This, "gays are intolerant of our disgust for them," thing is really getting old.

It's not your OPINION of them they really hate, Hutch.
Posted by Arsenic7 on November 19, 2009 at 3:27 PM
TVDinner 22
Apparently Pastor Hutch doesn't know that people who can't punctuate go straight to hell.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on November 19, 2009 at 4:23 PM
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Here's another one:

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Song of Songs 8:7
Posted by kathy. on November 19, 2009 at 9:41 PM

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