Son of former televangelist: Gays are like ISIS, would behead Christians if they could

According to Right Wing Watch, Swaggart — the son of disgraced 1980s televangelist Jimmy Swaggart — made the statements in response to local efforts to enforce the city of Houston’s anti-discrimination ordinance.

“All of this is to shut the Bible up,” Swaggart said. “They want the Bible gone. And I’m going to make a statement: These people that are trying to do this in Houston, the only difference between them and ISIS, those thugs in Iraq, is those here cannot chop our heads off. That’s the only difference. The heart is the same. The heart is the same. If they could silence us that way to intimidate others, that’s exactly what they would do.”

Ben_Reilly wrote:I've always thought that if you're saying your "enemy" would happily behead you, you'd probably happily behead them

Eilzel wrote:Does he realize when he's spouting inane religious paranoia that the only one who sounds like IS is him. What a knob.

Eilzel wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:I've always thought that if you're saying your "enemy" would happily behead you, you'd probably happily behead them

Yeah, trying to justify what he would do by trying to imply we (gay people) are the real evil here

Eilzel wrote:Both work haha, do unto others- which occurs in most religions- also fits. Anything else is really just subjective dictations.

Eilzel wrote:Yeah they have a logic defect. I also agree we should own land. Firstly it implies the Earth is there to be carved up for individual purposes; second, it creates a hypothetical problem of what to do when we run out of land to own...

Eilzel wrote:I'm fascinated by the language thing actually Ben. I want to learn 2 languages, Thai being one (cause I think one should know the local lingo if they intend to settle long term) and the other being Spanish since,

1. It is spoken by most people in the Americas and
2. It sounds so damn sexy haha (not necessarily from you btw just in general lol)

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Eilzel wrote:I'm fascinated by the language thing actually Ben. I want to learn 2 languages, Thai being one (cause I think one should know the local lingo if they intend to settle long term) and the other being Spanish since,

1. It is spoken by most people in the Americas and
2. It sounds so damn sexy haha (not necessarily from you btw just in general lol)

Just one more interesting language tid-bit for the evening, then, since you've encouraged me ...

We don't really just call them "romance" languages because they're descended from the language of the Romans. It's also because many love stories were written in the "romance" languages before they were recognized as languages in their own right. Classical Latin was considered at the time too dignified for love stories.

So Spanish, French, Italian, etc. actually have a claim to being "romantic" as well as "Romance" languages. And I agree, they're beautiful to listen to -- unless, of course, it's something like "Chinga tu madre, pinche cabron!"

(Which is almost pure Mexican, rather than Spanish, for, "fuck your mother, asshole idiot!")

Ben_Reilly wrote:Just to go a bit further, "que" is also a Spanish form of "that."

Which speakers of vernacular English would know -- "Think about what you just done," i.e., about that which you have done.

OK, I'm stopping now ...

eddie wrote:Languages fascinate me. I was a top student in French.
Always loved the languages
It's weird, but I can go,to France and pretty much make out what something is, or what people are saying without knowing why?

My fraternal grandparents were French Corsican. So here's a question for you: do any of you think you can inherit a "language gene"?

By the by, I taught my son very basic French when he was about seven, and he hasn't forgotten it - yet has been doing Spanish for years but says it doesnt sink on like French does.