MSNBC: Cenk's Epic Rant On Gay Marriage & The Bible (w/ Transcript)

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 03:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yCWVnQ_u84   Posted on YouTube: August 03, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: August 04, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 3402

 
Transcript (after the video plays let your mouse hover at the bottom of it for transcript icon): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/

Cenk Is Hosting MSNBC Live Every Day This Week From 3-4pm Eastern, 12-1pm Pacific. Watch Live or set your DVR/TiVo to record the shows!

PS---In case you didn't know, Cenk now has two regular segments each week. He appears every Tuesday in the latter half of the Dylan Ratigan show (after 4:30pm ET/1:30pm PT) for the Daily Rant Segment, and every Friday after 3pm ET/12pm PT on MSNBC Live.

[jgraz]

1. Dang, now I want some shrimp

[libodem]

2. Our guy is getting around

He may no longer be the best kept secret in America, if he keeps up at this rate. Attaboy, Cenk!

[gtar100]

3. On the one hand, we should be glad they cherry-pick the Bible.

We'd be overrun with ridiculous laws and an epidemic of fundamentalists ruining perfectly good days if the Bible were taken literally.

However, on the other hand, one would think the obviousness of the cherry-picking that goes on, it would wake more people up. But it takes a certain kind of fortitude to question and reject long-standing traditions. Especially one that threatens eternal damnation for peaking outside the covers.

It just shows that even the most staunch fundamentalist has his limits to taking "The Word of God" at its word.

[Enthusiast]

4. That was excellent, Cenk!

There is a lot of picking and choosing when it comes to biblical passages. The loudest proponents of the Old Testament are the most skilled at conveniently leaving out inconvenient passages. :fistbump:

[Turborama]

5. K&R Believe it or not, there is a Facebook group called "Save Marriage from the Shellfish"

Not for the satire impaired: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38447286427

[EFerrari]

21. I can't believe Cenk now has me curious about Leviticus.

lol

[tavalon]

28. Read while enebriated, Leviticus is hilarious

You should also go see Betty Bowers take on Leviticus and so many other topics (www.bettybowers.com). You can trust her because she is America's Best Christian.

[20score]

6. God Hates Shrimp!

[AlbertCat]

7. So it says something in the Bible

The Bible is not the law of this land, no matter how much you want it to be. But despair not, ye brotheren! The law of the land does not require you to abandon the Bible... because it does not REQUIRE you to get, have, attend or even watch a gay marriage, so...

If you don't like Gay Marriage.... don't have one.


While we're on the Bible...

The story they should also be telling is Sodom & Gomorrah. Yes, god smiteth the evil there and good ol' Lot and his family escaped.... except for Mrs. Lot who turned into a pillar of sodium chloride.

But the story doesn't end there!

Keep reading, brotheren and sisteren!

Big Lot's 2 daughters, now living alone with Dad in the wilderness, are worried they won't find husbands in the middle of nowhere and won't have children. So they plot together. 1st they get daddy drunk, then they RAPE HIM while he's passed out, inseminating themselves so they can bear children.

So, beware homosexuality my children! But incestuous rape is a-ok with god!

Thus endeth the lesson.

[izquierdista]

8. I'm waiting for pastors to come out for MaryJane

All that talk about who should get stoned and all....

[Ken Burch]

17. at Passover, they had "bitter herbs".

n/t.

[Chulanowa]

19. Being slaves, they probably couldn't get the good stuff

[Ken Burch]

34. Yeah...only the Pharoah got to smoke Cheops Gold, or Alexandria Thunderfuck

n/t.

[Capitalocracy]

9. My favorite Christian response to the shrimp argument

is that not only can you pick and choose which parts of the Bible "speak to you", but that you should do so. It's not like one believes the earth is flat and has corners because they read the Bible, right?

But that means that in choosing to be against homosexuality, you're very much choosing that part of the Bible over things that are mentioned in the same section. And the only explanation for that is a prejudiced preconception that being gay is bad. And then saying they shouldn't have the same rights is a step further into prejudice, to the point of discrimination. These anti-gay Christians are bad news. You can't hide behind the Bible on this one.

K&R

[theFrankFactor]

10. High Five!

[FiveGoodMen]

11. K&R

[X_Digger]

12. I always use this icon with fundies..

[lib_wit_it]

26. Choosy moms choose your gif! I'm totally gonna right-click and save as! After which I shall

share throughout the land. Credit X_Digger?

[X_Digger]

27. Nope, someone on livejournal many, many moons past. n/t

[lib_wit_it]

33. Well, thanks to whoever made it and to you, and any who passed it along. It makes such an important

point in a very potent way. Not that it'll make a dent in the thick skulls of the fundies, but it could reach those who still retain the ability to reason.

[Kajsa]

31. Two thumbs up!

That's a great icon.

But I must confess, I agree
with the one regarding polyester!

:)

[civilisation]

13. "Christianity is stupid! Communism is good! Give up!"

"Christianity is stupid! Communism is good! Give up!"
- Estus Pirkle, Helter Stupid, Negativland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Stupid_%28song%29

[existentialist]

14. Not to mention that one of the major themes of Leviticus is a

mandated redistribution of wealth every 50 years.

[SemperEadem]

24. they will turn their backs on god first before they would ever

adopt god's socialistic directive.

[Grassy Knoll]

15. Simply Heaven

And some corn on the cob, umm, umm, umm !

[Aslanspal]

16. Eating breaded shrimp and turning in my Bible

Whoops a big glob of ketchup just fell on Leviticus...my bad.

[Chulanowa]

18. Reading the Bible is the #1 cause of Atheism

There's a REASON the Church opposed the printing prss and assailed those who translated it from Latin as being "heretics"

[FiveGoodMen]

32. Amen (so to speak)

That was the #1 de-motivator for me. Read it cover to cover.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. K&R! Great rant!

Thanks for posting! :applause:

[SemperEadem]

22. I think banning divorce would do the most to uphold traditional marriage

but something tells me that that's not what these trad-marriage folks mean when they say "attack on marriage".

This is more about jamming their religious beliefs down everyone else's throats.

[amyrose2712]

23. Glad to see him on tv...

My mother was hoping for him to get a show on MSNBC, I had told her with his views on religion I doubt that would ever happen. I am glad to see I was at least partly wrong.

[tavalon]

29. Truth be told, I've never actually noticed what his views are on religion

[iamforobama]

25. Back in Bible times

They needed people to fight their wars and populate the earth, so they made-up all this crap to scare the population..They even put people to death for masturbation! I wonder how many right-wing christian fanatics masturbate?..

[Kajsa]

30. " Red lobster amendment"

:rofl:

Go Cenk!

:yourock:

K&R