Rick Scarborough: Conservatives Must 'Fight Until We Die' Against Gay Marriage

[KamaAina]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-scarborough-conservatives-must-fight-until-we-die-against-gay-marriage

Rick Scarborough, a Texas pastor who is close with GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz, said on a recent conference call with Religious Right activists that he is prepared to go to prison and even die to fight gay marriage.

Echoing James Dobson, who said on the same call that a Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality could usher in a second civil war, Scarborough insisted that anti-gay activists must “fight until we die” to stop gay marriage, just as Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer died in his struggle against the Nazis.

“We don’t capitulate, we fight until we die, we push back with all our might,” Scarborough said. “This is a Dietrich Bonhoeffer moment for every preacher in America. This is a moment where we find whether the Christians who claim to know Jesus really confess Christ, that is what we’re attempting to find out.”

“There’s going to have to be a massive response to this if we get the adverse ruling that from all predictions will come apart from God’s intervention,” he continued.

I say go for it!

Scarborough? Could he be any relation to Morning Joke?

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. I almost hope they do. Would be fun to watch on TV like Carlin used to say.

Let them go to war against the rest of us and our government.

These men who say they FOLLOW CHRIST are going to KILL in his name to stop something Christ himself is against.

[backscatter712]

2. My instinct is to oblige 'em.

If they want to die for their batshit beliefs and bigotry, who am I to refuse?

[Eleanors38]

3. Guess he's heard of the Pink Pistols.

[yeoman6987]

4. I just don't get it. I really don't

However I always thought we should marry like they do in Italy. It is mandatory that you marry at the court house and then renew vows at a church or whatever and have party then. I like that idea so much and would take away all this nonsense of fear that churches will be forced to marry a gay couple which is something that is absurd anyway because some churches won't marry if one of the spouses divorced or is not that religion so I have no idea what the fuss is over.

[jwirr]

8. They are objecting to any civil rights for LGBT persons. They are merely using their churches as the

excuse.

[ronnie624]

9. Absolutely. Their goal is oppression.

But their days are numbered, in my opinion. Soon, they will be irrelevant.

[jwirr]

10. Agreed.

[Eleanors38]

19. To use a term from the 60s, these guys are "murder-mouthing" in hopes...

someone else will do the deed by proxy, being too chickenshit themselves.

[calimary]

23. Love that term! "Murder-mouthing." I had not heard it before

and yes, I did come of age in the 60s. But it sure makes sense. It NAILS. And it sure does go on. How else can the doctor murders happen, and keep happening? Whether it's outside women's health clinics or their own homes, or in Dr. Tiller's case, at church.

[Eleanors38]

24. I sprung that term on my history prof in 1968. He loved it.

[Vinca]

5. Jeez . . . you'd think the guy was being forced to marry a man.

Whatever happened to live and let live?

[jwirr]

6. How dare they use Dietrich Bonhoeffer as an example? They are nothing but scum and he was the

real thing heroes were made of. They also have what Bonhoeffer was doing wrong. He was not calling preachers to confess Christ - he was opposing Nazis.

[msongs]

7. the supreme court's ruling will be god's will....correct? nt

[Sheepshank]

11. TAKE ON A CAUSE THAT IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO DIE FOR....

then convince others of the same. Sounds like Isis recruiting "speak" to me.

[Orsino]

12. He won't, but he kinda wishes someone else would. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

13. Its amazing how

Preachers seem to be espousing "hate" speech so much lately. Weren't they supposed to espouse "love" because that was the Religious message? Why is it they love hate so much? Does it really feel good to "hate" on certain people? Does it make them feel better?

Its a confusing world, these days.

[SwankyXomb]

26. They never actually read that part of the Bible

Just the parts where Paul hates everyone who doesn't bend to his view of Christianity, and Leviticus, Leviticus, Leviticus (but only the parts that support their preconceptions).

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Okay, can he explain to me why? How does anybody's marriage directly

influence anybody else?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Sounds like a plan.

[Darb]

16. Did Jesus even mention "homosexuality"?

That's kind of hypothetical being that I am not sure that Jesus ever walked the earth.

[Action_Patrol]

18. No, but the Bible clearly says

That Jesus rode into Jerusalem on another man's ass.

[KamaAina]

21. DUzy!!

[HughBeaumont]

17. Numbers One and Six in action!!

These people's reasons are getting flimsier and flimsier by the year. We're inches close to 'just because'.

[LeftinOH]

20. Imagine how totally insane someone has to be in order

to be willing to die (or.. more likely, see someone ELSE die for the cause) just to prevent complete strangers from doing something that hurts nobody and which has nothing whatsoever to do with him. F*cking insane.

[hifiguy]

22. I'd be happy to call the undertaker for yez.

Just trying to help.

[gratuitous]

25. Since simple human decency won't get them to stop fighting for their bigotry

I guess we have to, once again, call in one of the Four Horsemen to do the job that common sense is failing to do.

[arcane1]

27. They worship such a weak god. n/t

[Initech]

28. A small minority of a very insane cult trying to start a civil war?

Good luck with that.