Ain't That A Shame?

[onager]

Pat Boone: Government Should Outlaw Blasphemy and Punish "Saturday Night Live" If It Blasphemes (22 April 2016)

Conservative musician and activist Pat Boone has been on the warpath against Saturday Night Live ever since the program aired a sketch parodying the right-wing’s persecution complex, criticizing the show’s cast members as Satanic and bound for hell.

In an interview last night with Alan Colmes, Boone said that “there should be regulations that prohibit blasphemy” and that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should punish networks that air such blasphemous programming.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-boone-government-should-outlaw-blasphemy-and-punish-saturday-night-live-if-it-blasphemes

[rexcat]

1. Stupid...

Stupid man but not an uncommon opinion with the religious right in this country. Religion over government is their mantra.

[Cartoonist]

2. Whaaaaat?

Boone, insisting that “at least 90 percent of the American public” wants this kind of censorship

[Warpy]

3. You can bet the only people left in his life are from his wingnut church

and he ASSumes from that sampling that we're all that nuts.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. That happens all the time

when people pull numbers out of their ass.

I have heard that sort of thing MILLIONS of times!

[Iggo]

4. I think they should tax people who stand in water.

[progressoid]

5. More proof that god doesn't exist.

Pat Boone is alive and Bowie is dead.

[Freelancer]

6. LOL. That's excellent. -nt

[mr blur]

7. Yeah, but Pat did a cover of "Enter Sandman" - Bowie didn't. Checkmate, atheists!

[Cartoonist]

10. Little Richard covers

The movie biopic of Little Richard was very entertaining. When he first heard Boone singing his song, his associate told him who was covering it. He replied, "he's not covering it, he's butchering it."

Ozzie wouldn't let Pat do one of his songs on the OP album.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. I don't believe in god...

but were I god, I would rather have Bowie in heaven with me than Boone.

[progressoid]

17. Just the thought of being in heaven with all those sanctimonious assholes makes me ill .

My heaven would be a great heaven. There wouldn't be many Christians in it though.

[Iggo]

18. If god is love then those fuckers are somewhere else.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. If we outlaw blasphemy, what should the punishment be?

Does it matter how blasphemous it is, or will all blasphemy be equal?

I suggest either stoning or burning at the stake.

[Brainstormy]

11. I kinda like

that drawing and quartering thing. But it does take a larger venue.

[onager]

14. When in London, you'll want to visit this famous pub...

The Hung, Drawn & Quartered

http://www.hung-drawn-and-quartered.co.uk/

[awoke_in_2003]

16. Maybe we should consult sharia...

these assclowns deride sharia law, when they want to institute the same thing here.

[Curmudgeoness]

20. NOOO! NOT SHARIA LAW!!!

The fundamental Christians are TOTALLY different than those Muslims.

Forget about the fact that they have the same sins. Don't think about how they have instituted some really sick punishments for those "crimes". And let's not talk about how they want everyone to think just like them, no matter how they have to force it on them.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Birds of a feather. nt

[sakabatou]

12. Pat Boone hates the 1st Amendment

[RussBLib]

13. oh, what a "good" Christian

wanting to control what others do

It kills me how presumptuous these bastards are. Thinking they know the ultimate truth based on...what...that ancient book full of bullshit and contradictions?

[AlbertCat]

19. Oh... those darn Christians!

They are just so pissed that other people live on the planet.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Unfortunately, there are people on DU who agree with that, even.

1st Amendment threads are real depressing, like when people tried to argue that drawing cartoons of Mohammed is illegal because it could "make" someone so angry they do something violent.

derpities is right.


LOL for Pat Boone in the bondage outfit, too. I remember that, that was a real moment