Mat Staver's SMUG Update

This web site is not sharing other sites' fundraising appeals as liberally as it once did. However, because the whole idea of the SMUG lawsuit (see "SMUG Indeed," earlier this month) is so idiotic, we just have to make sure you know who's (senile?) enough to fund the most idiotic lawsuit we've ever heard tell of. Suing that McDonalds outlet because the coffee was hot? Not even. Turns out that lawsuit was at least based on a reasonable claim that the coffee dispenser was overheating and keeping the coffee boiling--and my thanks to Making Light for sharing the details, years ago. That's not in the same class with SMUG's...meta-folly, below.

If it were to turn out that SMUG's lawsuit is based on a reasonable claim that this pastor was barging into bars or cafes and grabbing people by the collars, instead of preaching his interpretation of the Bible as Christian pastors are expected nay required to do, this web site will retract the term "meta-folly"--but I trust Mat Staver's judgment.

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As I write, Liberty Counsel's litigation team is defending a pastor who is being charged for "crimes against humanity" in violation of "international law" — akin to genocide and war crimes — simply because he traveled to Uganda and shared his biblical views on homosexuality.

A homosexual rights group from Uganda is suing in U.S. court against our client, Massachusetts Pastor Scott Lively.

And guess who is working in the shadows to attack this pastor: George Soros!

The Soros-funded Center for Constitutional Rights is behind this outrageous lawsuit that seeks to charge Pastor Lively with "crimes against humanity." As I told FOXNews:

This lawsuit is a gross attempt to use a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize, speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues.

This month, Liberty Counsel filed our second brief (150 pages) calling for the dismissal of this lawsuit against Pastor Lively. My litigation team is deeply engaged in this fight and we are bracing for even more attacks in the coming weeks.

Please understand what we are up against....

This Soros-backed attack against Pastor Lively has already encompassed four years, hundreds of hours of depositions, and some 40,000 pages of legal documents. Their goal is clear — to criminalize Christianity!

That's why I'm asking for your help.

I urgently need an additional $20,000 from our online team for our litigation fund before the end of this month so we can fight for Pastor Lively and many others against deep-pocketed groups funded by George Soros and other radicals.

Please go here now to help replenish our litigation fund so we can fight for Pastor Lively and many other people of faith who are coming under hostile attack in courtrooms across America:

We know these groups are spending tens upon hundreds of thousands of dollars to strip people of faith of our rights. At times, the battle can feel overwhelming, but we have the TRUTH on our side, along with faithful friends like you who are standing with us.

Will you help?

Please prayerfully consider making a tax-deductible contribution today.

Again, we know that these anti-faith groups have a clear goal -- to criminalize Christianity! This attack on Pastor Lively seeks to make our biblical views a "crime against humanity."

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Equal Rights for Widows, Including "Gay" Widows

Mat Staver invites his e-friends to go ahead and let the advocates of same-sex marriage call us bigots...

"Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy labeled those who oppose same-sex “marriage” as oppressors and selfish bigots.

Priscilla, are you willing to be called a “bigot” for believing that God’s law defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman? Are you willing to be accused of a “hate crime” for speaking out in favor of natural marriage? 
 

If you are, then you are joined by many tens of millions of Americans and the tens of thousands of supporters who have endorsed our powerful Marriage Solidarity Statement.

Our Statement boldly declares that the Christian community will stand in solidarity on this vital issue!

Redefining marriage is a line we cannot and will not cross!

Join us today in signing the Marriage Solidarity Statement by going here:

 www.marriagesolidarity.com

When you go to the Marriage Solidarity page, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch an important video on this vital issue.
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The position of this web site is that, basically, Justice Kennedy just outed himself as an oppressor, a selfish bigot, and also a short-sighted fool...by failing to defend the equal rights of people who aren't and don't claim to be married.

E.g. not only the rights of same-sex couples who don't want to try to imitate traditional marriage, although yes, certainly, them too, but also the rights of the approximately 49% of people who have been married who will outlive their spouses.

The flapping and squawking about who can be called "married" is, of course, a sop to the noisiest group of the majority of humankind who are being oppressed and discriminated against by certain laws that were intended to encourage young people to choose formal marriage over common-law marriage. While this web site would like to support anything that encourages people to take responsibility for their children, the effect of efforts to promote formal marriage is to prevent people from leaving estates to or being cared for by anyone but their official wife/husband or a child of their officially registered marriage.

Given that very few married couples die at exactly the same time, this means at least 49% of all people who have been married aren't going to have wives/husbands to inherit their homes and sit with them in the hospital. Actually, the percentage increases when we consider how many of the living spouses of disabled people are also disabled. Some of these people may be able to count on a son or daughter, but, without crunching the numbers, it seems reasonable to estimate that a good half of all Americans are going to need to designate someone who is not their wife, husband, or child as their next of kin.

Personally I'm about as bothered by someone else's hypothetical same-sex "marriage" as I was by my sister's little comedy act about my being "married" to my computer. I find neither really hilarious and neither any threat to any real marriage. But I do feel threatened by the amount of money and power being wasted on efforts to use same-sex marriage as a cover-up for the oppression of widows, bachelors, the classic stereotypical "gays" who don't intend to settle down, and geriatric couples who aren't physically able to claim much more in the way of marital rights than a possible right to share a room in a nursing home.

All people should have an undisputed right to name whomever they choose as heir and/or care giver and/or guardian. Homosexuals shouldn't have to settle for "equal" levels of abuse and oppression; they should use their abundant time, and the excess money so many of them have, to support equal justice for all people.

And this web site reserves the right to say that, if they refuse to support equal justice for unmarried people, they are bigots, short-sighted fools, and a Large Part of the Problem.