Today's Worst Person -- The so-called Reverend Eric Schumacher

The term "Reverend" is more than a lable for a member of the clergy, it is also a term of respect coming from the same root as "Revered" and "Reverence". In my opinon, Eric Schumacher deserves no such glory.

Schumacher is the pastor of the Northbrook Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This past week, Schumacher indicated in the Baptist Press that legalized gay marriage in Iowa is more devastating than last year's flooding in Iowa ... a flood that caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and in Cedar Rapids alone displaced 25,000 people in a single day.

Setting aside for a moment the way he callously discarded the effects the flood had on the people in his "flock," the mere idea of what he suggests is just plain stupid. We are talking about people wanting to spend the rest of their lives together in loving matrimony ... what could possibly be wrong with that?


Without even realizing it, in his article he managed to completely destroy the single biggest argument the right wing idiots have against same sex marriage -- the idea that it somehow 'redefines' marriage. Here is a quote from the article: "Marriage is established by God to be a living picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the husband representing Christ and the wife representing his church. "Homosexual marriage" presents a distorted picture, a false Gospel, promoting a blasphemous message."

Does this moron not even realize the Gospels are in the NEW Testament ... and marriage existed in the OLD Testament? In other words, marriage has been around longer than Christianity has. In other words ... ERIC SCHUMACHER HAS REDEFINED MARRIAGE!!!

And a little aside to the Thumpers out there .... Jesus never even mentions gay marriage -- or homosexuality for that matter. Not once. Not in any of the four Gospels (I have to specify there are four of them because I've learned that people who proclaim the Bible the loudest also seem to know the least about it)

Marriage used to be, and in some cultures still is, treated as a property exchange. In some cultures, people getting married don't even meet until their wedding day. Marriage to multiple people is still allowed in some countries.

Shotgun weddings

Marriages of convenience

Common Law marriages.

Annulled marriages

Divorces

Can we please drop the moronic argument of redefining marriage now?


Bans on same sex marriage are discrimination -- plain and simple. And for promoting legalized discrimination, Eric Schumacher is today's worst person.