Kathy Griffin and Jesus

So Kathy Griffin (famous comedian for those who don’t know her… and she’s also an atheist) receives the Emmy Award and in her little speech says “Suck it, Jesus. This is my God now.” The media is outraged. Fox News this morning had gathered four upset newscasters and other believers discussing this. They were all oh so insulted and angry and made sure we know how inappropriate this remark was. After all, as one of them put it, 85% of Americans are Christians. Where are the clergy? Where is Jesse Jackson? Why does she go unpunished? And what’s worse, why are people in Hollywood and in New York cheering for her???

What I’d like to know is, why is it such a big deal, when someone speaks their mind against Christianity? Let’s say it WAS inappropriate… I’m sure people have different opinions about that. What about the following quotes of fundamentalist Christians? Are they inappropriate? Are they acceptable? Should atheists be outraged or just suck it up, because after all 85% of Americans are Christians, so they can say whatever the heck they like to say? Enjoy the following and then decide for yourself whether Kathy Griffin’s speech was all that outrageous.

Ann Coulter

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”

“Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.”

Bob Dornan (Rep. R-CA)

“Don’t use the word ‘gay’ unless it’s an acronym for ‘Got Aids Yet’

Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)

“Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire!”

“You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry!”

“American Veterans are to blame for the fag takeover of this nation. They have the power in their political lobby to influence the zeitgeist, get the fags out of the military, and back in the closet where they belong!”

George Bush Sr. (President of the United States)

“I don’t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”

J. B. Stoner (White Supremacist) (1924 - 2005)

“AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out.”