Willy must DIE!

Okay. There are right wing religious nuts, and then there are uber-right-wing religious nuts. If there was an olympics for empty-headed, borderline retarded religious fuckwads, then I nominate the American Family Association for gold.

A week or maybe two ago, a killer whale at Sea World, a cetacean with the monicker Tillikum, dragged her trainer to her death in front of no doubt shocked and dismayed onlookers. A tragedy indeed, and 'Tilly' already had a rap sheet that included the deaths of two other humans at her hands...er...jaws. Now to weigh in on the incident comes the American Family Association. In a statement that could only have been made after a night spent sniffing solvents and beating each other int he heads with mallets, the association has turned to Scripture for guidance and has determined that Tilly should be stoned to death....read that again...They want to throw rocks at a whale until it dies in order to follow the idiotic, bronze-age pronouncements of a book of fairy stories. I must pause now to give my head a shake now, and make sure I didn't read that wrong.

Nope. The link from the Huffington Post (which mind you I find to be somewhat questionable at times, given, for example, their tacit support of the anti-vaccination morons) is here:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/american-family-associati_n_484022.html

The Big Book of Silly Stories and Farcical Fables (Bible) is the 'go-to' source for all things legal and punative I guess. Does the American Family Association also condone the owning and beating of slaves, the stoning of adulterers and homosexuals (the latter, probably, but that is just a guess) and all the other 'righteous' punishments found in the bible? I doubt it follows the teachings therein to the letter, as when convenient Christians ahve a way of cherry picking the real meat from the bones, if I can mix metaphors and food groups here.

The AFA is primarily heard from when a nipple is briefly exposed on television or an animated cartoon makes some satirical reference to Jesus. This has had the effect of bleeping, obscuring or withdrawing programing that, if any person of normal person found offensive, would simply turn off, just so we are spared a flaming eternity in hell for glimpsing Janet Jackson's tit. The sponsers and the networks bend over backwards to accomodate these puritanical mamby-pamby cry-babies for fear of losing revenue. It only takes one or two complaints for the big networks to cave, like a pyramid of girl scouts hit by a semi.

The AFA also supports the death penalty, as it is apparently justified by the bible, says homosexuality is a choice and can be treated like a bad sprain, and probably endorses the view that Jesus rode a dinosaur. I know they love Palin, the mouth-breating head douchebag from Alaska, and that's dumb enough for me.

Seriously though, stoning a fucking whale to death? How to do this? Go underwater in scuba gear with a bag of rocks and start throwing? Water density presents a problem. Dropping big rocks from a crane? Whales are pretty fast, so this probably wouldn't work too well either. THey could tie the whale down and have at 'er, but I'll bet a whale can take a lot of punishment from fist sized projectiles before succumbing. Man, what I wouldn't give to see a team of AFA goofs underwater and taking aim...only to be chomped into chum by Tilly. That would be entertainment.

There is a shortageo f housing, of money, of jobs, but the stupidity supply is well and truly stocked.