Conservative Babylon

Left to right: Penny Young Nance, Beverly LaHaye, and Matt Barber. If you have trouble remembering who’s who: The most hysterical one with the worst hair runs around like a demented little girl, ranting constantly that gays are satanic purveyors of evil, while the other two are Penny Young Nance and Beverly LaHaye.

“Concerned” “Women” of “America,” that tired old band of fussbudgets (currently headed by Santorum-loving Penny Young Nance, founded by hair-don’t poster child and Mrs. Left Behind, Beverly LaHaye, and spoken for by the description-defying Matt Barber) who can’t stand the thought of gay people being treated as equal human beings (let alone as actual humans), insist that women have no right to control their own bodies even after they’ve been raped, and who are desperately afraid that someone, somewhere, might be having a good time playing “The Sims” (and by golly, they’re going to put a stop to that, you betcha!), threw its support behind the equally gay-loathing Chick-fil-A (which, incidentally, has been boycotted by the LGBT community for years, not because of Dan Cathy’s recent bigoted remarks nor his peculiar brand of Christianity, but because Cathy’s bigoted remarks finally made non-gay folks [and a lot of LGBT stragglers who weren't paying attention] finally sit up and take notice of the company’s long history of anti-gay activism; here is just one of the latest summaries). (more…)

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