# Omnibus Religious Fucks in the NEWS **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066 "2022-02-07T18:33:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/681 "2024-04-20T08:31:52Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > The paranoia is fascinating. “They’re coming for you! They want your children dead!” It really is. I have a younger cousin who - long before the current wave of book bans - was teaching her kids that Satan is a real being stalking the planet looking for children. Her oldest child started having horrible nightmares for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/682 "2024-04-20T15:17:20Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if she thinks that’s a good thing, expressing a healthy fear of a real and present danger. If the thread title were about _stupid and evil_ religious fucks, this would be an even better match. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/683 "2024-04-20T15:47:21Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Somewhere I still have this button from the 80s, On a recent trip to the library (or rather, I should say “a library”, since I have cards for at least three different library systems and use them all), one of the librarians was wearing a shirt that said “I’m with the banned”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/684 "2024-04-20T22:46:28Z")
If the pastor wants a “Satan’s influence free” library, he can start his own, in the pastor’s study. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/685 "2024-04-20T23:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > If Christians didn’t take a stand, Anderson warned, there would soon be an entire children’s section at the library “dedicated to sexual immorality and perversion.” Jeez, the things you gotta do these days to get kids interested in reading. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/686 "2024-04-20T23:48:16Z")
I always thought that to get young people interested in Shakespeare schools should put the comedies in classes. Twelfth Night is full of dirty jokes, foolin’ around, and other good stuff, Do any of us old folks remember the show Family Affair? Mr French decided to read classic fairy tales, instead of TV stuff, to the kids. Then he realized that the original Grimm stories, as well as others, were full of really awful stuff. The prince who tried toclimb the tower to Rapunzel fell and put out his eyes in brambles. That kind of “kid stuff” ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/687 "2024-04-23T08:06:00Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if she thinks that’s a good thing, expressing a healthy fear of a real and present danger. Yeah, at first I thought it was the evangelical version of _stranger danger_ (“Avoid the creepy guy with the windowless van, he’s an agent of Satan!!!”), but I gathered from later social media posts that doing battle with Satan is apparently a completely different thing. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/688 "2024-05-10T11:17:29Z")
I mean, he knew where he worked, right? That doesn’t make it correct or that I agree with the ruling, but I hope he isn’t surprised. > **[North Carolina Catholic school had right to fire gay teacher who announced...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-catholic-school-fired-gay-teacher-lonnie-billard-wedding-court-ruling/)** > > Lonnie Billard fell under a "ministerial exception" to Title VII that courts have derived from the First Amendment, a judge said. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/689 "2024-05-13T10:18:31Z")
Was he “fired” or just “not invited back” as a substitute teacher? The two are different things. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/690 "2024-05-13T10:55:42Z")
I get the sense that he was fired, but it’s not clear. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/691 "2024-05-16T11:05:57Z")
He was invited to speak and has the right to say what he wants, but he’s still an asshole in my book. > **[Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker says a woman should be a 'homemaker' in college...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-unleashes-pride-month-biden-commencement-rcna152295)** > > Butker, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs well-known, is a three-time Super Bowl champion. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/692 "2024-05-17T14:23:29Z")
One wonders what the reaction of all those “future homemakers” was. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/693 "2024-05-17T15:37:06Z")
Who knows? You know how emotional they are. /s ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/694 "2024-05-17T17:15:54Z")
One presumes that from his POV that by speaking at a Catholic college, he was speaking to the _men_ in the graduating class, and that the women (other than a few deluded sorts) were there to find a husband primarily. Excuse me, I think I’m going to be sick after channeling his old white guy from the 60s & 70s mentality. Honestly, my step-mother (82, and one of the first few classes of practicing female lawyers of her generation) shared all sorts of stories reflecting that attitude when all she wanted to do was _work_ and prove she was just as smart, and just as skilled as her peers. She rocks. But if you read the article, the fucking homemaker quote is among the LEAST horrible things he said. I’d hope for a backlash beyond the existing “he doesn’t speak for us” comment from the NFL if it wants to grow it’s female base, but find it extremely unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/695 "2024-05-17T18:19:57Z")
In yet another sad commentary: > **[Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker's jersey ranks among top-selling...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harrison-butker-jersey-top-selling-nfl-jerseys-kansas-city-chiefs/)** > > Harrison Butker's jersey is currently among the top sellers on the NFL's online store, beating out popular Chiefs teammates such as Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/696 "2024-05-17T21:16:32Z")
He found a way to offend pretty much anybody, and that includes the majority of the straight white Christian men in this country. Do men also find fulfillment in marriage and parenthood? Maybe he thinks they do, because in his case, she does all the work and he takes all the credit. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/697 "2024-05-17T21:21:41Z")
The nuns around here would have a few choice things to say about his “conservative Catholic” views. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/698 "2024-05-18T00:19:28Z")
[Announcer Voice} And Butker misses wide right again. [/AV] ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/699 "2024-05-18T02:44:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The nuns around here would have a few choice things to say about his “conservative Catholic” views. They would not be alone: > The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested. > **[Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica blast Harrison Butker's speech](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/05/17/benedictine-sisters-of-mount-st-scholastica-blast-harrison-butkers-speech/73739274007/)** > > Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica did not concur with Harrison Butker’s commencement comments ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-religious-fucks-in-the-news/959066/700 "2024-05-18T07:16:50Z")
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