Kathy Lee Gifford is a total tard

[Aggie]

Kathy Lee is a total tard for saying that Pagans are "Nasty and Bad" on national television... so I'm doing something about it.. even if it's something little.

Aggie

[Aggie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Lee_Gifford

One of her grandparents was Jewish and her mother was a Methodist;
Gifford grew up in a culturally Jewish environment, but she became a
born-again Christian at the age of 12 (after seeing a Christian
education film directed by Billy Graham), and told interviewer Larry
King, "I was raised with many Jewish traditions and raised to be very
grateful for my Jewish heritage. [2]

Her brother, Rev. David Paul Epstein, is an evangelical Baptist
preacher and pastor of Calvary Baptist Church on West 57th Street in
Manhattan, New York City. David and Kathie Lee have remained close
through the years.

Kathie Lee attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
studying drama and music.

She has two children, Cody, 18 and Cassidy, 14

[Aggie]

The response to the Kathy Lee Gifford story has been fantastic in the chatterboard.  If any of you want--  feel free to post your horror stories about discrimination here.  I dont mind, and I think it's good for all of us to vent!

One of these days, when I get a few hours.. I'll have to sit down and tell all my stories.  I do have a few.  My anxieties are based in real life-- not just some paranoia about what could possibly happen.  I've had everything happen to me from Pentecostal exorcism gone bad, to being harassed by a Southern Baptist chaplain while recovering at Womack Army Medical facility.  I've had friends walk through the mall and get spat on by street preachers in North Carolina... I've had co-workers come up to me and say "Do you believe in the Lord?" and when I said "yes".. they would say "good.. 'cause there was a rumor goin' round you were a Satanist.. and we were all gonna pray for you."


*hugs*
Aggie

[Hogan]

... I've had co-workers come up to me and say "Do you believe in the Lord?" and when I said "yes".. they would say "good.. 'cause there was a rumor goin' round you were a Satanist.. and we were all gonna pray for you."

Actually, and disregarding the trouble you would THEN be in, your answer to that could have been: "Oh, but I believe in Satan too", especially since Christianity agrees that he IS real, just as is the Lord and Jesus... 

Remind me of a penfriend I had in Italy who, despite being an ateist, told me that she believed in Jesus... or as she put it:
"I believe there has been a man named Jesus, a charismatic and great man, no doubt about that... it's the part about Son of God that I have trouble believeing in..."

Myself I have no tales of religious trouble to speak off, coming from a country and community that pretty much lets one believe what one wants to believe in, as long as it doesn't bother anyone else, doesn't come between friends, and nobody comes knocking on your door trying to convert you... or perhaps its just me that clings to this belief, despairing when I hear how other people are treated, just because of something intangible as belief...?