'God Hates Fags' music video stirs up storm in cyberspace

[snopes]

The gay blogosphere is swirling with speculation as to whether a Myspace video for a song titled “The Bible Says” with it’s catchy chorus “God Hates Fags” was made by an actual fundamental ex-gay preacher, a parody made by a performance artist, or, perhaps, a combination of both.

http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/t...?blog_id=11067

[musicgeek]

...the snopesters have been pondering the same thing here.

Me thinks the man doth proest too much.

[bl76km81]

Man, thats too bad, I was counting on being there when the self-righteous beleivers are turned away. Damn I wanted to be there for that!

[Amigone201]

I believe the chorus is actually "God hates a fag."

[F Minor]

I wonder which one.

F "I never liked Michael Barrymore, personally" Minor

[Amigone201]

Originally Posted by F Minor

I wonder which one.

F "I never liked Michael Barrymore, personally" Minor

Marlboro.

[franjava]

YOMANK Amigone!

[Richard W]

Originally Posted by Amigone201

I believe the chorus is actually "God hates a fag."

The first line is "God hates a fag", then it continues "Yeah, God hates fags" and ends "If you're a fag he hates you too".

I find it hard to reconcile the message with his obvious sense of humour (I mean, it is actually quite a snappy and funny song) but I'm coming round to Dan Savage's way of thinking - odd as it may seem, he does more or less mean it.

[E. Q. Taft]

If it's parody, it's pretty subtle, I think. Oh, sure, there are the obvious double entendres, but on the whole the video is pretty straightforward. I think most people who were deliberately trying to be satiric would have gone a little further.

If he is serious...I want to know what happened to the "Hate the sin, love the sinner" philosophy? I would find these guys a little more tolerable if their message was "God loves you, but He hates what you do."

[Amigone201]

Originally Posted by E. Q. Taft

If it's parody, it's pretty subtle, I think. Oh, sure, there are the obvious double entendres, but on the whole the video is pretty straightforward. I think most people who were deliberately trying to be satiric would have gone a little further.

If he is serious...I want to know what happened to the "Hate the sin, love the sinner" philosophy? I would find these guys a little more tolerable if their message was "God loves you, but He hates what you do."

I don't. It sounds like a sneaky, underhanded way of saying what they really mean. "God hates you, and so do I."

[naharnahekim]

Originally Posted by E. Q. Taft

If it's parody, it's pretty subtle, I think. Oh, sure, there are the obvious double entendres, but on the whole the video is pretty straightforward. I think most people who were deliberately trying to be satiric would have gone a little further.

Ahhhh! but perhaps that's the genious of this. Maybe he's simultaniously parodizing those who would agree with the song, and those who would be offended by it by going a little less further than too far. Or maybe he is dead serious in which case I think we can all agree that he went three or four times further than the farthest far that anyone has yet gone, or should go. Then again there are some out there who may think that he has only gone 1/2 as far as they themselves would go, given the oppertunity, or that he should go even farther still by 10 to 12 parsecs over the next 2 and 5/8 fortnights.


In any case, or measure of faredness, I think it's pretty obvious it's a parody. One designed not only to make fun of bigoted trash, but also get a few unbigoted panties in a wad.

[Amigone201]

He'll smite you in the mornin'
He'll smite you in the evenin'
He'll smite you at suppertime!
When you're practicing the buttsex,
God will smite you anytime!

[Amigone201]

Originally Posted by First of Two

Actually, I was going more for the "uninvolved-in-your-personal-life, doesn't want to hear about your sexual preferences, prayers-are-just-annoying-background-noise" kind of God I prefer.

Also your meter doesn't sync with the first verse.

Sorry, that's all I got.

[FloridaGirl]

Does he remind anyone else of Jack Black?

[E. Q. Taft]

Originally Posted by First of Two

Actually, I was going more for the "uninvolved-in-your-personal-life, doesn't want to hear about your sexual preferences, prayers-are-just-annoying-background-noise" kind of God I prefer.

Reminds me a bit of the exorcism scene in Gerrold's Voyage of the Star Wolf....

[Bored and Dangerous]

Originally Posted by Amigone201

He'll smite you in the mornin'
He'll smite you in the evenin'
He'll smite you at suppertime!
When you're practicing the buttsex,
God will smite you anytime!

Yeah, I should really learn not to drink coffee, or for that matter, anything, when reading snopes. YOMANK and probably a NL, too.

Seems to be this guy