August 9, 2007 6:20 AM

Another DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener

Kill Or Convert, Brought To You By the Pentagon

DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener #636: Stephen Baldwin

Actor Stephen Baldwin, the youngest member of the famous Baldwin brothers, is no longer playing Pauly Shore’s sidekick in comedy masterpieces like Biodome. He has a much more serious calling these days. Baldwin became a right-wing, born-again Christian after the 9/11 attacks, and now is the star of Operation Straight Up (OSU), an evangelical entertainment troupe that actively proselytizes among active-duty members of the US military. As an official arm of the Defense Department’s America Supports You program, OSU plans to mail copies of the controversial apocalyptic video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces to soldiers serving in Iraq. OSU is also scheduled to embark on a “Military Crusade in Iraq” in the near future…. “We feel the forces of heaven have encouraged us to perform multiple crusades that will sweep through this war torn region,” OSU declares on its website about its planned trip to Iraq. “We’ll hold the only religious crusade of its size in the dangerous land of Iraq.”

In today’s episode of “Your Tax Dollars @ Work…Or Not”, Stephen Baldwin attempts to convert the entire US military to Christianity on your dime. No, it’s not the USO. No entertainers are trying to cheer up the troops. Yes, Baldwin and his Operation F—k Up Straight Up are trying to create Christian warriors in their apparently God-ordained crusade to spread radical fundamentalist Christianity throughout the world…using your tax dollars. Hey, we’re the most powerful country in the world. We can do anything we want…right??

Frankly, I could care less if and/or how Baldwin and his cohorts want to spread their ignorant, xenophobic, and bastardized Christianity to the four corners of the world. Stupid is as stupid does. As much as I detest their ideology and philosophical bent, this is still (at least for the moment) a free country. No, the problem I have is that Baldwin’s Operation F—k Up Straight Up is supported- morally and apparently financially- by the US government. Your tax dollars and mine are going to support a group of maroons who wouldn’t recognize the teachings of Jesus Christ if they collectively snuck up and bit these fools on the @$$. Man, these knuckle-dragging troglodytes really do put the “fun” into Fundamentalism, don’t they??

So much for the separation of Church and State….

Time was when Government generally recognized that it’s job was to represent and respect the interest of ALL Americans, not just self-righteous, intolerant Red Meat Evangelicals bent on converting heathens regardless of the cost or collateral damage. Of course, the federal government has always been held hostage by one special interest or another, but since the rise to power of Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © our Government has become disturbingly and aggressively holier-than-thou.

The federal government is now suffused at every level with dominionist theocrats bent on creating an America by, of, and for Right-wing Evangelical zealots. Let’s face it; if you’re not a Christian, you’re really not welcome in this America. After all, a REAL American patriot worships Jesus Christ…and isn’t afraid to kill for him, either.

“The constitution has been assaulted and brutalized,” Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan Administration White House counsel, ex-Air Force judge advocate (JAG), and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told me. “Thanks to the influence of extreme Christian fundamentalism, the wall separating church and state is nothing but smoke and debris. And OSU is the IED that exploded the wall separating church and state in the Pentagon and throughout our military.” Weinstein continued: “The fact that they would even consider taking their crusade to a Muslim country shows the threat to our national security and to the constitution and everyone that loves it.”

Having travelled throughout the Middle East, I’m astonished that Operation F—k Up Straight Up would even consider conducting a crusade in a Muslim country? How would most Americans feel if radical, intolerant Muslims began doing the same thing here? I don’t think I really need to answer that question, especially in the aftermath of 9.11. Yet Baldwin and his Operation F—k Up Straight Up sees no hypocrisy inherent in taking their foaming-at-the-mouth dominionist theology into the heart of the Islamic world.

Then again, as a DUMB@$$-American, Baldwin probably thinks that since the rest of the world simply hasn’t had the benefit of his religious conversion, he has the right- nay, the responsibility- to bring the Good News to the heathen, murdering hordes. Frankly, I hope they have him for lunch.

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