Si, nos amamos!*
by CarolineZach directed my attention to this dispatch on new Chick tracts, which reminded me of my favorite one ever: In which a teacher fruitlessly tries to teach her students that gay families can be full of love the way straight families are, only to reinforce that public schools are evil. It’s in Spanish.
Last year at a funeral for one of my dad’s oldest, most beloved friends, a minister informed us that “Even Hitler himself” could have given himself to God and gone to Heaven. Don’t get me wrong — religion isn’t for me, but I don’t for a second think anyone else should or should not believe in a specific way. But in this case, leading us to believe the most blatant war criminal and murderer in the history of the world was in line right next to our grandparents, friends, and predecessors was probably not a good move.
After the ceremony, we remarked to the life partner of the deceased that the minister was a little much for us, to which he looked embarrassed and said, “He’s my brother.” Whoops!
* “Yes, we love each other!”
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I think the first one was just insanely racist in a way I couldn’t quite pinpoint. The second one felt like the plot of some crappy beach novel. Chick needs to move on to full-length novels!