Share Christian Christmas Joy With Your Neighbors

The Daily Show last night showed this astonishing product for sale for $82 on the American Family Association web site.

I think it is designed for Christians who are completely oblivious to anything about living in modern society, and want to advertise that ignorance to their friends and neighbors. But I think one of the reviews of the product posted on the AFA's own web site says it best:

Doesn't anyone there notice the similarity to a BURNING CROSS!?!? Why would you EVER want to even remotely chance the connection to a dark and evil part of American History with this wretched thing? And what if your neighbors happen to be -- GASP! -- African-American? And what about the confusion over the inherent symbology [sic] -- the Cross is a symbol of EASTER and Christ's Death, not Christmas and His birth. All you do with this is emphasize the degradation of Biblical knowledge and understanding of history. Not to mention the crass commercialism inherent in such a tacky, ostentatious display of overly exuberant publicly immodest crassness. I can only suspect that purchasers of this obnoxious monstrosity will proudly display it alongside the plastic pink flamingos and tastelessly overdone garden gnomes in their front yards.

The AFA proudly display their agenda on their web site. Among some of the things they brag about:

• Getting the 'pro-homosexual' show Ellen cancelled.
• Sponsored a rally to support Judge Roy Moore of Alabama who refused to remove the ten commandments from his court house.
• Attacking the Howard Stern Show to make it cleaner.
• Promoting Pornography Awareness Week.
• Fighting to remove pornography availability from prisons.
• In 1994 they launched a War On Divorce. I'm sure that's going great.
• The AFA promote censorship by trying to organize boycotts on advertisers who buy advertising space during TV shows that include adult material including profanity, nudity, sex or violence.
• They claim to reach out to 'homosexuals' offering 'healing' and 'love' at the 'Cross of Christ.'

They also have a series of other 'issues' they like to keep track on that basically appear to be your usual right wing fundamentalist crap. The typical fare of pretending Christians in America are horribly persecuted, and then whining about freedom to indulge in things they consider immoral such as gambling, pornography, sex education, equal rights for gay people, abortion etc.

Put me down for a couple of burning crosses, just in time for Christmas.