tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post2864524343498776958..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: Forgotten Heroes of Conservatism- Part 2- Billy James HargisGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-9572321663335519212018-03-22T06:23:54.651-07:002018-03-22T06:23:54.651-07:00About that sex business with the Christian College...About that sex business with the Christian College students.<br />Although he later denied doing anything wrong at all, at the time he tried out a defense of saying that his behavior with the students had been caused by "bad genes". [He was the victim, see!]. Apparently that didn't work so he went to a full Trumpian denial of inconvenient facts.<br />Oh, and his home base of Tulsa was, of course, the scene of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-75586139576874418062018-03-11T20:41:17.231-07:002018-03-11T20:41:17.231-07:00Father Coughlin is absolutely on my list. I'v...Father Coughlin is absolutely on my list. I've put him off for a little while, because he is the person on the list that I think the most of my readers will already know something about, but rest assured, he has been on the list since I first wanted to do this.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-20399731446022097792018-03-11T17:53:52.470-07:002018-03-11T17:53:52.470-07:00Thanks for dropping by my blog. As soon as I read...Thanks for dropping by my blog. As soon as I read about this entry as one of Infidel's links, I wondered if Father Coughlin was one of those profiled. Not yet, although you did mention him in the previous installment. I have a particular interest in him, as I used to live slighly more than a mile down the street from his church. The place gave me the creeps. It's also still a hot bed of the most conservative strains within Catholocism, decades after Coughlin died.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-33263554248591025902018-03-10T11:25:16.374-08:002018-03-10T11:25:16.374-08:00I note Mr. Hargis had no military service. He was ...I note Mr. Hargis had no military service. He was certainly old enough to have served in WWII, but there's no indication, in Wikipedia, that he tried to enlist, but was turned down for some reason, or that he was drafted, but maybe couldn't pass the physical. Nor, does it appear he made an effort to serve in a civilian capacity, for the war effort. this makes him even more like most modern "conservatives": loud and proud "patriots", who do anything necessary to avoid actually going in harm's way.cpinvanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-17550184052704255552018-03-09T21:18:11.056-08:002018-03-09T21:18:11.056-08:00Bigmike:
I have wondered about this for a long ti...Bigmike:<br /><br />I have wondered about this for a long time. First of all, let me say that there is nothing wrong, as far as I am concerned, with being gay. My comments totally revolve around the almost incomprehensible hypocrisy and double standards involved in these particular people, who spent years railing against homosexuality, and then engaged in gay behavior. That comment out of the way, I sort of know what is coming up in this series, and unfortunately this is not the last time that we will encounter people on the right, some of them viciously ant-gay in public, who engaged in a lot of gay behavior in private. Maybe by the time I get to really filthy hypocrites on this subject, such as Roy Cohn, I'll figure out more to say, but I sort of doubt it.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-22563078328545950432018-03-09T09:41:22.618-08:002018-03-09T09:41:22.618-08:00No, I didn't mean that as a criticism, I just ...No, I didn't mean that as a criticism, I just thought it might explain why you couldnt find any of his songs online.Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-14466789403950089252018-03-09T08:48:45.745-08:002018-03-09T08:48:45.745-08:00How come there is such an association of closeted ...How come there is such an association of closeted homosexuals and the conservative movement? I always wondered if anyone has done a study on this to see what the percentage are with regards to the liberal and conservative movements?Bigmikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-53752224927598087692018-03-08T10:00:43.719-08:002018-03-08T10:00:43.719-08:00From what I read, Hargis definitely did make music...From what I read, Hargis definitely did make musical recordings as well as some spoken word ones. I believe this is one of the former, but the information I saw was a little unclear. Hardly effects what I was trying to get across, however.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-7075858734239197562018-03-08T08:58:34.616-08:002018-03-08T08:58:34.616-08:00Not really the point, but I would bet $ that is a ...Not really the point, but I would bet $ that is a spoken-word albim, akin to Ronald Reagan's album warning about the dangers of socialized medicine.Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-36499714977789312612018-03-06T13:59:55.706-08:002018-03-06T13:59:55.706-08:00Thanks, and don't worry. I already have a num...Thanks, and don't worry. I already have a number of names on my list.<br /><br />And just in case anyone was wondering, my comments about many of these people's sexual orientation have nothing to do with their being gay, but are intended to show that when it comes to their most abhorred acts, their religious values mean nothing to them when they stand in the way of their own behavior. Evangelical Christianity and Conservatism itself are nothing but elaborately constructed screens to hide their greed and hatred.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-70335390877117854392018-03-06T11:13:40.613-08:002018-03-06T11:13:40.613-08:00Kind of makes you wonder what Hargis and General W...<i>Kind of makes you wonder what Hargis and General Walker got up to on those cold Tulsa nights, huh?</i><br /><br />Not the most appetizing mental image there, but let it pass.<br /><br />It's very striking how many of these batshit-crazy religious right-wing fanatics turn out to have repressed homosexual impulses. I'm convinced it plays a role in making them what they are. Growing up fervently religious, thinking of homosexuality as an unspeakable sin, and then discovering those impulses within oneself, must create almost intolerable stresses. It's no wonder such people often try to attack those impulses by obsessively attacking "sin" in other people. If people like Hargis, Walker, Mateen, etc. had grown up in an accepting society, they might have lived out their lives as normal gay people instead of turning into persecutors.<br /><br /><i>I hope to show that the entire thing was produced by a relatively small, interrelated group of charlatans, criminals and corrupt politicians and religious figures.</i><br /><br />I hope you'll continue the series. The better we understand the enemy, the better we can fight them. I had barely heard of Hargis before this.Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.com