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They must have a script they circulate. I get these responses all the time. The one that bothers me the most is “you hate us.”  In fact, I do not - but a principled disagreement is taken as visceral loathing.  One would hope that the “pro-gay” people would listen once in a while, but it is talking to a brick wall to ask them to do so.

And not a clue as to how to interpret the Bible…

I note that this guy (who sounds stereotypical) calls you “Mr Kinsey.”

Tee hee—what a fun message. It’s like a caricature of all the weak, ill-informed “arguments” that revisionists have used over the years.

. . . I gotta wonder if this is a spoof from a conservative Matt—just to be funny . . .

I think many of us have gotten similar messages either by e-mail or to our faces.Thanks for posting it because it helps to know that you are not alone. The caller obviously does not know you well, and is unlikely to want to engage in a listening process in order to get to know you better. His loss…

It’s the favorite tactic of the liberal establishment - “dropping a bomb”, where they get to say their part but they aren’t interested in what anyone else has to say on the matter.

COWARDLY.  SHELLFISH…er…SELFISH. 

Yawn.  Scratch.  Sniff…nothing to see here.

The voice sounds like Gene Robinson’s. Seriously.

#5, the message is far too intelligent, articulate, and polished to have come from the Bp. of NH.

HAHAHAHA. He went to Harvard, Matt. You’re just some ignorant hick.

Hearing someone accuse Matt+ of being Roman Catholic made my day.  I knew that Reformed stuff was an act…

Yes.  And he’s actually a Moderate AngloCatholic too.

We have nourished a viper in our respective bosoms!

I just posted a piece today citing an article from Psychology Today entitled, “How Ideology Colors Morality.” 

Liberals and conservatives hold to different moral values, which causes liberals to view conservatives as either intellectually or morally deficient—that is, we must be either stupid or evil.  The pity that the moral relativism of liberals, which otherwise causes them to be tolerant of diverse opinions, isn’t sufficient to cause them to see that we don’t believe what they do—and we have a right not to!  No, they must exterminate those who disagree with them—so that the world can be a more tolerant place!

I am glad I didn’t go to Harvard.  There are few things sadder than the victim of a “good” education.

Yeah.  I hate those condescending ivy-league revisionist types.  Good thing we don’t have any in the ACNA.

#11 heh

Aw, Matt.  You had me all primed to hear the Chris Matthews wannabe in full meltdown but I don’t see a link to the recording.  Did I miss something?

Milton,  I originally had the same problem.  Even after reloading the page several times, the player for the recording did not show up in my Firefox browser.  I opened up the page in Chrome and, voilà, right under the line that says:

“The phone message below was left on our parish answering machine Sunday afternoon:” is a little player that you can click on to hear the phone message.

“As anachronistic as William Wordsworth.” That’s not an epithet you hear every day.

The player shows up in old-fashioned Internet Explorer too.

Interesting message. Yeah, yeah, yeah same old same old.  yawn.  They always want to paint conservatives as *haters* who don’t know how to love while they are so open and loving [except to conservatives of course because we are incapable of receiving love]. One wonders why he bothered to leave the message at all. If he knows Matt never intends to do anything, then why bother??

Somewhat off-topic: Yale was begun as an orthodox Christian school because Harvard had gone Unitarian in the early 1800’s. It is sad to see how many colleges begun as firmly Christian schools have slipped away, either into religious heresy or, more likely, into complete anti-faith conditions.