aaargh

Words almost fail me:

International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions.

Now major leaders of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the erroneous impression that homosexuality is acceptable.

"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."

Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."

So let's make sure we get this right:

Thousand plus years of death, destruction and massacre in the name of your preferred Invisible Super Friend? Check.

Suicide bombings, helicopters firing missiles into civilians, crazy evangelicals wanting to see the world end? Check.

But no nasty icky gay people, all of our preferred God(s) agree on that.

It'd be touching that they can agree on something, if it wasn't that I want to see them all die. Damnit, when I finally get godlike powers, there's gonna be some serious smiting going on.

And in other religious news, both Jerry Falwell and the Pope are on life support. I think PZ Myers said it best:

I'll do for him what I think he has earned.

I will pray for him.