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October 27, 2009
Moonbats Screech That Penn State Shirt Design Resembles a Cross
Posted by Van Helsing at October 27, 2009 9:47 AM
In Hammer movies, all Van Helsing had to do to reduce Dracula to a smoking carcass was come up with something that resembled the shape of the cross, like crossed candlesticks or the shadow of a windmill. Likewise, anything that even vaguely calls to mind the symbol of Christ causes moonbats to sputter in outrage, even including the design on this shirt:

Michal Berns, a junior majoring in media law and policy, said she refused to buy the $15 shirt because of its religious connotations. …
While Berns acknowledged the shirt's single blue stripe resembles the stripe on the team's football helmet, she and others at the university's Hillel Jewish organization plan to show their school pride in other ways.
"There always has to be some sort of separation," said Berns, referring to the state-funded school and religious affiliation.
While Berns has every right to be an idiot, as well as to refrain from buying the shirt, it's doubtful she'll be as tolerant toward the rest of us if she ends up practicing law.
Stephanie Bennis, one of the creators of the design, confirms that the blue stripe is a reference to the Nittany Lions football team, not the hated Jesus Christ:
That was the entire idea. And all we thought was normally wording goes right across the chest. That's truly the reason why we did it. …
It's just sad to see that in this day and age, the most offensive thing on a shirt can be what people see as a religious symbol.
Are we going to ban lowercase t's in the alphabet? Where do you draw the line?
But it doesn't matter if they intended to make a cross. It only matters that moonbats are offended. The Anti-Defamation League actually complained to Penn State, even while acknowledging that the thought crime of forming a cross appeared to be "inadvertent and unintentional."
On a tip from Jimbo.
Comments
Trying to find where to buy these! Searched five pages of penn-tees and it's nowhere to be found - leave a link if anyone finds it for sale.
Posted by: nancz at October 27, 2009 10:06 AM
OOOOOOGA BOOOOOGA!
What's next? These people are going to force women to wear large bag like coverings over their bodies, they can't drive cars and walk ten paces behind their man as they travel in their packs like animals designed for procreation. They and all men will have to bow facing east several times a day for obligatory prayers and if you don't agree to any of this (and much, much more where that came from) then you will find yourself swinging from a rope in a soccer stadium.
Oh wait......wrong religion.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 27, 2009 10:09 AM
Nancz, here they are.
Posted by: Henry at October 27, 2009 10:20 AM
NEXT, Penn State won't be able to call them "white-out" shirts. They'll have to be "Shirts of No Color"
Click on my name if you want to see REAL 'white-out' garb. (Warning: may result in Moonbat faintings)
Posted by: Sylvia at October 27, 2009 10:41 AM
No longer available for sale.
Posted by: FreeWillie at October 27, 2009 10:46 AM
Henry,
They are not available for sale. The anti-Christians must have beat us to the punch.
Posted by: offitherheds at October 27, 2009 10:59 AM
Now if it had been made in the shape of a crescent, that would have been AOK. Sort of like the Flight 93 Memorial.
Posted by: Mousey Tongue at October 27, 2009 11:12 AM
Sounds like Ms. Berns is looking to earn herself a position as one of Obama's Czars.
Posted by: LittleMissPerfect at October 27, 2009 11:25 AM
This reminds me of the cross the moonbats saw behind Mike Huckabee in one of his campaign ads. Turns out it was just a cross member of a bookshelf.
So, moonbats, what happens when you see something that is evocative of a cross? Does it burn?
Posted by: Judith M. at October 27, 2009 11:27 AM
Let's hope she doesn't breed. We don't need more of these nincompoops.
Posted by: Moonbat Skullcracker at October 27, 2009 11:31 AM
Its like in The Exorcist when Linda Blair screeches "Its burns! It burns!!!"
Posted by: Mousey Tongue at October 27, 2009 11:32 AM
For the record, I have no use for religion - any religion.
That being said, the reaction to these t-shirts is yet another indication of the basic insanity of the moonbat left. As Stephanie said in the original article, "where do you draw the line"?
I'm waiting for the moonbats to start chopping down telephone poles...
Posted by: Rusty Bill at October 27, 2009 11:39 AM
Why in the world would they make them unavailable for sale? Seems to me they could make a killing off the backlash. As P.J. O'Rourke once said, "Opportunity is knocking. It's jiggling the doorknob and will try the windows if you're not careful."
Posted by: Karin at October 27, 2009 11:48 AM
Just as bad as that stupid self centred atheists father MICHEAL NEWDOW who demands the whole nation abide by his own atheism Frankly he needs to move to CUBA where his athests ilk are appreated
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at October 27, 2009 11:53 AM
Just like that wacko SUN MUNG WEIRD MOON wanting all christians to give up the cross ANOTHER WEIRDO WEIRDMOON
Posted by: Flu-Bird at October 27, 2009 11:56 AM
Red states have worse health care than blue states.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 27, 2009 11:56 AM
@Karin
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
Don't know who said it but they sure nailed it.
Posted by: FreeWillie at October 27, 2009 11:57 AM
ANNON is a weirdo freak
Posted by: 300 LBS PARAKEET at October 27, 2009 11:58 AM
@Anonymous at October 27, 2009 11:56 AM
Yea the Massachusetts model is just wonderful! It's bankrupted the state and medical care has declined significantly. My wife is an ER nurse (23 years) in the Theater district and you should here the horror stories she has to tell. OH MY! If this is government health care, Thanks, but no thanks!
Posted by: FreeWillie at October 27, 2009 12:03 PM
Maybe you should try Louisiana as an alternative.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 27, 2009 12:12 PM
Just more oppression the left MUST save us from. If they didn't have something to save us from what good are they? Anon is a prime example of how wonderful they are. He's our savior, like Soro's commie bitch in the Whitehouse.
Posted by: TED at October 27, 2009 12:21 PM
Louisiana? You mean all the people Nagan let die and set on top of their houses waiting for the GOVERNMENT to same them!? That Louisiana?
Posted by: TED at October 27, 2009 12:23 PM
People are fleeing blue states for red ones. Theres a reason for that.
Healthcare doesnt mean a whole lot when you dont have a pot to piss in - as my mother always said.
Posted by: Mousey Tongue at October 27, 2009 12:24 PM
And its actually more about blue counties vs. red counties that actually matters. Its why the urban cores (blue cities) continue to lose population as people flee the cities for the counties outside the urban cores or decay. Ive lived near Pittsburgh my whole life and see why people keep coming out here to build homes/businesses while the cities decay and become crime ridden slums. Butler county continues to gain refugees from the city.
Posted by: Mousey Tongue at October 27, 2009 12:27 PM
Posted by: FreeWillie at October 27, 2009 11:57 AM
It's supposedly the winning entry in a yearly contest at Texas A&M that asks entrants to assign a definition to a contemporary term. It's been going around for years. I printed it out 3 years ago and hung it on my office wall, it's still there right now.
Posted by: Seamus at October 27, 2009 1:27 PM
I think they sold out of them. They sold 30,000 of them. From the article:
Bill Mahon, vice president for university relations, said the design was based on the single blue stripe on the football team's helmets and will not be pulled from store shelves as some have asked. "The shirts have sold out and no changes are planned," he said.
Take that, PC obsessed moonbats!
Posted by: Henry at October 27, 2009 1:36 PM
I should have known it was a damn Aggie.
Posted by: FreeWillie at October 27, 2009 3:01 PM
Sylvia:
The 'white-out' shirt is the 'inclusion of all colors' shirt. A shirt of no color would be black. I would expect the libs would like the white shirt, and dislike the black shirt, in the interest of inclusiveness, until their heads exploded from the contradiction of their basic tenets.
Posted by: Viking04 at October 27, 2009 3:41 PM
I'll buy one as soon as there are more in stock
Posted by: SK at October 27, 2009 4:09 PM
I'm not particularly a Penn State fan, but
this is a great video based on the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9OBztsVZg&feature=related
Posted by: Anonymous at October 27, 2009 4:14 PM
I've lost the link but someone had proof that moonbats were a blood relative to vampire bats, so it's not surprising that there would be a fear of cross looking things. No wonder all the Twilight hype is going on now. Hey, isn't the girl with the complaint Jewish?
Posted by: Eric at October 27, 2009 4:34 PM
RE: Posted by: Sylvia at October 27, 2009 10:41 AM
Remember, Sylvia - the KKK was a Democratic organization. They also persecuted people like me for both my ethnic and religious heritage.
The dumb b#stards were pretty harmless until some fool showed them how to cut eye holes in those sheets......
Posted by: TonyD95B at October 27, 2009 5:17 PM
Eric, that is probably why the ADL (hate hustlers extraordinaire) got involved. They're the same group trying to make the New Testament 'illegal'.
From their own website.
http://www.adl.org/main_Interfaith/newtestament.htm
Posted by: SK at October 27, 2009 5:17 PM
I wonder if the people who complained about this shirt watched Da Vinci Code and thought "Wow, that's a really interesting movie and it is totally plausible." Lol.
Posted by: mandible claw at October 27, 2009 8:12 PM
The same wackos who belive everything they see from 60 MINUTES,20/20 NIGHTLINE,DATELINE NBC, and everything they read in their birdcage liners
Posted by: Winged Avenger at October 27, 2009 9:18 PM
This reminds me of when the Islambats (Chiroptera muhammadumbass) objected to a soccer jersey because it had a red cross on the front, and it reminded them of "the horrors and persecution they endured" ABOUT 800 YEARS AGO when Christian soldiers wore them in the crusades. The Italian Soccer team from Inter Milan were not happy about that- but I don't know for sure how it turned out. If the rest of Eurabia is any indication, however...
Posted by: Murff at October 28, 2009 4:15 AM
Expressing your religious belief by displaying a + is discouraged.
Expressing your religious belief by displaying a polar bear is encouraged.
Environmentalism is the worlds fastest growing religion, backed by the world government, with no seperation like church and state.
Praise Gaea. Kill your unborn.
sarc//off
Posted by: RICH at October 28, 2009 5:43 AM


