Here’s the website for Lord’s Gym in Claremont, California. It shows Jesus as a bodybuilder doing push-ups under the cross. Classy. It boasts:
Lord’s Gym also fosters a non-sex driven environment where men and women can exercise without the discomfort of gawkers and those flaunting their bodies openly. A moderate dress code is encouraged at all franchise locations as well as spiritually focused music and music videos.
It also offers classes in “Chariots of Fire Spin.” I can’t believe they don’t have one on Pontius Pilates. (Hat tip: Slate.) (CORRECTION: The gym is in Clermont, Florida. Not Claremont, California. My bad.)
THE UNFAB FIVE: Yes, it’s Ralph Reed, Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell – all here to help rearrange the lives of young couples who aren’t with the religious right program. Right Wing Eye for the Liberal Guy. Enjoy the movie.
A NEW POLL: The latest poll on marriage rights for gays struck me as interesting. The latest breakdown shows about 25 percent favor of marriage rights, close to 40 percent support civil unions, and 33 percent favor giving gay couples nothing at all. What strikes me about that finding is that the polls haven’t changed much on marriage – with one significant difference. The middle group of Americans – tolerant, but queasy, say – have now come round to civil unions. Civil unions are, in fact, the natural compromise right now. Bottom line: around two-thirds of Americans believe that gays should have either marriage rights or something close to that (called something else). I’m encouraged. The job now is to persuade the middle ground that civil unions would be a far bigger blow to marriage than allowing gays into the institution (because such marriage-lite options would be extended to straights and provide too easy an alternative to marriage). But with numbers like this, how likely is it that America will amend its constitution to bar any enforceable civil benefits for gay couples, as the religious right now wants?
The Dish 