Having a tattoo won't make you gay.

Just as not having one won't either.

Altho I'd be highly suspicious of anyone with an HIV Pos tattoo.

I think it's funny

Maybe it's airbrushed, rather than a real tattoo? I bet a tattoo artist could tell just from the photo. The reds and yellows on real tattoos usually aren't quite that vibrant. My vote is for "airbrushed on before attending an anti-conservative something demonstration"...

I call fake.

What's with the weird eye area on the eagle?

If it was real, you could make the tattoo-ee's head explody by asking them a couple questions:
1. Is 'Murrica a Christian nation, founded on Christian principles?

2. Being a Christian therefore involves reading the Bible, right?

3. So does reading the Bible make a person a faggot?

Please, someone find the fucktard with that tattoo, and ask him (or her) those questions.

it's hyperbolic ....

believing in the literal word of the bible, does not not always mean they actually read it.

well duh ... yes I do know that the people that read the most in this nation ... read the bible.

Then again ... does trolling around online incessantly count for something? Perhaps not.

The tattoo is just venting facetious anger about people discarding "knowledge" for hard line Christian morals.

I can't believe Dr. Awesome I have to defend a tattoo ... it was never meant to be "logical" political cartoons rarely are ... they are just exposing hypocrisy, the opposite of logic.

That said, political cartoons get dated, tattoos more or less last a lifetime ... wtf was that guy thinking?

That tattoo reminds me of the time I went poking around on MySpace to see what an ex-boyfriend was up to. Found his wife's page. Under "Favorite Books" she wrote "Yeah, right". As in yeah, right, reading is for nerds. Yeah. I gave myself a pass to feel smugly superior for at least a day after that.

this is a real tattoo...and it's hilarious...except for the "faggot" part, that could have been done without...

Um, Tri-State? You're talking about nuance. The 'Fuck Yeah, 'Murrica!' crowd doesn't really get nuance. Nor irony. But you just go on, trying to defend that tattoo. We'll just sit here and watch, it should be entertaining.

don't hate on the ironic tattoos...

@6: Maybe he listens to the Bible on tape?

I'm going to choose to believe those books are the Torah, the Bible and the Koran.

@13 Actually, madcap, I'm pretty sure it's the Twilight trilogy...

Well, if NOT reeding (sic) the bible was good enough for the faithful during the Dark Ages, then not reeding it today should be good enough for them as well.

And really, when you've got a priest at the front of the church telling you what's in it already, reeding it is sort of redundant anyway, right?

99% of all tattoos are ugly.

It's like Fahrenheit 451 for birds.

Dr. Awesome ... I'm defending the concept not the tattoo ..

In three years it will be as relevant and confusing as "o-grab-me"

Damn ... I should have said that from the very beginning .. it's 2 am on the east coast

Haha, that's hilarious! Guys, did you leave your senses of humor in other threads' comments?

It's a librarian's!

It's a librarian's! Or maybe the unpaid intern's who can't reed.