Now that President Obama has signed lgbt-inclusive hate crimes legislation, every wannabe religious right activist with access to a computer and someone dumb enough to fund them is coming out of the woodwork looking to profit on the supposed coming persecution of Christians by the lgbt community.Last night, Pam Spaulding clued me in on the following from Gary Cass and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission:
"In other nations, like Canada, where hate crime laws have been enacted, it is Christians, specifically conservative Christians who hold to the historic Christian faith and it's values, that become the object of institutionalized, governmental hate."
"Christians who dare to tell the truth about the social, moral, spiritual and health consequences of illicit homosexual acts are accused of hate speech and intimidated into silence with threats of fines or jail."
"The fact the hate bill had to be passed in such an unscrupulous and cynical manner (attaching it to the Defense Authorization Act) reveals the depth of President Obama's commitment to a radical, anti-Christian agenda. He will stop at nothing to undermine the will of the majority of Americans to pay back militant homosexual activists who raised millions of dollars for his campaign and worked to get him elected."
So the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is claiming that Christians will be under siege thanks to President Obama signing hate crimes legislation.
Now this factoid has been refuted continuously, so there is no need to go over it again.
I would prefer to show you just exactly who does the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission feels would need defending from so-called persecution.
Remember the controversy earlier this year about the church in Connecticut, Manifested Glory Ministries, which attempted to exorcise a young teen from the "spirit of homosexuality?"
Guess who went on record defending this vile act?
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission:
CADC wants to know where is the tolerance for a church who tried to help a young man who freely asked for help to overcome homosexual temptations? No church deserves to be maligned for trying to help a troubled teen who asked for prayer.
Why are homosexuals so outraged?
And then there the group's statement defending those 11 groups who have been referred to as official anti-gay hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal pro-homosexual legal group, has compiled a list of “hate groups” throughout America. According to their latest list of 926 hate groups, if you advocate for biblical righteousness you are lumped together with violent neo-Nazis and skinheads. This is slanderous on its face.
Fine Christian groups that work hard to protect biblical marriage have been demonized on the SPLC list. The only reason Christian organizations are labeled hate groups is because of their stance on traditional marriage, as defined in the Bible. There is absolutely nothing hateful about this. In fact, the opposite is true. If you will not speak the truth to those lost in homosexuality, or in any other sin, you are unloving.
Here are just two of those "loving" groups:
The Family Research Institute - that is the organization run by discredited researcher Paul Cameron.
We all know Paul Cameron. He is the guy who has been censured by individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds including the American Psychological Association, The American Sociological Association, conservative leader Williams Bennett, and anti-gay group Exodus International.
He is the guy who makes up stories about gay men castrating children in bathrooms.
He is the guy who publishes phony studies claiming, amongst other things, that gay men eat feces.
He is the guy who said the following:
“If you isolate sexuality as something solely for one’s own personal amusement, and all you want is the most satisfying orgasm you can get—and that is what homosexuality seems to be—then homosexuality seems too powerful to resist. The evidence is that men do a better job on men, and women on women if all you are looking for is an orgasm.” - Rolling Stones magazine, March 18, 1999
Then there is Abiding Truth Ministries - that is the group founded by Scott Lively. He is the guy who wrote that fradulent book The Pink Swastika which connects the gay community to the Nazi party; the book that has been repeatedly discredited.
If these three groups (Manifested Glory Church, The Family Research Institute, and Abiding Truth Ministries) are the examples of Christians needing protection from the lgbt community by the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, then I have one question.
Who is going to protect the lgbt community from the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission?
Related posts and articles:
'Christian' organization doesn't know the difference between a pro-family group and a hate group
Who's crazier? The church that tries to 'exorcise' homosexuality or those who would defend it?
'A Mighty Army' Page 4
Queer Science
The Holy War on Gays
Making Myths
As a Chrisian, I think it does Christ a disservice when these "Christian" groups present such hate and bile. Jesus loves all equally and unconditionally.
ReplyDeleteWhat cracks me up about anti-homosexual activists is this clear assumption that, without massive social taboos against gay sex (or sex for pleasure in general), homosexuality would be completely irresistible to everyone.
ReplyDeleteThat these people harbor the idea that gay sex is so much more appealing than heterosexual sex in and of itself says a lot about their own natural inclinations. I don't necessarily believe that all homophobes are self-hating gays themselves, but sometimes the shoe fits.