Monday, April 22, 2013

Anti-gay Liberty Counsel proves the venomous pedigree of its rhetoric


I found the above ridiculous conversation between the Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber and Mat Staver to be very interesting. They were making a illogical comparison about how naming anti-gay groups is similar to what the Nazi party did to the Jews in German before World War 2. Staver lists a bunch of things he claims the Nazis did to stigmatize those of the Jewish faith.. I found it very telling when one makes a real comparison:

Staver - Nazis painted false straw man images of Jewish people. But isn't this was what Staver did in October 2011 when he said that gay rights will doom civilization:



Staver - Nazis dehumanized Jews. But isn't this what Barber, Staver's radio cohost, did to gays in September 2011 when he claimed that gays advance pedophilia:



And Staver himself did to gays in early April this year when he and Barber claimed that "tolerance" of gays is a cancer which destroys societies:



Staver - Nazis fanned an environment where people hated Jews. But by falsely labeling gays as sex-obsessed in the following clip, isn't Staver - and Barber - doing the same thing:



I generally don't like to pull out a reference to Nazis, but I also don't like unfair comparisons. And, truth be told, if we were to ask the question just whose rhetoric mostly resembles that of the Nazi party, I think Staver's and Barber's has the lgbt community beaten by a couple of miles.

2 comments:

Christian said...

Wow, this is honestly the most deluded stuff I have heard in a while. These guys should be on a list of hate groups.
I am sure they also like to spout the religious tolerance rubbish as well.

Dennis said...

Let's not forget that some of those emblems pinned to the shirts of the victims of the Nazi purge were pink triangles. Feel free to substitute "gay" for "Jew" in your reworking of their rhetoric.