Ever since the Human Rights Campaign's The Export of Hate report came out, various religious right figures spotlighted in it have been screeching and complaining about how HRC is exposing them to danger or trying to silence them.
The most annoying reaction has been that of Michael Brown, founder of the FIRE School in Ministry in Concord, N.C., and host of the daily, nationally syndicated talk-radio show “The Line of Fire.”
His reaction has been a folksy, Will Rogers type of "Aw shucks. I don't know what HRC is talking about. I'm only defending Christian values." The low key and semi comedic tone Brown has taken is a deliberate attempt to take attention away from the fact that he not only deserves to be included in Export of Hate, but he also deserves the profile given to him by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Amongst other things, Brown has claimed that:
gays use youth suicide victims as 'pawns,'
and defended Uganda anti-homosexuality law as necessary to fight HIV/AIDS.
However for my money, the most awful thing about Brown is the video above, which I don't think he has ever disavowed:
During an interview with GOD TV’s Sid Roth of It's Supernatural!, Michael Brown discussed his new book, A Queer Thing Happened To America, about the deleterious impacts of gay rights in America. Best known for its over-the-top promotional ad, A Queer Thing Happened To America focuses on “analyzing the foundational arguments of the gay civil rights movement and exposing the extreme intolerance of those calling for tolerance.” Before the interview, a trailer for the book features a boy at school imagining the terror of having same-sex parents: over-sentimental mothers who bandage his wounds and kiss him before he goes to sleep and dysfunctional fathers who tie his shoe laces and send him off to school.
I think that when Shakespeare wrote that line about "daggers behind smiles," he had folks like Brown in mind
In other news:
Facebook Requires LGBT People To Use Real Names Even In Countries Where Homosexuality Is A Crime - Oh Facebook. You are seriously screwing up.
Congressman Defends Anti-LGBT Discrimination With Irrelevant Study - Such is the dangers of ignoring times when anti-gay groups and activists use anti-gay junk science. With no proper push back, these monstrosities make their way to Congress where they can do some REAL damage to the lgbt community.
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I wound up in one of my insane arguments last night with a group of people who were getting on this guy who posted an image of the star of David used in WWII The intention was to say they are both labeling. Well it went all wrong after that. The man was saying how pointing people out can lead to terrible things, of course everyone took it as him saying FB will be soon gathering up gays to kill in concentration camps, because no one has ever heard of a metaphor before. My argument was that making people use their real names will lead to more deaths in countries where being gay is a crime. They said I was overreacting because they can go on grinder to find them. Its nice to see I'm not the only one concerned about this part of the issue, or assume that all gay men are on grinder.
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