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Contents:

• LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• ANTI-GAY

LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN

He, and untls others, had prevly hoped that a vote durg a special ssn of the UMC’s general nference last month would change the urse of the church’s relatnship wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer vote, however, not only strengthened the church’s ban on openly gay clergy and same-sex marriag, but also creased penalti for future vlatns. Oliveto is the Methodist church's first openly gay Sangosti / The Denver Post via Getty Imag fileBishop Karen Oliveto, the first openly gay bishop the history of the UMC, se the general nference vote as not ditive of the valu of the church.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi. AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals.

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The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party.