18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!
• GAY RIGHTS
• HOW RSIA’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE END UP FLEEG
• POLL: MOST OPPOSE GAY WEDDGS
• VAST MAJORY OF RSIANS OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY PRI EVENTS – POLL

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

“Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups. 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.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.

Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai. ” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance.

Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material. In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog. 30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children.

THE PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE GAY MARRIAGE LAW

Started 1987 by psychologist Pl Cameron, the Fay Rearch Instute (FRI) has bee the anti-gay movement’s ma source for what Cameron claims is “cuttg-edge rearch” — but is, fact, pletely discreded junk science phed out by a man who has been nmned by three profsnal anizatns.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch.

Camenker, who has long foced on the purported “homosexual agenda” the schools and equently claimed gays are dangero to kids, has repeatedly ced discreded claims om anizatns like the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy that lk homosexualy and pedophilia.

” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair.

THE TOP 10 ARGUMENTS AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: ALL RECEIVE FAILG GRAS!

The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy. As an atheist gay who regards marriage as part of the baggage of heterosexual society which I have e to rpect but n never fully share, I am tempted to say a plague on both your ho, " he wrote the Daily Telegraph source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The historian David Starkey: "I'm torn on gay marriage"Actor Rupert Everett perhaps gave the most lourful argument agast, a 2012 terview the Guardian. "Society gave legal and stutnal exprsn to what many hold to be te - that gay and lbian people should have the same rights to formalise their mment to each other and enjoy the social and legal benefs that oppose-sex upl have, " said the Lord Bishop of Exeter to the Hoe of Lords 2013.

In the 25 years sce was found, has brought 10 s before the US supreme urt, cludg some of the most nsequential s of the last on ntraceptive and gay is, “an aggrsive, strategic legal group that is about Christian supremacy and hegemony the US and the world, ” said Frerick Clarkson, a senr rearch analyst wh Polil Rearch Associat. In another, the group succsfully argued the arts and crafts pany Hobby Lobby should not be required to pay for birth ntrol clud private surance plans, bee of the owner’s Christian unts the former Tmp-appoted US attorney general Jeff Ssns as an ally, and s founrs are a who’s-who list of opponents of gay rights.

Fellow founr Alan Sears wrote the 2003 book: The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom ’s legal work has earned the group glowg reviews om iendly media, such as Fox News, where host Lra Ingraham recently clud Holb on her high-profile ADF’s Connecticut lawsu is, part, an acknowledgement that earlier tactics have a few years ago, Christian legal groups were phg “bathroom bills” across the untry. The se is beg terpreted by the protters as a step towards legimisg LGBTQ+ general secretary for Malawi Council of Church (MCC), the Rev Alemekezeke Chikondi Phiri, who helped anise Thursday’s march the ci of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and Zomba said the Christian church are not agast dividuals but that the practice of homosexualy is a s.

GAY RIGHTS

In fact, their march is ntrary to what is the urt, and I wonr if they really unrstand what they are dog bee the se is not about legalisg homosexualy, ” said Nyasa Rabow Alliance -founr and executive director, Eric Sambisa, said that as well as vlence, the LGBTQ+ muny Malawi is facg challeng to accs jtice. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. ” At s 2010 natnal nventn, the LCMS rpond to the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri’s 2009 cisn (which gave ELCA ngregatns the optn to support lifelong, monogamo, same-sex relatnships) by rtatg the LCMS posn that homosexualy is a s “ any and all suatns” and by enuragg the ELCA to rensir s cisn. Although the current Pope, Francis, holds a somewhat more welg attu toward sexual mori, he has done ltle to undo the Catholic Church’s official nmnatn of same-sex marriage (Wofford, 2014) as some relig groups played a key role the civil rights movement, there are nomatns that now support full legal and relig marriage equaly for gay and lbian upl.

HOW RSIA’S FIRST MARRIED GAY COUPLE END UP FLEEG

Furthermore, those who opposed legalizatn of same-sex marriage were pecially likely to jtify their posn on the basis of relig belief or terpretatns of the Bible (Newport, 2012) feral legalizatn of same-sex marriage beme creasgly probable the Uned Stat, the bate on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights shifted om a foc on discrimatn by the ernment to discrimatn by the private sector (Johnson, 2015), wh relig arguments domatg the rhetoric of those opposg same-sex marriage.

2Materials For more rmatn ncerng the materials and procr for all studi clud this article, nsult our project page on the Open Science Framework: Participants were asked to dite their religsy on a sle rangg om 1 (not at all relig) to 7 (extremely relig) prejudice Participants’ explic attus were measured g ems om the Attus Toward Gay Men subsle (ATGM; Herek, 1994). Opposn to same-sex marriage Participants’ attus toward same-sex marriage were measured terms of support for the feral policy issue “gay marriage” (1 = very negative, 7 = very posive; reverse sred), which was embedd wh a list of 10 ntroversial polici orr to disguise the tent of the measure.

POLL: MOST OPPOSE GAY WEDDGS

General DiscsnIn light of current bat regardg the expansn of gay rights several untri, cludg the Uned Stat, France, Ireland, Rsia, and Atralia, this rearch prents a timely vtigatn to the motivatnal unrpngs of relig opposn to same-sex five studi nducted two untri, we obtaed support for a theoretil mol which relig opposn to same-sex marriage is lked to sexual prejudice and nservative preferenc to mata the stat quo. Our work—and the theoretil amework that spired our rearch—suggts that terventns aimed at rcg antigay prejudice would do well to foc on (a) creasg people’s fort wh viatns om heteronormative romantic arrangements, (b) emphasizg the egalarian aspect of relign, and (c) unrcuttg arguments that morn nceptns of marriage have been variant throughout human this article, we have foced on same-sex marriage, which is but one issue the stggle for sexual equaly. Excludg people om such benefs based on sexual orientatn has negative nsequenc for the mental and physil health of gay men and lbians (Frost, Lehavot, & Meyer, 2015; Herdt & Kertzer, 2006; Mays & Cochran, 2001; Meyer, 1995; Rorick, McCammon, Long, & Allred, 1998) as well as their terpersonal relatnships (Meyer, 2003).

For all of the reasons, elucidatg the social and psychologil procs that shape prejudicial attus and behavrs toward gay men and lbian women is cril for rmg theory and practice aimed at enhancg dividual and llective well-beg as well as the efforts of advocy groups to promote social jtice. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

VAST MAJORY OF RSIANS OPPOSE GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY PRI EVENTS – POLL

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.