Should Gay Marriage Be Legal? 6 Pros and Cons

Contents:

• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

In a 2007 open letter to the Rsian people, he asserted that “homosexualy is a personaly disorr that volv var, often dangero sexual addictns and aggrsive, anti-social impuls.” In 2009, he went to Uganda to speak at a major nference on the evils of homosexualy, sayg, among other thgs: “The gay movement is an evil stutn. 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.” (Ironilly, the elr Wildmon was wily nounced as an anti-Seme after suggtg that Jews ntrol the media, which the AFA says “shows a genue hostily towards Christians.”) Fischer has scribed Hler as “an active homosexual” who sought out gays “bee he uld not get straight soldiers to be savage and btal and vic enough.” He proposed crimalizg homosexual behavr another 2010 blog post and has advoted forcg gays to “reparative” therapy. 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.” More recently, while hostg Amerin Visn’s “The Gary DeMar Show” December 2009, Joel McDurmon, the group’s rearch director, agreed that the Bible do ll for killg homosexuals.

Rhdoony supported the ath penalty for homosexuals, among other “abomators.” He also opposed what he lled “unequal yokg” — terracial marriage — and “enforced tegratn,” sistg that “[a]ll men are NOT created equal before God” (the Bible, he explaed, “regniz that some people are by nature slav”). 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.” The board also clus Carmen Mercer, a former top official of the Muteman Civil Defense Corps, a now-funct nativist group that once ran s own armed civilian borr patrols.

While at CWA, on April 12, 2007, Barber suggted agast all the evince that there were only a “miscule number” of anti-gay hate crim and most of those “may very well be rooted dulent reports.” In ments that have sce disappeared om CWA’s webse, Barber mand a feral probe of “homosexual activists” for their alleged fabritns of hate crime reports. CWA long relied on and displayed Knight’s articl and talkg pots, cludg claims that “homosexualy rri enormo physil and mental health risks” and “gay marriage entic children to experiment wh homosexualy.” Most remarkably, Knight ced the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (see Fay Rearch Instute, below) to bolster claims that homosexualy is harmful. Print Wendy Wright said this Augt that gay activists were g same-sex marriage “to doctrate children schools to reject their parents’ valu and to harass, sue and punish people who disagree.” 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.”.

DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

In one recent say on the CRM webse, he argued agast allowg homosexuals to serve openly the ary, sayg that “Bible-believg Christians would quickly fd themselv unwele Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-drsg ary.” (Hector Padron, CRM’s executive vice print, wrote last May that such a change would post a “grave threat to the ary.”). Jon phed himself to the headl last March, when he surround Dove wh signs aimed at Craig Lowe, a Gaville cy missner who was nng for mayor, that said “No Homo Mayor.” After an electneerg plat was filed wh the IRS (nonprof church nnot tervene polil mpaigns), Jon had the signs shortened to the more generic “No Homo.” At one pot, Jon and 30 of his ngregants joed an anti-gay rally by the Wtboro Baptist Church, which ns the webse and regularly pickets the funerals of U.S.

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. More recently, March 2008, Sprigg, rpondg to a qutn about ung gay partners durg the immigratn procs, said: “I would much prefer to export homosexuals om the Uned Stat than to import them.” He later apologized, but then went on, last Febary, to tell MSNBC host Chris Matthews, “I thk there would be a place for crimal sanctns on homosexual behavr.” “So we should outlaw gay behavr?” Matthews asked.

Among his more recent famatns was an FRI pamphlet assertg the primary activy of the gay rights movement is “seekg to legimize child-adult homosexual sex.” In another, he claimed that wh “the rise of the gay rights movement, homosexual rape of men appears to have creased.” In yet another, he wrote, “Homosexuals were three tim more likely to adm to havg ma an obscene phone ll” and “a third more apt to report a traffic ticket or traffic accint the past 5 years.”.

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. In late 2010, reactg to reports that his group had once aga been listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, Cameron told The (Colorado Sprgs, Colo.) Gazette that he believed homosexualy should be crimalized Ameri and that he was fe wh a proposed bill Uganda that would punish some gay sexual acts wh ath (“Whatever they ci, I’m OK wh”). In 2006, then-Executive Director Peter LaBarbera (see Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above), told a relig-right gatherg hosted by Visn Ameri that homosexualy was "disgtg" and mand the closg down of all "homosexual tablishments." He lled for the repeal of all "sexual orientatn laws" — laws that ban discrimatn agast gays — and spoke of the "need to fd ways to brg back shame to those practicg homosexual behavr.".

“Pl Cameron’s work has been targeted for ridicule by homosexual activists, and he’s been monized by the left,” LaBarbera wrote his troductn, “but that should not disunt his fdgs.” IFI also posted a vio attackg school anti-bullyg programs that claimed, based on Cameron, that gay men’s median age of ath is 42. In 2009, Higgs pared homosexualy to Nazism, likeng the German Evangelil Church’s weak rponse to fascism to the “Amerin church’s failure to rpond appropriately to the spread of radil, heretil, stctive views of homosexualy.” Elsewhere, Higgs has ped for the days when gays were the closet.

[W]hen homosexuals were ‘ the closet,’ (along wh fornitors, polyamorists, cross-drsers, and ‘transexuals’), they weren’t acquirg and raisg children.” She’s also said that McDonald’s, bee ran a gay-iendly TV ad, is “hell bent on g s rourc to promote subversive moral, social, and polil views about homosexualy to our children.”. The anizatn may be bt known for s mpaigns to ensure that “public displays of relign” are mataed durg the Christmas holiday, and has adopted broad right-wg views, cludg the allegatn that the Obama Admistratn has a “socialist liberal agenda.” But also has foced heavily on anti-gay activism. That same year, Camenker claimed that suici preventn programs aimed at gay youth actually were “put together by homosexual activists to normalize homosexualy.” Later, MassRistance charged that groups like the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), which support school anti-bullyg programs, actually want to lure children to homosexualy and, very possibly, sadomasochism.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

They take him away and turn him to a homosexual.” Sheldon later nied that he ma the ments, but his webse today clus strikgly siar language: “[S]ce homosexuals n’t reproduce, they will simply go after your children for sctn and nversn to homosexualy.” Elsewhere, claims that “[t]he effort to ph adult/child sex … is part of the overall homosexual movement.”. Many of them will die that world.” 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 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. "Stt McCoy, southern poverty law centerThen, as now, a loose affiliatn of fundamentalist church, nservative law centers and far-right advocy anizatns mak up the anti-LGBTQ movement.“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 mtee.But 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.“Many of the groups assert that LGBTQ people are a threat to society self. He also poted to groups that jtify vlence agast LGBTQ people, like Wtboro Baptist Church.'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement.” The same groups — many now flh wh fancial rourc — ntue to shape the anti-LGBTQ agenda.“As of today, there probably are five or six key players,” McCoy said, highlightg the Fay Rearch Council, the Alliance Defendg Freedom, Liberty Counsel and the Amerin College of Pediatricians as parts of the re.From 2011 to 2021, the total revenue of the Fay Rearch Council — an advocy anizatn based Washgton, D.C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln.