Why Is the Right Brgg Back Anti-Gay Talkg Pots?

Contents:

• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• THE G.O.P. TRI TO BUILD A GAY GHETTO
• WHY DO REPUBLINS HATE GAY PEOPLE
• WHY ARE CONSERVATIV SO FREAKED OUT BY GAYS?SCAREDTHE PH ARIZONA TO LEGALIZE DISCRIMATN DIDN’T E OUT OF NOWHERE. IT WAS A RPONSE TO THE IMAGARY BELIEF THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” OF “TOTAL DOMATN.”DEAN OBEIDALLAHUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:57PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 01, 2014 12:00AM EST GETTYSOME ON THE RIGHT ARE REALLY EAKED OUT BY GAYS. IN FACT, SOME DON’T EVEN WANT TO DO BS WH THEM. YOU REALLY NEED TO HAVE SOME SER ISSU WH GAY PEOPLE TO SAY “NO” TO THEIR MONEY THIS CHALLENGG ENOMY. WHY IS FEAR MONGERG AGAST THE LGBT MUNY PART OF THE NSERVATIVE PLATFORM? TE, ARIZONA ERNOR JAN BREWER JT VETOED A BILL THAT WOULD’VE SENCE LEGALLY SANCTNED DISCRIMATN AGAST MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY, BUT STILL 13 OTHER STAT ARE OR HAVE RECENTLY NSIRED SIAR LAWS. PEOPLE LIKE RH LIMBGH, MICHELLE BACHMANN, AND TUCKER CARLSON ALL PUBLICLY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED ARIZONA LAW, WH CARLSON LLG NECSARY TO PREVENT “FASCISM.” TEA PARTY NATN PRINT JUDSON PHILLIPS EVEN SAID THAT WHOUT THIS LAW, CHRISTIANS ULD BE FORCED TO BAKE WEDDG K THE SHAPE OF A GIANT PENIS. THEN THERE ARE THE FLUENTIAL NSERVATIVE “CHRISTIAN” GROUPS WHO HAVE LONG MONIZED GAYS, SUCH AS BRYAN FISCHER AT THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) WHO SAID THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” IS “THE GREATT IMMEDIATE THREAT TO EVERY EEDOM AND RIGHT THAT IS ENSHRED THE FIRST AMENDMENT.” EVEN THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S 2012 PLATFORM MA SEEM LIKE THE END OF DAYS WERE APPROACHG WH THEIR SCRIPTN OF GAY MARRIAGE AS “AN ASSLT ON THE FOUNDATNS OF OUR SOCIETY.” [ IS THERE REALLY A NEFAR “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA”? COULD BE THAT GAY PEOPLE PERSONALLY DID SOMETHG TO PISS OFF THE RIGHT?BEG NEHER GAY NOR A NSERVATIVE, I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S UP. SO, I EMPLOYED A TWO-PRONG APPROACH: FIRST, ASK NSERVATIV: WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM WH GAYS? SEND, ASK GAY PEOPLE TO REVEAL THEIR “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” AND FD OUT WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOG THAT SR THE RIGHT SO MUCH?I BEGAN BY REACHG OUT THE NSERVATIVE GROUPS LIKE AFA, THE FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC), AND THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF), WHICH IS THE ANIZATN THAT CHAMPNED THE ARIZONA ANTI-GAY BILL.NOT ALL RPOND, BUT THE AFA’S FORMER GENERAL MANAGER, DR. BTER WILSON, RPOND VIA EMAIL HIS PERSONAL PACY. WILSON EXPLAED THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THIS LIGHT: “SIMPLE ‘EQUALY’ IS NOT THE GOAL OF THE GAY ACTIVISTS. THEY WANT TOTAL DOMATN SOME S…NOT JT ‘ACCEPT THEM’ BUT TO BOW TO THEM AND THEIR WANTS.“I ALSO HEARD OM A SPOKPERSON FOR THE FRC WHO FORWARD ME S ANIZATN’S PAMPHLET, “THE TOP TEN MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY.” THIS PAMPHLET MAK CLEAR THAT SOME AT THE FRC ARE TLY OBSSED WH GAYS, ’S AN ALMOST A STALKER-QUE FIXATN WH MENTS ABOUT THE ALLEGED DATG AND EVEN SEXUAL HABS OF GAYS.I NNECTED WH A NSERVATIVE REPUBLIN POLIL STRATEGIST WHO WANTED TO REMA ANONYMO. HE EXPLAED THAT NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ARE NOT JT OPPOSED TO HOMOSEXUALY, BUT TO ALL SS, LIKE ADULTERY AND GLUTTONY. HOWEVER, HE MENTED THAT ADULTERERS AREN’T HAVG PARAS THE STREETS NOR ARE THEY SEEKG LEGAL PROTECTN TO M THEIR SS.OKAY, LET’S TURN TO THE LGBT MUNY. FIRST, THEY ALL NIED DOG ANYTHG PERSONALLY TO PISS OFF NSERVATIV. BUT EACH OFFERED THEIR OWN THEORY FOR THE RIGHT’S FEAR AND LOATHG.ROSS MURRAY, GLAAD’S DIRECTOR OF NEWS, SAID THAT SOME NSERVATIV ARE ANGRY BEE THEY ERRONEOLY VIEW EEDOM AS A “ZERO-SUM GAME,” MEANG THAT IF LGBT MUNY ACHIEV EQUAL TREATMENT UNR THE LAW, THEY WILL LOSE . MURRAY EXPLAED THAT WHILE MANY THE LGBT MUNY NO LONGER HAVE TO HI FOR FEAR OF LOSG, “OUR JOBS, OUR FAY, AND ALL OF OUR ROURC,” THEY ARE STILL SUBJECT TO VLENT ATTACKS AND, “GAY PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED OM THEIR JOBS 29 STAT, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE N BE 33.” COMEDIAN SABRA JALE, A MOMENT OF BTAL NDOR, REVEALED A B OF THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA: “YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT WE'VE GOT PLANNED ONCE WE GET OUR EQUAL RIGHTS. WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND KEEP LIVG. ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME WAS HETEROSEXUALS DO, JT WH BETTER CLOTH.”DAILY BEAST LUMNIST AND CNN NTRIBUTOR SALLY KOHN RPOND: "APPARENTLY, FAIRNS AND EQUALY JT PISS SOME PEOPLE OFF…I'M NOT GOG TO SAY THAT ALL THE EXTREMIST HOMOPHOB ARE REALLY JT JEALO. SO I WON'T SAY . BUT..."COMEDIAN JUDY GOLD WAS PUZZLED BY THE RIGHT’S ANGER NSIRG: “THEY LISTEN TO OUR MIC AND RAD SHOWS, WATCH OUR FILMS…BUY OUR CLOTH AND JEWELRY, LET STYLE THEIR HAIR…AND SIGN THEIR HOM AND OFFIC.”JIM DAVID, ALSO A EDIAN, RPOND SUCCCTLY: “PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HAVG ANY GOOD SEX ARE SERLY THREATENED BY THOSE WHO ARE.” I ALSO REACHED OUT TO A PERSON WHO STRADDL THE TWO MUNI, GREGORY ANGELO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LOG CAB REPUBLINS. ANGELO BELIEV THAT ONLY A SMALL VOL PORTN OF THE RIGHT TLY HAS ISSU WH GAYS. HE WAS OPTIMISTIC THAT MANY REPUBLINS VIEWS OF THE LGBT MUNY WERE EVOLVG FOR THE BETTER, PECIALLY LENNIALS.HOWEVER, THE MOST ALARMG RPONSE WAS OM A IEND WHO WORKS FOR A NON-PROF ANIZATN. HE WOULDN’T PERM ME TO CLU HIS NAME THIS ARTICLE BEE A BIG PART OF HIS EMPLOYER’S FUNDG OM A CHRISTIAN ANIZATN AND HE FEARS BEG FIRED IF THEY DISVER HE’S GAY.SO WHAT’S MY NCLN? CLEARLY SOME, NOT ALL, ON THE RIGHT ARE ANGRY, AAID OR SIMPLY EAKED OUT BY GAY PEOPLE. THEY FEAR THAT THE LGBT MUNY, WHICH IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR POPULATN, WILL ONE DAY DOMATE AMERI.THE LGBT MUNY, ON THE OTHER HAND, SIMPLY SEEKS EQUAL RIGHTS UNR THE LAW. THEY WANT TO BE JUDGED ON THEIR WORK, NOT FIRED FOR THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.WHO WILL W? WELL, IF OUR HISTORY OF EVOLVG ON ISSU OF RACE AND RELIGN IS ANY GUI, THE LGBT MUNY WILL PREVAIL. IT WILL TAKE TIME AND EFFORT, BUT I PREDICT NFINTLY THEY WILL OVERE, AND THAT’S A GOOD THG FOR OUR NATN. DEAN OBEIDALLAH
• WHY IS THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT BRGG BACK ANTI-GAY TALKG POTS?

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers.

A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

THE G.O.P. TRI TO BUILD A GAY GHETTO

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise.

He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

WHY DO REPUBLINS HATE GAY PEOPLE

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.

WHY ARE CONSERVATIV SO FREAKED OUT BY GAYS?SCAREDTHE PH ARIZONA TO LEGALIZE DISCRIMATN DIDN’T E OUT OF NOWHERE. IT WAS A RPONSE TO THE IMAGARY BELIEF THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” OF “TOTAL DOMATN.”DEAN OBEIDALLAHUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 12:57PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 01, 2014 12:00AM EST GETTYSOME ON THE RIGHT ARE REALLY EAKED OUT BY GAYS. IN FACT, SOME DON’T EVEN WANT TO DO BS WH THEM. YOU REALLY NEED TO HAVE SOME SER ISSU WH GAY PEOPLE TO SAY “NO” TO THEIR MONEY THIS CHALLENGG ENOMY. WHY IS FEAR MONGERG AGAST THE LGBT MUNY PART OF THE NSERVATIVE PLATFORM? TE, ARIZONA ERNOR JAN BREWER JT VETOED A BILL THAT WOULD’VE SENCE LEGALLY SANCTNED DISCRIMATN AGAST MEMBERS OF THE GAY MUNY, BUT STILL 13 OTHER STAT ARE OR HAVE RECENTLY NSIRED SIAR LAWS. PEOPLE LIKE RH LIMBGH, MICHELLE BACHMANN, AND TUCKER CARLSON ALL PUBLICLY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED ARIZONA LAW, WH CARLSON LLG NECSARY TO PREVENT “FASCISM.” TEA PARTY NATN PRINT JUDSON PHILLIPS EVEN SAID THAT WHOUT THIS LAW, CHRISTIANS ULD BE FORCED TO BAKE WEDDG K THE SHAPE OF A GIANT PENIS. THEN THERE ARE THE FLUENTIAL NSERVATIVE “CHRISTIAN” GROUPS WHO HAVE LONG MONIZED GAYS, SUCH AS BRYAN FISCHER AT THE AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN (AFA) WHO SAID THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” IS “THE GREATT IMMEDIATE THREAT TO EVERY EEDOM AND RIGHT THAT IS ENSHRED THE FIRST AMENDMENT.” EVEN THE REPUBLIN PARTY’S 2012 PLATFORM MA SEEM LIKE THE END OF DAYS WERE APPROACHG WH THEIR SCRIPTN OF GAY MARRIAGE AS “AN ASSLT ON THE FOUNDATNS OF OUR SOCIETY.” [ IS THERE REALLY A NEFAR “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA”? COULD BE THAT GAY PEOPLE PERSONALLY DID SOMETHG TO PISS OFF THE RIGHT?BEG NEHER GAY NOR A NSERVATIVE, I WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT’S UP. SO, I EMPLOYED A TWO-PRONG APPROACH: FIRST, ASK NSERVATIV: WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM WH GAYS? SEND, ASK GAY PEOPLE TO REVEAL THEIR “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” AND FD OUT WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE DOG THAT SR THE RIGHT SO MUCH?I BEGAN BY REACHG OUT THE NSERVATIVE GROUPS LIKE AFA, THE FAY REARCH COUNCIL (FRC), AND THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM (ADF), WHICH IS THE ANIZATN THAT CHAMPNED THE ARIZONA ANTI-GAY BILL.NOT ALL RPOND, BUT THE AFA’S FORMER GENERAL MANAGER, DR. BTER WILSON, RPOND VIA EMAIL HIS PERSONAL PACY. WILSON EXPLAED THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA” THIS LIGHT: “SIMPLE ‘EQUALY’ IS NOT THE GOAL OF THE GAY ACTIVISTS. THEY WANT TOTAL DOMATN SOME S…NOT JT ‘ACCEPT THEM’ BUT TO BOW TO THEM AND THEIR WANTS.“I ALSO HEARD OM A SPOKPERSON FOR THE FRC WHO FORWARD ME S ANIZATN’S PAMPHLET, “THE TOP TEN MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY.” THIS PAMPHLET MAK CLEAR THAT SOME AT THE FRC ARE TLY OBSSED WH GAYS, ’S AN ALMOST A STALKER-QUE FIXATN WH MENTS ABOUT THE ALLEGED DATG AND EVEN SEXUAL HABS OF GAYS.I NNECTED WH A NSERVATIVE REPUBLIN POLIL STRATEGIST WHO WANTED TO REMA ANONYMO. HE EXPLAED THAT NSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS ARE NOT JT OPPOSED TO HOMOSEXUALY, BUT TO ALL SS, LIKE ADULTERY AND GLUTTONY. HOWEVER, HE MENTED THAT ADULTERERS AREN’T HAVG PARAS THE STREETS NOR ARE THEY SEEKG LEGAL PROTECTN TO M THEIR SS.OKAY, LET’S TURN TO THE LGBT MUNY. FIRST, THEY ALL NIED DOG ANYTHG PERSONALLY TO PISS OFF NSERVATIV. BUT EACH OFFERED THEIR OWN THEORY FOR THE RIGHT’S FEAR AND LOATHG.ROSS MURRAY, GLAAD’S DIRECTOR OF NEWS, SAID THAT SOME NSERVATIV ARE ANGRY BEE THEY ERRONEOLY VIEW EEDOM AS A “ZERO-SUM GAME,” MEANG THAT IF LGBT MUNY ACHIEV EQUAL TREATMENT UNR THE LAW, THEY WILL LOSE . MURRAY EXPLAED THAT WHILE MANY THE LGBT MUNY NO LONGER HAVE TO HI FOR FEAR OF LOSG, “OUR JOBS, OUR FAY, AND ALL OF OUR ROURC,” THEY ARE STILL SUBJECT TO VLENT ATTACKS AND, “GAY PEOPLE N STILL BE FIRED OM THEIR JOBS 29 STAT, AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE N BE 33.” COMEDIAN SABRA JALE, A MOMENT OF BTAL NDOR, REVEALED A B OF THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA: “YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT WE'VE GOT PLANNED ONCE WE GET OUR EQUAL RIGHTS. WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND KEEP LIVG. ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME WAS HETEROSEXUALS DO, JT WH BETTER CLOTH.”DAILY BEAST LUMNIST AND CNN NTRIBUTOR SALLY KOHN RPOND: "APPARENTLY, FAIRNS AND EQUALY JT PISS SOME PEOPLE OFF…I'M NOT GOG TO SAY THAT ALL THE EXTREMIST HOMOPHOB ARE REALLY JT JEALO. SO I WON'T SAY . BUT..."COMEDIAN JUDY GOLD WAS PUZZLED BY THE RIGHT’S ANGER NSIRG: “THEY LISTEN TO OUR MIC AND RAD SHOWS, WATCH OUR FILMS…BUY OUR CLOTH AND JEWELRY, LET STYLE THEIR HAIR…AND SIGN THEIR HOM AND OFFIC.”JIM DAVID, ALSO A EDIAN, RPOND SUCCCTLY: “PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HAVG ANY GOOD SEX ARE SERLY THREATENED BY THOSE WHO ARE.” I ALSO REACHED OUT TO A PERSON WHO STRADDL THE TWO MUNI, GREGORY ANGELO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE LOG CAB REPUBLINS. ANGELO BELIEV THAT ONLY A SMALL VOL PORTN OF THE RIGHT TLY HAS ISSU WH GAYS. HE WAS OPTIMISTIC THAT MANY REPUBLINS VIEWS OF THE LGBT MUNY WERE EVOLVG FOR THE BETTER, PECIALLY LENNIALS.HOWEVER, THE MOST ALARMG RPONSE WAS OM A IEND WHO WORKS FOR A NON-PROF ANIZATN. HE WOULDN’T PERM ME TO CLU HIS NAME THIS ARTICLE BEE A BIG PART OF HIS EMPLOYER’S FUNDG OM A CHRISTIAN ANIZATN AND HE FEARS BEG FIRED IF THEY DISVER HE’S GAY.SO WHAT’S MY NCLN? CLEARLY SOME, NOT ALL, ON THE RIGHT ARE ANGRY, AAID OR SIMPLY EAKED OUT BY GAY PEOPLE. THEY FEAR THAT THE LGBT MUNY, WHICH IS A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR POPULATN, WILL ONE DAY DOMATE AMERI.THE LGBT MUNY, ON THE OTHER HAND, SIMPLY SEEKS EQUAL RIGHTS UNR THE LAW. THEY WANT TO BE JUDGED ON THEIR WORK, NOT FIRED FOR THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN.WHO WILL W? WELL, IF OUR HISTORY OF EVOLVG ON ISSU OF RACE AND RELIGN IS ANY GUI, THE LGBT MUNY WILL PREVAIL. IT WILL TAKE TIME AND EFFORT, BUT I PREDICT NFINTLY THEY WILL OVERE, AND THAT’S A GOOD THG FOR OUR NATN. DEAN OBEIDALLAH

”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.

“I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. Others are followg Florida’s lead – which passed a bill crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” – and are eyeg rtrictns on teachg LGBTQ topics schools.

WHY IS THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT BRGG BACK ANTI-GAY TALKG POTS?

“I feel like the whole gay marriage bate was a sham,” Terry Schillg, print of the right-wg Amerin Prcipl Project, said an terview wh CNN.

“When we were batg gay marriage as a untry, the opponents of gay marriage were sentially sayg this is gog to lead to the sexualizatn of children. Greg Abbott’s termatn that genr-affirmg re for transgenr youths amounts to “child abe.” Siarly, Florida is facg a lawsu over s law – lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics – that rtricts stctn related to certa LGBTQ topics. Hardg noted that he is a lennial who grew up wh gay iends and attend llege Miami, addg, “It’s not like I’m this narrow-md right-wger.”.

Activists who long cried gay rights, often assailg them as a threat to nservative fay valu and procreatn, said they’ve found new alli, particularly their efforts to lim medil re and athletic opportuni for transgenr youth. In the 1970s, Christian sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant lnched the “Save Our Children” mpaign to fight back agast a lol Da County, Florida, ordance that banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hog and employment.