In today’s heightened culture war, the ffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowg.
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- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
* religious groups against gay marriage *
” 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.
GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
The measure, which failed, would have add language to the state nstutn listg homosexualy, along wh pedophilia and masochism, as “abnormal behavr.” Lively later served as California director of the Amerin Fay Associatn, another particularly hard-le anti-gay group (see below). 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. The AFA seeks to support “tradnal moral valu,” but recent years has seemed to specialize “batg the homosexual agenda.” In 2009, hired Bryan Fischer, the former executive director of the Idaho Valu Alliance, as s director of analysis for ernment and policy.