Poland's anti-gay csa: “The most aggrsive homophobic mpaign I have seen my life” - Coda Story

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• WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• POLAND’S ANTI-GAY CSA: “THE MOST AGGRSIVE HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN I HAVE SEEN MY LIFE”
• THE CHRISTIAN DO-GOORS SECRETLY ATTACKG GAYSTOXIC BLENDCAMP CSA FOR CHRIST, ONE OF AMERI’S LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS, IS FAMO FOR SPREADG THE ‘GOOD NEWS’ AT LLEG. BUT LS IS KNOWN ABOUT S ANTI-GAY WORK OVERSEAS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 3:25PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 07, 2014 5:45AM EDT DENIS FARRELL/APLIKE MANY A DAILY BEAST REAR, I FOUND CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST TO BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ANNOYG AND AMG. YOU REMEMBER THEM OM LLEGE: THE J EAKS, TENT ON SPREADG THE “GOOD NEWS,” SOMEWHERE BETWEEN QUAT AND CREEPY.TURNS OUT, CCC—NOW REBRAND, LUDICROLY, AS “C”—IS A MASSIVE ANIZATN, AND VOLVED SOME OF THE MEANT HOMOPHOBIA-FOR-EXPORT AI. NOT SO AMG ANYMORE.REMARKABLY, CCC IS NO. 20 ON FORB MAGAZE’S LIST OF THE LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS AMERI, WH $548 LN ANNUAL RECEIPTS 2013, $503 LN OF WHICH ARE DONATNS. (PRUMABLY THE RT ARE C-BRAND SWEATSHIRTS.) THIS IS AN IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT, TO PUT DLY—MOST OF THE OTHER TOP 20 ARE HOEHOLD NAM SUCH AS UNED WAY AND THE SALVATN ARMY.AS S FORMER NAME IMPLI, C IS BT KNOWN FOR S MP OUTREACH: BIBLE STUDY GROUPS AND THE LIKE. BUT ALSO HAS A POWERFUL TERNATNAL ARM—THERE ARE A LOT MORE ELIGIBLE NVERTS AI THAN AT YOUR TYPIL LLEGE KEGGER, AFTER ALL—WHICH NS MISSNARY WORK AND NFERENC. ON MARCH 22, 2013, ONE OF THOSE NFERENC, PAMOJA III, ATTEND BY 300 AIN LLEGE STUNTS AND PTURED ON YOUTUBE, FEATURED DR. SEYOUM ANTONS, TRODUCED WH ENTHIASM BY CCC’S VICE PRINT OF GLOBAL CHURCH MOVEMENTS, BEKELE SHANKO. HAVG BEEN PRAISED BY C’S VICE PRINT, ANTONS SPEWED A TOXIC BLEND OF U.S. ANTI-GAY TALKG POTS, THE IRONIC NTEXT OF FIGHTG U.S. IMPERIALISM.AMONG THE TAKEAWAYS OM ANTONS’S PRENTATN: THIRTY-THREE PERCENT OF HOMOSEXUALS ARE PEDOPHIL, GAY UPL ARE G TO AI TO STEAL CHILDREN AND TURN THEM HOMOSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUALY IS A WTERN PLOT TO KILL AINS, AND GAY PEOPLE ARE 15 TIM MORE LIKELY TO BE MURRERS THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE.FORTUNATELY, ANTONS SAID, ETHPIA WILL BEE A “GRAVEYARD FOR HOMOSEXUALY.”NOW, THERE ARE HOMOPHOB EVERYWHERE. BUT ANTONS IS A POWERFUL HOMOPHOBE. HE IS THE HEAD OF UNED FOR LIFE ETHPIA, A UNTRY THAT WAS NSIRG CREASG THE PENALTY FOR THE “CRIME” OF HOMOSEXUALY—UNTIL DID AN ABOUT-FACE APRIL AFTER THE FIRTORM UGANDA. ANTONS, LIKE HIS RA ARMS MART SSEMPA UGANDA, HAS LLED FOR THE ATH PENALTY.NOR IS ANTONS SOME KD OF LONE WOLF. ON THE NTRARY, AS DISVERED BY DR. KAPYA KAOMA OF THE THK TANK POLIL REARCH ASSOCIAT (WHERE I HAVE WORKED THE PAST, ON OTHER ISSU), HE AND CCC ARE PART OF, Y, A VAST RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY TO EXPORT HOMOPHOBIA TO AI AND FIGHT THE CULTURE WARS ON POTENTIALLY WNG (AND DONOR-PLEASG) TURF.THE AMERIN CENTER FOR LAW AND JTICE, FOUND BY PAT ROBERTSON AS AN ANSWER TO THE ACLU, HAS SET UP OFFIC KENYA AND ZIMBABWE TO “UPHOLD PRO-LIFE AND PRO-FAY VALU,” THE FORMER APPARENTLY CLUDG THE ATH PENALTY FOR NSENSUAL SEX.AND THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE FOLKS BEHD THE “TURN THE GAYS AWAY” BILL AND A KEY PART OF THE HOBBY LOBBY ALN, HAS LED NUMERO PROGRAMS AND NFERENC AI TO WARN UNSPECTG AINS ABOUT THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.” AT ONE NFERENCE, THE ADF SAID, ANA BRYANT-STYLE, THAT THIS AGENDA CLUS “RECG CHILDREN.”CCC—SORRY, C—IS AT ONCE BETTER KNOWN AND LSER KNOWN THAN THE GROUPS. IT HAS A BRAND THAT FAR MORE PEOPLE REGNIZE, AND A BUDGET DWARFG THE OTHERS’. (CCC DO NOT REVEAL HOW MUCH OF S BUDGET IS SPENT ON OVERSEAS ACTIVI.) AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN PROGRSIV ROLL OFF THE NAM OF THEIR UAL FO—FAY REARCH COUNCIL, HUMAN LIFE INTERNATNAL, FAY WATCH INTERNATNAL, AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN, THE BECKET FUND—CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST IS NOT UALLY AMONG THEM. ITS MEMBERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE EARNT CHRISTIANS, PREACHG THE GOSPEL BUT NOT FOMENTG HATE AROUND THE WORLD.MOREOVER, MOST OF S ANTI-GAY WORK TAK PLACE FAR OUTSI THE SPOTLIGHT. CONSIR ANTONS HIMSELF. WOULD ANYONE KNOW ABOUT HIS BIL SPEECH HAD NOT BEEN PUBLICIZED BY THE ADVOCY ANIZATN TTH WS OUT AND GRADUALLY MA S WAY THROUGH THE LGBT PRS? NEEDLS TO SAY, THIS IS THE FIRST MASTREAM MEDIA VERAGE ANTONS HAS RECEIVED. HOW MANY MORE SUCH EVENTS ARE HELD WHOUT MOST OF THE WORLD KNOWG?NOR IS THIS CCC’S FIRST FORAY TO AIN HOMOPHOBIA. IT’S NO CINCE THAT ANTONS’ SPEECH WAS EERILY FAIAR TO THE ONE GIVEN BY SSEMPA UGANDA WHICH SSEMPA MEMORABLY SISTED THAT ALL GAY PEOPLE “EAT THE POO POO,” WHICH HE VIVIDLY PANTOMIMED HIS SPEECH. ACRDG TO TTH WS OUT, CCC HAS BEEN ACTIVE UGANDA FOR MORE THAN A , BRGG HOLOT REVISNIST-TURNED-ANTI-GAY ZEALOT STT LIVELY TO THE UNTRY 2002.THERE IS A GROWG MYTH THAT ADVANC LGBT EQUALY HERE THE UNED STAT HAVE LED TO A BACKLASH OVERSEAS. BUT THIS “BACKLASH” HAS BEEN ENGEERED BY THE SAME FAR-RIGHT NSERVATIV WHO HAVE LOST THE CULTURE WAR HERE THE U.S. AND WHO FD SYMPATHETIC EARS AMONG THORARIAN REGIM PLAC LIKE RSIA AND UGANDA. THIS ISN’T A BACKLASH—’S A BACKUP PLAN.AND MANY PLAC, ’S WORKG. CAMP C-SA FOR CHRIST MAY SEEM HARMLS ENOUGH—BUT TELL THAT TO THE LATT VICTIM OF VLENCE WHERE S PREACHERS ARE PREACHG HATE. JAY MICHAELSON

WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.

Anti-LGTBQ+ hate crim are on the perhaps most importantly, numero Republin-domated state legislatur, anti-gay legislatn has been enacted, nng the gamut om prohibns on genr-affirmg therapi for kids to bans on drag events and discsns of genr inti public schools. Pollg shows ltle evince of a reversal public opn when to support for LGBT several years which the polil bate around gay rights subsid, and Pri march and Pri Month celebratns beme largely unntroversial affairs, would seem that the Uned Stat is the midst of a natnwi backlash on an issue that appeared to be yet, spe the GOP’s vastatg bigotry, mastream acceptance of gay Amerins has never been stronger. Pollg om jt last year shows that 8 10 Amerins oppose anti-gay discrimatn employment, hog and public acmodatns (and that clus nearly two-thirds of Republins) Congrs, last year’s landmark Rpect for Marriage Act, which provid feral protectn for same-sex marriag, was supported by 12 Republin senators and 39 GOP Hoe members (along wh every Democrat both chambers).

In the 2022 electn, Republin ndidat blue and purple stat who ran on a msage of hostily to LGBTQ+ rights, particularly anti-transgenr ads, fared, was not long ago that open and public homophobia was as owned upon as public displays of racism and misogyny. Havg largely kept their homophobia check, bee of prevailg social norms, they received tac permissn om Republins to leave their closets and broan their attacks to gay rights wr foc on trans kids has bee a GOP stalkg horse for Republin voters foced on “tradnal valu. ”Acrdg to Evan Wolfson — a longtime gay rights activist and founr of Freedom To Marry, which advot for same-sex marriage — while trans issu are not as well unrstood by the broar public as an issue like same-sex marriage, the GOP’s “attacks on trans people is jt part of the overall stokg of divisn and rentment.

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

Both have ltle to do wh protectg trans kids but everythg to do wh the hatred of gay people and what their acceptance Amerin society reprents.

” Red-state policians ph anti-gay legislatn both bee ’s popular wh their most engaged nstuents, and bee they have ltle fear of an electoral backlash led by pro-gay rights voters. So like abortn and votg rights, gay rights have bee yet another issue that magnifi the growg blue state/red state divi which where you live creasgly term how many rights you daily stori of anti-Pri actns are prsg, even if they reprent a vol mory. For s, the William Way LGBT Communy Center has sat at the heart of Philalphia’s gayborhood, offerg art shows, unselg servic, vacce clics and a slew of other health and hog assistance to rints as the center’s agg headquarters started to show s wear, s lears turned to Washgton for some help.

POLAND’S ANTI-GAY CSA: “THE MOST AGGRSIVE HOMOPHOBIC MPAIGN I HAVE SEEN MY LIFE”

8 ln feral aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda.

THE CHRISTIAN DO-GOORS SECRETLY ATTACKG GAYSTOXIC BLENDCAMP CSA FOR CHRIST, ONE OF AMERI’S LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS, IS FAMO FOR SPREADG THE ‘GOOD NEWS’ AT LLEG. BUT LS IS KNOWN ABOUT S ANTI-GAY WORK OVERSEAS.JAY MICHAELSONUPDATED APR. 14, 2017 3:25PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 07, 2014 5:45AM EDT DENIS FARRELL/APLIKE MANY A DAILY BEAST REAR, I FOUND CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST TO BE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ANNOYG AND AMG. YOU REMEMBER THEM OM LLEGE: THE J EAKS, TENT ON SPREADG THE “GOOD NEWS,” SOMEWHERE BETWEEN QUAT AND CREEPY.TURNS OUT, CCC—NOW REBRAND, LUDICROLY, AS “C”—IS A MASSIVE ANIZATN, AND VOLVED SOME OF THE MEANT HOMOPHOBIA-FOR-EXPORT AI. NOT SO AMG ANYMORE.REMARKABLY, CCC IS NO. 20 ON FORB MAGAZE’S LIST OF THE LARGT CHARY ANIZATNS AMERI, WH $548 LN ANNUAL RECEIPTS 2013, $503 LN OF WHICH ARE DONATNS. (PRUMABLY THE RT ARE C-BRAND SWEATSHIRTS.) THIS IS AN IMPRSIVE ACHIEVEMENT, TO PUT DLY—MOST OF THE OTHER TOP 20 ARE HOEHOLD NAM SUCH AS UNED WAY AND THE SALVATN ARMY.AS S FORMER NAME IMPLI, C IS BT KNOWN FOR S MP OUTREACH: BIBLE STUDY GROUPS AND THE LIKE. BUT ALSO HAS A POWERFUL TERNATNAL ARM—THERE ARE A LOT MORE ELIGIBLE NVERTS AI THAN AT YOUR TYPIL LLEGE KEGGER, AFTER ALL—WHICH NS MISSNARY WORK AND NFERENC. ON MARCH 22, 2013, ONE OF THOSE NFERENC, PAMOJA III, ATTEND BY 300 AIN LLEGE STUNTS AND PTURED ON YOUTUBE, FEATURED DR. SEYOUM ANTONS, TRODUCED WH ENTHIASM BY CCC’S VICE PRINT OF GLOBAL CHURCH MOVEMENTS, BEKELE SHANKO. HAVG BEEN PRAISED BY C’S VICE PRINT, ANTONS SPEWED A TOXIC BLEND OF U.S. ANTI-GAY TALKG POTS, THE IRONIC NTEXT OF FIGHTG U.S. IMPERIALISM.AMONG THE TAKEAWAYS OM ANTONS’S PRENTATN: THIRTY-THREE PERCENT OF HOMOSEXUALS ARE PEDOPHIL, GAY UPL ARE G TO AI TO STEAL CHILDREN AND TURN THEM HOMOSEXUAL, HOMOSEXUALY IS A WTERN PLOT TO KILL AINS, AND GAY PEOPLE ARE 15 TIM MORE LIKELY TO BE MURRERS THAN STRAIGHT PEOPLE.FORTUNATELY, ANTONS SAID, ETHPIA WILL BEE A “GRAVEYARD FOR HOMOSEXUALY.”NOW, THERE ARE HOMOPHOB EVERYWHERE. BUT ANTONS IS A POWERFUL HOMOPHOBE. HE IS THE HEAD OF UNED FOR LIFE ETHPIA, A UNTRY THAT WAS NSIRG CREASG THE PENALTY FOR THE “CRIME” OF HOMOSEXUALY—UNTIL DID AN ABOUT-FACE APRIL AFTER THE FIRTORM UGANDA. ANTONS, LIKE HIS RA ARMS MART SSEMPA UGANDA, HAS LLED FOR THE ATH PENALTY.NOR IS ANTONS SOME KD OF LONE WOLF. ON THE NTRARY, AS DISVERED BY DR. KAPYA KAOMA OF THE THK TANK POLIL REARCH ASSOCIAT (WHERE I HAVE WORKED THE PAST, ON OTHER ISSU), HE AND CCC ARE PART OF, Y, A VAST RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY TO EXPORT HOMOPHOBIA TO AI AND FIGHT THE CULTURE WARS ON POTENTIALLY WNG (AND DONOR-PLEASG) TURF.THE AMERIN CENTER FOR LAW AND JTICE, FOUND BY PAT ROBERTSON AS AN ANSWER TO THE ACLU, HAS SET UP OFFIC KENYA AND ZIMBABWE TO “UPHOLD PRO-LIFE AND PRO-FAY VALU,” THE FORMER APPARENTLY CLUDG THE ATH PENALTY FOR NSENSUAL SEX.AND THE ALLIANCE DEFENDG FREEDOM, THE FOLKS BEHD THE “TURN THE GAYS AWAY” BILL AND A KEY PART OF THE HOBBY LOBBY ALN, HAS LED NUMERO PROGRAMS AND NFERENC AI TO WARN UNSPECTG AINS ABOUT THE “HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.” AT ONE NFERENCE, THE ADF SAID, ANA BRYANT-STYLE, THAT THIS AGENDA CLUS “RECG CHILDREN.”CCC—SORRY, C—IS AT ONCE BETTER KNOWN AND LSER KNOWN THAN THE GROUPS. IT HAS A BRAND THAT FAR MORE PEOPLE REGNIZE, AND A BUDGET DWARFG THE OTHERS’. (CCC DO NOT REVEAL HOW MUCH OF S BUDGET IS SPENT ON OVERSEAS ACTIVI.) AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN PROGRSIV ROLL OFF THE NAM OF THEIR UAL FO—FAY REARCH COUNCIL, HUMAN LIFE INTERNATNAL, FAY WATCH INTERNATNAL, AMERIN FAY ASSOCIATN, THE BECKET FUND—CAMP CSA FOR CHRIST IS NOT UALLY AMONG THEM. ITS MEMBERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE EARNT CHRISTIANS, PREACHG THE GOSPEL BUT NOT FOMENTG HATE AROUND THE WORLD.MOREOVER, MOST OF S ANTI-GAY WORK TAK PLACE FAR OUTSI THE SPOTLIGHT. CONSIR ANTONS HIMSELF. WOULD ANYONE KNOW ABOUT HIS BIL SPEECH HAD NOT BEEN PUBLICIZED BY THE ADVOCY ANIZATN TTH WS OUT AND GRADUALLY MA S WAY THROUGH THE LGBT PRS? NEEDLS TO SAY, THIS IS THE FIRST MASTREAM MEDIA VERAGE ANTONS HAS RECEIVED. HOW MANY MORE SUCH EVENTS ARE HELD WHOUT MOST OF THE WORLD KNOWG?NOR IS THIS CCC’S FIRST FORAY TO AIN HOMOPHOBIA. IT’S NO CINCE THAT ANTONS’ SPEECH WAS EERILY FAIAR TO THE ONE GIVEN BY SSEMPA UGANDA WHICH SSEMPA MEMORABLY SISTED THAT ALL GAY PEOPLE “EAT THE POO POO,” WHICH HE VIVIDLY PANTOMIMED HIS SPEECH. ACRDG TO TTH WS OUT, CCC HAS BEEN ACTIVE UGANDA FOR MORE THAN A , BRGG HOLOT REVISNIST-TURNED-ANTI-GAY ZEALOT STT LIVELY TO THE UNTRY 2002.THERE IS A GROWG MYTH THAT ADVANC LGBT EQUALY HERE THE UNED STAT HAVE LED TO A BACKLASH OVERSEAS. BUT THIS “BACKLASH” HAS BEEN ENGEERED BY THE SAME FAR-RIGHT NSERVATIV WHO HAVE LOST THE CULTURE WAR HERE THE U.S. AND WHO FD SYMPATHETIC EARS AMONG THORARIAN REGIM PLAC LIKE RSIA AND UGANDA. THIS ISN’T A BACKLASH—’S A BACKUP PLAN.AND MANY PLAC, ’S WORKG. CAMP C-SA FOR CHRIST MAY SEEM HARMLS ENOUGH—BUT TELL THAT TO THE LATT VICTIM OF VLENCE WHERE S PREACHERS ARE PREACHG HATE. JAY MICHAELSON

In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty. Lookg back on this enunter, I n see that had all the trappgs of what beme known as the ex-gay movement, of which I was once an eager proponent. Alan Medger, the first executive director of Exod Internatnal, scribed as “a change self-perceptn which the dividual no longer intifi him- or herself as homosexual.

Recent bat among nservative Anglins and Prbyterians over whether someone n claim a “gay inty” are only the latt round of siar disput that have echoed church rridors for years. Before there was an ex-gay paradigm of cure, there was an olr orthodoxy that clud a Christian paradigm of rg for believers who aren’t straight. In the bgraphy Wound Prophet, Michael Ford documents how Nouwen discsed his experience as a celibate gay man wh his close circle of iends.

As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct. In the Uned Stat, as the 1969 Stonewall rts New York announced the birth of the gay rights movement, orthodox Prottants were already askg what posive visn Scripture giv for people who are gay.