Groups opposed to gay rights rake lns as stat bate anti-LGBTQ bills

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A small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement

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TROST'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD IS DISCRIMATORY, OUTSASKATOON SAYS

A new advertisement agast gay marriage by Conservative learship hopeful Brad Trost is discrimatory, acrdg to the executive director of OUTSaskatoon." name="scriptn * anti gay rally saskatoon *

A man was arrted after the patg of a Pri-themed crosswalk the cy's Broadway district was dispted an cint OUTSaskatoon says was fuelled by homophobia and racism. Natnal g out day started on the first anniversary of the march on Washgton for gay and lbian rights, acrdg to the anizatn Human Rights Campaign.

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

In today’s heightened culture war, the ffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowg. * anti gay rally saskatoon *

The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. “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.

'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.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

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.

“The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns.

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