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

Contents:

• TROST'S ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE AD IS DISCRIMATORY, OUTSASKATOON SAYS
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

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

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. 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.

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

“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.

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.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

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. Lively first emerged as an anti-gay activist when he beme munitns director for the Oregon Cizens Alliance, which was backg that state’s notor Measure 9 vote 1992.

The measure, which failed, would have add language to the state nstutn listg homosexualy, along wh pedophilia and masochism, as “abnormal behavr.

The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly. 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.