The Christian Anti-Gay Campaign

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
• TEXAS CHURCH ADVOTG EXECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE MOV TO DALLAS LOTN
• IS CHRISTIANITY ANTI-GAY?
• THE CHRISTIAN ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGNCHRISTIAN EVANGELILS HELPED SPUR UGANDA TO SEEK THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY BEHAVR—JT THE LATT DITN THAT HOMOSEXUALS HAVE REPLACED JEWS AS THE NEW TARGET FOR REACTNARY RELIG ZEAL.JAM CARROLLUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 10:27AM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 11, 2010 6:20PM EST ILMARS ZNOTS, AFP / GETTY IMAG LAST MARCH, STT LIVELY AND TWO OTHER CHRISTIAN EVANGELILS PREACHED ANTI-GAY DIATRIB AT A NFERENCE UGANDA, WARNG OF SEXUAL ASSLT AGAST CHILDREN AND THE STCTN OF THE STUTN OF MARRIAGE–A HOMOSEXUAL WORLD NSPIRACY TO STROY VIRTUE. LIVELY WROTE ON HIS BLOG THAT HE PRAYED HIS MPAIGN WOULD BE “A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAST THE GAY AGENDA UGANDA.” BUT THEN, AS THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED THE OTHER DAY, LIVELY WAS SHOCKED, SHOCKED, WHEN A BILL ATTACHG THE ATH PENALTY TO HOMOSEXUALY WAS SOON TRODUCED TO THE UGANDA LEGISLATURE EVEN THOUGH WAS DRAFTED PART BY THE ANIZERS OF THE NFERENCE HE HAD ATTEND AND LIVELY HIMSELF HAD MET WH UGANDAN LAWMAKERS TO DISCS . BACKG OFF, LIVELY SAID, “LET ME BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE PROPOSED ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY LAW AS WRTEN. IT DO NOT EMPHASIZE REHABILATN OVER PUNISHMENT, AND THE PUNISHMENT LLS FOR IS UNACCEPTABLY HARSH.” LIVELY AND HIS KD NNOT NOUNCE “EVIL” ON ONE HAND, AND CLAIM SURPRISE WHEN ACTNS TAKEN AGAST ARE “HARSH” ON THE OTHER. LIVELY IS ONLY THE LATT OF A LONG LE OF PREACHERS OF HATE WHO TRY TO DISTANCE THEMSELV OM THE ACTUAL NSEQUENC OF THEIR MONIZG SERMONS. THE NNECTN BETWEEN SPEECH AND THE BEHAVR N PROVOKE IS A PERENNIAL HUMAN QUTN, BUT WHEN THE SPEECH IS RELIG, VOKG A DIVE THORY AND ASSOCIATG OBJECTS OF NIGRATN WH SATAN, THE PROBLEM BE EXPLOSIVE. IT IS A SMALL STEP OM LABELG SOMEONE AS DAMNABLE TO TURNG THEIR LIFE TO HELL ON EARTH, AND IS TIME FOR PREACHERS TO BE LLED TO ACUNT FOR THE WAY THEIR WORDS ENURAGE LISTENERS TO TAKE THAT STEP. LIVELY AND HIS KD NNOT NOUNCE “EVIL” ON ONE HAND, AND CLAIM SURPRISE WHEN ACTNS TAKEN AGAST ARE “HARSH” ON THE OTHER.HOMOSEXUALS ARE THE GLOBAL SPEGOAT DU JOUR, THE READY VSEL TO WHICH UNSETTLED REACTNARI OF ALL KDS N CHANNEL THEIR ANGUISH, FEAR, AND VLENT IMPULS. THIS IS TE THE UNED STAT, WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS A CRACKLG FLASH-POT THE CULTURE WAR AND GAYS THE ARY ARE STILL DISCRIMATED AGAST. IT IS TE THROUGHOUT THE MLIM WORLD (OF THE SEVEN NATNS THAT PUNISH HOMOSEXUALY WH THE ATH PENALTY, SIX ARE ISLAMIC, AND THE POPULATN OF THE SEVENTH–NIGERIA–IS HALF MLIM). IN AI, ASIA, AND LAT AMERI, FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF MASTREAM NOMATNS LIKE SOME NSERVATIVE ANGLINS, ARE CREASGLY FG THEIR OPPOSN TO SECULARISM BY SGLG OUT GAYS FOR GOD-SANCTNED HATRED. THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF HIV/AIDS HAS ONLY FUELED SUCH NIGRATN. (TWENTY YEARS AGO, UGANDA WAS LEADG AIN NATNS PROMOTG RATNAL PUBLIC-HEALTH IATIV TO STEM THE EPIMIC, BUT BY NOW HOMOSEXUALS ARE AS IRRATNALLY STIGMATIZED THERE AS ANYWHERE.) ACROSS THE CENTURI THE CHRISTIAN WT, THE MASTER-VICTIMS OF SPEGOATG WERE JEWS, AND THERE THE TENSN BETWEEN PREACHED DOGMA AND THE VLENCE SPAWNED WAS NOT RECKONED WH UNTIL TOO LATE. CHRISTIAN MOBS OFTEN ATTACKED WHATEVER JEWS THEY ULD FD, PECIALLY DURG HOLY WEEK, WHEN THE SUFFERG AND ATH OF J WERE MEMORATED. JT LIKE LIVELY NOW, CHRISTIAN LEARS—PROTTANT, ORTHODOX, AND CATHOLIC—OFTEN NMNED THE VLENCE WHOUT ASKG WHAT SPIRED . AFTER THOANDS OF JEWS WERE MURRED THE RHELAND DURG THE FIRST CSA, THE POPE ISSUED THE LANDMARK PAPAL BULL SICUT JUDAEIS: “WE CREE THAT NO CHRISTIAN SHALL E VLENCE” AGAST JEWS. THAT BULL WAS REISSUED BY MORE THAN 20 POP OVER 400 YEARS, BUT NEVER SEEMED TO DAWN ON THE POP TO ASK WHY SUCH EXHORTATN WAS SO ENDLSLY NECSARY, AS MOBS NTUED CENTURY AND CENTURY OUT TO LNCH THEIR POGROMS–PECIALLY DURG HOLY WEEK, WHEN WHAT THEY HEARD OM PULPS WAS THAT THE JEWS HAD KILLED CHRIST.ANTI-SEMISM IS ROOTED THEOLOGY. HOMOPHOBIA IS ROOTED ELSEWHERE, BUT WH A THEOLOGIL SANCTN. A FEW ANTI-GAY BIBLE VERS DON’T EXPLA THIS HATRED. ITS HIDN PLEXI RANGE OM NTEMPT FOR THE MATERIAL WORLD TO SPICN OF PLEASURE TO FEAR OF SEX SELF. THE ORIGS ARE OBSCURE BEE HUMANS ARE AAID TO LOOK AT THEM. IT IS ENOUGH TO BRG A DAMNG GOD. AMONG CHRISTIANS, EVANGELILS ARE AT THE EXTREME END OF HOMOSEXUAL MONIZATN. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AS DID WH JEWS, FIRMLY RENOUNC “ALL FORMS OF VLENCE AGAST HOMOSEXUALS,” WORDS A VATIN LEGATE ADDRSED TO THE UNED NATNS LTLE OVER A YEAR AGO. THE VATIN OPPOS “ALL CRIMAL PENALTI,” AS WELL. BUT, AS DID WH JEWS, THE VATIN STILL PROMULGAT NTEMPTUO TEACHGS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY—“OBJECTIVELY DISORRED,” SAYS THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM. EARLY HIS PONTIFITE, POPE BENEDICT XVI BROKE WH A TRADN THAT HAD LONG QUIETLY ACMODATED HOMOSEXUALS THE CLERGY, NOW FORBIDDG ENTRY TO THE PRITHOOD OF ANYONE HAVG “A GAY ORIENTATN” OR “EP-SEATED HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI.”NOW ROME PLAS THAT THE ANGLIN COMMUNN IS AFFIRMG GAYS THROUGH BLSED UNNS AND FULL ADMISSN TO THE PRITHOOD. THE PLAT IS NO SURPRISE. IN 2008, BENEDICT LABELED HOMOSEXUALY AS A “STCTN OF GOD’S WORK” ON A PAR WH THE ATN OF THE TROPIL RA FORTS. GAYS, HE SAID, THREATEN “THE ORR OF CREATN.” THIS IS LS BLATANT THAN, SAY, THE “GOD HAT FAGS” SIGN RRIED BY PROTTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS AT MATTHEW SHEPARD’S FUNERAL 1998, BUT THE DRIFT IS TOWARD THE SAME HATEFUL NCLN.RELIG DOGMA NNOT BE PREACHED A SPHERE REMOVED OM S REAL-WORLD NSEQUENC. SPEAKERS ARE RPONSIBLE FOR WHAT FOLLOWS OM THEIR HATEFUL SPEECH, PECIALLY WHEN IS OFFERED AS GOD’S WORD. IT TOOK THE HOLOT FOR CHRISTIANS TO LEARN THAT ABOUT THE TEACHG OF NTEMPT FOR JEWS. WHAT WILL TAKE THE SE OF GAYS?JAM CARROLL'S RECENT BOOK IS PRACTICG CATHOLIC, A STORY OF AMERIN BELIEF. HE IS A LUMNIST FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE AND DISTGUISHED-SCHOLAR--RINCE AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSY. HIS OTHER BOOKS CLU AN AMERIN REQUIEM, WHICH WON THE NATNAL BOOK AWARD, HOE OF WAR, WNER OF THE PEN-GALBRAH AWARD, AND CONSTANTE'S SWORD, NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY. JAM CARROLL
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

The vote, followg a long day of bate, approv a list of what the nomatn lls sexual immoraly won’t tolerate, cludg “adultery, premaral sex, extra-maral sex, polyamory, pornography and homosexual sex. Its 1973 report on homosexualy distguished between homosexual activy and homosexual orientatn, notg that same-sex attractn, and of self, was not sful and that people don’t have a choice who they are attracted to. Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame.

” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down. When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt. ” Yup, that’ll teach ‘em, pecially bee nothg says “my son is gay” like a limp d of his sermon leaked onle, Fahful Ameri gathered 10, 000 signatur om people pletely appalled by Harris’ statements.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays.

No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia. Anti-LGBTQ groups primarily nsist of Christian Right groups but also clu such anizatns as the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy (NARTH) that purport to be scientific. To be specific, media outlets that tagged Gigl’s orthodox Christian remarks as anti-gay clu: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, the Washgton Post, Invtor’s Bs Daily, the Associated Prs, and UPI.

Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment. Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court.

TEXAS CHURCH ADVOTG EXECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE MOV TO DALLAS LOTN

Acrdg to Ta Fetner, a soclogy profsor at Canada’s McMaster Universy, anti-LGBTQ activists began anizatn “not too long after Stonewall, ” the 1969 uprisg at the Stonewall Inn, a New York Cy gay bar. “Along the same l that you see today, they put forward stereotyp and vilify, pecially gay men, as predators and predators of children, and e that to jtify the tactics of takg rights way om LGBTQ people, ” Fetner ced as an early example the activism of Ana Bryant Florida. The sger-turned-anti-gay-activist was behd the “Save Our Children” mpaign, which 1977 helped overturn a newly passed lol ordance Miami-Da County that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn employment, hog and public servic.

Reached a tippg pot for acceptance of homosexualy, acrdg to a Pew study, and by 2016, LGBTQ advot had solidified many civil rights gas, such as the legalizatn of same-sex are we seeg a surge? In Febary 2009, the group planned to travel to Bra to prott a stagg of "The Laramie Project, " a highly rpected play that documents the hate murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard and how the cint impacted the muny.

IS CHRISTIANITY ANTI-GAY?

Last March, Stt Lively and two other Christian evangelils preached anti-gay diatrib at a nference Uganda, warng of sexual asslt agast children and the stctn of the stutn of marriage–a homosexual world nspiracy to stroy virtue. ” But then, as The New York Tim reported the other day, Lively was shocked, shocked, when a bill attachg the ath penalty to homosexualy was soon troduced to the Uganda legislature even though was drafted part by the anizers of the nference he had attend and Lively himself had met wh Ugandan lawmakers to discs .

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, fundamentalist Christians, as well as members of mastream nomatns like some nservative Anglins, are creasgly fg their opposn to secularism by sglg out gays for God-sanctned hatred. Early his pontifite, Pope Benedict XVI broke wh a tradn that had long quietly acmodated homosexuals the clergy, now forbiddg entry to the prithood of anyone havg “a gay orientatn” or “ep-seated homosexual tennci.

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 CHRISTIAN ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGNCHRISTIAN EVANGELILS HELPED SPUR UGANDA TO SEEK THE ATH PENALTY FOR GAY BEHAVR—JT THE LATT DITN THAT HOMOSEXUALS HAVE REPLACED JEWS AS THE NEW TARGET FOR REACTNARY RELIG ZEAL.JAM CARROLLUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 10:27AM EDT / PUBLISHED JAN. 11, 2010 6:20PM EST ILMARS ZNOTS, AFP / GETTY IMAG LAST MARCH, STT LIVELY AND TWO OTHER CHRISTIAN EVANGELILS PREACHED ANTI-GAY DIATRIB AT A NFERENCE UGANDA, WARNG OF SEXUAL ASSLT AGAST CHILDREN AND THE STCTN OF THE STUTN OF MARRIAGE–A HOMOSEXUAL WORLD NSPIRACY TO STROY VIRTUE. LIVELY WROTE ON HIS BLOG THAT HE PRAYED HIS MPAIGN WOULD BE “A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAST THE GAY AGENDA UGANDA.” BUT THEN, AS THE NEW YORK TIM REPORTED THE OTHER DAY, LIVELY WAS SHOCKED, SHOCKED, WHEN A BILL ATTACHG THE ATH PENALTY TO HOMOSEXUALY WAS SOON TRODUCED TO THE UGANDA LEGISLATURE EVEN THOUGH WAS DRAFTED PART BY THE ANIZERS OF THE NFERENCE HE HAD ATTEND AND LIVELY HIMSELF HAD MET WH UGANDAN LAWMAKERS TO DISCS . BACKG OFF, LIVELY SAID, “LET ME BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE PROPOSED ANTI-HOMOSEXUALY LAW AS WRTEN. IT DO NOT EMPHASIZE REHABILATN OVER PUNISHMENT, AND THE PUNISHMENT LLS FOR IS UNACCEPTABLY HARSH.” LIVELY AND HIS KD NNOT NOUNCE “EVIL” ON ONE HAND, AND CLAIM SURPRISE WHEN ACTNS TAKEN AGAST ARE “HARSH” ON THE OTHER. LIVELY IS ONLY THE LATT OF A LONG LE OF PREACHERS OF HATE WHO TRY TO DISTANCE THEMSELV OM THE ACTUAL NSEQUENC OF THEIR MONIZG SERMONS. THE NNECTN BETWEEN SPEECH AND THE BEHAVR N PROVOKE IS A PERENNIAL HUMAN QUTN, BUT WHEN THE SPEECH IS RELIG, VOKG A DIVE THORY AND ASSOCIATG OBJECTS OF NIGRATN WH SATAN, THE PROBLEM BE EXPLOSIVE. IT IS A SMALL STEP OM LABELG SOMEONE AS DAMNABLE TO TURNG THEIR LIFE TO HELL ON EARTH, AND IS TIME FOR PREACHERS TO BE LLED TO ACUNT FOR THE WAY THEIR WORDS ENURAGE LISTENERS TO TAKE THAT STEP. LIVELY AND HIS KD NNOT NOUNCE “EVIL” ON ONE HAND, AND CLAIM SURPRISE WHEN ACTNS TAKEN AGAST ARE “HARSH” ON THE OTHER.HOMOSEXUALS ARE THE GLOBAL SPEGOAT DU JOUR, THE READY VSEL TO WHICH UNSETTLED REACTNARI OF ALL KDS N CHANNEL THEIR ANGUISH, FEAR, AND VLENT IMPULS. THIS IS TE THE UNED STAT, WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS A CRACKLG FLASH-POT THE CULTURE WAR AND GAYS THE ARY ARE STILL DISCRIMATED AGAST. IT IS TE THROUGHOUT THE MLIM WORLD (OF THE SEVEN NATNS THAT PUNISH HOMOSEXUALY WH THE ATH PENALTY, SIX ARE ISLAMIC, AND THE POPULATN OF THE SEVENTH–NIGERIA–IS HALF MLIM). IN AI, ASIA, AND LAT AMERI, FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS, AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF MASTREAM NOMATNS LIKE SOME NSERVATIVE ANGLINS, ARE CREASGLY FG THEIR OPPOSN TO SECULARISM BY SGLG OUT GAYS FOR GOD-SANCTNED HATRED. THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF HIV/AIDS HAS ONLY FUELED SUCH NIGRATN. (TWENTY YEARS AGO, UGANDA WAS LEADG AIN NATNS PROMOTG RATNAL PUBLIC-HEALTH IATIV TO STEM THE EPIMIC, BUT BY NOW HOMOSEXUALS ARE AS IRRATNALLY STIGMATIZED THERE AS ANYWHERE.) ACROSS THE CENTURI THE CHRISTIAN WT, THE MASTER-VICTIMS OF SPEGOATG WERE JEWS, AND THERE THE TENSN BETWEEN PREACHED DOGMA AND THE VLENCE SPAWNED WAS NOT RECKONED WH UNTIL TOO LATE. CHRISTIAN MOBS OFTEN ATTACKED WHATEVER JEWS THEY ULD FD, PECIALLY DURG HOLY WEEK, WHEN THE SUFFERG AND ATH OF J WERE MEMORATED. JT LIKE LIVELY NOW, CHRISTIAN LEARS—PROTTANT, ORTHODOX, AND CATHOLIC—OFTEN NMNED THE VLENCE WHOUT ASKG WHAT SPIRED . AFTER THOANDS OF JEWS WERE MURRED THE RHELAND DURG THE FIRST CSA, THE POPE ISSUED THE LANDMARK PAPAL BULL SICUT JUDAEIS: “WE CREE THAT NO CHRISTIAN SHALL E VLENCE” AGAST JEWS. THAT BULL WAS REISSUED BY MORE THAN 20 POP OVER 400 YEARS, BUT NEVER SEEMED TO DAWN ON THE POP TO ASK WHY SUCH EXHORTATN WAS SO ENDLSLY NECSARY, AS MOBS NTUED CENTURY AND CENTURY OUT TO LNCH THEIR POGROMS–PECIALLY DURG HOLY WEEK, WHEN WHAT THEY HEARD OM PULPS WAS THAT THE JEWS HAD KILLED CHRIST.ANTI-SEMISM IS ROOTED THEOLOGY. HOMOPHOBIA IS ROOTED ELSEWHERE, BUT WH A THEOLOGIL SANCTN. A FEW ANTI-GAY BIBLE VERS DON’T EXPLA THIS HATRED. ITS HIDN PLEXI RANGE OM NTEMPT FOR THE MATERIAL WORLD TO SPICN OF PLEASURE TO FEAR OF SEX SELF. THE ORIGS ARE OBSCURE BEE HUMANS ARE AAID TO LOOK AT THEM. IT IS ENOUGH TO BRG A DAMNG GOD. AMONG CHRISTIANS, EVANGELILS ARE AT THE EXTREME END OF HOMOSEXUAL MONIZATN. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AS DID WH JEWS, FIRMLY RENOUNC “ALL FORMS OF VLENCE AGAST HOMOSEXUALS,” WORDS A VATIN LEGATE ADDRSED TO THE UNED NATNS LTLE OVER A YEAR AGO. THE VATIN OPPOS “ALL CRIMAL PENALTI,” AS WELL. BUT, AS DID WH JEWS, THE VATIN STILL PROMULGAT NTEMPTUO TEACHGS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY—“OBJECTIVELY DISORRED,” SAYS THE CATHOLIC CATECHISM. EARLY HIS PONTIFITE, POPE BENEDICT XVI BROKE WH A TRADN THAT HAD LONG QUIETLY ACMODATED HOMOSEXUALS THE CLERGY, NOW FORBIDDG ENTRY TO THE PRITHOOD OF ANYONE HAVG “A GAY ORIENTATN” OR “EP-SEATED HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI.”NOW ROME PLAS THAT THE ANGLIN COMMUNN IS AFFIRMG GAYS THROUGH BLSED UNNS AND FULL ADMISSN TO THE PRITHOOD. THE PLAT IS NO SURPRISE. IN 2008, BENEDICT LABELED HOMOSEXUALY AS A “STCTN OF GOD’S WORK” ON A PAR WH THE ATN OF THE TROPIL RA FORTS. GAYS, HE SAID, THREATEN “THE ORR OF CREATN.” THIS IS LS BLATANT THAN, SAY, THE “GOD HAT FAGS” SIGN RRIED BY PROTTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS AT MATTHEW SHEPARD’S FUNERAL 1998, BUT THE DRIFT IS TOWARD THE SAME HATEFUL NCLN.RELIG DOGMA NNOT BE PREACHED A SPHERE REMOVED OM S REAL-WORLD NSEQUENC. SPEAKERS ARE RPONSIBLE FOR WHAT FOLLOWS OM THEIR HATEFUL SPEECH, PECIALLY WHEN IS OFFERED AS GOD’S WORD. IT TOOK THE HOLOT FOR CHRISTIANS TO LEARN THAT ABOUT THE TEACHG OF NTEMPT FOR JEWS. WHAT WILL TAKE THE SE OF GAYS?JAM CARROLL'S RECENT BOOK IS PRACTICG CATHOLIC, A STORY OF AMERIN BELIEF. HE IS A LUMNIST FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE AND DISTGUISHED-SCHOLAR--RINCE AT SUFFOLK UNIVERSY. HIS OTHER BOOKS CLU AN AMERIN REQUIEM, WHICH WON THE NATNAL BOOK AWARD, HOE OF WAR, WNER OF THE PEN-GALBRAH AWARD, AND CONSTANTE'S SWORD, NOW AN ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY. JAM CARROLL

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. 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.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals. Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi.

AFTAH is notable for s postg of the utterly discreded work of Pl Cameron (of the Fay Rearch Instute; see below), who has claimed that gays and lbians live vastly shorter liv than heterosexuals.

LGBTQ UNED METHODIST LEARS GUTTED BY CHURCH'S ANTI-GAY CISN

The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party. The AFTAH se repeats bog claims like the ia that a proposed bill California would “promote cross-drsg, sex-change operatns, bisexualy and homosexualy” to krgartners and other children. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet.

It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.