18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

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• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• GAY RIGHTS

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

Their missn is to relieve poverty for lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) refuge livg Turkey by providg the basic necsi of life; and to relieve poverty by sponsorg, providg fancial and rettlement assistance to LGBT refuge Turkey who have fled bee of persecutn for their sexual orientatn or genr intifitn and, as victims of human rights ab; and to unrtake activi ancillary and cintal to the attament of the above charable purpose.

“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. Among the “tradnal moral valu” the anizatn claims to promote are falsehoods about AIDS as a “gay plague, ” furtherg the myth that people who are gay were rponsible for the Holot, that the ernment is promotg LGBTQ behavr, and that pro-LGBTQ anizatns are anti-Christian hate groups. Posive Approach To Healthy Sexualy (PATH): Recently rebrand om s former name, Posive Alternativ to Homosexualy, PATH lls self “a non-prof ecumenil aln of anizatns that believe tradnal fay valu based upon time-honored Biblil prcipl, ” and stat that s goal is “to promote healthy sexualy and tradnal fay valu, adherg to the sacred venant of marriage between one man and one woman.

The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. The Pri Alliance's missn is to provi a safe space where stunts and guts n discs and learn about the LGBTQIA+ muny, their own genr and sexualy, and have support their acceptance of themselv and others, as we strive to elimate homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism and cissexism all aspects of life--on and off mp.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

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.

Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai. ” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance.

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Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material.

In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog. 30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children.

In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch. Camenker, who has long foced on the purported “homosexual agenda” the schools and equently claimed gays are dangero to kids, has repeatedly ced discreded claims om anizatns like the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy that lk homosexualy and pedophilia. ” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair.

The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy. Anthony ListWomen’s Campaign FundAgriculture & Food ProcsgAmerin Coaln for EthanolAmerin Farm Bure FeratnAssociated Equipment DistributorsFood Policy ActnGrassroots Netroots AllianceInternatnal Foodservice Distributors AssociatnNatnal Associatn of Wheat GrowersNatnal Council of Agricultural EmployersNatnal Farmers OrganizatnNatnal Farmers UnnUned Farm Workers of AmeriUned Food & Commercial WorkersUned Food & Commercial Workers Lol 400Uned Frh Produce AssociatnVote HempAnimals and WildlifeAmerin Humane AssociatnAmerin Society for the Preventn of Celty to AnimalsAmerin Veterary Medil AssociatnAmerin Wilrns CoalnAnimal Welfare InstuteBig Cat RcueBorn Free USADefenrs of Wildlife Actn FundDoris Day Animal LeagueFood Policy ActnHumane USA PACNatnal Animal Intert Alliance TstOcean ChampnsSierra ClubSportsmen’s and Animal Owners’ Votg AllianceThe Humane Society Legislative FundThe Humane Society of the Uned StatWtern Organizatn of Rource CouncilsArts, Entertament, and HistoryAmerin Library AssociatnAmerins for the Arts Actn FundCalifornia Park & Recreatn SocietyNatnal JournalNatnal Tst for Historic PrervatnBs and ConsumersAmerin Council of Engeerg CompaniAmerin Fort and Paper AssociatnAssociated Builrs & ContractorsAssociated General Contractors of AmeriBs-Indtry Polil Actn CommteeCompTIAConsumer ActnConsumer Feratn of AmeriInpennt Electril ContractorsInternatnal Sleep Products AssociatnInternatnal Warehoe Logistics AssociatnMaryland Bs for Rponsive GovernmentMetals Service Center InstuteNatnal Associatn for the Self-EmployedNatnal Associatn of Government ContractorsNatnal Associatn of ManufacturersNatnal Electril Contractors AssociatnNatnal Feratn of Inpennt BsNatnal Ready Mixed Concrete AssociatnNatnal Rtrant AssociatnNatnal Retail FeratnNatnal Small Bs AssociatnNatnal Stone, Sand & Gravel AssociatnPlumbg-Heatg-Coolg Contractors AssociatnPublic Cizen’s Congrs Watch Small Bs & Entreprenrship CouncilState PIRGs Workg TogetherThe Natnal Lumber and Buildg Material Dealers AssociatnUned Stat Bs and Indtry CouncilUned Stat Chamber of CommerceUned Stat Public Intert Rearch GroupCampaign Fance and ElectnsCommon Polil ActnMove to AmendNatnal Women’s Polil CcPublic Cizen’s Congrs WatchRight MarchTerm Lims Ameri Polil Actn CommteeCivil Liberti and Civil RightsAmerin Civil Liberti UnnAsian Amerin Actn FundCampaign for a Color Bld AmeriCenter for Internatnal PolicyCommon CseDm Major InstuteEarthRights InternatnalFriends Commtee on Natnal LegislatnGlobal ExchangeHispanic Feratn, LCLAA, LULAC, Mi Faia Vota, NCLR, and Voto LatoHuman Rights CampaignIranian Amerin Polil Actn CommteeLearship Conference on Civil and Human RightsLeague of Uned Lat Amerin CizensLeague of Women VotersLiberty for AllLiberty GuardMove to AmendNatnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)Natnal Council of La RazaNatnal Gay & Lbian Task ForceNatnal Organizatn for WomenNatnal Relig Campaign Agast Torture Actn FundPeople for the Amerin WayPFLAG, Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and GaysRace ForwardStand Agast SpygThe Arc Uned To End GenociVenn InstuteConservative60 Pl AssociatnAmerin Conservative UnnAmerins for ProsperyCampaign for Workg FaiCan Do ConservativChristian Actn NetworkCizens Uned Polil Victory FundConcerned Women for AmeriConservAmeriConservative CongrsConservative ReviewConservative Strike ForceDC Works For USEagle FomFah and Freedom CoalnGOPACGOProudGOPUSAHerage Actn for AmeriHoe Conservativ Fund (Republin Study Commtee)Keep Ameri SafeLegn for the Survival of Freedom, Inc.

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”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.