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

Contents:

• 'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'
• OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS
• WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
• GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL
• 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

'WHY DO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?'

This year alone, 4, 172 ngregatns left, acrdg to an unofficial tally by Uned Methodist News the church forbids the marriage or ordatn of “self-avowed, practicg homosexuals, ” many church and nferenc fy those bans. LGBTQ+ rponseWhile some partg church allow LGBTQ+ members, ’s an unacceptable double standard when they let LGBTQ+ people attend their servic but refe to marry them, said Sonja Feist, print of the Topeka chapter of Parents, Fay and Friends of Lbians and told The Capal-Journal she didn't see how a church that bans same-sex marriage n claim to be welg to gay people.

The Supreme Court lg earlier this year legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi has ntued to raise qutns about how the cisn will affect relig groups – pecially those that rema opposed to allowg gay and lbian upl to wed. ) (not to be nfed wh the Prbyterian Church Ameri, which oppos same-sex marriage) and the Epispal Church have wrtled wh the issue for years, often as part of a larger bate on the role of gays and lbians the church. Schaefer’s se has spl the church, wh some clergy floutg the l and marryg same-sex upl and other, more nservative members threateng to leave if the church do not hold to s current l prohibg gay marriage.

OVER 6,000 UNED METHODIST NGREGATNS VOTED TO LEAVE THE NOMATN AS BE MORE FLEXIBLE WH GAY MARRIAGE AND LGBTQ+ MISTERS

While most the bate over homosexualy adopt a polarized posn – favorg eher plete approval of same-sex relatnships, or opposn to any and all rights for homosexuals – Catholic teachg fds a middle ground. Here the Church attempts to be te to the re premis of our Catholic sexual-ethics tradn, while at the same time fosterg basic human digny and pastoral re toward gay and lbian teachg has crics on both sis of the bate.

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. 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.

WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.

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.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Wh regard to that last, said: “Homosexuals have turned away om humbly worshippg the te and livg God and his transcennt moral orr orr to make an idol out of their sexual perversn and chaos. 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. In 2001, she hired proment anti-gay propagandists Robert Knight (now wh Coral Ridge Mistri; see below) and Peter LaBarbera (now wh Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above) to lnch CWA’s Culture and Fay Instute.

While at CWA, on April 12, 2007, Barber suggted agast all the evince that there were only a “miscule number” of anti-gay hate crim and most of those “may very well be rooted dulent reports. CWA long relied on and displayed Knight’s articl and talkg pots, cludg claims that “homosexualy rri enormo physil and mental health risks” and “gay marriage entic children to experiment wh homosexualy.

Print Wendy Wright said this Augt that gay activists were g same-sex marriage “to doctrate children schools to reject their parents’ valu and to harass, sue and punish people who disagree.

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

” 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. In one recent say on the CRM webse, he argued agast allowg homosexuals to serve openly the ary, sayg that “Bible-believg Christians would quickly fd themselv unwele Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-drsg ary. In 2002, before jog CRM, Knight wrote that gay marriage “entic children to experiment wh homosexualy” and that acceptg homosexualy leads to “a loss of stabily muni, wh a rise crime, sexually transmted diseas and other social pathologi.

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. ” AMERICAblog also reported that then-FRC official Yvette Cantu, an terview published on Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy’s webse, said, “If they [gays and lbians] had children, what would happen when they were too by havg their sex parti? More recently, March 2008, Sprigg, rpondg to a qutn about ung gay partners durg the immigratn procs, said: “I would much prefer to export homosexuals om the Uned Stat than to import them.

ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL

Started 1987 by psychologist Pl Cameron, the Fay Rearch Instute (FRI) has bee the anti-gay movement’s ma source for what Cameron claims is “cuttg-edge rearch” — but is, fact, pletely discreded junk science phed out by a man who has been nmned by three profsnal anizatns. Over nearly three s, Cameron has published “rearch studi” (though almost never peer-reviewed journals) that suggt that homosexuals are predatory and diseased perverts who victimize children.

” In yet another, he wrote, “Homosexuals were three tim more likely to adm to havg ma an obscene phone ll” and “a third more apt to report a traffic ticket or traffic accint the past 5 years. 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.

) Gazette that he believed homosexualy should be crimalized Ameri and that he was fe wh a proposed bill Uganda that would punish some gay sexual acts wh ath (“Whatever they ci, I’m OK wh”). They clu the Amerin Fay Associatn, Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, Concerned Women for Ameri, Coral Ridge Mistri, the Fay Rearch Council (see above for all five) and, until recently, the Illois Fay Instute (see below). It says that gays should apologize “for all the STDs [sexually transmted diseas] they’ve spread, and all the money those STDs have st, and pecially for settg bad moral exampl for our children.

GERMAN CATHOLIC PRITS DEFY ROME TO OFFER BLSGS TO GAY COUPL

In 2006, then-Executive Director Peter LaBarbera (see Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above), told a relig-right gatherg hosted by Visn Ameri that homosexualy was "disgtg" and mand the closg down of all "homosexual tablishments.

” The rponse of Lrie Higgs, IFI’s belligerent director of school advocy, was that Daly was showg “surprisg naïveté, ” g the same language as pro-gay “homosexualists, ” and failg to nont “the pro-homosexual juggernt.

In 2009, Higgs pared homosexualy to Nazism, likeng the German Evangelil Church’s weak rponse to fascism to the “Amerin church’s failure to rpond appropriately to the spread of radil, heretil, stctive views of homosexualy.

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

Matt Barber, formerly wh Concerned Women for Ameri and Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (see above for both), joed Liberty Counsel as director of cultural affairs (also beg Liberty Universy’s associate an for reer and profsnal velopment).