Above are screen grabs taken from three prominent anti-gay hate sites, all of them far-right christianist. These headlines show the hatred they posted in just the past seven days, when gay people or gay issues were not in the news—a merely average week, in other words.I think it also demonstrates the lengths to which these religious extremists will go to in order to defame GLBT people—they will say anything so they can attack gay people.
I know that most normal people laugh at these christianists. They think these folks are too loopy for anyone to take them seriously (like attacking gay people over the oil spill? WTF?!). However, collectively these groups and others of their ilk have hundreds of thousands of followers who contribute millions of dollars to foment hatred against gay people. Our side has a fraction of the money they have, and we don’t have anything to counter the right wing media machine that constantly propagandises against us.
What we do have, as I wrote about Thursday, are growing numbers of people who are on our side. We need for them to speak out against the extremists, to vote against them and to contribute money to fight them. We especially need real Christians to stand up to those who would use that faith as a weapon of hatred.
Evil thrives on the silent acquiescence of the good; it requires it. If we change the playing field and stand up to the bigots and the bullies and the haters, they will lose.
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The gay rights parade in albany, NY is Sunday at 11:45b a.m. in Washington Park. Heavy-duty representation from the church communities.
And a drag I can't go, because my daughter has a dance recital tomorrow afternoon.
Just for future reference, when you see one of my (frequent) exhortations to heterosexuals, and Christian heterosexuals in particular, to speak up against the radical right, to lead by example, there's an invisible asterisk leading to the equally invisible disclaimer: "Does not apply to Roger Owen Green who's already a good example."
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