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Last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews, a spokesman for the Family Research Council had this to say:
MATTHEWS: Should we outlaw gay behavior? SPRIGG: I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas which overturned the sodomy laws in this country was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior. MATTHEWS: So we should outlaw gay behavior? SPRIGG: Yes Yes, Virginia, this lot really wants to make it illegal for us to exist in this country. Forget the 'love the sinner, hate the sin' crap (which I've always maintained was just something to set us at ease so we would put our guard down). Presume that this guy said what he meant and meant what he said. As much as American religious conservatives want to say that there's no link between them and the Ugandan 'kill the gays' law, I don't see any daylight between them. Given half a chance, these same folks like Dobson, Robertson, et. al. would have America in the same boat. Cheers Aj
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It's so maddening that we have what is, essentially, a spokesperson from a hate group invited onto news programs as if he is some sort of authority.
Sprigg is the same guy who last year said that we should all be exported out of the country because we're destructive to society. ![]() |
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN8D40qRWW4"]YouTube- Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg: Gay Behavior Should Be Outlawed[/ame]
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I ALSO want folks like Sprigg and his lot on TV so that WE don't get complacent. For too long I watched the gay movement (at least the Left leaning side of it) play this game of on the one hand talking about how the patriarchy oppresses queer people (true as far as it goes) but then pretending, sometimes in the same diatribe, that the most visible and obvious manifestation of that patriarchal mindset was no more than a few hundred under-educated people meeting in a couple of basement churches with no political or cultural influence. And time and time again, they beat us at the ballot box. Yet, we didn't take them seriously. Having someone get on TV and hearing them say "I want to make a law against you" focuses the mind quite wonderfully. Cheers Aj
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This being a free country, I would have to support their right to speak, though I would not allow them to advocate violence or hatred for queerfolk of any variety, because that is against the law. (both the natural law, and law of the USA.) Also, I would like for throngs of people, either gay or straight to show up and oppose them each time they speak, as people do when a known Ku Klx Klan gathering is made public. I would like them to have to hide their faces and bodies behind a coverings, to speak their awful opinions, because the disapproval of they have to say is so strong that their fear exposure. I would like them to be seen as creatures who should be scorned and shunned, as people whom Jesus would have shouted down in the temple, rather than people who are followers of and speakers for Jesus as they make themselves out to be. While I choose not to hate them, because I don't want that hatred inside myself, I hate their attitude of smug superiority and self-righteousness; their assurance that "God is on their side"
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Personally, I am sad to see this kind of hate.
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Keri:
Of course they have the right to speak. Although I wouldn't shed any tears if they didn't have any venues from which to speak (free speech only protects you from government prosecuting or persecuting you for speech, it doesn't grant you a right to a venue). For the most I agree with you although I don't agree that it would be great if they had to hide their faces behind hoods like the Klan does. The reason for this is because of what I have seen that do for race relations in America. For the most part what large numbers of white Americans consider racism can be thought of as a synonym for "What the Klan does". As long as you aren't wearing a white sheet, burning a cross or dragging black people behind your truck you're not a racist using that definition. It lets too many people off of the hook far too easily. It is part (but not the whole) of why I think race relations have been going around in circles since the 70's. The other reason I think that having these folks hide their faces is it allows those on the sidelines to imagine that the people under the hoods are monsters--grotesque and hideous beings. The reason why I want folks like Sprigg on TV, spouting his crap, is so that people can see that the folks who hate us are the guy down the street, the pastor of the megachurch, the nice guy at the gas station, your boss, your kid's soccer coach, etc. I also want them to see that they really mean us actual harm. It pains me to say this but in the *media* battle, the other side has done a much better job than our side has. They learned that outright hate doesn't play well so they try to make it sound like they are just interesting in 'protecting the family' which makes US seem like the threatening party. Except we aren't the threatening party, they are. One of the things that I enjoyed about the exchange between the former Army officer and Sprigg was that the pro-gay person kept returning to the point that there was no basis in fact for any of the latter's assertions. When we do that and stay calm, we throw the radicalism of the other side into sharp relief. Cheers Aj Quote:
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Dread, What I meant was that I was looking forward to a day when the unchristianity of these christian (and other anti gay haters) would be so obvious to folks that the haters would not want to have their opinions known to people in general. Many out-queers do not realize how many queer folk are still in the very back of the closet, and from that spot, the opinions of these very vocal haters and the power they wield, seem unstoppable. Besides the incredibley low self-esteem these closeted queers have from absorbing all the hate-speech they are subjected to, they are afraid of the losses they will suffer and the actual physical attacks that they may be subjected to. While I do not advocate that anti-gay people be attacked... I don't approve of that it any way ... I do look forward to the day when total acceptance of queer folk is the norm, and that people who act in an unjust manner toward us will fear villification, rather than us fearing it. Thanks for starting this thread, though I find these opinions personally horrifying, we still must know about it and deal with it. An yah, them not having a venue to spue their hate talk would be great! Smooches, Keri |
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I think when faced with extremes, most people tend to migrate to the middle, especially when faced with such extremism. Or maybe that's what I'd like to believe. These type of people (Fundie Christians) are the people behind the Ugandian Law. People like Scott Lively, who wrote The Pink Swastika and his ilk like Sprigg.
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