tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27739158876869927762023-11-16T02:49:07.218-05:00The Queer ChristianAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-40658644230583024372011-10-12T16:38:00.000-04:002011-10-12T16:44:16.748-04:00Influential Southern Baptist Pastor And Perry Supporter Claims Gays Brainwashing AmericaPastor Robert Jeffress recently claimed that gay people are trying to brainwash Americans.
So being sympathetic human beings that others can laugh or sympathize with is actually a nefarious plot to brainwash people via desensitization? And telling the true story of a man who was fired for contracting HIV is somehow manipulative? Jeffress' paranoid idea of "jamming" is also Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-21693137771287043922011-09-30T11:11:00.000-04:002011-09-30T11:11:21.943-04:00Pretty Bigotry: Exposition of the Views of the Baptists Relative to the Coloured Population...
Pretty Bigotry is about exposing relatively well reasoned prose expressing bigotries from the past. The point is to highlight how polite, logical and even compassionate bigotry can sound. We may like to think that we are all above such "nonsense" today, but the reality is that these are often very intelligent, well read and educated people espousing such views. It is only in the harsh lightAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-55680403327786891432011-09-28T13:06:00.001-04:002011-10-12T16:47:36.691-04:00Victims of the Gays: Frank TurekThere have been a few stories in the news recently about religious people claiming to have been discriminated against over their views on marriages. First up is Frank Turek. Mr. Turek is a contractor providing leadership training seminars for various large corporations. Turek also happens to be the author of "Correct, Not Politically Correct; How Same-Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone" and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-22652104563717044132011-09-14T15:51:00.001-04:002011-09-14T15:51:15.879-04:00Christian Anti-Gay Fringe Goes Mainstream, Lively Speaks With Moody PastorScott Lively is a gay-rights activists best friend. The man's Holocaust revisionist book, 'The Pink Swastika', makes numerous ridiculous claims, namely that Hitler and his SS were really all gay, and gay rights will lead to fascism and another holocaust. Lively was also involved in the now notorious "Kill The Gays" bill in Uganda. The man is a walking cliche of religious homophobia and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-63983818171910412802011-09-13T13:44:00.000-04:002011-09-13T13:44:22.320-04:00The Victim CardFrom a great NYT piece about the anti-gay bullying problem in the Anoka-Hennepin school district:
One of the plaintiffs, Kyle Rooker, 14, has not declared his sexual orientation but was perceived by classmates as gay, he said, in part because he likes to wear glittery scarves and belt out Lady Gaga songs. In middle school he was called epithets almost daily, and once he was urinated on from Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-52998772101937097602011-09-13T13:11:00.000-04:002011-09-13T13:11:46.856-04:00Critiquing Robert Gagnon Pt. 1 - The Genesis ProblemI have recently been reading Robert Gagnon's "The Bible and Homosexual Practice", and no it is not because I hate myself (though sometimes I wonder...). Instead I decided to tackle it because, well hey someone else bought the thing and understanding the opposition is paramount in the struggle for equality. I will be writing several entries in this series as I go through the book. There have Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-44968750279181258112011-09-03T13:00:00.000-04:002011-09-03T13:00:38.815-04:00Barber, Reisman: All Gay Men Want Is Little BoysMatt Barber recently spoke with Judith Reisman of the Liberty University School of Law on his Faith and Freedom radio show. During their conversation Reisman claimed that, "the aim of homosexual males and now increasingly females is not to have sex with other old guys and get married but to obtain sex with as many boys as possible." Matt Barber of course just sat silently agreeing, after Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-78434936293324083892011-09-03T12:29:00.003-04:002011-09-03T12:29:51.730-04:00Minnesota Marriage Battle Update: Christopher Plate Joins Minnesota Marriage CoalitionChristopher Plate, who headed up the successful Rhode Island chapter of the National Organization for Marriage, is heading to Minnesota. And if you live in Minnesota you'll surely be hearing plenty from him in the months to come. But when he tells you this battle isn't about animus against gay people just remember, this is the man who once claimed that for gay couples children are little more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-85680367126977065982011-09-02T11:45:00.000-04:002011-09-04T11:26:58.578-04:00Hate? What Hate?I was reading an article over at Townhall.com about Bank of America's firing Frank Turek, who had written at anti-marriage equality screed. The article itself wasn't particularly compelling, same old accusations and victimization along with the typical trope that anyone who does not want to work and/or associate with heterosexists or homophobes is a fascist member of the thought police. What was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-22219336159402768542011-08-27T17:53:00.000-04:002011-08-27T17:53:11.913-04:00Queer Kids And ParentingSo I came across this letter to advice columnist Dan Savage today. In it a father is expressing concerns about his son, his son's boyfriend and their potentially weird/dangerous kinks. Dan Savage was in his usual good form, being far more conservative than any of his critics would admit. But I wanted to touch on one aspect of the letter and how it relates to parents, and Christian Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-75648247096916090822011-08-27T17:13:00.001-04:002011-08-27T17:34:54.844-04:00Linda Harvey: "There is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen or human."Well thanks Linda, good to know I don't exist. Or, as you'd likely spin it, that I'm really just a heterosexual with a gay sex problem. These people just keep getting crazier by the minute. You can check out the audio yourself, but below is a snippet of the statements in question.
There’s one big fact that’s not backed up. There is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian or Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-76189362425244563632011-08-27T13:14:00.000-04:002011-08-27T13:14:12.483-04:00It's Raining Closeted Republicans!Step over Phillip.Hinkle, your time in the GOP closet spotlight is already over. Now it is time to meet Roberto Arango of Puerto Rico. This Republican politician recently had pictures of himself he had posted to the gay cruising site Grindr surface, and is now of course pulling a Weiner and going for the cover up. His excuse? He's recently taken some weight-loss pictures of himself for motivationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-62407114151401545632011-08-25T21:34:00.001-04:002011-08-25T21:36:59.914-04:00Willow Creek: Not Hate, Just A Double StandardStarbucks CEO Howard Schultz caused controversy recently by cancelling an appearance at the Chicago area mega-church Willow Creek in response to a Change.org petition calling the church homophobic. The petition cited the church's former, though long lived, relationship with the ex-gay para organization Exodus International, along with their statement following the dissolution of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-52164679675650500362011-08-24T18:34:00.000-04:002011-08-24T18:34:14.880-04:00Homosexualists Attack! Minnesota EditionIn digging around while writing my most recent post deconstructing Minnesota for Marriage's talking points I found this story about one of their lobbyists, Tom Prichard of the Minnesota Family Council. Mr. Prichard apparently demanded the defunding of Twin Cities Public Television because it was going to air a program promoting deviant sex and kinks to little kids involving a lesbian couple's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-31878143916282979452011-08-24T18:22:00.000-04:002011-08-24T18:22:51.119-04:00Deconstructing "Minnesota for Marriage"The battle over marriage equality in Minnesota is heating up, and the anti-equality coalition Minnesota for Marriage has launched it's web site. I'd like to take a minute to go through some of their main talking points and deconstruct them. Under the section "Why Preserving Marriage Matters" is the following:Many people mistakenly believe that proposals to allow so-called “same-sex” marriage are Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-42034595353814074112011-08-22T12:09:00.000-04:002011-08-22T12:09:09.651-04:00Love, Hate, With Conservatives Sometimes It's Hard To Tell The Difference
These days the LGBT rights movement has made enough headway that most anti-gay crusaders feel the need to at least pay lip service to tolerance by claiming they really do love homosexual (so much so that they're working day and night on a cure for us!). That's why I respect Rebecca Hageline, she espouses her animus towards gay people openly, honestly and without reservation. It is, in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-42328185530611791012011-08-22T11:39:00.000-04:002011-08-22T11:39:57.570-04:00Randy Thomas: Gayest Ex-Gay Ever
It always cracks me up how incredibly gay many ex-gays come off as...
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-36955455119746256702011-08-19T11:38:00.000-04:002011-08-19T11:38:33.591-04:00Recruitment, An Oldie But A GoodyWell you'd think that at this point the whole "homosexuals want to recruit our children!!" bit would have been laid to rest. I mean when even prominent ex-gay and anti-gay voices are admitting that homosexuality isn't something one chooses (even if they then go on to compare it to alcoholism or disease) you'd think the idea that anyone could be "recruited" would seem universally Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-24387773251703933182011-08-15T19:53:00.000-04:002011-08-15T19:53:24.056-04:00Michelle Bachmann Ducks And Weaves
This woman is better at dodging difficult questions than Obama circa 2008, and that's saying something. What I think this really highlights is how much the atmosphere around this issue has changed. A decade ago she would be able to easily stick by her virulently anti-gay record and statements without a problem. Now she clearly realized that she needs this all to go away lest Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-34365364059739815482011-08-13T13:51:00.001-04:002011-08-14T20:19:39.055-04:00Indiana Anti-Equality Representative Phillip Hinkle Caught Cruising Craigslist M4M SectionFirst and foremost, I think there is an object lesson to be learned in the story of Rep. Phillip Hinkly, who was recently caught trying to pay an 18 year old young man for sex. That lesson is one for those Christians on the traditionalist side who are convinced that the healthiest and holiest thing any homosexual can do is ignore their feelings and try to live a heterosexual life, essentially to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-18540022983648362942011-08-03T18:44:00.000-04:002011-08-03T18:44:09.880-04:00Could Holocaust Revisionist Scott Lively Get Any Crazier? Probably...Scott Lively, who has claimed that Hitler was gay and purposefully recruited gay men into the SS because of their innate brutality, has stepped up the ante. Now we apparently are not only to blame for the greatest tragedy of the last century, but we're also helping to usher in the apocalypse. According to Lively Harold Camping, the recent doomsday declarer, wasn't all that far off, "Harold Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-62440662432519532282011-08-03T18:20:00.000-04:002011-08-03T18:20:14.526-04:00Pat Robertson Embodies Irony
No Pat, I would rather not embrace a value system out of the eighth century, so could you please stop schilling your own?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-48329348934574646112011-08-03T17:57:00.001-04:002011-08-03T17:57:41.586-04:00Slam Poet Slams "That's So Gay"
Fantastic. That's a lot of talent for someone so young.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-67119479120849008592011-08-01T23:04:00.000-04:002011-08-01T23:04:16.039-04:00Hip ≠ RightA lot of great stuff came out of the Wild Goose Festival, including some amazing stories about the inclusion of LGBT people of faith. Kristin Rawls of Religion Dispatches has a piece up about the LGBT community's involvement in the festival. While there is much there to agree with, such as her statement that, "[i]n the future, festival organizers should invite a range of LGBT people to lead Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2773915887686992776.post-12684541882888585782011-08-01T21:56:00.001-04:002011-08-01T21:58:24.187-04:00Journey Into Manhood Shows Off Ex-Gay WeidrnessJourney Into Manhood, run by Rich Wyler, is back in the news after NPR covered the program in response to the Bachmann fiasco. The retreat, which is pretty fringe even among ex-gay advocates, employs controversial "touch therapy" techniques. Apparently what men with unwanted same-sex attractions need is some alone time in the woods to cuddle with one another...
The bit at the end with the wife Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09500249240729119805noreply@blogger.com1