The Gaytheist Agenda

Darlene McBride, musician and voice of the RRRW, presents her Greatest Hits Collection.

As if demanding gay people be forced into “reparative therapy” wasn’t enough, Brian Fischer now wants more.

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Every state in the Union at the time of the Founding had laws which made homosexual behavior illegal. In fact, that noted icon of the left, Thomas Jefferson, wrote a law for the state of Virginia that mandated castration as punishment for two men apprehended for male-to-male friskiness.
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This raises the question, then, as to whether sodomy laws should be, or legitimately have been, repealed just because they are rarely enforced.

The answer to this is a clear and unequivocal “No.”

Think for a moment of the current social controversies that could potentially be avoided if homosexual conduct was still against the law.
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Gay marriage: problem solved. We should never legalize unions between any two people when the union is forged specifically to engage in felony behavior. Would we sanction, for instance, the formation of a corporation whose stated purpose was to import illegal drugs?

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Hate crimes laws: problem solved. We wouldn’t throw a pastor in jail for saying that illegal behavior is not only illegal but also immoral. For instance, he’s free to say that murder is not only contrary to man’s law but also to God’s law. End of the threat to freedom of religion and speech.

Special rights for homosexuals in the workplace: problem solved. No employer should be forced to hire admitted felons to work for him. End of the threat to freedom of religion and freedom of association in the marketplace.

This list could actually be extended, but you get the point. Laws not only curb dangerous and risky behavior, they keep such behavior from being normalized, sanctioned and endorsed by the rest of society, and as such render an enormous benefit to a healthy culture.
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Bothered by those pesky gay people asking for equal civil rights? Solve the problem by making gay illegal! Then Teh Gays could be jailed, castrated, or even put to death legally. Now where have I heard that idea before?

So after Fischer and his AFA friends take out gay people, who will they want to go after next? Who will they next want to criminalize and eradicate in the name of their “deeply held religious beliefs”?

 

Some high schools in Montgomery County, MD, sent students home with fliers from PFOX. It’s part of PFOX’s ongoing effort to push their anti-gay agenda into the nation’s schools, and foist discredited, harmful, bigoted “reparative therapy” on children. (Peter Sprigg, who declared that gay people should be imprisoned, is a board member of PFOX.) PFOX is flat-out lying to these children, and the school system is allowing it.

Some Montgomery County high schools passed out fliers this week from an organization that contends gays can become heterosexual through therapy, and the schools say they cannot prevent the use of their distribution system by such groups.

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The schools are required to distribute literature that isn’t deemed hate speech from any registered nonprofit organization four times a year, the result of a 2006 lawsuit, said Dana Tofig, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Public Schools.
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“These fliers are probably counter to what is available in our health curriculum, but that curriculum focuses on respect, and we respect freedom of speech,” said Patricia O’Neill (Bethesda-Chevy Chase), president of the Montgomery County Board of Education.
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She admits that what PFOX is pushing contradicts the health curriculum. Then she mentions “respect”, but where is the respect for the LGBT students who are being told they are broken, flawed, deviant creatures who need to “change” in order to please others? Once again the health and safety of LGBT citizens takes a back seat to the perceived rights of others to abuse them.

But hey, if it’s only about free speech and presenting alternative ideas to kids then when can we send the kids home with fliers telling them they can become Ex-Christians?

 
Further reading:

RRRW Homophobes Distort Scientific Evidence To Bolster Claim that Homosexuality is Bad. Find Out What They Didn’t Tell You.

The Truth About Ex-Gay “Therapy” Exposed, Again.

When The APA Denounces “Ex-Gay” Therapy What Are the RRRW Anti-Gays To Do? Lie, Of Course.

 

Like, we can’t allow homos on the moon. And you know that’s what they want, after they take over the Earth. (Hat tip, krissthesexyatheist.)

Since SCOTUS blocked broadcast of the trial, these kind folks are re-creating the trial from the transcripts.

More episodes are coming so stay tuned!

 

The Christian Anti-Defamation League released it’s annual We’re Sooooo Persecuted list recently (while I freely admit Christians are persecuted in various places around the world, the USA is not one of those places).

10. Pro-life Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye of Oakland, CA was jailed for exercising peaceful, pro-life speech.

Of course not one of the CADC’s claims has a link supporting their claims. RRRW sites are like that. They just throw out a claim, generally a very biased and even dubious claim, and expect you to believe it. They wouldn’t mislead you–they’re Christians . But I like to fact-check and provide what they don’t–citations.

Pastor Reverend Walter Hoye was jailed for violating the law. Specifically he was jailed because he violated the Oakland law which creates a buffer zone around women’s clinics. Apparently those who protest abortion believe it is necessary to be in a woman’s face to “provide her alternatives to abortion” and “preach the word of god”. Cities like Oakland disagree and make laws indicating protesters must remain a certain distance away (in the case of Oakland it is a mere eight feet). Like many religious people of his ilk, Hoye believed he could use his “religious beliefs” to evade the law–any law. He was reminded that he cannot.

9. Rev. Fred Winters was murdered while preaching in his pulpit in Maryville, Illinois.

This was indeed a tragedy, one I blogged about myself. But as I indicated in my post the perpetrator was possibly mentally ill and Reverend Winters was likely not murdered because he was a Christian (nor was he likely the only intended victim) . Accordingly this would not be an act of anti-Christian bigotry or a hate crime. A tragedy, yes, but not persecution. (BTW, if it was an “anti-Christian” act, WTF is a murder doing all the way down at #9 on the list?)

7. The overt homosexual participation in Obama’s presidential inaugural events by “Bishop” Vickie Eugene Robinson, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington D. C., and a homosexual marching band.

So it’s come to the point that the mere existence of gay people in the public eye is now an “anti-Christian” act? The CADC has truly jumped the shark.

5. Pro-life activist Jim Pullion was murdered in front of his granddaughter’s high school for showing the truth about abortion.

The man who killed Pullion also killed a local businessman, and apparently had a third victim in mind. He also was being treated for depression and was later found incompetent to stand trial. His beef with Pullion wasn’t with his “faith”, but with the graphic signs the man held while sitting outside the school. Am I in any way condoning the actions of the accused man? Of course not. But once again CADC is being terribly dishonest, presuming people will take their undocumented statements at face value and believe Pullion was gunned down because he was a Christian.

4. An activist judge ordered a home school mom in New Hampshire to stop home schooling her daughter because the little girl “reflected too strongly” her mother’s Christian faith.

All children need to be exposed to a variety of viewpoints and experiences. And if, as her mother claims, her “faith” could be destroyed by exposure to outside influences then it’s the sort of faith that should be destroyed. Any faith/religion that’s worth keeping can tolerate inquiry and even criticism.

3. The Federal Department of Homeland Security issued a report entitled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate” that labeled conservative Christians extremists and potential terrorists.

So does that mean that CADC supports the beliefs and actions of the Christian Identity Movement (the only Christian group named in the report)? Or do they just reflexively presume that any denunciation of “Rightwing” groups, even those who kill, means “we hate Christians”?

1. The Federal Hate Crimes Bill that attacks religious liberty and freedom of speech. For the first time in our history ministers are vulnerable to investigation and prosecution for telling the truth about homosexuality.

Am I surprised that this is #1 on their list? Not at all. The RRRW was rending their garments over the hate-crimes bill for years before it came to fruition, and tantrumed when it passed. It doesn’t matter that their claims are pure bull-poo. It keeps money flowing into their coffers and allows them to pretend they’re victims because others now enjoy the same legal protections they do. Oh, the horror.

 
So there you have it. The alleged top-10 most horrible anti-Christian things that occurred in the US in 2009. Now where did I put my tiny violin?

 

Keep in mind that every reputable professional organization states that homosexuality is not a disorder, but is a normal orientation like heterosexuality. They also firmly denounce so-called “reparative therapy” as ineffective and potentially harmful, given that sexual orientation is not changeable. None of that matters to people like Brian Fischer, who rely not on facts but the opinions of ancient sheepherders. These opinions have been deemed “holy”, and are therefore something people like Fischer can use to add a sheen of respectability and authority to their own personal bigotry.

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It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse, since both pose the same kind of risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. I’d be curious to know what you think should be done with IV drug abusers, because whatever it is, I think the same response should be made to those who engage in homosexual behavior.
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Riiiiight. Because HIV/AIDS can’t be contracted through heterosexual “behavior”. According to the CDC, the fastest growing group of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses is among heterosexual women of color. It’s time, for the good of all, to bury the myth that AIDS is a “gay disease”.

If you believe that what drug abusers need is to go into an effective detox program, then we should likewise put active homosexuals through an effective reparative therapy program.

Homosexuality is not a mental illness or an addiction. It does not need “therapy”, particularly not from charlatans pushing pseudo-science and demeaning lies designed not to help but to manipulate and even torture.

Secondly, I’m afraid you’re simply wrong about the Bible’s perspective on the law and homosexuality.
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I don’t give a fig about the Bible’s perspective on homosexuality or the Koran’s perspective or any other “holy” book’s perspective. We do not live in a theocracy and our laws should not be based on anybody’s interpretation of “holy” books or religious doctrine. If they were, well, just look to modern day theocracies to see how life would be.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been told “Christians don’t hate gay people. Christians don’t bear any ill will toward gay people. No Christians in America want to see harm come to gay people.” Blah blah blah. Sorry, I didn’t buy it before and I’m not buying it now. There are far too may people like Brian Fischer proving just how much Christians do hate gay people and want to see them harmed.*

 

* Please don’t attempt the “Not a True Christian” line. He’s one of you. If you don’t like what he’s doing in the name of your religion speak out against him or stew silently, but don’t try to disown him to make yourself look better.

 

Religion Dispatches brings us this excellent piece which shows more people are realizing just how much the Mormons put into the travesty of justice known as Proposition 8.

On Wednesday, January 20, in a federal courthouse in San Francisco, plaintiffs in the Perry vs. Schwarzenegger trial challenging the legality of California’s Proposition 8 introduced two documents (over strenuous objections from the defense) indicating close but cautious coordination between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Yes on 8 campaign.

The documents, according to plaintiffs’ witness Gary Segura, a professor of political science at Stanford University, indicated a desire on the part of the Church to create “plausible deniability or respectable distance between the church organization per se and the actual campaign.
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Of course they wanted to create “plausible deniability”. They couldn’t maintain the facade they keep promoting that Mormons are benign and loving toward everyone if they were the major players in a campaign to eradicate rights from a minority group, could they? But that’s where their passive-aggressive nature comes in. They love gays. They really, really love them. They love them so much they want to attach electrodes to their groins (if they’re Mormon gays), beat them for kissing in public, or eradicate their rights via a campaign of hateful lies.

Documents compiled by Mormon supporters of same-sex marriage—including campaign time lines and donor profiles—show that LDS Church ecclesiastical structures, resources, and relationships were fully mobilized to generate the majority of volunteers and donations for the Yes on 8 campaign, even as Church members were coached to handle their Mormonism carefully in campaign contributions and activities.

There was nothing plausibly deniable about the Church’s relationship to the Proposition 8 campaign when, in Sunday meetings on June 29, 2008, a letter from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Thomas Monson was read over the pulpit of every Mormon congregation in California urging Church members to “do all you can” to support the ballot measure.
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Speaking of letters, lets not forget the blackmail attempt signed by Mormon Mark Janssen and others.

“Make a donation of a like amount to ProtectMarriage.com which will help us correct this error. Were you to elect not to donate comparably, it would be a clear indication that you are in opposition to traditional marriage. … The names of any companies and organizations that choose not to donate in like manner to ProtectMarriage.com but have given to Equality California will be published.”

Nice folks working on the “pro-family” side. They probably all get a set of brass knuckles when they sign up.

The Church-coordinated fundraising drive intensified in late August, when select LDS Church members identified as potential large donors were invited to participate in conference calls with members of the Quorum of the Seventy, a high-ranking Church leadership body. (Mormon Yes on 8 campaign observers believe that tithing records were used to identify call participants.) On the conference calls, high-ranking church leaders encouraged potential large donors to individually contribute $25,000 to protectmarriage.com.
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And they donated like the good little worker bees they’re trained to be. Take Stephen Samuelian, who donated $100,000, for instance, or Charles and Gloria Pope ($60,000 between them–and their own daughter is a lesbian). Of course they’re only a few of the thousands of Mormons in Base8. (The estimates that about 75% of the donations to Yes on 8 came from Mormons are pretty much dead on from what we’ve discovered. If you don’t believe us, see for yourself.)

That’s when Nadine Hansen, a Mormon veteran of the campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment, initiated an effort to document the extent of Mormon funding for the Yes on 8 campaign. During the ERA campaign, Mormon feminist Sonia Johnson had shared with Hansen fundraising disclosure sheets from an anti-ERA group that had raised money in California. Using church directories, Hansen was then able to identify “all but one or two” of the ERA donors as Mormon. Sensing that the Church was pressing ERA-era strategies into service once again, she prepared to undertake the same donor-identification project for Proposition 8 at the Web site mormonsfor8.com.
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The Mormon church is very good at mobilizing its minions, and their methods work. Don’t ever fall for their cries of persecution when called on it, or pretense that they did nothing.

Mormon volunteers were coached to avoid disclosing their ties to the LDS Church. “When we went to our training meetings, they said, don’t bring up the fact that you’re Mormon. Don’t wear white shirts and ties; don’t look like missionaries. When you go out [canvassing], bring a non-member friend. When you’re calling people, don’t say I’m a Mormon,” says Laura Compton.
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More Lying for the Lord. Strange how those who claim to be on the side of righteousness and truth feel the need to engage in so much subterfuge to achieve their desired results.

On October 8, LDS Church members in California attended a special meeting broadcast from Salt Lake City by satellite to wards and stakes throughout California and to BYU students with California ties. Encouraging Church members to think of the satellite broadcast as though they were “sitting in [a] living room having a confidential talk,” high-ranking LDS Church officials, members of the Quorum of the Twelve and the Quorum of the Seventy, introduced Church members to the final voter persuasion and get-out-the-vote “phases” of the campaign, asking members to use social networking technology to “go viral” with their support for Proposition 8 and commit four hours each week to the ground and phone campaign.

A primary source of Mormon messaging during the Proposition 8 campaign was the anonymously-authored “Six Consequences if Prop 8 Fails” document, which went viral across Mormon social networks after its introduction by email in mid-August and was utilized as a training document and handout in the Mormon-coordinated ground campaign. The document alleged that the legalization of same-sex marriage would eventuate in the teaching of same-sex marriage in public schools and the elimination of religious freedoms. Mormon legal scholar Morris Thurston described this as “untrue” and “misleading” and urged the LDS Church to discontinue its further dissemination.

As it turns out, the “Six Consequences” propaganda piece was indeed concocted by a Mormon. Big surprise. Not.

Highly centralized and hierarchical LDS institutional structures, widespread experience with door-to-door proselytizing, disciplined messaging among former missionaries, and extensive social networks that facilitated viral messaging, combined with a religious and cultural tradition that assigns enormous value to obedience to church authorities, service, discipline, and sacrifice to create a potent political force that was no secret to those within the culture.

It’s no secret to many of us outside the “culture” now, anymore, thanks to Prop 8. All the green jello and funeral potatoes in the world won’t ameliorate the harm Mormons have done to LGBT families.

“They did not want to be outed,” Hansen relates. “And yet they were with ones with all the organizational skills. And whether its because [the Church] is concerned about tax-exempt status or they want to avoid bad publicity… they want to do it and not have anyone know they do it at the same time.”
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If they wanted to harm others in anonymity perhaps they should have donned white hoods. As it stands they can deny and play the victim all they want, but LDSinc is now inextricably linked with Prop 8, and with hatred.

 

The Secret Life of Chaos from BBC. I heartily recommend it for everyone.

Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.

It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here?

In this documentary, Professor Jim Al-Khalili sets out to uncover one of the great mysteries of science - how does a universe that starts off as dust end up with intelligent life? How does order emerge from disorder?

It’s a mindbending, counterintuitive and for many people a deeply troubling idea. But Professor Al-Khalili reveals the science behind much of beauty and structure in the natural world and discovers that far from it being magic or an act of God, it is in fact an intrinsic part of the laws of physics. Amazingly, it turns out that the mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite order and pattern.

And the best thing is that one doesn’t need to be a scientist to understand it. The natural world is full of awe-inspiring examples of the way nature transforms simplicity into complexity. From trees to clouds to humans - after watching this film you’ll never be able to look at the world in the same way again.

It’s sometimes thought that migraines are just “really bad headaches” but they’re so much more than that. So to say that migraines stink is putting it lightly. What’s more, status migrainosus really, really stinks. It flat out sucks when one doesn’t have health insurance and therefore can’t get adequate treatment. But of course the US has the “best health care system in the world”, or so we keep hearing. But it’s only “the best” if you’re wealthy enough to afford it, or your employer provides good insurance (if they provide insurance at all).