The Gaytheist Agenda

That’s the simple yet critical lesson of this video . Please be warned that this piece contains some adult language and brief violence.

State Representative Monique Davis (D-Chicago), who previously engaged in a verbal attack against Atheist Rob Sherman, offered an apology on Wednesday.

Because of Davis’ rant, she was named Tuesday night as the “worst person in the world” –a dubious award doled out daily by news commentator Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s “Countdown” program.

Rep. Davis told atheist Rob Sherman that, “What you have to spew and spread is dangerous” and that “This is the land of Lincoln where people believe in God.”

But, after being on the receiving end of a week’s worth of public criticism, Davis called Sherman yesterday to apologize.

Sherman says Davis told him she “took out her frustrations and emotions on me and that she shouldn’t have done that.” Sherman says Davis’ explanation was “reasonable” and that he forgives her.

According to Sherman and State Rep. Jack Franks….Davis claims her outburst was triggered by learning shortly beforehand…that there’d been another Chicago Public School student killed.

State Rep. Jack Franks was chairing the hearing that day and says Davis’ outburst was uncharacteristic, adding “she was having a bad day.”

That was very noble of Representative Davis. I’ll be dropping her a message to let her know how much I appreciate her action.

 

And I invite you to do the same, whether or not you are gay. Here’s the story from My Gayest Look :

The word from Leno: “In talking about Ryan’s first role, I realize that what I said came out wrong. I certainly didn’t mean any malice. I agree it was a dumb thing to say, and I apologize.”

Fantastic. That takes some guts. But will it last until the next easy assumption comes along?

Until then, we’ll hold Jay’s feet to the fire. Our response these past few days has been overwhelming, but we will post each and every pic that was submitted.

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So, back to the site:

On Thursday, March 20, 2008, Jay Leno welcomed as his guest on The Tonight Show the actor Ryan Phillippe, who, early in his career, played a gay character on the daily soap One Life to Live. During the interview, Leno hounded Phillippe, telling him to look into the camera, pretend it was his “gay lover…Billy Bob,” who “has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming” (still milking the Brokeback jokes), and give it his “gayest look.”

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Jeff—who, in 2006, famously penned a letter to Jay Leno about his homophobic humor—completed another missive, in which he included a photographic sign-off (at left) of his “gayest look.” Melissa—who was similarly agitated in 2006—then offered up her “gayest look” (also at left), and soon her readers began to send in their gayest looks—and an avalanche began. Simultaneously, writer Dan Savage suggested to Jeff that he collect people’s “gayest looks,” and that, folks, is called synchronicity. Forces were joined.

And while we’re being a bit cheeky about all this, our message is dead serious: A 2005 study by GLSEN found that 90% of LGBTQ teens had been harassed or assaulted during the previous year. They were three times as likely as non-LGBTQ students to say that they do not feel safe at school and remain at increased risk for bullying, assault, and suicide. That doesn’t happen in a void. Gay jokes are not harmless; they contribute to a culture in which institutionalized homophobia has tragic consequences. We want Jay Leno to know that we, LGBTQ people and their allies, are not amused.

So now it’s your turn! Send us your “gayest look” for Jay
here .

And here is my Gayest Look for Jay Leno. I hope you’ll contribute yours, for it’s a very worthy cause.

A few weeks back I brought you the story of Thomas Beatie, a transgender man who is pregnant and carrying the child that his wife cannot. I’d been scoping RW sources expecting to see some sort of murmuring about the situation and was rather perplexed that I’d not found anything significant. I was particularly surprised that the usual suspects, the RRRW sources who make it their duty to fret over anything LGBTs do that is remotely connected with children or family building, were dead silent on the matter. But since Beatie was on Oprah yesterday there has been a secondary surge of chatter about him on the WWW, and finally some of the more antagonistic RW sites are talking about his story. One of the more repugnant sites, NewsBusters, chimed in and here is some of what they had to say:

 

On Friday’s “Good Morning America,” for the second day in a row, and the third time in a little over a week, the ABC program promoted the story of a transgendered man who is having a baby via artificial insemination. At no time did GMA feature any guest to challenge or question the psychological ramifications for a child who was born from a pregnant “father.”

During the April 4 segment on the subject, GMA guest news anchor David Muir described Thomas Beatie’s decision as “very controversial.” One would assume that a controversial decision would have two sides to it. But over the course of three segments, totaling ten minutes and 16 seconds, the closest the network program got was on April 3, when psychologist Jeffrey Gardere mildly advised, “It really is incumbent upon this individual, his wife, to try to give this as much dignity as possible, to not make it a joke, to not make it that something that’s cheap [sic].”

 
I was unaware that programs like Good Morning America were obligated to provide two sides to every story. Fox “News”, which claims to be Fair and Balanced, for example, only presents the Right Wing version of what they report. Interesting how the RW only cares about “balance” when they feel they’re not getting heard. If the opposite side is left out in the cold it’s just too bad.

 

On Friday’s program, reporter Andrea Canning played a clip from Beatie’s appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s daytime program and then approvingly described him as “the man the world has been waiting to meet.” While discussing the issue on March 26, co-host Chris Cuomo tentatively asked an obstetrician, who approved of the pregnancy, if there were any psychological implications for the child. After being told that only love was necessary, Cuomo quickly concurred and added, “It’s a good point to make, doctor. Oddity aside, biology aside, it is all about love of this child and as long as that’s present, everything else is really going to be normal.”

Finally, as the Culture and Media Institute’s Kristen Fyfe pointed out in an April 3 posting on the subject, GMA and other shows insist on referring to Beatie as a pregnant man. Of course, this ignores the fact that men simply do not give birth.

The child is going to have a father and a mother. Isn’t that what the RW hand-wringers keep insisting she simply must have to be psychologically healthy? I don’t see what all the fuss is about. And men can give birth if they are transgender men who have kept their female reproductive organs. Thomas Beatie is hard evidence of this.

Now let’s move on to some of the comments posted to the article, which are even more crude than the article itself. Brace yourself.

 

Sheesh!

This guy/gal is a freak! Why isn’t he/she portrayed as a freak!

This isn’t normal no matter how loving ABC wants to pretend it is.

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This whole sordid situation is clearly about one thing, $$$$$$$$$.

This strange (really STRANGE) couple doesn’t seem to care about the mental trauma they are inflicting on this child. Chances are good this kid will grow up with so many mental problems that could easily lead to suicide or mass murder, etc. Their supposed human desire to bear children is so much BS. Follow this case for the next 20 years and I’m sure you’ll see nothing but despair for this child.

Meanwhile these two losers will be reaping the ignobility they deserve, but hey, they’ll have lots of bucks to cover their shame.

Interesting how certain people, typically RW Christians, consider themselves the arbiters of “normal”, and worry about the trauma inflicted on the children of LGBT parents. What’s sadly ironic is how many of them have graced the pages of Conservative Babylon for heinous crimes against children and other things that would not be considered “normal” by any stretch of the imagination.

If this person still has a uertus …in my book that consitutes a …….FEMALE.

What is the deal …..it changed it’s name….is now legaly a man, so it’s gets pregnent and now is legealy a pregnent man.

it still has female parts that make it possible to have a baby…..so it still is a female even if it is SO menta;ly challanged that is thinks is a man.

I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist

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First of all, This person is a Female. That’s how it works MSM. And you can say “Man is Pregnant” all day long, and twice on Sunday, but a Virgin Birth by a Man it is not.

It’s a Pregnant Woman - - Woman by Birth — and she may shave and had her Breast removed, but Woman by Birth cannot be Reported as “Man is Pregnant”.

The Public isn’t that Stupid. Evidently the MSM thinks we’re dumber than dirt.

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This is NOT a pregnant man!

This, is a pregnant WOMAN who thinks she is a man.

Holy crap! Give us all a break from these freeks.

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In other words, there is no such thing as a Christian. You guys are all just Atheists who think you’re Christians. After all, you were born Atheists, and if you were born that way no matter how much you think you’re Christians and proclaim yourself Christians, that doesn’t make you Christians. Dunking yourself in some water, wearing a cross around your neck and reading a book doesn’t change the basic fact that you were born an Atheist and will die an Atheist.

 

I feel for Thomas Beatie, I really do. He, his wife and his child will have an uphill battle all the way–not because of anything they’ve done but because of the hateful bigotries of others. There are far too many people who believe they have the right to decide what is right and wrong for everybody, and to make life a living hell for those who don’t comply with their narrow schema. That is very sad indeed.

As if she hadn’t already had enough free speech when she spewed homophobic hate speech against LGBTs during a political speech, then again when CWA gave her free airtime to do it again. She now apparently needs another platform to parade her hate because LGBT people have had the audacity to speak up in their own defense. Shame on them!

WASHINGTON, March 31 /Christian Newswire/ — On Wednesday, April 2, Concerned Women for America (CWA) will join over 50 pastors in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to rally support for State Representative Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City) and her right to free speech. Recently, Rep. Kern has been under attack from radical homosexual activists and their followers over remarks she made regarding the homosexual agenda. Rep. Kern took a Biblical stand against homosexual activism and has refused to back down from her statements despite receiving death threats.

Event Details —

What: Free Speech Rally for State Representative Sally Kern

When: Wednesday, April 2; 12:00pm Noon

Where: Rotunda of the Oklahoma State Building; 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City Oklahoma

CWA applauds Rep. Kern for continuing to be steadfast and resolute in this fight against the homosexual agenda and for shedding light on the threat it poses to our nation. Rep. Kern has been quoted as saying that the homosexual agenda is dangerous “because it destroys the basic moral fiber of this nation, which is traditional marriage and the traditional family.” She couldn’t be more right.

Matt Barber, CWA’s Policy Director for Cultural Issues, said, “There are certainly those who hate Rep. Kern. They’ve made that perfectly clear with vicious personal attacks and even death threats. But millions of Americans proudly stand alongside Sally Kern and say, ‘Thank you. Thank you for boldly standing your ground and for unapologetically defending Biblical Truth.’ They intended to make an example of her. They have, but not in the way they had hoped. She has set an example for millions of believers around the world. Her courage and refusal to deviate from God’s unequivocal condemnation of sexual immorality is serving to galvanize and embolden others. People say, ‘Well Sally Kern wasn’t intimidated, why should I be?’”

CWA of Oklahoma State Director, Linda Caswell, said “Rep. Kern has exercised her right to free speech and has spoken boldly about the effects of homosexuality on our families and on our nation. We strongly encourage everyone to come to the rally and show your support for Rep. Kern. Let others know that we will not back down from taking a Biblical stand on the moral issues facing our state and our nation today.”

Biblical stand on the moral issues facing our nation? I don’t suppose that means that CWA is going to come out anytime soon with a plan to fight poverty. After all the Bible has more than 100 verses admonishing it’s readers to help the poor, so I’d think CWA would be aware of the moral issue of poverty in America. Then again, poverty has nothing to do with the genitals of other people and doesn’t involve hating others while feeling morally superior but rather actual work and sacrifice so it’s highly unlikely they do.

Nonetheless I notice time and time again how they’re always “speaking the Biblical truth” when they call us the most heinous and hateful names, spread outright lies about us, and call for us to be treated like second-class (or worse) citizens. But when we take them to task for what they’ve said and demand our rights we’re engaging in “hate-speech”. Maybe if we threw a few Bible verses in it would change things. How about I try that (it may work even for an atheist).

 
Deuteronomy 5:20 You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you.
Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Matthew 23:13 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
Luke 6:37 Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.

 

In closing, I myself would love to attend this “Free Speech Rally” to peacefully make my outrage known but I’m too far away. If anybody in the area is able to do so I’d love to hear about it.

Addendum. A comment has arrived. Ebon said:

“Radical homosexual activists”? Since when does not wanting to be slandered count as “radical”? It seems that too many theocrats forget that the right to freedom of speech includes the right to response.

Oh dear, perhaps you aren’t familiar with the terminology (wink, wink). Christians are speaking The Truth, the Word of God, the Gospel and the Biblical Truth (or some other such variation). Gays are Advancing The Homosexual Agenda. Any time gays ask for whatever everybody else has they are demanding “special rights”. Christians are protecting their way of life, the Traditional Family/Traditional Marriage/The Heartland etc and do so by Spreading the Gospel/Word of God. Gays are Militant Homosexuals trying to force their ways on others through Indoctrination and other scary-sounding things.

Isn’t it all becoming more clear now? By the way, if you want to read more Alvin McEwin explains the anti-gay liars in depth here and in his most excellent book. Thanks for your comment and continued patronage!

This Letter to the Editor by Sharon Underwood was originally printed in the Valley News (White River Junction, VT/Hanover, NH) in 2000. While the letter is nearly eight years old it’s impact has not lessened over time. It is so powerful on it’s own merits that I cannot add anything to it by way of commentary, so I will simply present it to you now.

Vermont debate brings out the haters
Sunday, April 30, 2000
By SHARON UNDERWOOD
For the Valley News

As the mother of a gay son, I’ve seen firsthand how cruel and misguided people can be.

Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people.

I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual agenda” and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay.

He never professed to be gay or had any association with anything gay, but he had the misfortune not to walk or have gestures like the other boys. He was called “fag” incessantly, starting when he was 6.

In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn’t bear to continue living any longer, that he didn’t want to be gay and that he couldn’t face a life with no dignity.

You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don’t know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn’t put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse. God gave you brains so that you could think, and it’s about time you started doing that.

No choice
At the core of all your misguided beliefs is the belief that this could never happen to you, that there is some kind of subculture out there that people have chosen to join. The fact is that if it can happen to my family, it can happen to yours, and you won’t get to choose. Whether it is genetic or whether something occurs during a critical time of fetal development, I don’t know. I can only tell you with an absolute certainty that it is inborn.

If you want to tout your own morality, you’d best come up with something more substantive than your heterosexuality. You did nothing to earn it; it was given to you. If you disagree, I would be interested in hearing your story, because my own heterosexuality was a blessing I received with no effort whatsoever on my part. It is so woven into the very soul of me that nothing could ever change it.

For those of you who reduce sexual orientation to a simple choice, a character issue, a bad habit or something that can be changed by a 10-step program, I’m puzzled. Are you saying that your own sexual orientation is nothing more than something you have chosen, that you could change it at will?

If that’s not the case, then why would you suggest that someone else can?

A popular theme in your letters is that Vermont has been infiltrated by outsiders. Both sides of my family have lived in Vermont for generations. I am heart and soul a Vermonter, so I’ll thank you to stop saying that you are speaking for “true Vermonters.”

Principles?
You invoke the memory of the brave people who have fought on the battlefield for this great country, saying that they didn’t give their lives so that the “homosexual agenda” could tear down the principles they died defending.

My 83-year-old father fought in some of the most horrific battles of World War II, was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. He shakes his head in sadness at the life his grandson has had to live. He says he fought alongside homosexuals in those battles, that they did their part and bothered no one. One of his best friends in the service was gay, and he never knew it until the end, and when he did find out, it mattered not at all. That wasn’t the measure of the man.

You religious folk just can’t bear the thought that as my son emerges from the hell that was his childhood he might like to find a lifelong companion and have a measure of happiness. It offends your sensibilities that he should request the right to visit that companion in the hospital, to make medical decisions for him or to benefit from tax laws governing inheritance.

How dare he? you say. These outrageous requests would threaten the very existence of your family, would undermine the sanctity of marriage.

You use religion to abdicate your responsibility to be thinking human beings. There are vast numbers of religious people who find your attitudes repugnant. God is not for the privileged majority, and God knows my son has committed no sin.

The deep-thinking author of a letter to the April 12 Valley News who lectures about homosexual sin and tells us about “those of us who have been blessed with the benefits of a religious upbringing” asks: “What ever happened to the idea of striving . . . to be better human beings than we are?”

Indeed, sir, what ever happened to that?

(Sharon Underwood lives in White River Junction, Vt.)

The Southern Poverty Law Center is asking you to put yourself on the map as taking a stand against hate. There are currently 888 recognized hate groups in the US, an increase of 48% since 2000. The more we speak out, the greater our chances of putting a stop to them. I’m on the map. Will you join me?

Aye, there’s the rub. Often it’s not until straight people are harmed by the actions of homophobes that people take notice or care, and sometimes even then people don’t notice or care–so long as gay people are kept second class citizens. This time the victim is a 15-year-old boy who has been harassed mercilessly by his peers for the past three years. He’s not gay, but that doesn’t matter to them. They accuse him of being gay in person, behind his back and online. They subject him to myriad forms of abuse based on the mere perception that he’s gay, regardless of how many times he protests that he is not.

A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he’s going to beat up Billy Wolfe. While one records the assault with a cellphone camera, the other walks up to the oblivious Billy and punches him hard enough to leave a fist-size welt on his forehead.

The video shows Billy staggering, then dropping his book bag to fight back, lanky arms flailing. But the screams of his sister stop things cold.

The aggressor heads to school, to show friends the video of his Billy moment, while Billy heads home, again. It’s not yet 8 in the morning.

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The many incidents seem to blur together into one protracted assault. When Billy attaches a bully’s name to one beating, his mother corrects him. “That was Benny, sweetie,” she says. “That was in the eighth grade.”

It began years ago when a boy called the house and asked Billy if he wanted to buy a certain sex toy, heh-heh. Billy told his mother, who informed the boy’s mother. The next day the boy showed Billy a list with the names of 20 boys who wanted to beat Billy up.

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In ninth grade, a couple of the same boys started a Facebook page called “Every One That Hates Billy Wolfe.” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose: “There is no reason anyone should like billy he’s a little bitch. And a homosexual that NO ONE LIKES.”

According to Alan Wilbourn, a spokesman for the school district, the principal notified the parents of the students involved after Ms. Wolfe complained, and the parents — whom he described as “horrified” — took steps to have the page taken down.

Not long afterward, a student in Spanish class punched Billy so hard that when he came to, his braces were caught on the inside of his cheek.

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The Wolfes are not satisfied. This month they sued one of the bullies “and other John Does,” and are considering another lawsuit against the Fayetteville School District. Their lawyer, D. Westbrook Doss Jr., said there was neither glee nor much monetary reward in suing teenagers, but a point had to be made: schoolchildren deserve to feel safe.

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This is the sort of toxic, dangerous environment people like Sally Kern, Peter LaBarbera and James Dobson perpetuate under the guise of their “deeply held religious beliefs” or “God’s Word”. But it is nothing more than religiously justified bigotry, plain and simple.

Homophobia, Bi-phobia, Transphobia–they hurt everybody. Help put an end to them now and forever.

By now most of you have heard Sally Kern’s hateful homophobic rant, the transcript of which you can read here. Sally has refused to apologize, refused to meet with protesters and refused to admit she did anything wrong. But now she’s teamed up with the worst of the RRRW homophobes to fight back against those who are protesting against her hate speech. Enter Peter LaBarbera. No longer content to be a mere Concerned Woman for America, Peter decided to indulge full-time in his obsession with gays in a spinoff organization, Americans for (the distortion of) Truth.

Anyway, Peter has posted on his Website some e-mails allegedly forwarded to him by Sally Kern. Allegedly these e-mails were sent to her by angry gay people after they heard her tirade. If they’re real I would think they would be evidence in an ongoing law-enforcement investigation and therefore forwarding them to others would not be legal, and plastering them on a public Website like AFT would be very inappropriate. But then again this is the RRRW we’re talking about here so I am highly skeptical about the validity of any of this to begin with.

Nonetheless I’ll proceed here and just assume that the e-mails in question might be genuine. Otherwise this post won’t go anywhere from here. That being said, let’s move on. ***Warning. Material below contains explicit and threatening language. I’ve censored to some extent what Peter didn’t, but it is still explicit. *** From “Americans for Truth”:

Now for some Real Hate; Homosexuals Deluge Rep. Sally Kern with Mean, Vile Messages
WARNING: VULGAR OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE — UNEDITED

That right there signifies that neither Peter nor Sally recognize in the least that what Sally said was hateful nor harmful. But we’re used to that, aren’t we?

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO READ SOME OF THE AWFUL HATE MAIL SENT TO REP. KERN:

From: gary
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 6:27 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: so

I heard what you said and you should be killed you stupid c*nt b*tch! along with George W. Bush! Christianity is the cancer in our society and should be eliminated!

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From: WkngW[–]@aol.com
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:57 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: YOU ARE A HOMOPHOBIC DIPSHIT YOU F**ING C*NT DIE

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From: Paul Petrowsky
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 6:15 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: You are a stupid C*NT D*KE take the stick out of your old ass dumb b*tch

You’re a horrible person who deserves to burn in hell. Go eat ur closeted girlfriends loose old vagina, stupid b*tch looking like a cheep crack whore. Go suck some d*ck for money or friends WHORE *kisses* you stupid d*ke

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From: Jackson, Gabrielle
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:02 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: I ABSOLUTELY & COMPLETELY LOVE
Importance: High

Religious hypocrites like you, especially when they have pickle-kissing offspring!!! Vaya con Dios, you stupid c*nt.

Gabrielle Jackson
[employer dedeacted]

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From: BillL
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 5:30 AM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: WHAT?

What the eff is your problem??? Were you dropped on your head as an infant or are all republicans as mentally retarded as you obviously are??? You homophobic buttkiss. READ THE CONSTITUTION YOU NAZI FREAK!!!! HELLO!!! 14th amendment is calling, READ IT YOU MORON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: Ed Jones
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 3:25 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: Your Gay Tirade

What a bigoted moron you are. You’ll have to answer to your creator some day for being such a hate filled, lying idiot. You would have made a great Nazi if you’d only have been born earlier.

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From: bobuddy

Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 5:24 PM
To: Sally Kern
Subject: We All Have Heard.

First of all,
Let me start by saying, I am thrilled to know that you are being outed publicly for your wrong doing, and closed minded state of mind. You’re a disgusting human being, and you will receive no respect, from the state of Oklahoma.

I am truely [sic] ashamed that a closed minded piece of garbage like yourself represents Oklahoma.

Realize that one day, Gay’s [sic] will dominate this world.

Which will be a blessing, because there will be more peace, justice, and less of pig’s [sic] like yourself.

Please, go kill yourself.

Now assuming these e-mails are real I don’t condone them at all. Hate is hate, and threats are wrong under any and all circumstances. Period. What Sally Kern said was hideous and it’s right to protest it, but wishing harm or death upon her is unacceptable, and threatening her life is beyond reproach.

Now just on the off chance Peter, Sally or any of their ilk are reading this post and clucking their tongues I want to present the counterpoint. Here are some genuine Internet posts from Christians expressing their “deeply held religious beliefs” about gay people.

Homosexuality..
How many times does not the bible say that being gay is wrong?!
God made man, and God made woman. Had God intended that anything else that is what he would have done. His plan was not for two men or two women to be together. I find it disgusting and horribly wrong. Gay people are scum. They are ones who Hitler should have prioritized to get rid of. I’m sorry, but this is just how I feel.

Oh well, I guess our time will come with the rapture. Theirs wont…

[In response to a 14 year old homosexual teenager being shot by a fellow schoolmate because of his sexual orientation]

Moral: Don’t be gay.

No child is ‘gay’. That’s just the lie the dirty fags tell everybody in a vain and transparent attempt to get away with raping children. Fags are to be put to death.

I don’t really want to buy your site I just wanted to tell you how much of a chickenshit pussy that you are. I do hope, however, that someone slashes your dick off with a buckknife and sticks it down your throat so you will no longer be able to say hateful things against Christians. On second thought, you are probably gay, and already have someone else’s dick in your mouth. If that is the case I hope you get AIDS and die mother fucker! Go to hell and take red-headed faghag cunt Kathy Griffin with you. Goddamn she ia one FUGLY BITCH! I imagine her pussy smells like your ass. Have a good one queerboy.

Al Holloway,

(So humans are animals? so why dont we just play by the animal way and start eating each other after mating, to have sex every minute of the day like some monkeys?? face it. If we are going to talk about morality you cant go blabbering about reproduction - women arent baby-machines)

This is a weak comparison. Why do you think we are born with the equipment? To use it to spread our genetics.

All gay people should get a Darwin Award.

Rild The Hero

Marriage is between a man and a woman, its in the bible! And where im from, if we find out that somebody is gay, we Either A: Stay as far away as possible from them, or B: Make their life a living hell…Thats just the way it is where im from, and not only that, its just downright disgusting man.

I feel very sorry for the kids who have gay parents, because they have to witness something that disgusting. I am on the Bible’s side, and that means gay=bad…

There is only 1 gay person (that I know of) that goes to our school, and he openly admitted that he was gay, and im telling you, every guy stays away from him, and beats him up like everyday, and makes fun of him I hate homosexuals with all my heart and nothing/nobody can change my view of them…No offense….

nyckid

Gays are not welcome in America go to Germany you fags i didnt agree on how hilter tried to kill the Jews but i do agree on how he tried to exterminTe the gays.
skullbusters

Interesting. They don’t seem so very different from those e-mails Peter was rending his garments over. I wonder why that is. It seems that when threats are directed at gay people they’re merely expressions of God’s Word, but otherwise they’re “hate speech”–particularly if they’re directed at Christians. Nothing new here, keep moving.

Again, I in no way condone threats of any nature against anybody. But people like Sally Kern and Peter LaBarbera need to recognize what they say and do is hate speech, not merely expression of religious beliefs. What they say has significant and harmful effects on people. Until they do no progress will be made.

A recent report found that gay is the most frequently used term of abuse in UK schools. According to the report 83% of teachers stated they’d heard students using the word against other pupils as a slur.

For the current generation, “gay”, “bitch” and “slag” are the most frequently used terms of abuse, according to a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
They are used by children of all ages, from nursery school upwards. But the worst offenders are secondary school pupils, says the teaching union.

The most popular by far is “gay”. Of the teachers interviewed, 83% said they heard it being used regularly and much more than its nearest rivals, bitch (59%) and slag (45%). So how did it achieve this dubious honour?

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“Every generation grows up with a whole lexicon of homosexual insults, in my day it was ‘poofter’ or ‘bender’,” says slang lexicographer Tony Thorne. “They were used much more because they were considered more offensive than ‘gay’, which is more neutral.

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“It’s only in the last four years that I’ve documented it being used so much by young people. It’s what we call a ‘vogue’ word, which is a fashionable word.”

One reason for this increase in use could be because “gay” has partly lost its sexual connotations among young people, he says. While still pejorative, for the majority of youngsters it has replaced words such as “lame”.

“I have interviewed scores of school kids about this and they are always emphatic that it has nothing at all to do with hostility to homosexuals,” says Mr Thorne, compiler of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang. “It is nearly always used in contexts where sexual orientation and sexuality are completely irrelevant.”

The ATL survey seems to say otherwise, lumping it in with clear insults such as poofter and batty boy. But Katie, a 12-year-old from Colchester, knows it in different context. A bad pair of trainers is much more likely to be called “gay” than a person, she says.

“It’s used as more of a way to tease a friend rather than have a real go at someone. I wouldn’t call someone ‘gay’ because I know that’s sort of bullying them.”

Here is where the problem lies. When a person is using gay as an insult it doesn’t matter whether they’re using it to mean gay or lame. Either way their intent is to characterize gay as bad and the end result is the same; gay is associated with undesirableness. That is why whatever the intent, use of gay as a pejorative must be considered inappropriate.

But while “gay” may have changed for some, it is still being used as a means of bullying, as are many other homophobic insults (see table, above). Last year, the Westminster government announced the first guidelines for schools on how to deal with homophobic bullying.

Gay lobby group Stonewall says 65% of young gay people experience homophobic bullying. And many who aren’t gay also get labelled as such.

“It’s a form of peer group control,” says psychologist Helen Cowie. “Boys have to be masculine and macho and anyone who isn’t must go along with it or face being bullied. It’s a form of bullying that domineering people seek out vulnerable people and school age is a time of emergent sexuality which is itself a vulnerable time.”

Precisely why any anti-gay slurs of all kinds must be strictly disallowed. They are harmful by their very nature and only foster an environment of intolerance.

Fellow psychologist Ian Rivers says the potency of such words is in the fact they “go to the very core of who we are”. Yet sexual orientation is also invisible.

“It’s not about your heritage or your race, it’s not about things which someone can see.” So it can’t even be challenged, he says. “How can children demonstrate that they are heterosexual. There’s no effective recourse and this is what makes it so effective as a bullying tactic.”

Donald Christie, professor in the Department of Childhood and Primary Studies, says “sexual orientation” is a source of potential vulnerability. “If there’s an area of life that children themselves feel insecure about they’re aware of their own vulnerability. The whole point of bullying is about identifying and accentuating weakness in others.”

Such is the insidious nature of calling someone gay. How can they prove otherwise? Even if they publicly engage in behavior with somebody of the same gender people can easily accuse them either of acting to hide the truth or of being bisexual. It’s a no-win situation in a homophobic environment. And whether or not the person is gay, the belief of others that they are opens them up to myriad forms of abuse.

So despite what some may think about their casual tossing about of words, or their “right” to preach their cherry-picked Biblical viewpoints about gay people, it’s important to keep in mind that words do have power. Names can and do impact the lives of others in a very significant way. Please pass it on and help end the cycle of hurt.