UPDATE: CBN News also has a story going after Obama for supporting LGBT equality. Here are some highlights:
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Obama delivered another speech about faith Tuesday. He’s done a few of these concerning his faith and how it shapes his public policy. But Sunday his campaign and the Democratic Party were handing out pro-gay rights flyers at the Pride Festival in St. Louis. How is that going to play in the heartland? The Brody File has four flyers in its possession. You can view them by clicking here and here and here and here.
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Handing out pro-gay rights flyers while at the same time talking about your “Christian faith” is a MAJOR disconnect for not only conservative Evangelicals but for some of those Independent voting, moderate leaning working class folks in the rust belt. It doesn’t play well.
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Look, I understand that Obama is saying ALL people should be treated with respect. That’s not the issue. Evangelicals also believe ALL people should be treated respectfully.
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Of course, the most disingenuous statement is that evangelicals believe people should be treated respectfully. I guess that's why they oppose hate crimes legislation, oppose employment non-discrimination legislation, oppose non-discrimination in housing, and so many other measures that would assure gays of being treated with respect and as equal citizens. The CBN reporter, David Brody, obviously does not understand what being treated with respect ought to entail, or is he just a lying hypocrite?
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As for Michelle Obama, the above is the headline on a story today on the Christianist Cybercast News Service and is illustrative of how the wingnuts will do all they can to demonize anyone who makes public statements supporting full citizenship rights for LGBT Americans. Per the Christianist mindset, only they and those who conform to their intolerant, hate-based religious views get to enjoy all the rights of being a U. S. citizen. Of course, being Caucasian is also an unspoken requirement to full legal rights as well in the eyes of Don Wildmon, Tony Perkins, James Dobson, et al. Blacks are only embraced when they can be duped into doing the bidding of the Christianists worked diligently to first keep blacks as slaves and then later to uphold segregation. While it is impossible to stop the fundies from putting out this type of trash, we all need to be mindful of what Obama and others who support LGBT rights can expect to receive from these wingnuts. Note too how judicial decisions are disparaged. The Christianists' idea of democracy is mob majority rule, something the courts have consistently limited in order to protect minority rights. Here are sample highlights:
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(CNSNews.com) - The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told a crowd of homosexual activists last week that her husband wants to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and reverse the rule on homosexuals in the military. Michelle Obama also drew parallels with homosexual advocacy groups and the civil rights movement, referring to events "from Selma to Stonewall."
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Michelle Obama said her husband supports "a world where federal laws don't discriminate against same-sex relationships, including equal treatment for any relationship recognized under state law.""That is why he supports robust civil unions," she said. "That is why he has said the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide for themselves how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples -- whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union or a civil marriage."
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The absence of a federal law [DOMA] could mean that the more than 40 states that have bans -- either constitutional or in statute -- on same-sex marriage would be required to recognize a homosexual marriage license from another state as a legally binding contract. Sen. Obama's position paper was likely referencing the federal definition provision that would extend Social Security and other government benefits to same-sex couples, said Lynn Wardle, a law professor at Brigham Young University. Nonetheless, this could effectively nationalize same-sex marriage, Wardle said. "If a judge in San Francisco says 'for Social Security purposes, that's the law,' then a trial judge in San Francisco could affect the whole country," Wardle told Cybercast News Service.
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