Christianist Paranoia

I often read some of the wingnut news sites and web pages for the purpose of knowing what out enemies are up to. Unlike Jeremy Hooper at Good As You, I do not typically write to them or attempt to leave comment - largely because they respond only in their standard BS or never publish dissenting comment. Last week I was checking out OneNewsNow - a Christianist news site - and came across a story where the author discusses how the ever delusional Matt Staver at Liberty Counsel (who is also dean of the wingnut law school at the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University) is convinced that President Obama is behind the lawsuits challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act ("Doma"). Yes, that's the same President Obama that I and many LGBT bloggers and activists have taken to task for his failure to deliver to date on any of his campaign promises to LGBT Americans. In the alternate universe of the wingnut Christianists objective reality never matters, only their delusions and paranoia. Here are some highlights from the foaming at the mouth found at OneNewsNow:

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Attorney Mat Staver is convinced the Obama administration is behind a federal lawsuit filed yesterday in Boston challenging the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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"The first state to legalize homosexual "marriage" has filed suit against the federal government to overturn DOMA -- the Defense of Marriage Act -- which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. On Wednesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston. The suit claims DOMA interferes with the right of Massachusetts to define marriage as it sees fit.

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"That's [Obama's] political preference [that DOMA be overturned]," Staver says. "There's no doubt in my mind, absolutely no question at all, that he and some of those in the Department of Justice are coordinating with individuals -- and perhaps even the attorney general in Massachusetts -- to literally bring these lawsuits and have a very weak defense so that the courts will ultimately overturn it without having the politicians and the president go on record showing that they are in favor of same-sex marriage."

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Staver goes on to say that Liberty Counsel is not going to allow the Obama administration to tear down the nation's moral values, which he argues it seems intent on doing. He vows that Liberty Counsel will vigorously fight this latest challenge to marriage, just as it has a lawsuit in California targeting DOMA.

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In my opinion, Staver is another extreme self-hating closet case who desperately yearns for gay sex but who is too conflicted by his religious brainwashing to ever accept gays or being gay. No one is so hysterically anti-gay and anti-gay rights unless some other issues are involved in the mix. Like Robert Knight, I wish Staver would get himself a rent boy and just get over it.