Alvin McEwen at Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters and Jeremy Hooper at Good As You both have somewhat overlapping posts yesterday that address the underlying mindset of the anti-gay Christianists: they want to eliminate gays. In the case of Alvin, his post looks at the nomination by PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays) - the leaders of which must be convulsing and flinging spittle over the APA's new report condemning reparative therapy - of Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg for an award for "distinguished service in public education." Sprigg has no legitimate credentials in mental health care yet has made a career denigrating LGBT citizens and fostering the "choice myth" for both political and monetary reasons. He is truly a nasty piece of work and here's a sampling of what he has had to say about gays in the past:*
Griggs (President of PFOX) doesn't give the name of the award but based on his past history, nominating Sprigg for any award having to do with the tolerance and the advancement of education is like nominating one of those really bad American Idol rejects for a Grammy.Isn't Peter Sprigg the SAME GUY who said the following:" . . . I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society."
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Right Wing Watch caught Sprigg making this pronouncement:
As for Jeremy, his post looks at the nasty and demeaning manner in which Peter LaBarbera a/k/a Porno Pete attacks fellow LGBT Blogger Summit attendee Autumn Sandeen who writes for Pam's House Blend, as he rants against the pending health care reform legislation which might cover some of the costs of sexual reassignment surgery. As Jeremy notes, what's really startling about Pete's rant is how he's chosen to illustrate the subject: with a picture of Autumn. I agree with this analysis that Jeremy puts forth:
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That picture is of Autumn Sandeen, fantastic activist and writer for Pam's House Blend. It's a perfectly lovely pic. It's unlikely that Autumn will be upset about being used as a public "example." But here's the thing: Neither Matt's piece nor Pete's setup is about Autumn. Not even a little bit. . . . Pete is using Autumn as "Interchangeable Transgender Person #21," with his obvious intent being to enrage his readers with the mere idea that transgender human beings walk this world.
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This is not a Christian response to message: It is a targeted hit on an individual. To use the "pro-family" community's messaging: This is a "stigmatize the 'sinner,' hate the 'sin'" approach to evangelism. And it only further demonstrates how, at the end of the day, our choice to simply get up and breathe every day in our true sexual orientations and gender identities is more than enough to enrage our militant opponents!
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Sprigg and LaBarbera both provide a true glimpse at the nastiness of the self-anointed "godly Christians" as they daily act in horrifically un-Christian ways and market hate and intolerance. It never ceases to amaze me how these folks believe those of us who are gay basically have no right to exist. Nor do we have the right to differing religious beliefs. To the Christo-fascists, either you conform to their rules or you deserve deportation or worse. They have obviously forgotten the Golden Rule not to mention the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness.
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