NOM's Latest Lie: Homosexuals Have Never Faced Persecution

I often cynically joke and say that while the Christianists claim to revere the Ten Commandments, at most they only follow nine since of them since they act as if the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness doesn't exist. Likewise, given the fact that evangelical Christians have the highest divorce and remarriage rate, the Commandment against adultery and Christ's supposed Gospel directives against divorce seem to disappear from acknowledgement by these folks as well. Only tHe gAys get strict application of the language of the Bible and are condemned accordingly. Now the National Association for Marriage ("NOM") seems determined to make Family Research Council and Focus on the Family look down right truthful in comparison. On the organization's Facebook page the following statement was made:
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Through out history homosexuals have never faced persecution at the level Jews, Christians, and Blacks have. For the homosexual population, their only focus is WWII.

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Somehow I think the gay teens in the photo above would disagree - that is if they had not been murdered for being gay. And at the root of their murder - just like most other violence against gays - one finds intolerance fueled by religion. Yep, just like the religion that NOM likes to wrap itself in. Of course, the hypocrisy gets even better. What about the witch hunts for gays in Uganda? That's not persecution? In fact, what about this photo:

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Looks like persecution to me. What makes the hypocrisy and disingenuousness of these self-congratulatory "Christians" is that now funding of the anti-gay witch hunts has been traced to some of the "Godly Christians" in the USA who, I suspect, are allies to NOM. NPR has a story that looks at the complicity of Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas which has been financially supporting the anti-gay jihad in Uganda. Here are some highlights:
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"Martin Ssempa makes no bones about going around to churches, to community centers, to different neighborhoods and saying things like gays and lesbians should be put in prison, they should be killed," says Michael Jones, a gay-rights activist in the U.S. who has been following Ssempa's activities.
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So why does Canyon Ridge Christian Church in Las Vegas — a megachurch with some 6,000congregants each week — financially support Ssempa? Kevin Odor, the senior pastor there, says Ssempa has been "misrepresented."
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"They're engaging in Ugandan politics whether they like it or not," says Jones, the gay-rights activist. "Calling Martin Ssempa, who is one of the foremost religious and political figures in Uganda, a strategic partner is automatically engaging in Ugandan politics. There's just no way around that."
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Warren Throckmorton, a professor at the evangelical Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., says Odor is trying to have it both ways. "What we have here is a church that wants to be viewed as moderate and outreach-minded and compassionate, and yet they're supporting a set of values and principles elsewhere that are very harsh and deadly, frankly, to the very community you say you want to reach," he says. "If you preach compassion here, you have to support compassion elsewhere."
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[T]he Southern Nevada Health District severed its ties with the church, saying it was "profoundly concerned" about the relationship with Ssempa.
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Christianists are found to be directly tied financially to persecuting gays, yet NOM lies and says that gays have never been persecuted. As I have stated before, if there is a Hell, Maggie Gallagher and many other professional Christians must have special spots already reserved for them..