Image via Box Turtle BulletinThe blogosphere and even portions of the mainstream media are inundated with coverage of the fruits of homophobia driven bullying fueled by the anti-gay jihad of the Christian Right. Faced with this deluge of news coverage, one would think the Christianists would at least have the discretion to tone down their anti-gay screeds and hatred, but such is not the case. In addition to the LSDS batshitery I commented on in a prior post, we have loons such as Senator Jim DeMint, Southern Baptist Convention big shot Albert Mohler, and the Minnesota Family Council all making statements that defy belief. Particularly in the wake of five gay teen suicides and new findings that confirm that anti-gay bigotry is the engine for LGBT mental health issues and depression. In a manner that makes the most tawdry whore look virtuous, the "godly Christian" set continues to point out LGBT depression issues as proof of the deleterious effects of the "gay lifestyle," yet it is the Christianists themselves who bear the ultimate responsibility for depression suffered by LGBT citizens.
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In this trifecta of bigotry, we have U.S. Senator Jim DeMint stating to a Christianist crowd that gays and fornicating single women should not be allowed to be teachers. Here are highlights from GoState.com on DeMint's insanity:
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The U.S. Constitution, he said, puts the people in charge, and crowds are becoming involved because they want spending stopped.
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DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn't be in the classroom.
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“(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense,” he said. “But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion.”
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DeMint, however, has no monopoly on bigotry and an inability to separate his personal religious beliefs from CIVIL legislation. Next, we see the bigotry of SBC mover and shaker Albert Mohler who, while recognizing that the recent suicides are spotlighting the anti-gay hatred that is a hallmark of the SBC, turning the problem back on LGBT individuals. Frankly, I look forward to the day when the SBC, Mormon Church and Roman Catholic Church are lost relics of a nasty past. Here are highlights of Mohler's self-righteous and disingenuous statements on his website:
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The U.S. Constitution, he said, puts the people in charge, and crowds are becoming involved because they want spending stopped.
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DeMint said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn't be teaching in the classroom and he holds the same position on an unmarried woman who's sleeping with her boyfriend — she shouldn't be in the classroom.
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“(When I said those things,) no one came to my defense,” he said. “But everyone would come to me and whisper that I shouldn't back down. They don't want government purging their rights and their freedom to religion.”
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DeMint, however, has no monopoly on bigotry and an inability to separate his personal religious beliefs from CIVIL legislation. Next, we see the bigotry of SBC mover and shaker Albert Mohler who, while recognizing that the recent suicides are spotlighting the anti-gay hatred that is a hallmark of the SBC, turning the problem back on LGBT individuals. Frankly, I look forward to the day when the SBC, Mormon Church and Roman Catholic Church are lost relics of a nasty past. Here are highlights of Mohler's self-righteous and disingenuous statements on his website:
The homosexual community will argue that these boys were oppressed by the fact that so many believe that homosexuality is sinful. They respond with calls for the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality. Their logic is easy to understand. If the stigma attached to homosexuality were to disappear, persons who are convinced that they are homosexual in sexual orientation, along with those who are confused, would be free from bullying, the threat of exposure, and injury to their parents and loved ones.
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Of course, Christians committed to biblical truth will recognize this as a demand to lie to sinners about their sin. The church cannot change its understanding of the sinfulness of homosexual acts unless it willfully disobeys the Scripture and rejects the authority of the Bible to reveal the truth about sin and sinfulness.
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In other words, the believing church cannot surrender to the demand that we disobey and reject biblical truth. That much is clear. We cannot lie to persons about the sinfulness of their sin, nor comfort them with falsehood about their moral accountability before God. The rush of the liberal churches and denominations to normalize homosexuality is now a hallmark of their disobedience to the Bible.
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The one lying, of course, is Mohler and those like him who continue to embrace 2000 year old ignorance and cling to texts authored by unknown and unknown authors without the benefit of modern medical and mental health knowledge who strove to distinguish Jewish believers from surrounding cultures, many of which tolerated same sex relationships. Increasingly, to be an SBC style Christian requires either a lobotomy or a barely trainable IQ level.
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Of course, Christians committed to biblical truth will recognize this as a demand to lie to sinners about their sin. The church cannot change its understanding of the sinfulness of homosexual acts unless it willfully disobeys the Scripture and rejects the authority of the Bible to reveal the truth about sin and sinfulness.
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In other words, the believing church cannot surrender to the demand that we disobey and reject biblical truth. That much is clear. We cannot lie to persons about the sinfulness of their sin, nor comfort them with falsehood about their moral accountability before God. The rush of the liberal churches and denominations to normalize homosexuality is now a hallmark of their disobedience to the Bible.
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The one lying, of course, is Mohler and those like him who continue to embrace 2000 year old ignorance and cling to texts authored by unknown and unknown authors without the benefit of modern medical and mental health knowledge who strove to distinguish Jewish believers from surrounding cultures, many of which tolerated same sex relationships. Increasingly, to be an SBC style Christian requires either a lobotomy or a barely trainable IQ level.
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Sadly, it gets even worse when one looks at the viciousness flowing from the Minnesota Family Council ("MFC"), a sister affliate of The Family Foundation here in Virginia and Daddy Dobson's vile Focus on the Family. As I said, tawdry whores are virtuous compared to these folks. Notwithstanding the rash of gay teen suicides, these self-congratulatory bastards continue to oppose ANY school policies that would address the problem of anti-gay bullying. Here are highlights from the Minnesota Independent on the hate spewing from MFC:
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The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) is pushing back against efforts to improve the climate for LGBT students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, where community members are mourning suicides by four LGBT students in the last year. The real issue is “homosexual indoctrination,” not anti-gay bullying, says MFC’s Tom Prichard, who says the students are dead because they adopted an “unhealthy lifestyle.”
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Prichard asserts that the suicide death of 15-year-old Justin Aaberg was not due to anti-LGBT bullying. Aaberg took his life in July, and his mother and friends say anti-LGBT bullying played a factor Prichard claims that “homosexual activists” are “manipulating” his death to get homosexual indoctrination programs into the school district.
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“I don’t think parents want their kids indoctrinated in homosexuality,” he said, adding that Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), often the only safe space for LGBT students on campus, should be removed from schools. “It’s sad and harmful for kids to celebrate homosexuality when in fact it’s not a healthy lifestyle,” he said.
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[T]he national Focus on the Family has launched TrueTolerance.org, a website that teaches that LGBT bullying prevention efforts “become a gateway for homosexuality promotion in school.”
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Obviously, if anything is removed from the schools it needs to be groups like MFC and Focus on the Family which seek to subvert the religious freedom of all except their ignorant and bigoted adherents. To these folks, only they are entitled to religious freedom and all others must grovel under their storm trooper boots.
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The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) is pushing back against efforts to improve the climate for LGBT students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, where community members are mourning suicides by four LGBT students in the last year. The real issue is “homosexual indoctrination,” not anti-gay bullying, says MFC’s Tom Prichard, who says the students are dead because they adopted an “unhealthy lifestyle.”
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Prichard asserts that the suicide death of 15-year-old Justin Aaberg was not due to anti-LGBT bullying. Aaberg took his life in July, and his mother and friends say anti-LGBT bullying played a factor Prichard claims that “homosexual activists” are “manipulating” his death to get homosexual indoctrination programs into the school district.
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“I don’t think parents want their kids indoctrinated in homosexuality,” he said, adding that Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), often the only safe space for LGBT students on campus, should be removed from schools. “It’s sad and harmful for kids to celebrate homosexuality when in fact it’s not a healthy lifestyle,” he said.
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[T]he national Focus on the Family has launched TrueTolerance.org, a website that teaches that LGBT bullying prevention efforts “become a gateway for homosexuality promotion in school.”
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Obviously, if anything is removed from the schools it needs to be groups like MFC and Focus on the Family which seek to subvert the religious freedom of all except their ignorant and bigoted adherents. To these folks, only they are entitled to religious freedom and all others must grovel under their storm trooper boots.
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