30 Years of Far Right Christians Who Incite Murder

As even a casual reader of this blog will quickly figure out, I am no fan of the poisonous form of Christianity marketed by the professional Christian set, intolerant and hate motivated conservative churches, and of course, the falsely name "family values" organizations. As Anne Rice noted in her interview with her son, Christopher Rice recently, if these people represent the true face of Christianity, then I don;t want to be a Christian. Fellow Bilerico contributor Patricia Nell Warren has a post that takes a good look at the horrid handiwork of these merchants of hate - and indeed the incitement to murder. Unfortunately, the main stream media all too often utterly refuses to show the larger public the real face of these people. Here are highlights from Patricia's lengthy post:

Here in the U.S., we have our own home-grown Bahatis who incite violence against gays and other groups as well. For 30 years now, they've been brazenly building their nationwide falling-domino machine, inciting murder of certain U.S. citizens. And they've been exporting their hate speech to other countries through missionary work. So far, the American people have let them get away with it.

By "hate speech," I mean that brand of rhetoric that goes beyond mere disagreement, to advocating injury and death for certain groups of people. Any religion is capable of hate speech, no matter what they believe in. But in the U.S. we have a specific problem with extremist Bible-based religion, because of the powerful missionary spirit that drives it.

Righters who incite murder usually deny their guilt to the face of the God in whom they say they believe. After all -- they have no blood on to their personal hands! The purpose of their maneuver is to incite others -- nobody believers who are expendable, and passionate enough t do the dirty work for them. While the nobodies go to prison, or even death row, the inciters go free, so they can continue preaching their poison in freedom, power and wealth. It's one of the oldest political tricks on the planet.

FBI hate-crime statistics for 1995-2008 tell us that, during those 13 years alone, over 20,000 Americans were victims of crimes against sexual orientation, including numerous community leaders besides Harvey Milk. Side by side with religious issues polarizing the country more and more, the stats show these crimes happening more and more in recent years. And those 20,000+ are just the crimes that got counted

America has exported this violence against gays into African countries, along with the more virulent missionaries that went there. Today there are the ultra-conservative African Catholics and Episcopalians (like Episcopal Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria) who have all fueled the explosive anti-gay climate that is building across central Africa, not only in Uganda, but other countries as well. But it is the American NAR [New Apostolic Reformation, aka Joel's Army], with their goal of setting up puppet "governments for Jesus" everywhere in Africa, who have done the most to unleash all that inciting against LGBT activists.

Why this stark contrast between the way our justice system treated the radical Left and the way it treated the radical right? Why have the American people done so little to stop this deadly trend? [Because] It is politically difficult to attack the Bible as the source of radical-right incitings for violent death, when so many moderate Americans have warm fuzzies about the Bible. Since childhood they've felt a naive Sunday School reverence for what they call "the Good Book."

But most Americans have never actually bothered to read the Bible cover to cover. If they did, they might see the passages where all the hate speech is coming from, and their warm fuzzies for the Good Book might vanish overnight. Today, any efforts to prohibit Americans from advocating gory religious massacre, or to punish them if their words have provably led to someone's death, raises a daunting issue of free speech. Our country has yet to deal with this speech issue in a courageous and clear-minded manner.

The American people had better wake up to what's happening right in their front yards. Americans who are more moderate than conservative, and who fondly believe that the "Good Book" is a good model for American society, need to start asking themselves if they what that book to be used as a murder weapon. As long as there is a public policy that God "wants His people to violently destroy His
enemies," some of us will pay the ultimate price for somebody else's perceived
"right" to demand that all of us should be shot.