Minnesota Family Council Demonstrates Why Christianity Is Becoming Synonymous with Hate

The other day I noted how Jim Daly of Focus on the Family seemed to (1) admit that the Christianists had likely "lost the battle for marriage" and (2) advised that FOTF and other extremist groups needed to reevaluate their place in the culture. Apparently, that message hasn't been received by much less embraced by the hate merchants at the Minnesota Family Council - a FOTF affiliate. The Minnesota Family Council not only pushed for the GOP backed same sex marriage ban ballot initiative but it's been pulling out all of the foulest anti-gay lies and untruths as it prepares to try to saturate the Minnesota media. Frankly, it's beyond ugly. And the irony is - at least to me - that it is precisely this type of unmitigated hate that is turning the younger generations off to both Christianity and institutional religion. Jeremy Hooper at Good As You has details of the lie and untruth filled propaganda of the Minnesota Family Council which seems to be striving for a registered hate group designation. Here are some highlights:
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[W]e thought we'd take a second and show you what the MFC's agenda is really all about. Because surprise, surprise: We've once again found an overarching war that goes WAAAAAAAAAAAAY beyond just gay people's ring fingers.
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Let's begin.
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We'll start with three documents that MFC has posted to its website and legislative handbook under the "Homosexuality" section. In these documents, MFC staffers come right out and admit that they see us as abnormal and disordered:
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Then there's this section where they liken our lives and loves to "shocking" practices like bestiality . . . . . even more bestiality comparisons, but this time with incest and pedophilia and adultery thrown in for fun.
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But of course all of this cockamamie had to come from some sort of skewed, agenda-laden source. With MFC it comes from the top dog, most discredited source of them all: The resoundingly condemned Paul Cameron's Family Research Institute.
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Plus you can couple all of the above nonsense with the blatant "ex-gay" advocacy that MFC proudly hosts on its "Homosexuality Resources" page.. . . . This is not some fringe group devoid of press or a following. This is MInnesota's big time "family group," who just last week hosted both Newt Gingrich and Congresswoman Bachmann at a fancy shmancy fundraising dinner. This is LSO Minnesota's most prominent voice of "marriage protection" -- a voice that will take on new prominence now that the GOP-controlled state legislature has passed a marriage discrimination bill. This is the team that is working right there, side by side with NOM and the Catholic Church to put discrimination into the state constitution.