North Carolina Family Policy Council Depicts Gays as Assassins

Here in Virginia LGBT citizens are unfortunately all too accustomed to being depicted by the "godly Christian" set as child molesters, alcoholics, drug users, victims of early deaths, and worse. No one seems to spew hate and nastiness more than the "Christians." Now, with an anti-gay constitutional amendment on the ballot in North Carolina, many of the tactics used in Virginia by The Family Foundation to push for passage of the foul Marshall-Newman Amendment in 2006 have been exported to North Carolina. It's not surprising that the North Carolina Family Policy Council, like The Family Foundation links with Family Research Council, a certified hate group, and Focus on the Family. Like The Family Foundation, North Carolina Family Policy Council disingenuously describes itself as "nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to the preservation of the family and traditional family values." It also claims "We are engaged in a battle to retain the Judeo-Christian values that are the foundation of western civilization." Can't you just feel the "love" emanating from the image above? How long before some nut with a gun decides to murder one or more LGBT North Carolinians because they are sch a threat to civilization. My friend Jeremy Hooper has some on point remarks at Good As You:

This is the actual graphic that the North Carolina Family Policy Council, the leading anti-equality group in the Tar Heel State, is running in its quarterly publication in order to scare citizens into voting for the state's proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Yup, that's right: Their emblematic representation for our side is that of an assassin poised to take out a pair of heterosexual newlyweds as they embrace in a wheat field. That's where their mind goes. More importantly: That's where they want their supporters' minds to go.

Now, NCFPC will of course say they were just being allegorical and that everyone uses symbolic graphics like this. But no, not everyone does. Unless through the vehicle of some deep and drippingly obvious parody, I would never put a human couple behind the sites of some sort of deadly weapon. But we see it ALL THE TIME from the "nice," "loving" "values" crowd. Quite frankly, it scares me.

If anyone is a threat to western civilization (unless one wants a return of the Dark Ages), it's the "family values" crowd that exults in hate, division, ignorance and, of course, the suppression of religious freedom for other citizens. They want nothing less than a Christianist theocracy.