Maine Anti-Gay Bigots Decry "Special Rights" While Demanding Special Rights for Themselves

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Between their deliberately disingenuous whining about attacks on "religious freedom" and claims that gays want "special rights." the ant-gay rhetoric of anti-gay Christianist is enough to make one want to vomit - and never darken the doorway of a church ever again. The truth is, of course, that the anti-gay Christianists are guilty of/demanding for themselves the very things that they attribute to same sex couples who are tired of being fourth class citizens. As noted many times before, the Christianist (and this includes the Catholic Church hierarchy) idea of "religious freedom is forcing their religious beliefs on all citizens. And as for "special rights" these lying bigots want their rights to trump those of everyone else, gay or straight, black or white, Christian or non-Christian. As the ballot initiative in Maine to restore same sex marriage moves forward, the Christianist extremists are pulling out all the stops and doing their utmost to malign and denigrate LGBT citizens. Among the vile efforts being employed is a "No Sodomy Marriage" and "No Special Rights" pledge. Think Progress looks at this nastiness that passes nowadays for "godly Christian" conduct and debate. Here are highlights:

Today, they took their first action, interrupting the beginning of Pride Week at the University of Maine to distribute a “truth pledge,” which refers to the ballot initiative as promoting “Sodomy Based Marriage.” Individuals who take the pledge are encouraged to refer to the freedom to marry as a “special right,” a “hellish” and “evil” doctrine, and an “attack by demonic forces.” Here are some excerpts:

I pledge that I will:

1. Go to the polls and vote NO on Sodomy Based Marriage in November.

3. Use the term “Sodomy Based Marriage” and avoid the deceptive terms “same sex or gay marriage.”

9. Reaffirm the Christian Church’s teaching that a child must never be denied the right to have both a mother and a father. Oppose the hellish doctrine that parents of the same sex make better parents than parents of the opposite sex, an evil doctrine which is now being advanced by the homosexual rights movement.

11. Pray that God will deliver our State and Country from this attack by demonic force, and that marriage between man and woman will be restored to its rightful place of honor, to the glory of Almighty God.

The pledge also refers to marriage equality as “an attack on the religious freedom of all Christian men and women” that oppresses, silences, and persecutes “those who hold religious or moral objections to homosexuality” and seeks to introduce “homosexual indoctrination into the curricula of our schools.” Madore also told reporters that homosexuality represents a “culture of death.”

One can only assume that the authors of this trash were looking at themselves in the mirror when they used the words "oppresses, silences, and persecutes" and "demonic force." I'm also surprised they did not simply advocate for the murder of LGBT individuals. Their invectives certainly seem aimed at fanning hate and animus.