Religious Right Marks Anniversary of Titanic's Sinking by Attacking Gays

Never let it be said that the Christofascists and the professional Christian set miss any opportunity to attack and denigrate LGBT Americans. A case in point is a new assault launched a virtual who's who of the anti-gay Christianist crowd who are using the centennial of the Titanic's sinking to claim that gays are destroying America. Given Robert Spitzer's retraction of his study that gave a shred of credibility to the "ex-gay" change myth and the fact that all legitimate medical and mental health associations condemn the Christianists' "choice" propoganda, perhaps it is the Christian Right that has crashed into an iceberg. Here's how Right Wing Watch describes the hater's effort:

The anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking and release of ‘Titanic 3D’ has apparently inspired Truth in Action Ministries, formerly Coral Ridge Ministries, to produce a new short film presenting the “radical homosexual agenda” as an iceberg that could potentially destroy the United States.

The Truth that Transforms film features well-known anti-gay activists such as Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy and Jerry Newcombe of Truth in Action Ministries, Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel, Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, right-wing historian Bill Federer, radio talk show host and author Michael Brown, and pastors Harry Jackson, Robert Jeffress and Erwin Lutzer.

Staver warned that the “homosexual agenda is the moral iceberg that we need to steer clear of” and maintained that it is “the biggest threat I believe in our lifetime to religious freedom and the fundamental values we share here in America.” While Jackson said the “homosexual agenda” is “one of those icebergs that if we don’t navigate around them correctly, will take us under,” Brown claimed “we’ve already hit the iceberg and the ship is already going down” and Land insisted that “we’re taking on water, the only question is whether or not we’re going to be able to survive and the ship won’t sink.” Staver predicted that opposition to gay rights is bound to be “criminalized and targeted for assault” and Federer even asserted that “there are just a couple steps before the military could be used in a persecution of those that are viewed as enemies of the new state belief system.

At times I wonder exactly what mind altering drugs these folks are ingesting.