Evangelicals and Far Right Catholics to Release New Anti-Gay Manifesto

While we continue to see the evil of fundamentalist religious belief in the form of ISIS in the Middle East, here at home in America our own home grown religious extremists are planning to release a new anti-gay screed manifesto next month.  Those who have seen the batshitery report that it “reads like a declaration of war,” and claims that anyone accepting gay marriage is no longer fully Christian much in the way ISIS condemns Sunni Muslims for reject its  more extreme tenants.  Among the signers of the screed are Rick Warren; Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University; Mark Galli, editor of the evangelical magazine Christianity Today; Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and psychologically disturbed former unwed mother Maggie Gallagher. No doubt their affiliated hate groups will make another money beg concurrent with the release of the "manifesto."  

Meanwhile, the biggest irony is that while Republicans condemn ISIS and call for military action against it, they continue to embrace equally sick and insane Christofascists here in America.  Religion News Service has details.  Here are highlights:

A high-profile alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants is set to issue a sweeping manifesto against gay marriage that calls same-sex unions “a graver threat” than divorce or cohabitation, one that will lead to a moral dystopia in America and the persecution of traditional believers.

“If the truth about marriage can be displaced by social and political pressure operating through the law, other truths can be set aside as well,” say the nearly 50 signers of the statement, which is to be published in the March edition of the conservative journal First Things.

The declaration adds that some people “are already being censured and others have lost their jobs because of their public commitment to marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”

Social conservatives have rallied around a number of cases that they say herald a gloomy future, including the recent dismissal of the fire chief in Atlanta, who had given employees a copy of his book in which he detailed his beliefs, based on his Christian faith, that homosexuality was “vile.”

This latest statement, “The Two Shall Become One Flesh: Reclaiming Marriage,” comes from the group Evangelicals and Catholics Together, a coalition formed in 1994 under the aegis of former Nixon aide Charles Colson, an evangelical, and the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic priest.

The document declares, however, that a “faithful Christian witness cannot accommodate itself to same-sex marriage,” and it suggests that believers who accept gay marriage are no longer fully Christian.