Wednesday, April 22, 2009
My friend Jim Burroway and his colleagues at Box Turtle Bulletin deserve to be thanked for their tireless work. A couple of years ago I ran into Jim at the library, where he was busy collecting information to refute the "science" of the anti-gay folks. He told me he was planning a new blog to cover this issue, and now his hard work has paid off. Box Turtle Bulletin covers current issues and has detailed articles exposing the truth behind the "ex-gay" business.
If you monitor the articles on BTB you begin to wonder whether we are entering a new stage in the homosexual civil rights movement. The anti-gay crowd senses they have lost, and so some of them have started to advocate violence towards and imprisonment of gay people. A couple of examples:
- Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute, described as a hate group by the Southern Pverty Law Center, states that attempts to thwart bullying of children based upon their perceived behavior discriminates against Christian children, who apparently should be able to bully others at will.
- American anti-gay activists support the forced outings of LGBT folks in Uganda, where men and women can be arrested and imprisoned for being perceived as being homosexual. One of these Americans, Scott Lively, believes gay people should be forced into "conversion" therapy.
- Science Fiction author Orson Scott Card, now on the board of the National Organization for Marriage, writes an editorial in which he whips up anti-gay hysteria by stating that "They steal from me what I treasure most, and gain for themselves nothing at all. They won’t be married. They’ll just be playing dress-up in their parents’ clothes." The old sticks and stones saying is not entirely accurate. Words can hurt you.
And so on. These groups are getting desperate- they are losing. We can expect them to lash out in many ways. Some will do so by labeling us perverts or worse. Others will attempt to get anti-gay laws passed and civil rights protections removed. Some will advocate violence towards gays.
What they won't be able to do is to keep these things a secret from most people anymore. I am glad that Jim and his friends at Box Turtle Bulletin are aggressively covering these awful people. It is interesting to see the reaction of the anti-gay creeps when light is shined on their activities.
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If you monitor the articles on BTB you begin to wonder whether we are entering a new stage in the homosexual civil rights movement. The anti-gay crowd senses they have lost, and so some of them have started to advocate violence towards and imprisonment of gay people. A couple of examples:
- Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute, described as a hate group by the Southern Pverty Law Center, states that attempts to thwart bullying of children based upon their perceived behavior discriminates against Christian children, who apparently should be able to bully others at will.
- American anti-gay activists support the forced outings of LGBT folks in Uganda, where men and women can be arrested and imprisoned for being perceived as being homosexual. One of these Americans, Scott Lively, believes gay people should be forced into "conversion" therapy.
- Science Fiction author Orson Scott Card, now on the board of the National Organization for Marriage, writes an editorial in which he whips up anti-gay hysteria by stating that "They steal from me what I treasure most, and gain for themselves nothing at all. They won’t be married. They’ll just be playing dress-up in their parents’ clothes." The old sticks and stones saying is not entirely accurate. Words can hurt you.
And so on. These groups are getting desperate- they are losing. We can expect them to lash out in many ways. Some will do so by labeling us perverts or worse. Others will attempt to get anti-gay laws passed and civil rights protections removed. Some will advocate violence towards gays.
What they won't be able to do is to keep these things a secret from most people anymore. I am glad that Jim and his friends at Box Turtle Bulletin are aggressively covering these awful people. It is interesting to see the reaction of the anti-gay creeps when light is shined on their activities.
