Tuesday, December 07, 2004
We Hate Gay People! Now Say We Don't!
Well, we all knew this was going to happen. Focus on the Family, James Dobson's propaganda mill, jumps upon the 20/20 report like a dog in heat, demanding an apology from NBC for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, an attitude of cultural homophobia was responsible for Matthew Shepard's death. Quoth Don Hodel, president:
"Our faith tells us that same-sex marriage and other policies that tear down the traditional definition of the family undermine the fabric of our civilization," Hodel wrote. "But just because we are opposed to efforts to normalize homosexuality does not in any way mean we are antagonistic to the people involved in homosexuality[...]
...and then my head exploded. Their founder, Dobson, has been tossing out the worst propaganda of the religious right (gays are child molesters, promiscuous, responsible for Nazism, etc.) and adding his own Protocols of the Elders of Zion-esque spin, saying that there's a global gay conspiracy to destroy marriage and that homosexuality will lead to the destruction of all mankind. I don't think it gets much more "antagonistic" than that.
"Our faith tells us that same-sex marriage and other policies that tear down the traditional definition of the family undermine the fabric of our civilization," Hodel wrote. "But just because we are opposed to efforts to normalize homosexuality does not in any way mean we are antagonistic to the people involved in homosexuality[...]
...and then my head exploded. Their founder, Dobson, has been tossing out the worst propaganda of the religious right (gays are child molesters, promiscuous, responsible for Nazism, etc.) and adding his own Protocols of the Elders of Zion-esque spin, saying that there's a global gay conspiracy to destroy marriage and that homosexuality will lead to the destruction of all mankind. I don't think it gets much more "antagonistic" than that.
