Some "enemies" of LGBT freedom

[Pah]

The Top Ten Power Brokers of the Religious Right | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

The Top Ten Power Brokers of the Religious Right
By Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine. Posted November 10, 2008.

You might have heard of Pat Robertson and James Dobson, but they're just the tip of the iceberg.

...vociferous opposition to church-state separation, legal abortion and gay rights....Robertson frequently uses the program [700 Club] to espouse extremism. Over the years he has ranted that America should be a Christian nation, compared gay people to Nazis,...

[Dobson's Focus on Family] sponsors programs to "convert" gays to heterosexuality. In recent years, FOF has taken the lead in opposing same-sex marriage in the states.

[American Center for Law and Justice/Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism] Robertson and Sekulow have used the ACLJ to chip away at the church-state wall, erode abortion rights, oppose gay rights and push other Religious Right social goals.

The ADF [Alliance Defense Fund] is rigidly anti-gay and promotes its Christian fundamentalist vision in public schools and government institutions.

...he [ADF CEO, Alan Sears] once opined that SpongeBob SquarePants might be part of a gay plot to indoctrinate children.

Under [Tony] Perkins' tutelage, the FRC [Family Research Council] has become more aggressive in attacking same-sex marriage and gay rights generally.

There are plenty of other Religious Right groups, of course. The field is crowded with lesser lights. Former FRC operative Gary Bauer runs American Values, a group he describes as "committed to uniting the American people around the vision of our Founding Fathers." In reality, it's just a vehicle for Bauer to bash gay people, Muslims, legal abortion and church-state separation.

In California, the Rev. Lou Sheldon heads the Traditional Values Coalition, which claims to work with 40,000 churches nationwide, spreading mostly anti-gay propaganda.

In a country where freedom is prized and equality a keyword of Constitutional law, would it not be an injustice to allow such as exemplified above the "freedom of religion" of a minority to co-opt what America promises?

 

[SolaScriptura]

If Freedom is so "prized" in America why weren't homosexuals allowed to marry in the 1800s when the Republic was young and in its free-est form? Just...wondering you know? Like...why should we become MORE free than we were 60 years ago; 100 years ago; 200 years ago?

You haven't given us any good reasons.

 

[Pah]

If Freedom is so "prized" in America why weren't homosexuals allowed to marry in the 1800s when the Republic was young and in its free-est form? Just...wondering you know? Like...why should we become MORE free than we were 60 years ago; 100 years ago; 200 years ago? ...

????

I don't really understand why women not allowed to vote and full fledged slavery is a "free-est form"

 

[Comicaze247]

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I don't really understand why women not allowed to vote and full fledged slavery is a "free-est form"

:troll:

 

[Shadow Wolf]

If Freedom is so "prized" in America why weren't homosexuals allowed to marry in the 1800s when the Republic was young and in its free-est form? Just...wondering you know? Like...why should we become MORE free than we were 60 years ago; 100 years ago; 200 years ago?

Are you available for a duel next Wednesday?

 

[Pah]

Is it therefore a given that those in the article are more than "enemies" but are actual homophobics?

Should the Church of Latter Day Saints, for their substantial financial support, be added to the list?