Sociology > Education > Religious Right's 'Liberty Sunday' Is Yet Another Vehicle For Gay Bashing
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Religious Right's 'Liberty Sunday' Is Yet Another Vehicle For Gay Bashing |
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October 12, 2006
Religious Right's 'Liberty Sunday' Is Yet Another Vehicle For Gay
Bashing, Says Americans United
Religious Right Claim That Gay Rights Threaten Church Freedom Masks
Extreme Agenda, Church-State Watchdog Group Charges
The Religious Right's upcoming "Liberty Sunday" is just another
opportunity to attack gays and bash church-state separation, says
Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) is sponsoring
the Oct. 15 event, which it describes as an examination of how the
gay-rights movement allegedly threatens religious liberty. The
gathering will take place at Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston
and it will be simulcast to churches throughout the nation. (Ann
Romney, wife of Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, has agreed to
speak.)
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, noted
that in September the FRC and allied groups held a "Values Voter
Summit" in Washington that featured copious amounts of gay bashing and
attacks on church-state separation. Lynn said he expects more of the
same during "Liberty Sunday."
"This event is not about liberty," said Lynn. "The Religious Right's
crusade is designed to curtail liberty, not expand it. It's sad to see
an entire event built around fear-mongering and hatred -
especially in Christian churches.
"What's truly frightening is the extreme agenda of the Religious Right
and its ongoing campaign to literally demonize an entire class of
Americans," Lynn continued. "That is disgraceful."
Lynn, a United Church of Christ minister, pointed out that the FRC's
"Values Voter Summit" featured much vicious rhetoric about gays.
During one session, the Rev. Dwight McKissic of Cornerstone Baptist
Church in Arlington, Texas, claimed that the Bible indicates that the
Antichrist may be gay.
Speaking of the gay-rights movement, McKissic continued, "I believe
it's from the pit of hell itself, that this movement is inspired, that
it has a satanic anointing."
McKissic asserted that the push for gay rights is not like the drive
for African-American civil rights, remarking, "The civil rights
movement was inspired and given by the Holy Spirit, birthed in the
church and bathed in prayer.... But the gay rights movement, I
believe, was birthed and inspired by the Antichrist."
Another speaker, the Rev. Wellington Boone, called gay people
"sodomites" who, he said, "are really nasty about trying to stop us
from taking away their perversion."
Boone, of Norcross, Ga., went on to refer to gay men as "faggots" and
"sissies."
FRC President Tony Perkins and other Religious Right leaders insist
that gay rights presents a threat to America's houses of worship, but
AU's Lynn said this is nonsense.
"Perkins and his supporters love to frighten pastors with Halloween
scare stories about how their churches will be forced to perform
same-sex marriages or admit gays as members," said Lynn. "All
Americans know that the First Amendment protects against that ever
happening. All congregations are guaranteed their free exercise of
religion."
Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in
Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans
about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding
religious freedom.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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