NO SALE: Focus on the Family´s anti-LGBT Rhetoric

Gay scapegoating not the cash cow it once was
by Jeremy Hooper

¨Focus on the Family's Citizenlink, the political action arm from whence most of the organization's most pointedly anti-LGBT rhetoric comes these days, is in desperate of a cash influx:

CitizenLink this week sent an email to constituents pleading for $2.3 million in 30 days to avoid a budget shortfall. If the money is not raised, “our ability to act on your behalf will be severely, and perhaps irreparably, hurt,” wrote Tom Minnery, CitizenLink executive director.

Citizen Link sends plea for $2.3 million to stay afloat [The Gazette],   HERE

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ATTEMPTING TO MORE ¨EFFECTIVELY¨ DEMONIZE/PERSECUTE LGBTI CHRISTIANS: “God’s plan for sexuality,” and other tripe meant to soothe the brainwashed...

Self-righteous blamers/shamers, common greedsters, hate-mongers and thieves love to promote a God they think they know well enough to speak for!

TODAY Truth Wins Out´s contributor Evan Hurst took the words right out of my brain/mouth--so I added some! 

A Friday Morning Rant
By Leonardo Ricardo

Dangerous/biggoted self-righteous religious ¨abusers¨  who arrogantly think they know my heart/my soul and yours too.

For decades, a lifetime, I´ve listened to  ¨concerned¨ Christians/others, self-righteous or plain crude/stupid, whining or stridently barking ¨for my own good¨ chatter/slander regarding  LGBTI Christians/others as the vicious know-it-all´s at Church determine who is an ¨abomination¨  and who ain´t (in their own words)! 

As if self-righteous religious  ¨selective scriptural smoozers¨ knew my heart or my soul or yours!  Bigotry is simply pure arrogance revealed to me/us over and over again, day in and day out endlessly and sometimes even repackaged to appear more ¨Godly¨ (which also overwishfully covers the ill-will of the preachies).

Many demonizers of others are emotionally and spiritually twisted criminals who, once again, ¨know not what they do¨  as they incite and then instigate hate crimes against innocent LGBTI people worldwide--Uganda in Africa is a sad/dangerous example of U.S. ¨religious fundamentalist¨ promoting  evil abroad.  

Dressing up for Sunday School, writing a big check or slipping on mitres, robes and/or handmade stoles will not change the appearance of ones deeply flawed character...yours or mine.  Good personal character that anti-LGBTI Christians/others expect us to believe they actually possess as they announce ¨Gods Plan for Sexuality¨  and other presumptuous morally-flawed ¨exclusive¨ rubbish.

Speaking for a God that blamers, shamers, common greedsters and thieves think they know so well  is scary, it´s harmful/hurtful, and yes, it´s also 100% distilled hogwash!  Pit bulls wearing lipstick comes to mind.

How Can Christian Students More Effectively Hate Homosexuals?

By Evan Hurst

¨Ashley Horne and Candi Cushman of Focus on the Family have the answer! Unfortunately the video isn’t embeddable, presumably because it’s embarrassing. The video is about Focus’s “Day of Dialogue,” in which they seek to deflect public attention from the blood all over fundamentalist Christian hands when it comes to the bullying and, all too often, suicides among gay teens.

Anyway, they don’t use the word “hate,” but rather use coded dogwhistles and catch phrases like “God’s plan for sexuality,” and other tripe meant to soothe the brainwashed. http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2011/03/15060/">HERE

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American Political/Religious Conservative HYPOCRISY: Mel Gibson Joins Hollywood Self-destructionists Fatty Arbuckle to Lindsay Lohan

"The Passion" of "Traditional Family Values"

The Good News About Christian-Right Darling Mel Gibson
By Frank Rich


¨...The Gibson tapes — in plain English and not requiring the subtitles of some of the star’s recent spectacles — are a particularly American form of schadenfreude. There’s little we enjoy more than watching a pampered zillionaire icon (Gibson’s production company is actually named Icon) brought low. The story would end there — just another tidy morality tale in the profuse annals of Hollywood self-destruction from Fatty Arbuckle to Lindsay Lohan — were it not for Gibson’s unique back story.

Hollywood self-destruction from Fatty Arbuckle to Lindsay Lohan

Six years ago he was not merely an A-list movie star with a penchant for drinking and boorish behavior but also a powerful and canonized figure in the political and cultural pantheon of American conservatism. That he has reached rock bottom tells us nothing new about Gibson. He was the same talented, nasty, bigoted blowhard then that he is today. But his fall says a lot about the changes in our country over the past six years. We shouldn’t take those changes for granted. We should take stock — and celebrate. They are good news...¨read it all HERE

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