Do You Still Think It’s About Gay Marriage?
December 1, 2009 by James Hipps
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it now…again, the anti-gay movement in this country is NOT about marriage. It’s NOT about the sanctity of a religious institution. It’s not about protecting anyone or anything, it’s about hate, intolerance and bigotry.
Chris Buttars, Sally Kern, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Julaine Appling and other anti-gay religious and evangelical zealots have stated that gay Americans are the biggest threat to this country, even a bigger threat than terrorist. They say that LGBT Americans have an agenda and we will destroy the nation.
Time after time we’ve seen throughout history that those who accuse others are typically the ones who are to blame, and this is no different. I’m going to go out on a pretty sturdy limb here and say the anti-gay, evangelical, religious righters in this country are actually the threat, and not only to LGBT Americans, but to LGBT people in other countries…as in Uganda.
The Rev. Dr. Jerry Maneker talks about “The Family” and this is something we need to really pay attention to. Maneker is not the only one talking. This is U.S. involvement and support of genocide. This is serious and this has to be publicized. People need to go to prison, people need to be charged and tried for terrorism, murder, and inciting violence. Religious leaders in the U.S., including Pastor Rick Warren are guilty. Have you ever heard the term aid and abet? Just in case, it’s the act of commissioning a crime by performing an overt act or by giving advice or encouragement. According to U.S. law, the person guilty must share the criminal intent of the person who actually commits the crime.
Pastor Rick Warren, and other religious leaders have spoken out against LGBT equality. They’ve used the Bible to defend their homophobic stances. They’ve also been the biggest opponents of hate-crimes legislation. Have you wondered why? Not because they’re worried they wont be able to stand up in church and say I hate fags, but because of their involvement in genocide. Their involvement in the murders of LGBT people. Their political involvement in Uganda. Their tax exempt dollars funding murderous criminals.
The time has come. We have to fight. I wrote a piece yesterday about my “365 Plan for Equality“, asking you to pledge to email a church, a congressman, or another every day of the year. Do what you can! Do it NOW! Speak out! Let our voices rise and be heard. This has to stop! This is a crime! What’s going on in Uganda is no different than what happened in Germany during WWII, you know, what Hitler did to the Jews! This time, there are tax-exempt U.S. dollars supporting the genocide, and all in the name of God and the Bible!
So, who’s the bigger threat here? LGBT Americans who want their rights or evangelicals who want to create death squads? Who has the agenda here, LGBT Americans who want equality or evangelicals who want to kill LGBT humans? What are you going to do to help stop this abomination?
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I have signed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Give” pledge. I have signed the petition to have the 1964 Civil Rights Act amended to include LGBT. I have written my Congresscritters on all 12 pieces of pending legislation on our issues at least monthly. I keep up with LGBT news. I defend our right to exist every time I hear a derisive remark about us. I vote. I visit my congresscritters at least once a year in DC to lobby for our rights. I initiate complaints and investigations into money laundering and the tax exempt status of these so called charitable organizations like NOM and the LDS and Catholic Churches and others and make the IRS aware of their continued abuse of our community with tax exempt money. On a local level, I give my time and brain power to SMYAL (youth assistance) and Whitman Walker Clinic (AIDS prevention). I cannot do anything about U.S. policy except to write to the policy makers and complain, and then vote them out if they don’t do a good job, and/or write-op ed pieces to the newspapers and blogs.
@mykelb –
How do we clone you?
~”the anti-gay movement in this country is NOT about marriage. It’s NOT about the sanctity of a religious institution. It’s not about protecting anyone or anything, it’s about hate, intolerance and bigotry.” ~ James Hipps
Exactly right! I’m so fed up with the Big Lie from the anti-gay conservative mob who lobbies and votes to deny homosexuals equality, whilst screaming that their “rights” are being violated by our very existence, our presence.
They shriek with glee whenever same-sex couples are denied their LEGAL RIGHT to marriage, as has happened in California and Maine. Or like today’s vote in New York state. It’s bigotry, as simple as that, to be so determined to deny civil rights to people, and then be so overjoyed when they succeed.
We should ALL become far more proactive on this issue. Writing letters to the editor, writing our representatives, voting. It’s the only way we’re going to achieve the equality under the law that we seek. We can’t just wait for things to change on their own.