Lying: The Religiously Right Thing To Do

The sleaze tactics used by the religious right in their fight against LGBT equality is something that’s to be expected.  All in all, they have nothing to base their baseless arguments and judgments on.  Being gay doesn’t make you a scary monster.  Being gay doesn’t make you a pedophile.  Being gay doesn’t take away from the life of anyone else.  Being gay is NOT an abomination.

However, since the religious right probably realizes all the above, they know they have to make up lies (we all know it’s a good Christian moral value to lie as long as your lying about the gays) and spew as much hateful rhetoric as possible hoping that some of it will influence the general population, which to a degree, I’m sure it does.  Throw dung at a wall, and some of it is going to stick.

So, in the case of adoption of children by LGBT people in the state of Florida…where gay adoption is currently illegal but being challenged, the religious right has stooped to an all time low.

The Florida Family Policy Council, who is associated directly with the anti-gay Focus on the Family, ran a piece about a lesbian couple who are battling an adoption case in Florida.  One of the lesbians is actually a blood relative to the child in question, yet the anti-gay bigots are worked up in a battle to maintain the discriminatory law that prevents gays and lesbians from adopting children in the state of Florida.  Now it doesn’t surprise me the group would run a post objecting to gay adoption.  After all, a great deal of their tax-exempt income is based on the manifestation of fear…fear of the gay agenda.

However, the thing that does surprise me, their blatant stupidity.  They knowingly used a picture to misrepresent the couple actually trying to adopt.  Of course I’m sure they knew they would be called out for their misrepresentation, but again…What happens when you throw dung at wall?  Some of it sticks, and I’m sure that’s exactly what they were trying to accomplish.

According to the Orlando Sentinel:

The judge’s ruling said exactly what most people would want to hear in an adoption case.

It said that the 1-year-old boy who had been living with his foster parents was “happy and thriving” — and that a permanent adoption made perfect sense.

It should be a simple story with a happy ending.

Except it is not.

That judge’s ruling — which focused solely on the child’s well-being — enraged some on the religious right.

Why? Because the little boy’s adoptive parents are gay.

So now those who profit from division are pouncing.

They aren’t the people who have cared for this little boy, who have nursed his wounds and tucked him in at night. In fact, they haven’t done a thing for him.

They haven’t consulted the experts — everyone from a child psychologist to a Guardian ad Litem — who say the parents provide precisely the loving environment that this child needs.

All these critics know is that they don’t want gay people to have the same rights as straight people.

So they want him separated from the parents who love him.

“Arrogant judicial activism” was how the finger-waggers at Orlando’s Florida Family Policy Council described the ruling in an alert it sent out to its members last week.

And to make their point about just how frightening this ruling was, the Policy Council included a photograph of the couple — a strange and androgynous-looking duo, one with bleached skin and both with mullet haircuts. The couple look so odd (you literally can’t tell whether they are male or female) that one might wonder how any judge could place a young child with such a disturbing-looking duo.

Except the judge didn’t.

The abnormal-looking couple that the Policy Council chose to illustrate this story is not the same couple granted the right to adopt the child.

You can read the entire post at the Orlando Sentinel by CLICKING HERE….and see the picture used below!

On the left, the picture used by the anti-gay "Christian" group. On the right, the actually couple.