American Family Association STILL throwing a fit over anti-discrimination stickers in Mississippi

[ck4829]

But they have a new plan: Claim that gays are 'tricking' businesses into displaying the stickers, stickers that serve the secret agenda of marginalizing conservative Christians.

This past week I wrote a Publisher's Note called "AFA Bearing False Witness Against Businesses?" about the American Family Association's "action alert" wherein they called the "We Don't Discriminate" campaign discriminatory, despite the very basic tautological problems with their argument. (It seemed to me they were going to have to define "don't" as "do" in order to make their argument make any sense.)

So I was intrigued this week to see the AFA has now edited that exact same alert from its original headline of "A List of Businesses Displaying Hatred Toward Religious Freedom" to the new headline "Businesses Suckered By Homosexual Reaction to MS Religious Freedom Restoration Act."

The alert is otherwise dated the same (suggesting, falsely, that they wrote the current text on May 9, 2014, when it actually sometime between May 16th and 19th), it has the same URL and it still has the title "A List of Businesses Displaying Hatred Toward Religious Freedom" at the top of the window.

Aside from the fact that replacing their earlier statements and pretending they wrote them 10 days ago once again calls into question this self-proclaimed Christian organization's relationship with the Ninth Commandment, it's also instructive to note where they now pretend their argument has been the whole time -- gays are apparently suckering businesses into putting the sticker in their window.

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/weblogs/politics-blog/2014/may/20/afa-edits-their-alert-now-blames-gays-for-fooling-/

Previously...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024885271

AFA: "THERE'S NO POINT TO THIS LAW IF BUSINESSES ARE STILL SELLING TO HOMOSEXUALS! YOU... BIG... GAY-LOVING... MEANIES!!!!1! *Throws self on floor and starts screaming*"

[RKP5637]

1. AFA = 'Code Word' for Hatred and anti-Christian activities. n/t

[Skidmore]

9. This group is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

[tanyev]

2. How dare those bullies post We Don't Discriminate stickers!!

So mean!!!

[AlinPA]

3. I have now heard it all. Incredible. It's not hard to believe young people are abandoning organized

religion because of this hatred which is supported by the GOP.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. " the secret agenda of marginalizing conservative Christians. "

If they're NOT marginalized, then the entire existence of the human race is pointless.

Marginalize away.

[AverageJoe90]

5. Honestly, fuck the goddamn AFA and their ilk. nt

[Zorra]

6. Mississippi klukkers doing what Mississippi klukkers do: HATE. nt

[alp227]

7. Sheesh. Do these morons not remember history?

^What actually happened in Tennessee near 5 decades ago. This is the SAME tone used by the American Patriarchy Association.

[Tsiyu]

8. AFA= money grubbing leeches

They have to keep up this crap so the dumbasses will keep sending them money.

Grandpa Wilbur: "if I just send this donation to AFA, they'll end teh gay!"