20 Nov 2008, 3:44pm
Places Politics Religion: California Queer Rights Religious Extremism
by Mike Tidmus
Those Christians in the CastroBy now you’ve probably heard or read about the Friday Night Massacre of Christians in the Castro that allegedly took place last Friday evening in San Francisco. It’s a given that anytime the leading homo-sex-obsessed dim bulbs of the radical religious right jump on the same story and start yammering about an incident involving peaceful Christians set upon upon by an angry mob of militant homosexuals there is bound to something completely fishy in their account of what actually took place.
According to self-professed ex-gay, ex-addict, ex-con James Hartline, who recently tried to pin the California wildfires on gay people, Sodom Has Resurrected: Video of Horrible Gay Assault Against Christians. Professional homophobe and gay porn aficionado Peter LaBarbera, of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, true to form, also wants a steaming wad of that hot, homo-hating action: ‘H8ing’ the Christians: Video Shows Aftermath of Homosexual Mob Attack on Christians in San Francisco’s Castro District.
And these ‘mo-haters aren’t alone. Via Joe. My. God, we learn that veteran anti-gay-rally-organizer Lou Engel has christened the incident, The Elijah-Jezebel Showdown. Now that’s Christianist melodrama on a Cecil B DeMille scale! Joe has a video segment from Engel’s yammerings that features one of the Castro crusaders who, with tears in her eyes, alleges she and the others were violently attacked in the Castro.
As for the whole peaceful Christian myth, Joe points to Engel’s involvement with Joel’s Army, an extremist militant fringe group of Dominionists that wants to bring the United States of America under the Christianist equivalent of Islamic Sharia law. Under their rule, gay people and other sex criminals would be stoned to death in the public square.
http://www.miketidmus.com/blog/2008/11/20/christians-in-the-castro/ About those “Peaceful Christians” In the CastroJim Burroway
November 19th, 2008
I think it’s safe to say that Joe.My.God was at least as alarmed as I was over news reports of a so-called “Christian” group being escorted out of the Castro by a heavy protective police contingent.
Well Joe.My.God has learned that at least one of those so-called “Christians” is associated with Lou Engle, who is a pastor in the Christian Dominionist group Joel’s Army. She appeared with Engle in Kansas City to call for a “mass exodus from the demonic influence of the Castro.” Engle described the confrontation os “a confrontation of the Spirit” and called on God to “turn back this evil that is rising” in the fight against “the powers of darkness.”
Christian Dominionism is a harder-core, more violent offshoot of Christian Reconstructionism. Christian Reconstructionists are on record as calling for the biblical punishment of stoning for gays and lesbians.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified Joel’s Army as a potentially violent Dominionist group which believes that the United States “should be governed by conservative Christians and a conservative Christian interpretation of biblical law.” Engle was a lead organizer of ”The Call” at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium just before the election.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/11/19/6768 S.F. Gays Practiced Peaceful Defense against Violent TheocratsPosted November 20th, 2008 by Michael Airhart
After the passage by antigay Californians of antifamily Proposition 8, peaceful rallies for gay equality and the freedom to marry were held in more than 300 U.S. cities.
Religious rightists ignored the peace, unfortunately, and looked for excuses to portray themselves as victims of those who lost the freedom to marry.
Antigay activists pointed to one incident (on video), in which protesters in San Francisco’s Castro district pushed antigay “Christians” out of the neighborhood, accompanied by a heavy police escort. Antigay activists’ complaint: Castro homosexuals are intolerant and inhospitable to peaceful Christian believers.
Ex-gay advocate Warren Throckmorton was among those who pandered to religious-right victimology and baselessly alluded to gay violence. (Throckmorton did, in fairness, acknowledge the hard feelings of those who unsuccessfully defended California’s freedom to marry from people like Throckmorton.
As facts emerge, however, the fairy tale of innocent Christians and intolerant gay people is being not only refuted but reversed.
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/sf-gays-practiced-peaceful-defense-against-violent-theocrats/ You can apologize for equating me with gay bashers at your convenience. I won't hold my breath...
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