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Today's Cultural Warfare Update
Oct. 13th, 2006 09:51 pmOh, it's a fun update today, with loads of newtype blood libel and allegations of a HUGE GAY MAFIA RECRUITMENT RING on Capitol Hill and all kinds of fun! The GOP is facing a question and is arguing fiercely internally: expel GBLT people wholesale (what the fundamentalists and their supporters want), or get over the whole gaybashing thing because honestly, this is stupid (what the rest of the party seems to want). Read on, it's one verrrry spicy meatball:
Well, we know were Secretary Rice stands now on the fundamentalist-lead anti-GBLT-GOP jihad: ours. Yay, sanity! (Spotted by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
filkertom on AmericaBlog);
Meanwhile, our local clusterfuck of theoconservatism, the Faith and Freedom Network, tries to rally the fundamentalist vote for the GOP by bringing out the newtype blood libel: all queers are child rapists, Nancy Pelosi, the likely speaker should the Democrats take over the house (as if) next year, marches in NAMBLA parades (yes, really: "would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades"?), and so on. The apparent non sequitur is to equate GBLT people to child rapists, like, well, they do. Also, they claim the 2004 exit polls were "manipulated by the Democratic party," which is, well, another lie, and point to their endorsement/voter's guides again;
Focus on the Family's latest election plug - vote GOP or queers will get married, there will be more stem-cell research, and no new abortion rights reestrictions;
FotF warns their membership - omg just when you thought you were safe from sex ed, now colleges are being all smexxy! And teaching about sex! Ph33r secular colleges andget your kids brainwashed good prepare your children to reject any non-fundamentalist information;
FotF: American families are safer now that internet gambling has been prohibited by the feds;
Remember, any non-condemnational mention of GBLT people's existence is to be condemned: Focus on the Family story about a lesbian schoolteacher who mentioned herself;
Faith and Freedom Network joins in the "War on Christmas" bullshit;
Faith and Freedom Network petition to have retailers "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in advertising and store signs; the way it's worded is genuinely ambiguous to me - it's like they want to say "ONLY SAY CHRISTMAS" (as several fundamentalist groups have done) but are providing just enough ambiguity to stay just on this side of that line;
FotF complains about "personal insults" being used by people campaigning against marriage rights bans, talking about "intimidation tactics;" funny, personally I'd think that writing anti-me language into Federal and state constitutions would quality pretty well as an "intimidation tactic" - not to mention the stream of newtype blood libel (GBLT = child rapists, etc) spew that you can see documented in these updates regularly;
FotF characterisies marijuana reform as a "party" initiative;
Focus on the Family, Alliance Defense Fund applaud Pope Benedict for condemning marriage rights efforts as "hedonism"; ADF's Mike Johnson calls GBLT rights "a cataclysmic social battle";
FotF and Parents Television Council claim that NBC is writing obscenities into prime-time shows; includes ACTION ITEM to pour in more "broadcast indecency" complaints to the FCC;
REAL Women of Canada condemn media for not being anti-marriage-rights enough, sends out ACTION ITEM to write newspapers in support of anti-gay articles and columns, and to send in letters against marriage rights;
Traditional Values Coalition cranky that the papers of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny have been accepted by the Library of Congress;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP! Or John Conyers will chair the judiciary committee, and he is "a committed hard-left radical who... has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups." Also, he's called for the impeachment of Mr. Bush. Oddly, so have I;
TVC ACTION ITEM: Volunteer in South Dakota to help defeat initiative to overturn that state's comprehensive abortion ban, which, I remind my readership, does not include exemptions for the health of the woman;
TVC says "homosexual activists" in Canada are outlawing opposition to homosexuality, quoting a bunch of material out of context (actual context provided), like they do - the actual issue is that the Regina Leader Post wrote an editorial against a bill allowing government employees to refuse to do their jobs regarding GBLT people if they claimed religious opposition - specifically, the plan was to make it hard for lesbian and gay people to get married. The bill failed; the editorial is mostly about how the Tories are not helping themselves with this sort of thing;
The American Family Association's latest "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE AND VOTE GOP" article;
AFA promotes book condemning public education as anti-Christian, pro-GBLT, pro-evolutionary theory, and on and on and on;
AFA support article relaying a Human Events columnist's endorsement of waterboarding and his assertion torture should be just fine; feigns confusion about why any veteran in particular would oppose torture;
Christianity Today column adopting the "marriage rights destroys freedom of religion" rhetoric;
American Family Association legal wing assisting in Texas adoption case; the idea is that lesbian (and, presumably, gay) people shouldn't being allowed to adopt; there's also a funny-odd moment when they say the aunt who is trying to adopt the children is "only" a relative by marriage and criticise her for being kicked out of the military - because of the same GBLT ban they helped get put in place;
DefendMarriage Canada notice about a big end-marriage-rights caucus they're organising at the National Press Club and Parliament buildings in Ottawa;
Accuracy In Media: GBLT Republicans are actually closeted Democrats, "liberal activists who want to use the party to advance the... homosexual agenda," and a "secret gay network" of gay GOP staffers were protecting Foley and engineered the Foley scandal as a Democratic "dirty trick"; oh, and best of all, "we may be looking at... a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill."
( Articles and excerpts below )
Well, we know were Secretary Rice stands now on the fundamentalist-lead anti-GBLT-GOP jihad: ours. Yay, sanity! (Spotted by
filkertom on AmericaBlog);Meanwhile, our local clusterfuck of theoconservatism, the Faith and Freedom Network, tries to rally the fundamentalist vote for the GOP by bringing out the newtype blood libel: all queers are child rapists, Nancy Pelosi, the likely speaker should the Democrats take over the house (as if) next year, marches in NAMBLA parades (yes, really: "would a Speaker of the House really support the National American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) or would she only continue, as she presently does, to march in their parades"?), and so on. The apparent non sequitur is to equate GBLT people to child rapists, like, well, they do. Also, they claim the 2004 exit polls were "manipulated by the Democratic party," which is, well, another lie, and point to their endorsement/voter's guides again;
Focus on the Family's latest election plug - vote GOP or queers will get married, there will be more stem-cell research, and no new abortion rights reestrictions;
FotF warns their membership - omg just when you thought you were safe from sex ed, now colleges are being all smexxy! And teaching about sex! Ph33r secular colleges and
FotF: American families are safer now that internet gambling has been prohibited by the feds;
Remember, any non-condemnational mention of GBLT people's existence is to be condemned: Focus on the Family story about a lesbian schoolteacher who mentioned herself;
Faith and Freedom Network joins in the "War on Christmas" bullshit;
Faith and Freedom Network petition to have retailers "JUST SAY CHRISTMAS" in advertising and store signs; the way it's worded is genuinely ambiguous to me - it's like they want to say "ONLY SAY CHRISTMAS" (as several fundamentalist groups have done) but are providing just enough ambiguity to stay just on this side of that line;
FotF complains about "personal insults" being used by people campaigning against marriage rights bans, talking about "intimidation tactics;" funny, personally I'd think that writing anti-me language into Federal and state constitutions would quality pretty well as an "intimidation tactic" - not to mention the stream of newtype blood libel (GBLT = child rapists, etc) spew that you can see documented in these updates regularly;
FotF characterisies marijuana reform as a "party" initiative;
Focus on the Family, Alliance Defense Fund applaud Pope Benedict for condemning marriage rights efforts as "hedonism"; ADF's Mike Johnson calls GBLT rights "a cataclysmic social battle";
FotF and Parents Television Council claim that NBC is writing obscenities into prime-time shows; includes ACTION ITEM to pour in more "broadcast indecency" complaints to the FCC;
REAL Women of Canada condemn media for not being anti-marriage-rights enough, sends out ACTION ITEM to write newspapers in support of anti-gay articles and columns, and to send in letters against marriage rights;
Traditional Values Coalition cranky that the papers of gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny have been accepted by the Library of Congress;
TVC: Vote, vote, vote GOP! Or John Conyers will chair the judiciary committee, and he is "a committed hard-left radical who... has ties to a pro-North Korea Marxist front organization and to leftist Islamic groups." Also, he's called for the impeachment of Mr. Bush. Oddly, so have I;
TVC ACTION ITEM: Volunteer in South Dakota to help defeat initiative to overturn that state's comprehensive abortion ban, which, I remind my readership, does not include exemptions for the health of the woman;
TVC says "homosexual activists" in Canada are outlawing opposition to homosexuality, quoting a bunch of material out of context (actual context provided), like they do - the actual issue is that the Regina Leader Post wrote an editorial against a bill allowing government employees to refuse to do their jobs regarding GBLT people if they claimed religious opposition - specifically, the plan was to make it hard for lesbian and gay people to get married. The bill failed; the editorial is mostly about how the Tories are not helping themselves with this sort of thing;
The American Family Association's latest "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD VOTE AND VOTE GOP" article;
AFA promotes book condemning public education as anti-Christian, pro-GBLT, pro-evolutionary theory, and on and on and on;
AFA support article relaying a Human Events columnist's endorsement of waterboarding and his assertion torture should be just fine; feigns confusion about why any veteran in particular would oppose torture;
Christianity Today column adopting the "marriage rights destroys freedom of religion" rhetoric;
American Family Association legal wing assisting in Texas adoption case; the idea is that lesbian (and, presumably, gay) people shouldn't being allowed to adopt; there's also a funny-odd moment when they say the aunt who is trying to adopt the children is "only" a relative by marriage and criticise her for being kicked out of the military - because of the same GBLT ban they helped get put in place;
DefendMarriage Canada notice about a big end-marriage-rights caucus they're organising at the National Press Club and Parliament buildings in Ottawa;
Accuracy In Media: GBLT Republicans are actually closeted Democrats, "liberal activists who want to use the party to advance the... homosexual agenda," and a "secret gay network" of gay GOP staffers were protecting Foley and engineered the Foley scandal as a Democratic "dirty trick"; oh, and best of all, "we may be looking at... a homosexual recruitment ring that operated on Capitol Hill."
( Articles and excerpts below )
