Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Today's CWU is unusual in that there's an extended section of links mostly provided by dogemperor, documenting the continued promotion of the "homosexuals ran the Nazi party and slaughtered the Jews" Holocaust revisionism. I heard this from a variety of sources in the late 1990s, but did not know it was still around; it is, but at the state level, rather than national. Still, it is apparently a part of the subtext for the "gay == tyranny" argument being made at a slightly more refined level nationally.

And now, today's news.

I include this one mostly because various people continue to insist to me that the theoconservative movement is not critical to the Republican party; it's Raw Story covering a meeting between President Bush and James Dobson (and others);

Courtesy dogemperor, here are a whole set of links about something I thought had died out in the late 1990s but in fact continues to this day: the fundamentalist holocaust revisionism that blames gay people for both the Nazi party and the Holocaust, asserting that gay people - gay men in particular - were behind the Holocaust, rather than victims of it. Most of the links in this section are provided courtesy dogemperor:

Leadership U., a spinoff of Campus Crusade for Christ, promotes the book The Pink Swastika: Homosexuals and the Nazi Party. The book's author, Scott Lively, is or was head of the California branch of the American Family Association, though that branch may now be inactive and the AFA may now be trying to hide this. Google cache of the web page here;

Abiding Truth Ministries hosts the 4th Edition of The Pink Swastika, quoting a variety of reviews praising the book for showing how the Holocaust really happened - it wasn't those good Germans, it was the fags, whose perversion leads to fascism. Abiding Truth Ministries also sells another book, The Poisoned Stream, which also blames gay people for fascism (quoting their summary, it "traces the 'poisoned stream' of homosexual influences throughout history, particularly in Germany between 1890 and 1945");

The Annotated Pink Swastika, a refutation of the book, made in response to a Wisconsin group redistributing the original;

Scott Lively's article above is reprinted by "Life and Liberty Ministries";

Life and Liberty Ministries calls for the recriminalisation of GBLT people, along with arrests, prosecution, and punishment of all GBLT people;

The Southern Poverty Law Centre quotes Family Research Council wonk Dr. Howard Hurwitz praising The Pink Swastika, [UPDATE: I think the SPLC has confused the Family Research Council and the Family Defense Council; I can't find any active links between Dr. Hurwiz and the FRC, but plenty with the FDC] and Pat Robertson saying that lots of Nazis were gay, and also, by the way, Satanists, and that the two go together; Pat Robertson is well known and needs no introduction; the Family Research Council is, of course, a spinoff of James Dobson's Focus on the Family. James Dobson is an extremely powerful fundamentalist theoconservative, and is a leading voice in the weekly GOP national strategy calls [ETA: True but possibly irrelevant. The Family Defense Council is a separate organisation. Dr. Howard Hurwitz is now on the board of the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists, which includes Concerned Women for America's Robert Knight, and Scott Lively, author of The Pink Swastika]. [ETA 2k7/7/6: I have received word from the Southern Poverty Law Centre confirming that they in fact did err, and are issuing a correction.];

dogemperor also finds and posts ties between Life and Liberty Ministries and several explicitly-dominionist and/or Christian Reconstructionist groups.

Back to our normal programme, Focus on the Family's ad today is for their book, 101 Frequently Asked Questions about Homosexuality, which tells fundamentalists how to reject the idea that being gay is acceptable;

Focus on the Family promotes the 32nd "Exodus International Freedom Conference," an "ex-gay" quackery group;

Focus on the Family pleased that the GOP stopped an embryonic stem-cell research bill by voting against it as a bloc; Focus calls it the "Clone-and-Kill Bill";

Focus on the Family ACTION ITEM to thank Congressional representatives who voted to maintain the "international gag rule" or "Mexico City policy" of barring foreign aid to groups that provide or discuss abortion services;

FotF: New Jersey lesbian couple denied rental of a beachfront pavilion (normally rented to the public) because they are lesbians; it turns out that "Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association" is owned by a Methodist organisation, so they're claiming religious exemption;

FotF promotes the fundamentalist "biotech conference" hosted at the Bethany Bible Church by pastors called, "The Biotech Century: Facing Our Future";

Concerned Women for America's Matt Barber condemns the Massachusetts vote not to overturn marriage rights for GBLT couples, calling it Frankenstein's monster "terrorising the countryside," alleges bribery, condemns "political treachery" leading to the "no" vote, says that legal gay marriage means legal incest, and calls for a Federal anti-gay amendment to make the Massachusetts legislative vote moot;

CWA kinda-sorta ACTION ITEM to continue requiring abstinence-based AIDS prevention programmes overseas;

CWA commends Bush veto of Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007;

CWA's condemnation of GBLT-friendly churches, "The Gay Gospel: How Pro-Gay Advocates Misread the Bible," has a working audio link now. CWA's Matt Barber discusses the book with Joe Dallas, the author. There's not all that much red meat in this one, tho' it's neat watching Barber try to get Dallas to get into it; Dallas doesn't bite, though; but wtf is "body ministry," anyway? Barber recommends it as a way of dealing with "sexual sin," and all I can think of is, "...IF you know what I mean";

Traditional Values Coalition laments poll showing that 60% of Americans think "homosexual relations should be legal," noting that's up from 47% in 1977. I'd like to click through to that poll, but I can't. TVC then wonders if American values would change if "they understood that 'sexual orientation' can include bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia, and sexual attraction to the stumps of amputees." Mmmmm, breathless new lows. ETA: Found the poll.

( Articles, transcriptions, and excerpts below )

Of all the times not to have a camera

A B-17 "Flying Fortress" just flew over our house. TWICE. Really low, too! They're transferring it from Payne Field in Everett down to Boeing Field in south Seattle (according to the Times - spazzkat ran in after it was gone and checked) and apparently checking out some of the scenery along the way. Damn, that was cool. It was like right out of some old movie, only, you know, real.

Those things have some rumble.

( Here, have some memes )

All kinds of catching up to do

That's No Moon...