I just want folks who check out this blog to check out this post over at the Box Turtle Bulletin (also check out the site's coverage of events in Uganda; it's really informative). I was in shock listening to the things that this Christianist Scott Lively was saying throughout the clips on this post. In the NY Times story that shows the connections between American Christianists and this "kill the gays legislation," Lively actually comes out of his mouth with an expression of disappointment in the harshness of the proposed legislation.
This is unreconstructed bullshit.
Listen to how he describes the GLBT movement. Listen to his suggestions that the genocide perpetrated in Europe during WWII and Rwanda is linked essentially to power hungry gay men. Listen to his words. Why wouldn't a group of people, already steeped in a prejudice against the GLBT community (most likely on some "eww" factor of the typical "two men kissing" image), not go for the toughest measure to stamp out people who allegedly "advocate" genocide and "attacks" traditional families?
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Amazing isn't it, how dangerous words or human eradication can be spouted, and even more frighteningly, heeded.
Hate is a perverse form of control, and those who offer hate speech are seeking permission to harm and control everyone else.
Whether you agree with, act upon, or tacitly endorse the hate speech by doing nothing, harm is being done to you.
Do not give your permission for such things to happen. It's the first and only thing needed for words of hate to become acts of hate.
I'm just sayin'...
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