Posted on 09/20/2014 5:32:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
The pictures are dark and ominous, the charges chilling: “There exists a network of extremists . . . [who] spew venomous rhetoric, outrageous theories, and discredited science.”
Just who are these evil people and what are they doing?
According to the Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest gay activist organization, this “network” consists of American, conservative Christian leaders “who are working tirelessly to undercut LGBT people around the world at every turn.”
I have made it onto this list – unfortunately, only with a “dishonorable mention” – adding to my already impressive résumé of being marked by groups like GLAAD, which seeks to censor opposing viewpoints through its Commentator Accountability Project (which is why I have renamed them the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Disagreement), and the SPLC, which not only seeks to malign conservative Christians but also has blood on its hands. (Criminology professor Mike Adams has rightly dubbed them the Intellectual Poverty Law Center, evidenced in part by the SPLC’s placing me on their list of “30 New Activists for the Radical Right,” along with neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and new Black Panthers. See also here and here.)
Not to be outdone, the HRC’s latest report, entitled, “The Export of Hate,” contains written descriptions of this alleged network of extremists as well as black and white sketches (or white on black sketches), depicting us with inaccurate and scary images. (About the only thing they got right in my sketch, on p. 22 of their report, is that I’m a male with a mustache.)
Given the fact that the HRC has an annual budget of roughly $45 million, one would think they could hire an artist who could actually draw, which suggests that the menacing images of this so-called “network” of “extremists” who allegedly export a “vicious brand of bigotry” are intended to incite fear and loathing towards us.
Why not simply report the facts?
Could it be that the HRC is describing its own work with the title “The Export of Hate”? Could it be that the HRC is guilty of spewing “venomous rhetoric”?
Other gay publications, like the flagship Advocate.com, are repeating HRC’s claims, announcing “America’s globetrotting extremists exposed” and stating that “the Human Rights Campaign has taken off the gloves to expose American extremist organizations and individuals in a new report about the homophobic hatred they spread around the globe.” Indeed, “‘The Export of Hate’ profiles America's worst globetrotting homophobic offenders a rap-sheet style that also puts them ‘on notice.’”
Well, I’m here to the put the HRC on notice: Your fear-mongering tactics will be exposed and, speaking for myself (but with confidence that my words apply to others), I will not bow down to your bullying tactics or your rap-sheet nonsense.
Here are some salient facts.
First, there is no “network.” Virtually all of the individuals and organizations listed work independently, and a good number of us have never met or worked with most (or even all of) the others on the list. This means that the HRC chose the term “network” quite intentionally to give the impression of some type of worldwide collaboration when no such thing exists. (Shades of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.)
Second, the annual budgets cited in the report underscore the fear-mongering, hatred-inciting nature of the HRC’s report, with chief offender Scott Lively’s ministry listed with an annual income of $90,259, Peter LaBarbera’s organization listed at $110,000 (surely way too high), and others listed at $54,494 and $26,569. Yet the HRC, which draws guest speakers like President Obama, Vice President Biden, and Attorney General Holder to its annual fundraising events, states that their report outlines “some of the resources at [the] disposal of this “network.” What resources!
As for the larger organizations, like the ADF (the Alliance Defending Freedom) and ACLJ (the American Center for Law and Justice), with budgets in the 10’s of millions of dollars, the quotes associated with them can in no way be construed as a “vicious brand of bigotry.” (For example, the ADF’s Benjamin Bull is excoriated for stating that “HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE FREQUENTLY BEEN A RALLYING CRY FOR PEOPLE INTENT ON IMPOSING THEIR WORLDVIEW ON OTHERS”; their emphasis).
Third, the HRC report blatantly misrepresents the truth in claiming that all of us on their list are guilty of exporting hate. Since I can’t speak for everyone in the report (nor would I agree with the approach of everyone in the report, although some on the list are respected friends and colleagues), I will speak for myself.
According to the HRC, “in March 2014 . . . Michael Brown made the trip to Lima [Peru]. Brown . . . addressed the Peruvian Congress on ‘the consequences of redefining marriage’ and warned lawmakers to learn from the ‘mistakes we’ve made in America’ by allowing civil unions or full marriage equality.”
My talk, which was also aired on national TV, began with these words (displayed on PowerPoint slides, before being translated into Spanish): “My purpose is not to demonize those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, nor is this about inciting hatred against anyone.
“It is very possible that you have family members or friends of colleagues who identify as gay or lesbian, and they may be some of the finest people that you know.
“That is not the issue. The issue is what happens when you normalize homosexuality in a society? What happens when marriage is redefined? In which direction will the nation go?”
And I simply reported the facts in terms of American culture and education and the media and religious rights in light of LGBT advances.
How, then, could a speech which began with these words and maintained a tone of civility and grace throughout, earn me a spot in the “Exporting Hate” report? How does this amount to spewing “venomous rhetoric” and equate to a “vicious brand of bigotry”? How does this put me in the class of the “worst globetrotting homophobic offenders”? (Again, I only use myself as an example; others on the HRC’s list have been just as egregiously mischaracterized.)
I was invited by a Peruvian congressman to deliver the speech to congressional members, university chancellors, and others, and Peru, it must be remembered, is a conservative Catholic country that has placed pro-life values at the beginning of its constitution. (For the record, I had to supplement my airfare and I received no money for making the trip.)
Yet today, in the hate-filled climate created by groups like the HRC, if you say that you don’t believe it’s best for a man to “marry” a man (or a woman another woman), you are attacked in the harshest and ugliest terms imaginable.
That is the small-mindedness of gay activism. It cannot recognize any possible moral or social or cultural or religious argument against redefining marriage. Those who reject same-sex “marriage” are simply haters and bigots of the worst order.
The Advocate cited Ty Cobb, the HRC Foundation’s director of global engagement, who stated that, “Hate is not an American value, and we must expose and fight these individuals and their extremist allies.” He continued, “This is a destructive group of activists spreading anti-LGBT rhetoric, promoting laws that criminalize LGBT people, and seeking to restrict their speech and those who support them.”
The truth be told, it is the HRC that is engaging in destructive activism by spreading misinformation and inciting fear, and it is the HRC that must be exposed.
Thankfully, they got one thing right in the report, stating that our “voices are being heard” and our “impact is being felt.”
By God’s grace, as we continue to speak the truth in love, the real bigots will be revealed.
How much attention does HRC crave? Can’t they get over themselves? Nobody cares what they do with their body parts. Shut up about it, already.
HRC = Hillary Rotten Clinton?
This could happen in a any city with a determined populace.
I saw HRC and thought this article was about Hillary Rodham Clinton inciting fear and hate.
Romans 1:22-32 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
THE NATURAL MAN: 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Faggies want it their way or no way.
Her, too.
I used to have a boss over 55 years ago who used to say when someone said 'I thought': "Let the horses think, they have larger heads" *snicker"
as it should
Why don’t they go over to Iran and voice their complaints there?
Good news indeed! Congratulations!! Homosexual harassment laws are what they are.
This could happen in a any city with a determined populace.
Amen. It's just so tragic that the more local politics is, the less engaged the majority in that locale is. They look right past their noses at the national scene, and don't notice that Leftists are taking over their city.
I wonder if this Ty Cobb is the same Ty Cobb who defended leaker Mary McCarthy?
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