Gay advocate sees rise of anti-gay groups joined with Tea Party

Aug 29 2012 | SJ

[scottjewell]

Interesting to me this morning to read renowned gay advocate David Badash's (New Civil Rights Movement in America)piece :

"Exposed: Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, Tea Party ‘Coming Together’ With Anti-Gay Groups".

I have been wondering for some time whether the Tea Party would have any sort of effective power of political back-lash against the whole gay marriage/gay equality agenda. Now I see that Badash is recognizing this and stating his concerns about it openly.

I see signs here that a social conservative pushback - one that is organized and effective - may finally be in the offing.

In his piece Badash says:

"David Brody, the chief political reporter for CBN News admitted in an MSNBC “Morning Joe” discussion this morning that the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove, and the Tea Party are “coming together” with major anti-gay organizations and a hate group, the Family Research Council."

He then makes reference to a poll which finds the tea party is the "political group which hates gays most" [because 94% of them do not support same-sex marriage]. He continues:

"CBN News is the Christian Broadcasting Network, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in 1961. Brody, author of the new book, The Teavangelicals: The Inside Story of How the Evangelicals and the Tea Party are Taking Back America, is also ”a political contributor to Glenn Beck’s GBTV network,” according to CBN.

“We talk about the pro-life groups but the pro-life groups are also the Tea Party type groups, in other words, they’re all coming together,” Brody told the panel, explaining the close relationship between the Tea Party, Tea Party organizations, the Koch Brothers (who fund those groups,) anti-gay organizations, and anti-gay hate groups.

“Here’s my point: Concerned Women for America, a pro-life group, they’re working with Americans For Prosperity, Tim Phillips group, and so they’re doing a lot of bus tours together.”

Americans For Prosperity was founded by the Koch Brothers.

While Concerned Women for America is not technically a named anti-gay hate group, they are mentioned in this Southern Poverty Law Center article, “18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda” at least five times. They, their work, and their people have been embedded in several other anti-gay hate groups, like the Family Research Council, Traditional Values Coalition, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, and Chalcedon Foundation, the SPLC reports."

Badash then goes on to site the Southern Poverty Law Center's statistics on CWA and how it "equates homosexuality with pedophilia". Also that CWA dares to question the official numbers of anti-gay hate crimes [we know too well the number of hoaxes].

His piece can be read @ :

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/exposed-koch-brothers-karl-rovetea-party-coming-together-with-anti-gay-groups/politics/2012/08/29/47725

A quote he uses from CWA (which I happen to be in agreement with CWA on) is from the SPLC files:

Last year, CWA accused the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullying in schools, of using that mission as a cover to promote homosexuality in schools, adding that “teaching students from a young age that the homosexual lifestyle is perfectly natural … will [cause them to] develop into adults who are desensitized to the harmful, immoral reality of sexual deviance.”

[G Larry]

Now they demand government provide them 72 “virgins”, here and now.

[pallis]

I like the way people throw Rove’s name around, as though he is the mastermind of the Tea Party. At best, Rove is sticking around to feel relevant, something that is going to become more and more difficult as the Tea Party grows in influence. At worst, Rove is allowing himself to be used by the Obamamedia to aggravate conservatives.

“Anti gays” means morally enlightened Christian groups and others who despise the gay agenda and the wholesale promotion of perversion. We would be more than happy to leave gays alone, if they would leave tradition and our children alone, and enjoy their perversion without inundating the rest of us with it. ...Not to deflate gay vitriol, but our social conservatism goes way beyond opposing the gay agenda. We aren’t narrow minded, single issue nuts like radical gays.

[scottjewell]

Well said.

[scottjewell]

Good way of expressing it.

[MEGoody]

Oh, so what. “Anti-gay” groups and “hate” groups - the leftists simply mean any group that dares not to celebrate their idiocy.

[scottjewell]

I agree - I just hope this “movement” is real enough and can push back at them; they need to quit always having everything their way and on their terms.

[OldEarlGray]

 

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