Posted on 03/01/2006 12:01:59 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Whose children will be allowed to participate in the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll on April 17? Not the sons and daughters of gay parents, if the Christian right gets its way.
In November, when the Family Pride Coalition, a D.C.-based gay rights advocacy group, invited its members to participate in one of the “great traditions of our country” the religious right sprang into action. The Institute on Religion and Democracy, a religious think tank, accused the Family Pride Coalition of trying to “exploit a children’s event for political purposes.” Even the White House has weighed in.
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The Christian right blogosphere is afire, condemning the presence of gay parents on the White House lawn as “nearly terrorist threats from the homo lobby.” One post suggests that “White House psychologists” should be deployed to help the children of gay parents and implies that they are molested in their homes. Another wishes the gays “good luck,” reminding readers that “the Secret Service carries automatic weapons.”
Such posts are, of course, “those of the individual posters” to http://www.FreeRepublic.com, “and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of … its operators.” The site claims 200,000 registered members, known as “Freepers,” and a daily readership of “tens of thousands.” Free Republic, founded in 1996, has been embraced by right-wing social conservatives as the online water cooler for “patriots” who are “biased toward God, country, family, liberty and freedom.”
Or at least liberty and freedom for some. “These lowlife scum should just be mowed down like terrorists,” writes one good Christian.
(Excerpt) Read more at inthesetimes.com ...
What happened to the love that dare not speak its name?
I would never support killing homosexuals and have even supported bringing them into churches. However a homosexual Easter egg hunt is something I want no part of.
Woo Hoo!
“These lowlife scum should just be mowed down like terrorists,” writes one good Christian.
Interesting example of providing no context for a quote.
The article makes us sound like moonbats.
“These lowlife scum should just be mowed down like terrorists,” writes one good Christian.
And how did the writer of the news article determine that the author of this post was a good Christian?
Anyone have a link to the FR thread(s) in question?
The quotes sound to me like those opposed to the left's announced plan of STORMING the White House (see activism sidebar headlines).
At least there will be more places to hide the eggs this year.
I wonder what thread those quotes are from.
These people have done much more damage to these kids than not going to some easter egg hunt is going to do.
On some threads, some of us do sound like moonbats.
"What happened to the love that dare not speak its name?"
yeah what happened....I dont care how they cavort in private, but for cripesake keep it private and shutup about it already. They are grossing out the whole country.
I sometimes suspect that some of the more extreme comments on FR are posted by trolls just so they can cite them in articles such as this. (Is MD4Bush still posting?)
"The quotes sound to me like those opposed to the left's announced plan of STORMING the White House (see activism sidebar headlines)."
That's what I thought as well. Methinks this article is a bit on dishonest side.
It's now the love that won't STFU.
LOL
Sometimes I think it's a matter of "the lady doth protest too much".
Also an intructional lesson on why it is important to only post what you want to have seen in a NY Times article. Posters who constantly post inflammatory and hateful missives are much the same as Fred Phelps: agents of the left looking to discredit Christians and conservatives from within.
It won't shut up now.
And what we were told was about "consenting adults in private" is now about teens and younger in public schools expressing their sexuality and is constantly in our face.
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