An Anti-Gay Easter [FR mentioned]

In These Times ^ | March 1, 2006 | By John Ireland

[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.

[Glenn]

Interesting example of providing no context for a quote.

Just what context could you construct to mitigate the meaning of the quote?

The posts here stand on their own. The poster has to defend it when it is "out there".

[WakeUpAndVote]

Maybe this might give us higher quality troll bait?

[RoadTest]

Not "Anti-Gay" at all; just pro-normal.

[dfwgator]

What happened to the love that dare not speak its name?

Now it won't shut the hell up.

[jazusamo]

This article failed to mention the outrage of the previous thread was basically that gay parents didn't just want to take their kids , they wanted to use the event as a protest. IMO it's sick to use little kids to protest.

[M203M4]

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1560039/posts

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[LucyT]

Didn't take time to read this (gay / Easter) old article, but here's the link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560039/posts

[weegee]

Fred Phelps is a provocateur of a different stripe. He's a Democrat (and "former" friend of Al Gore) yet the media never identifies his political affiliation (and he has even run for office).

[Clint N. Suhks]

Today, some conservative bloggers have suggested that President George W. Bush cancel the event or “de-gay” it by restricting attendance to military families, as he did in 2003.

Not a bad idea.

At least it would keep the members of the Film Actors Guild from turning a children's event into a political rally.

[weegee]

A "gay rights for LBGT families" group plans on creating a public relations firestorm by crashing the annual White House Easter Egg hunt

If you crash an event at the White House, you should be considered a security threat and locked up at minimum.

[ShadowAce]

Just what context could you construct to mitigate the meaning of the quote?

How about the possibility said quote wasn't directed at gays?

[Welsh Rabbit]

The Christian right blogosphere is afire, condemning the presence of gay parents on the White House lawn...

Deliberately misleading. If I recall correctly, the gays were specifically coming to demonstrate on the lawn, not just to be present.

[Sensei Ern]

On some threads, some of us do sound like moonbats.

Hey! Squeak for your self!

[Always Right]

March 1, 2008?

[weegee]

Children are only accessories in their selfish lives anyway.

[kenth]

However a homosexual Easter egg hunt is something I want no part of.

Can you imagine where they hide the eggs?

[FormerLib]

It's usually just some turd burglar trying to make anyone who'd resist their perverted agenda look bad.

Remember when they tried to prove that those with the most "homophobic" attitudes were actually repressed homosexuals?

Of course, they never realized that, by doing so, they were admitting that there's just something wrong with homosexuals.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

any chance the homosexuals might hear about Christ on Easter?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Just call the event off. No event=no discrimination=no controversy. He-he.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It creates the same effect though. He clothes himself with words like "God", "Church", and "Christian" and then says and does things to discredit anything associated with him, including those words.

There are some on Freerepublic who claim to support RKBA, immigration laws, and capitalism, but when they actually post they do so in a way that discredits themselves and by extension those things they claim to support.