Are you telling me you don't have the preceptive powers to tell? Then I guess you are admitting you are an imbecile.
Your practice of clear accusatory language when referring to your opponents and obfuscating when describing your compadres is a good strategic debating tool. But it doesn't fool me.
But even among those that can genuinely be called “gay activists,” I don’t see any orchestrated attempt to imply that Phelps is representative of anyone aside from himself. So if you’re suggesting that Phelps is used in an organized attempt at “Christian-bashing,” then I must say “no.” I don’t think that mainstream “gay activists” do that.
Read on and learn.
The aforementioned Cathy Renna is the GLAAD attack dog who urged her fellow Gay-stapo members to pressure journalists not to seek comments in the name of "balance" from people opposed to their agenda.
For conservative Christians, Phelps is a pitiful caricature of the believer who fosters negative stereotypes of Christians who oppose the homosexual lifestyle.To gay activists, he is the far end of a spectrum of conservative Christians who fuel hate crimes with their anti-gay rhetoric.
"If you scratch away at the compassionate ex-gay campaign, you're going to find out all these flowers came from the same seeds," says Cathy Renna, director of community relations for the Washington-based Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. "Homophobia is homophobia is homophobia."
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[Robert] Knight [author of the overwhelmingly approved Definition of Marriage Amendment in California] complains, the media use Phelps as "a shorthand description of conservative Christians, which is unfair."
Renna agrees with Christian conservatives that Phelps is unique, but only because he expresses the hatred other groups couch in less incendiary language.
Even milder attacks on homosexuality, gay rights groups charge, can foment violence against the gay community, a suggestion that incenses Knight.
"It's an outrageous falsehood," he says, "that's been the same plan from day one of the Matthew Shepard tragedy: to say that any opposition to homosexual activity or any restatement of Biblical beliefs is a form of hate-filled bigotry that can lead directly to crimes of this type."
Such equations, he says, "are an attempt to restrict the free speech of conservative Christians. The gays are in effect saying we're going to shut you up by falsely blaming this murder on you."
You want more? Here's LGNY's Troy Masters (seriously), who slyly suggested that if Dr. Laura's TV show were allowed on the air, we might see more brutal homophobic killings.