NC: homophobic fact-free rant of conservative state senator's activist wife exposed

by: Pam Spaulding

Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 09:30:00 AM EDT

Thankfully Mary Francis Forrester isn't an elected official, but she is the wife of anti-gay North Carolina State Senator, Jim Forrester (R-Gaston). More on him later.

She's also a public homophobe -- Mrs. Forrester is the legislative liaison and media coordinator for Concerned Women for America of North Carolina (she was also its former director). I think that tells you where this is going. She scribed a ridiculous, color-by-numbers screed on the predatory Homosexual Agenda that Matt Hill Comer of Q-Notes fact-checked and shredded.

Forrester, writing on the Christian Action League web site, selectively cited a piece in the defunct Gay Community News from 1987 as "proof" that the Homosexual Agenda has put into place its long-term vision of taking over.

More after the jump.

We shall sodomize your sons...We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms...in your youth groups...Your sons shall become our minions and do our bidding...They will come to crave and adore us. All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men. Our writers and artists will make love between men fashionable...We shall raise private armies...to defeat you. The family unit will be abolished. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory...All churches who condemn us will be closed.

This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.

My fellow Christians, make no mistake. It is under the guise of tolerance that the homosexual agenda is seeking to change the course of Western Civilization, redefine the family and rob our children of their innocence.

The Ten Commandments has been the legal code of the Western World for over 2000 years by the Western calendar, and over 5000 years by the Hebrew calendar. They have served as the standard for social and legal justice in America for over 200 years.

...Did you know that the average life span of a homosexual is 39 years as opposed to 78 for heterosexual women and 76 for heterosexual men?

And Forrester, no lie, wrote this -- perhaps it is what gave Sally Kern inspiration:

Read your social history and you will find that most societies that condoned homosexual behavior did not survive past one generation.

Did I mention that the Christian Action League was formerly headed up by former state legislator Coy Privette, a Cabarrus County commissioner and married retired Baptist minister, who was busted last July for aiding and abetting prostitution for his multiple no-tell motel liaisons with a sex worker? Coy pleaded guilty, acknowledging that he broke his religious marital vows over and over for a little horizontal bop on the meter (more posts here). The CAL's current exec director, Rev. Mark H. Creech, has won kudos from the usual suspects on the bible-beating right, including Don Wildmon of the AFA and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention.

And her hubby, James Forrester? Forrester's husband is one of the sponsors of the marriage amendment that keeps coming up in our general assembly and it fortunately has died in committee each time.  The other state senator on the hate amendment bill, Fred Smith, is running for governor.


State Senators Jim Forrester and Fred Smith are on a mission to protect marriage in NC from the homos.

Senator Jim Forrester and I have introduced Senate Bill 13, which gives North Carolina voters the right to put marriage in a place where even an extremist judiciary can't touch it - the North Carolina Constitution. The passage of a Marriage Protection Amendment would place traditional marriage in the strongest possible position. Voters who believe marriage is too important to become a political football tossed about by future legislatures deserve the opportunity to vote for a Constitutional Amendment that puts marriage in a "lockbox," protected from activist judges and the General Assembly by a vote of the people.

Unfortunately the Senate's Democratic leadership will not allow an up or down vote on the measure. They have sent our amendment to die in committee. That's not how democracy should work. I understand that there is a debate within society about this issue, but there should be no debate about giving North Carolina voters the right to consider this issue. Every other southern state has had the chance to vote on a Marriage Protection Amendment. Why should the people of North Carolina be denied this opportunity?