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Report: anti-gay org to run ad in NYT blaming gays for 'Campaign Of Violence' in wake of Prop 8

by: Pam Spaulding

Tue Dec 02, 2008 at 11:15:00 AM EST


You knew this was coming -- it was only a matter of time before the emotion and outrage in the LGBT community after Prop 8 would be turned into a rampaging mob of heathen homosexuals persecuting Christians. The Blend has received word that the The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is pulling together a full page ad to run in the NY Times within the next few days,  charging the LGBT community's response to Prop 8 is a "Campaign of Violence."

According to our source, the ad will cite an incident where a white powder was sent to a church, and "document" disruptions of services at houses of worship. The Becket Fund is also allegedly contacting like-minded anti-gay organizations to request that they sign on to the ad.

This D.C.-based organization recently published a "study" on the implications of marriage equality and anti-discrimination legislation on religious liberty.

The study found that all 50 states prohibit gender discrimination in some way, and only 37 states have explicit religious exemptions to these provisions, many of them quite narrow. This lack of robust exemptions could become a problem if (as has happened in some instances) religious objections to same-sex marriage are treated as a kind of gender discrimination. In addition, 33 states prohibit at least some discrimination based on marital status, and only 13 of these states provide religious exemptions, some with a wide latitude of exemption, others with only narrow exemptions. Of the 20 states that prohibit sexual orientation-based discrimination, 18 provide exemptions for religious objection.

Based on the data, The Becket Fund concludes that if same-sex marriage is recognized by courts or legislatures, people and institutions that have conscientious objections to facilitating same-sex marriage will likely be sued under existing anti-discrimination laws-laws never intended for that purpose.

In fact, Becket touts Mitt Romney's infamous "Freedom Requires Religion" diatribe this year. It was actually delivered at a Becket function at the Metropolitan Club in New York. Mitt and his wife Ann were awarded the Becket's Canterbury Medal for "Courage in the Defense of Religious Liberty. He spewed this nonsense:

From the transcript of his speech:

"Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone...It is important to recognize that while differences in theology exist between the churches in America, we share a common creed of moral convictions. And where the affairs of our nation are concerned, it's usually a sound rule to focus on the latter - on the great moral principles that urge us all on a common course. Whether it was the cause of abolition, or civil rights, or the right to life itself, no movement of conscience can succeed in America that cannot speak to the convictions of religious people."

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The Peter has crimes of Hate 8,
  If this is all they can come up with, they will look like the Dumb-Asses they are,

Lansing, Mich. » Services at an evangelical church were disrupted by members of an extremist group called Bash Back! An affiliated group claimed it poured glue into the locks of an LDS [Latter-Day Saints] church building near Olympia, Wash., and spray painted its walls. [Note: we went to a Bash Back! website and apparently there is a dispute over whether the Washington attack occurred and if so, whether it had a connection to the lesbian/anarchist group that carried out the Michigan church assault-AFTAH];

 Riverside, Calif. » Forty to 50 signs supporting Proposition 8 were found arranged in the form of a swastika on the front lawn of a Roman Catholic church.

 San Luis Obispo, Calif. » Vandals poured adhesive on a doormat, key pad and window at two LDS churches and peppered a nearby Assembly of God church with eggs and toilet paper.

 Sacramento » Ten area church buildings were vandalized, according to The Sacramento Bee.

 Orangevale, Calif. » An LDS chapel sign and walkways were tagged with the phrases, "No on 8? and "hypocrites."

 Arapahoe County, Colo. » The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is investigating a case of a Book of Mormon that was set on fire and left burning on an LDS church's doorstep as a bias-motivated arson.
Wasatch Front » More than seven LDS churches have had glass doors shattered, six of them by BB gunshots.

 LDS temples in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles » The temples, along with a Catholic Knights of Columbus printing press in Connecticut, all received packages with white powder substances in the mail.
Syracuse » A Syracuse Junior High seminary was evacuated after a mysterious letter was sent to the building

 Weber State University » A plastic plant was lit on fire inside a Weber State University Institute building after an evening talk given by LDS Apostle Elder Boyd K. Packer.

 Farmington » Farmington police are looking for a person who spray painted "Nobody is born a biggot" (sic) on a concrete wall outside an LDS church.

 A Torrance, Calif.» A man is charged with a felony hate-crime assault for allegedly using an anti-gay marriage lawn sign to attack a gay man wearing a "No on 8? button

 San Jose, Calif.» Police were called to a house in the southern part of town after homeowners reported their garage had been spray-painted with "No on 8? messages. The homeowners had signs on their lawn supporting the measure

 Sacramento suburb » Police arrested three teens after finding 53 stolen "Yes on 8? signs in their car

 Salt Lake City » A man reported his lawn sign, opposing the LDS church's role in politics, was set on fire outside his home near 900 East and 900 South

 I am not going to list all the beaten and murdered LGBT people, as that is painful for me to do.  

 Even some of the "Crimes" the Peter listed are against the Opposition to Hate folks.  The white powder BS, the source of the powder hasn't been determined who sent it.  I will stay with my gut feeling it was someone on the "Yes on Hate" side trying to give the LGBT community bad PR.



If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


We need
a multi-page NYT spread showing the faces of those of us who have been murdered or beaten.  

Lurleen on Twitter

[ Parent ]
And not just the ones who
routinely and repeatedly make the news anyway.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

[ Parent ]
Exactly
Everyone and their grandma knows who Matthew Shepard is.

No disrespect, but as much coverage as he's gotten, it seems like he's the only person who's been killed for being gay.  Just being honest.


[ Parent ]
and our allies
who were gunned down by a homophobe in a Unitarian Church. This is not about religion or religious discrimiantion, because churches objecting to marriage do not have to perfom them; this is about ONE religious viewpoint and set of beliefs demanding to be enacted into law above all others....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

[ Parent ]
As much as I agree .. I've seen the response
which is "so?! there have been [stick faux victimized group name here] who have been murdered and beaten too"

so you will need to have a ready counter response


[ Parent ]
good idea
I hope you get right on that.
Share it with us and lets post it all side by side.
here's a place to get started.
www.rememberingourdead.org
www.gayamericanheros.org

My gut instinct to this nonsense is good. Secretly I wish we would give them something to really cry about.

http://EQFL.org


[ Parent ]
I won't get right on that,
because I am an unemployed individual.  I am just expressing what I'd like to see.  You know, in the ideal world in which we do not live.

Lurleen on Twitter

[ Parent ]
The only assault there...
...seems to have been committed by someone who agrees with The Peter.

[ Parent ]
banshiii...LISTED Lots...HappyCat

...and you are so correct they are horrendous. My first thought after reading the gist of this thread was...so WHY doesn't 'the LARGEST LGBT ORGANIZATION' in the country with beaucoup $$$$$ put an ad on the opposite page listing those.  It should/could have even put out one for transgender day of Remembrance, but only wrote little 'in house' letters..and had a cocktail party somewhere.

No MORE Quiet here anyone. I do hope everyone is ready to pounce on any new 'real' acitivity that is anti-gay...at least with a cross demonstration.   



It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


[ Parent ]
All wrong
Whether you are a Mormon or P.E. Obama quoting Paul's message to the Corinthians, religion is based on what might be called "private truths" - ideas, beliefs, and "truths" that rely upon the teaching of divine revelation. Such "truths" are a personal, private conviction which cannot be claimed as creating obligations for others in a democracy. If left unchecked, it can only lead to the evils of a Theocracy and the death of individual freedoms.  They are leaving out other groups of tax paying religious and godless American Citizens.

Same-Sex Marriage is good for the economy.

FU, Mittens
and the horse you rode in on.

Signed, a proud and happy atheist!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


Maybe the Becket Fund would like to
pony up with the Kingdom of Heaven group which submitted a letter supporting Prop 8 to the CA SC.

Catholic group all the way, although they claim to be nondenominational.

Let them spent there money.  As Happy Cat posts, the least of violent crimes against LGBT peoples would fill pages of the NYT.


You know what strikes me as I read this crap?
No one is born Christian.  Being Christian is a choice. I'm not a Christian, why am I forced to accept the Christian lifestyle?

Why does my country make Christian holidays national paid holidays (Christmas)?  It doesn't for the faith of others. There's no national paid holiday for Purim, Eid ul-Adha, Dwali, or a Gurpurb, etc.  Stores close for that holiday and Easter too (forgetting, and because I always do the weekly shopping on a Sunday, we once had to get our Sunday meal from a 7-11)

Sunday, that's Christian sabbath is always a day off.  Other religions "sabbath" is not.  

For a country that has no state religion, it has done a pretty good job sanctioning one religion over others.

Marriage itself is pretty much a religious ceremony.  To be legally recognized one must get a license from the state.
and the more they push me to the side where I want to be released from the tyranny of unofficial/official state sanctioning of one religion (Christianity)

The more these bone heads push this prop8 it's okay to take away rights crap, the more I am pushed to want to make all "marriages" civil unions by the state .. then if people want a "proper" wedding/marriage they can go to the religious or JP of their choice and get it done.

If we really want religious liberty, it can't be for one religion ONLY.  It has to be for everyone - remove the special rights for Christmas, and Sabbath.

Religion after all is a choice.


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What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Freedom Requires an Enforceable Constitution
Freedom requires religion
Then why didn't the Deists who wrote our Constitution phrase the First Amendment that way?

Might it be because, were they alive today, they'd tell you that you're full of sh*t, Mitt?

>^..^<


Not Violent Enough, Yet
Actually, what we NEED is some old-fashioned American violence. Gays have been too timid, too accepting of their own oppression, and too willing to accept crumbs.
After a few churches burn to the ground and a few hetero weddings are disrupted to the point of being impossible to complete, we might be able to get somebody's attention, if only the FBI.
As I've posted here before, BashBack! is the only GLBT outfit I am supporting, either with my money or my activity.  

Boo Fucking Hoo
Is that all they can come up with?

I'll raise their stolen yard signs 31 murders of Trans folk.

Dena

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" is so 2006.


Hell no!
I don't agree with form of violence or "bashing back."

Congratulations because I am sure your comments will be featured in the NY Times ad.  


[ Parent ]
Huh?
I did not imply anyone should commit violence or vandalism against pro-8 groups but I am sick of the bullies crying that they are being bullied.

LGBT people have died.

Dena

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" is so 2006.


[ Parent ]
Not you Dena
I was responding to the post by myroro.

[ Parent ]
Thanks to Scott Hall at Gay American Heroes
for letting me rip some stuff off his website.

Lansing, Mich. » Services at an evangelical church were disrupted by members of an extremist group called Bash Back! An affiliated group claimed it poured glue into the locks of an LDS [Latter-Day Saints] church building near Olympia, Wash., and spray painted its walls. [Note: we went to a Bash Back! website and apparently there is a dispute over whether the Washington attack occurred and if so, whether it had a connection to the lesbian/anarchist group that carried out the Michigan church assault-AFTAH];

Ronnie Paris, only 3, died of injuries after being beaten by his father, who was trying to "make Ronnie Antonio tough and to teach him to fight, because he did not want Ronnie
Antonio to grow up to be gay."

Riverside, Calif. » Forty to 50 signs supporting Proposition 8 were found arranged in the form of a swastika on the front lawn of a Roman Catholic church.

Ryan Keith Skipper, 25, was brutally stabbed twenty times and his body was dumped by the side of the road in Winter Haven, Florida in March of 2007.  His killers drove around in his blood-soaked car,
bragging how they had killed a "faggot".

San Luis Obispo, Calif. » Vandals poured adhesive on a doormat, key pad and window at two LDS churches and peppered a nearby Assembly of God church with eggs and toilet paper.  Sacramento » Ten area church buildings were vandalized, according to The Sacramento Bee.

Sean Kennedy
Murdered May 16, 2007 punched and hit his head on the pavement,causing his brain to be separated from the
brain stem in South Carolina in 2007.

Orangevale, Calif. » An LDS chapel sign and walkways were tagged with the phrases, "No on 8? and "hypocrites."

Philip Walsted, 24, was struck in the head with a baseball bat nearly twenty times and killed in Tucson, Arizona in 2002.

Arapahoe County, Colo. » The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office is investigating a case of a Book of Mormon that was set on fire and left burning on an LDS church's doorstep as a bias-motivated arson. Wasatch Front » More than seven LDS churches have had glass doors shattered, six of them by BB gunshots.

Michael Sandy, 28, was struck by a car, sustaining massive head injuries, as he ran from his attackers in New York.

LDS temples in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles » The temples, along with a Catholic Knights of Columbus printing press in Connecticut, all received packages with white powder substances in the mail.
Syracuse » A Syracuse Junior High seminary was evacuated after a mysterious letter was sent to the building

Lawrence King, 15.
Shot in the head by a fellow student.
Authorities said Lawrence King, 15, was targeted this week by a younger boy because he came to E.O. Green Junior High in Oxnard dressed like a woman, The Associated Press reported. Oxnard police have not specified a motive but said there appeared to be a personal dispute between the two. Prosecutors have charged 14-year-old Brandon David McInerney with premeditated murder.

Weber State University » A plastic plant was lit on fire inside a Weber State University Institute building after an evening talk given by LDS Apostle Elder Boyd K. Packer.

Adolphus Simmons, 18, North Charleston, SC
That Adolphus Simmons dressed like a woman was of no consequence to his neighbors at the Bradford Apartments in North Charleston. To them, his shooting death Monday night was a senseless loss of a beloved friend.  The effeminate
18-year-old charmed them with his always jovial and sometimes flamboyant personality, they said.  Police were working on leads in the case late Tuesday. There was no
indication that his slaying was a hate crime, said Spencer Pryor, police public information officer.

Farmington » Farmington police are looking for a person who spray painted "Nobody is born a biggot" (sic) on a concrete wall outside an LDS church.

Pvt. Barry Winchell, 21, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by a fellow soldier for loving a transgender woman in 1999.

A Torrance, Calif.» A man is charged with a felony hate-crime assault for allegedly using an anti-gay marriage lawn sign to attack a gay man wearing a "No on 8? button

Scott Amedure, 32, was shot twice in the chest after disclosing a secret crush on a male neighbor on a national TV show in Michigan in 1993.

San Jose, Calif.» Police were called to a house in the southern part of town after homeowners reported their garage had been spray-painted with "No on 8? messages. The homeowners had signs on their lawn supporting the measure

Scotty Joe Weaver, 18, was beaten, strangled, cut, burned and found at the side of a rural Alabama road in 2004.

Sacramento suburb » Police arrested three teens after finding 53 stolen "Yes on 8? signs in their car

Matthew Shepard, 21, was robbed, pistol remote, rural area in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998.

Salt Lake City » A man reported his lawn sign, opposing the LDS church's role in politics, was set on fire outside his home near 900 East and 900 South

Daniel Yakovleff was found stabbed to death.  He was just 20 years old, he was a South End. He was also openly gay.  A Savin Hill apartment where Daniel was killed. The Boston Globe reports that Odegard has told police he was sleeping when the murder took place.  Boston Police
tell that Odegard is a person of interest in Daniel's case.



http://EQFL.org


Thank You for doing this,
  Everytime I read or hear of another LGBT person being beaten or murdered, it takes its toll on me.  My emotions run in different directions from Anger, Sorrow, Sadness and I always wonder why?  I have read the walls of Remembering our Dead,  I knew two people on that wall.
The girl I went to thailand with has information to post on that wall if something ever happened to me.  I have the same for her.

 I get into a sad mood, teats in my eyes, I start shaking as I can never under stand why an LGBT person should die just for being LGBT.

 Thank you again for doing what I have a hard time doing.

    HUGGS, From the HappyCat

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


[ Parent ]
My friend Ryan is on that wall
He and his family are with me in every GLBT activist thing I do.

http://EQFL.org

[ Parent ]
Let 'em Advertise
The only group that's going to benefit from that ad is the New York Times and they could use the revenue.  That's $100,000 dollars that won't be going to defend the passage of Prop 8.

Freedom requires Religion?
What the fuck? Can I please have one example of how? Mitt Romney proves once again that he's a complete fucktard. I would love to ask him about those churches who wholeheartedly supported slavery in every state where it was legal.  

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