What about what the gay community say? Have they ever announced a stance or something memorable against Christians that anyone can think of?
Hi, L&L.
It is difficult to judge from afar, the political tone in another country. The best one can do is to read bits and pieces in the press, and even the most erudite, informed reader will not get the “flavor” of a movement, a “Cause,” or any political fight unless he or she spends considerable time in that country, possibly visiting the regions in which that cause is hotly debated. That’s all an excuse on my part
– a legitimate one, I think – to justify not having a firm grasp myself on emotional undertones of ‘gay rights’ efforts in the UK.
Therefore, it’s possible that the equivalent is also true. From afar, it’s hard to get a feel for the vitriol – and it has been vitriol – coming overwhelmingly from the Left, and from the most activist members of the Gay Lobby, in the States. Unfortunately, as with many political movements, the loudmouths and sensationalists are the ones who get remembered and published, not the ones engaging in sedate debate. (Thus, the strident and unpleasant “Reverend” Fred Phelps gets remembered for having the audacity, poor taste, and lack of compassion, for showing up at places like funerals for homosexuals, and picketing.
Not a Christian thing to do; extremely doubtful that Jesus would ever approve of such an action.)
But other than that, I cannot think of any “Christian” orchestrated movement, hate campaign, or anything of the sort – consisting of name-calling, persecution, etc. even during the specific ballot measures. I can, however, recall many attacks against Christians from (a) homosexual activists and (b) the mainstream media. And I don’t have to reach far back into my memory at all: Try one week. MSNBC, the water-carriers for the Gay Lobby in the U.S., virtually every week associates Christians with 'those who hate gays," equates every rational attempt to restrict traditional marriage with Christianity or Catholicism exclusively (which is inaccurate), and links those attempts to “hate.” I don’t make it up. It’s their words. I’m sure the tapes are archived.
Not all gays, or even most gays, “target” Christians, or slander them, ridicule & marginalize them. In fact, interestingly, I don’t recall having heard Rachel Maddow – whom I consider a person with a lot of decency – put “hate” and “Christian” in the same sentence; as far as I’m concerned, she’s a far kinder & more thoughtful person among those who identify as lesbian/homosexual than her heterosexual peers: Lawrence O’Donnell (the worst), Cenk Uyger, Chris Matthews (shame on him, an active Catholic), Ed Schultz. Martin Bashir is such a gentleman that I doubt that he has engaged in that rhetoric, so I will absent him from his MSNBC peers.
But again, the spokespeople for any movement (activists) are often irresponsible about name-calling, and nowhere has this been more true than during voter campaigns, demonstrations, etc., by homosexuals who equate the word Christian with the word hate. In two recent high-profile legislative & judicial battles, it was the people in authority, who hold office (probably most/all straight), who equated Christianity with “hatred” of gays –
and based legislative and judicial decisions upon such nonsense. I don’t make that up, either. The misrepresentation of the religious positions is right there in the official wording of these decisions.
So here in the States the hate campaign against Christians comes from 2 sources: (1) gay activists and (2) their secondary spokespeople, the Left (mainstream media – CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, the newspapers in most of the major metro regions); in other words, what dominates the discussion in the public square: it’s all about those “hateful” Christians.
