Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Americans for Truth: Stretching it a Bit

Those idiots at the right-wing, religious, gay-hating Americans for Truth demonstrate once again that their name is a complete misnomer. From their website on August 2nd:

"We welcome homosexual (and liberal) activists who are not afraid of freedom and the battle of ideas to denounce the growing pro-”gay” trend of silencing opposing speech — whether it’s GLAAD threatening to sue a news producer to squelch a report on lesbian bullying; Britain trotting out the “anti-homophobia” police to crush that grave threat to democracy of a Christian passing out tracts at a “gay” event; or pro-homosexual militants claiming that decent religious people who agree with God about sexual sin are causing the murders of homosexuals like Matthew Shepard."

Okay, guys, when we remove the smoke and mirrors used by this group, we can "really" get down to the truth. The reference to GLAAD is from a story a couple of months ago that was done on the O'Reilly Factor. It seems Fox News (you know, that "conservative" channel) Crime Analyst Rod Wheeler detailed what he called a “national network” of so-called “lesbian gangs” that prey on young girls. Using exaggerated, sensational language, Wheeler claimed there are more than 150 such gangs in the Washington, D.C., area alone. Well, GLAAD debunked the story by calling the D.C. Metro Police Department’s Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, who said that they have 150 to 175 total gangs in the D.C. area, and that out of those only nine where the predominance of members are female, and that one simply can't make the jump that they are lesbians. So much for a "national network" of lesbian gangs.

The second mis-truth comes from a story in South Wales, U.K., where during a gay Marde Gras event, some Christian fundamentalist entered the throng of gay revelers and started passing out anti-gay leaflets quoting the Bible. Now forgive me if you disagree, but I would hope that police would arrest a Ku Klux Klansman if he were passing out rascist pamphlets at a NAACP rally. Again, this underscores the double-standard these right-wing bigots apply when it comes to the debate between hate language and free speech, because you know very well they probably nodded in agreement when phag-hater Phred Phelps carried "God Hates Fags" placards outside Mathew Shepard's funeral.

As to "pro-homosexual militants claiming that decent religious people who agree with God about sexual sin are causing the murders of homosexuals," well, we covered that recently in a previous post, read it by Clicking Here!

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