Sunday, May 29, 2011

Civil conversations about gays should not involve pedophilia, bestiality, or feces

The American Family Association (AFA)'s phony news service, One News Now has covered the recent vote by Minnesota legislators to put the issue of gay marriage up for a vote in 2012.

Par for the course with One News Now, only person - a religious right figure - is quoted in the story. Now usually when I point this out, it's to show how hypocritical this supposed Christian news service (and the AFA) are. But this time, one has to simply be amused by not only who One News Now chose to quote but also what this source says. The source is Chuck Darrell of the Minnesota Family Council (MFC) and he said the following:

"We have some work to do, but what's great about it is that we've got an 18-month period that's going to allow the people of Minnesota to have a conversation -- a civil, respectful conversation -- about why the amendment should be adopted and the importance of marriage."

Bear in mind that this is the same Minnesota Family Council who was recently busted for spreading inaccurate information via its site that gays engage in pedophilia, bestiality, and the consuming of urine and feces. It also cited the work of discredited physician Paul Cameron. Since this discovery became public, the Minnesota Family Council scrubbed these references from its site. However, you can still view the information here.  To top it off, even though the items were removed, the head of the Minnesota Family Council, Tom Pritchard, actually defended the material:

Prichard defends the postings as getting "into the nature of homosexuality and homosexual behavior," but says that won't be the focus of his group's efforts to pass the constitutional ban. "The focus of this campaign is the nature and purpose of marriage -- not a referendum of homosexuality per se, or its lifestyle activities and behaviors," he says. "I would see that as a separate issue."

I cringe to think about MFC's definition of a "civil, respectful conversation."


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7 comments:

Joel said...

Well, our civil conversations about christianity could include priest pedophilia and murder and calls to murder by lots of mainstream christians. But then we'd be bullying them, wouldn't we?

Anonymous said...

I think every time they bring up kids, urine, animals, and crap, we need to provide samples of heterosexual folks doing them.

BlackTsunami said...

Interesting point. How about you all say stuff like "i thought they wanted a civil conversation. They can't justify being against gay marriage so they think up those crazy arguments."

The Xan said...

Ask them how pedophilia, bestiality, or the consumption of urine or feces is related to the issue of marriage equality. Ask them for their research. Ask them to provide data from more than one source supporting their assertions. Ask them, again, how do these issues relate to the issue at hand? Take them entirely seriously, and allow them to dig their own graves with their hysteria and irrational fears.

BJ Jackson Lincoln said...

I am calling them out in my video series "Blunt and to the POINT" at htto://bjlincoln.blogspot.com
I am fighting back with the truth about what the hate groups are saying about us.

Charlie said...

To Anonymous:

I actually did that to my brother's girlfriend ("if worrying about some black guy mugging me makes me racist then yeah I'm racist," but that's a rant for a different time). It was on a much smaller scale but it parallels well

She was on some tirade about how she thinks it's terrible that you can't have a show about Jesus (apparently?) but can show two guys making out on tv, I just calmly responded "you know straight couples kiss on tv too, right?"

she shut up. I smiled inwardly.

Anonymous said...

@Charlie: You should mention the show Seventh Heaven to her, which lasted for 11 years and was set around a minister, his wife, and their seven children. It was entertaining, and even won several awards.