J. Grace Harley was profiled by Mark Benjamin of Salon.com in 2005. According to that article, Harley — like most ex-gays — has a long history of irresponsible sex- and drug-related compulsive behavior that is completely unrelated to her orientation.
This week, Harley joined other Christian Rightists in defending a supposed right of religious majorities to commit hate crimes — legislatively defined as acts of felony violence — against people of minority sexual orientations and religious beliefs. Joining a long string of religious majoritarians, Harley used her “ex-gay” identity as if to prove to defenders of antigay hate crimes that LGBT people don’t need safety or equal protection under the law because they can change their self-label and become sexually dishonest. Just like she did.
In the video below, Harley misquotes Luke 13:13 to give a false air of legitimacy to her claim to be cured of any same-gender orientation:
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
But that’s not what the Bible says. As Right Wing Watch points out, the verse is about a disabled woman, not a lesbian, and most versions of the Bible say the woman “straightened up.”
In video captured by Right Wing Watch, Holocaust revisionist and ex-gay activist Scott Lively joins Harley and a parade of other antigay activists who claim that they are being silenced by the federal law’s prohibition against felony violence. (It is worth noting that Lively supports the execution of all LGBT and HIV-positive people in Uganda.)
Falsification of miracles and sanctification of violent crime were once considered sinful. In the new age of the Christian Right, both are virtues.
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Hasn’t “falsification of miracles” always been a virtue in Christianity? The bible is filled with stories of walking on water, parting the seas, etc, etc.
Comment by Harry — November 19, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
The level of paranoia is astounding. How ironic, that these mentally ill people who spewed hate at a rally claiming they would be arrested if they did so, did not receive as much as a citation.
Don’t they feel really dumb and look awfully stupid?
Comment by Wayne Besen — November 20, 2009 @ 1:37 am
[...] there they went. There was a lot of preaching about how bad gays are, the usual thing. Michael covered this in detail the other day. And, of course, nobody was arrested. (Because the law doesn’t [...]
Pingback by Truth Wins Out - We Gays Sure Are a Funny Lot (More on the DC Pastors’ Attempted Arrest-athon) — November 20, 2009 @ 1:51 am
These poor, poor people! They’re trying so desperately to portray their lies as truth, their hatred as love and themselves as victims. But they’re not convincing anyone except each other. To everyone else they just come across as sad, pathetic little men, behaving like spoilt children who can’t get their own way, so they’re playing what my mum used to call “the naughty game”. But no-one else will play along with them.
Comment by William — November 21, 2009 @ 1:39 pm