I suspect they want to get high-profile in this whole anti-abortion/anti-marriage equality thing because most converts over the past few years have been Anglicans who are upset at the Episcopal Church’s having come into the 21st Century.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/christianist-manifesto-partial-fisking.html

“Bishop” Harry Jackson promised this campaign to be “the armageddon of the marriage battle…” and he is keeping his promise. And all that our gov’t is promising us is to investigate hate crimes: AFTER our friends have been burned, stabbed, shot, decapitated and dismembered. That is grossly inadequate, on a scale of 1/10 the action needed.

Yes, Wayne it certainly looks like they want special rights, amongst them the right to discriminate. I personally don’t give a damn what they want to believe—fine, whatever. But when they want to use that belief to opress me as well as the rest of the GLBTQ community, that is too much.

No one has said the fundies can’t believe their nonsense, but they have no right to foist it on the rest of us. I guess I should have expected something like this. These people are fanatics and will stop at nothing. And here’s the irony: the fundies and the Catholic fundies are using each other: the Catholics consider the Protestants to be heretics and many fundies consider the Church of Rome to be little better than Paganism with a thin Christian veneer. Hopefully this unholy alliance will eventually fall apart.

I am saying flat out, fellow-GLBTQ’ers: this is yet another step towards building anger and resisitance which could lead to violence against GLBTQ’ers. These people are not the pacifists that they claim to be–and never have been. I read this thing and got a chill down my spine: it would take very little to set these people off, thinking they are called to “kill a queer for Christ”. Calls for this are already being made in the more radical Evangelical communities, such as a minister in the Phoenix area who is bluntly saying that GLBTQ people ought to be executed.

The point made by Wayne is correct: if you take government money, you are not allowed to discriminate. Against anyone. Period. If all these Catholics and other fundies want to discriminate, then go right ahead–BUT GIVE UP THE TAX BREAKS AND FEDERAL FUNDING. This is a clear-cut case of wanting to have your cake and eat it, too. These people are hypocrites and dangerous.