In case you had any doubts about that open sewer that is the moral consciousness of Maggie Gallagher and the jolly gang over at NOM…
“I’m not surprised that Miss Beverly Hills, Lauren Ashley, opposes gay marriage — after all 45 percent of young Californians voted for Prop 8, as did 7 million Californians generally,” the organization’s president, Maggie Gallagher, told us. “But I have to say, I am impressed with her courage in coming forward and for speaking up for Carrie. The elected officials of city of Beverly Hills are not demonstrating tolerance or kindness by continuing the avalanche of hatred against supporters of Prop 8.”
Recall, if you will, what Maggie Gallagher is calling courage…
“The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white.
In a time when anti-gay hysteria seems to be sweeping the African continent, when gay people are being set upon in nation after nation by mobs hopped up on the genocidal rhetoric of religious fundamentalists and political extremists, some vacant beauty pageant wannabe starts waving Leviticus around and Maggie Gallagher immediately, Immediately rushes to praise her for her…courage…of all things, without the slightest shred of thought to any consequences for gay people that this Their Blood Is Upon Them thing might possibly have. The danger to gay people clearly, obviously, sickeningly, never crossed her mind. And seriously…if you thought it might, you have not been paying attention.
Can we please dispense now with all this love the sinner hate the sin claptrap. There is no love in Maggie Gallagher for gay people. None. There is not a shred of regard in that barren wasteland she calls a conscience for our lives, let alone love. In her novel The Charioteer, the author Mary Renault described Gallagher’s kind, and Ashley’s, precisely…
Not wicked, he thought: that’ not the word, that’ sentimentality. These are just runts…They don’t sin in the sight of heaven and feel despair: they only throw away lighted cigarettes on Exmoor, and go on holiday leaving the cat to starve, and drive on after accidents without stopping. A wicked man nowadays can set millions of them in motion, and when he’ gone howling mad from looking at his own face, they’ll be marching still with their mouth’ open and their hands hanging by their knees, on and on and on…”
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said, The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. See it there in Gallagher’s reflexive solidarity with anyone willing to denounce same-sex marriage regardless of that little Their Blood Is Upon Them thing. She’s not ignoring it. She didn’t even see it. It did not register. The threat to our lives her crusade rouses in the mob does not concern her one iota. No, it is not hate. It is indifference.
Indifference…
They have no instinctive sense of sympathy. Their moral compass only points inward. They are unmoved…indifferent…
…utterly, starkly, shockingly, indifferent…
These are the ones who, in another time, in another place, could live right friggin’ next to the concentration camps and say later, with horrifically genuine sincerity, “We heard the rumors but we didn’t believe them…”
Courage. Courage is taking your lover’s hand in yours in a world where moral thugs praise beauty queens who use their moment in the spotlight to tell the world: Their Blood Is Upon Them.
I in no way wish to defend my siblings in Christ who say such things, but there are many Christians in the Church who are trying to tackle homophobia and its close ally heterosexism.
Make sure Gallagher’s obscene comments are used to the full in advertisements next time you have a vote on marriage.
THIS is why so many GLBT people have no use for religion in general and Christianity in particular. The kind of s**t spewed by Lauren Ashley and Maggie Gallagher is dangerous and these fanatics need to be put in their place. In the Phoenix area, a Pastor Anderson has been calling outright for the judicial murder of GLBT people (this “charmer” has also been quite vocal about urging people to pray for President Obama‚Äîisn’t wishing for someone to die considered just as bad as murder in the Bible?). I’m sure that there have been people calling for our murder over the 40 years since Stonewall, but never have I heard the calls being made so openly as they are these days (Rev. Mel White says in his book Religion Gone Bad that a televangelist who had joined him on a talk show said that Mel White and other GLBT people ought to be executed. When Rev. White asked him if Christians would be ones executing GLBT people, the televangelist said “no” because that was what the secular authorities were for. What a coward‚ÄîI guess he doesn’t want to get his hands dirty).
People like Lauren Ashley, Maggie Gallagher and their ilk are flat-out DANGEROUS. If fundamentalist like them ever come to power, it is my belief that they would have no compunction about murdering us with or without the help of secular authorities. Of course if they ever take over the government, the secular authorities will all be fundamentalists, too, so whether the fundies or their buddies in the government murder us doesn’t matter‚Äîeither way, we will be dead.
Members of the KKK no doubt think they’re being courageous to defend their “deeply held beliefs” in the face of overwhelming political correctness.
The ‘Christians’ who use the old testament to object to homosexuals reveal their plain bigotry.
The New Testament is all about loving your neighbor, with the possible exception of St. Paul who worried about all sorts of sexual behavior. Even he, however, conceded it is ‘better to marry than to burn.’
I think homophobia arises from a male-dominance world view.
The ‘old’ testament prescribes death for a whole host of minor ‘offences’, most of which, not surprisingly are sexual in nature. Children who are disobedient and curse their parents are also supposed to be slaughtered. We’d all be dead from that one!
My opinion is that even if the Bible had not one word in it about homosexual behavior (I say behavior because they had no clue that it’s an orientation–what we *are* and not just something we *do*) nor any death penalty for it; these murderous rightwing-nut thugs would *still* find a way and reason to try and kill us off. It’s based on pure hate and fear and the need to ethnically cleanse (or in this case sexually cleanse) us from their pathetically limited view of what is normal and natural for humans as well as the rest of the animal kingdom.
The primitive reptilian part of our brain that still fears and is driven to kill off ‘the Other’ has only a thin protective veneer of civility to hold it in check. And as we’ve seen a mere 60 years ago in Germany and in Africa and other parts of the world today, when you mix a poverty stricken, fearful, scapegoat seeking and extremely ignorant people with inflaming rhetoric and laws that say ‘it’s ok’, the blood-thirsty beast is unleashed again and again.
I hope some type of karma or hell exists for these people.
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