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sparkindarknessAs should be known, America finally has a hate crimes bill protecting GBLT people.
And certain people - particularly conservative Christians (spread the love!) are Not. Happy.
So a group of religious right preachers wish to protest this by gathering in Washington and trying to get arrested under the new law.
Let’s be clear here. They’re going to go to Washington and try to be sufficiently hateful, as offensive and as harmful to GBLT to try and lead to their arrest. They are deliberately setting out to commit a hate crime against GBLT people.
Of course, the ironic thing is how deeply dellusional they are since the law already includes protections for people who hide their hateful bigotry behind religious scripture (why bigotry is supposed to be more acceptable from the pulpit I’ll never know. As far as I’m concerned GBLT rights would be decades - centuries - ahead of where we are now if it weren’t from the hatred from the churches. And there’d certainly be a lot less of us killed) which means if they want to get ARRESTED they can’t just quote the Bible (much to the disappointment of their persecution fantasies and lies they want to feed their hateful masses) they’re going to have to do something more extreme. Like incite violence against GBLT people.
Let me say it again because it’s just so unbelievable it makes my head ache. These Christian activists are going to deliberately espouse and incite hate (and likely violence) against GBLT people.
And certain people - particularly conservative Christians (spread the love!) are Not. Happy.
So a group of religious right preachers wish to protest this by gathering in Washington and trying to get arrested under the new law.
Let’s be clear here. They’re going to go to Washington and try to be sufficiently hateful, as offensive and as harmful to GBLT to try and lead to their arrest. They are deliberately setting out to commit a hate crime against GBLT people.
Of course, the ironic thing is how deeply dellusional they are since the law already includes protections for people who hide their hateful bigotry behind religious scripture (why bigotry is supposed to be more acceptable from the pulpit I’ll never know. As far as I’m concerned GBLT rights would be decades - centuries - ahead of where we are now if it weren’t from the hatred from the churches. And there’d certainly be a lot less of us killed) which means if they want to get ARRESTED they can’t just quote the Bible (much to the disappointment of their persecution fantasies and lies they want to feed their hateful masses) they’re going to have to do something more extreme. Like incite violence against GBLT people.
Let me say it again because it’s just so unbelievable it makes my head ache. These Christian activists are going to deliberately espouse and incite hate (and likely violence) against GBLT people.