Religious Bigotry Archive - The Gay Manifesto

Jan 24, 2011 44

Christians Attempt To Burn Georgia Man Alive For Being Gay

Christians Firebomb A Gay Man's House

A christian group tried to execute a rural Georgia man by burning him alive in his home over the weekend. A rock was thrown through Chris Staples windows with a note attached threatening to kill him for being Gay. Hours later Staples’ home was engulfed in flames, he barely escaped with his life.

Chris Staples, a citizen of Carroll County GA, woke up with his home set a blaze after receiving a threatening anti-gay note. Staples gives the account of a rock with the threatening note being thrown through his window as he was watching t.v. and finishing a cigarette. He said the note read “We know you’re gay. And God hates gays. You won’t be raping anybody in the county and God’s going to make sure that you burn in hell.’ And something about my daddy… my daddy will make sure you burn in hell.” Several [hours] later Staples woke up with his house burning to the ground, and was luck to barely escape.

via GA Man Attacked For Being Gay « Entertainment News | Celebrity Gossip | Technology News | Welcome to Flynews.com.

Note the reference to raping. Registered christian hate groups use the discredited lie that Gay men rape children to incite violence against our community. These same hate groups claimed that black men were raping white women to stir violence against the African American community half a century ago.

The Carrol County Georgia Sheriff’s Office is investigating the attempted murder and arson as a possible hate crime.

“This is the first time I’ve dealt with anything of this nature in 16 years,” said Capt. Shane Taylor of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.

“I can’t believe anyone would have such hatred in their heart as to do somebody like that, especially when they don’t even know him. They don’t know him,”…

via Gay Man’s Bedroom Set On Fire – News Story – WSB Atlanta.

Georgia has a long history of “lynching” those seen as undesirable in the eyes of christianity. The Klan and other christian hate groups have used lies, intimidation and violence in an attempt to drive the “immoral” from their lands. Cross burning, hangings and arson were utilized to terrorize the black and Gay populations in the America’s south.

The recent victories in establishing equality for Gay and Lesbian Americans have caused a resurgence in violence from these hate groups. Nearly 14 hate crimes are committed every day against the Gay and Lesbian community, and that number is growing. The majority of victims are attacked in their homes.

If you are a Gay or Lesbian American living in a rural area take some basic precautions around your home. Inexpensive motion detector lighting attached to an alarm is a very effective deterrent. Plus it will wake you up to defend against these christian cowards attacking in the middle of the night. A good shotgun is also handy.

Supporters Of Iowa Marriage Amendment Plan To Give Gays Cookies As Evidence Of “Christian Love”

Corn-fed Iowa Boys In Love

Iowa christian groups are planning to distribute small bags of cookies to supporters of Marriage Equality on Monday to “tangibly” show their love of the “dirty homo” as they argue for a constitutional amendment stripping marriage rights from Gays and Lesbians.

An Iowa House panel will begin hearings Monday on a bill that would repeal gay marriage in the state.

The Iowa Marriage Amendment (IMA) seeks to put a question on the 2013 ballot that would define marriage in the Iowa constitution as a heterosexual union – and thereby reverse the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that brought gay marriage to the Midwest.

The measure is supported by 56 out of 60 Republicans in the House and supporters claim all 60 GOP members will likely vote for the measure, which has little – if any – support among Democrats.

The state’s most vociferous opponent of gay marriage, The Family Leader, which is headed by former GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, has announced it will hold a prayer meeting in support of the bill in Room 305 from 12 to 1PM.

“Several of us plan to bring a token of Christian love (like a small bag of cookies or other treats) to share with homosexual activists who we’ll be encountering Monday,” the group wrote in a newsletter to supporters. “It’s time we dispel lies about Christians, by tangibly showing love to people who struggle with homosexuality.”

via Hearings On Gay Marriage Ban Set For Monday In Iowa House | On Top Magazine :: Gay & Lesbian News, Entertainment, Commentary & Travel.

Gay and Lesbian Americans are not struggling with homosexuality. Gay and Lesbian Americans are struggling to win civil rights and equal protections. Gay and Lesbian Americans are struggling against an atmosphere of persecution and violence created by the christian church.

Bringing the supporters of Marriage Equality cookies while arguing to take basic civil rights away from Gay and Lesbian Americans “tangibly” shows the world what a bunch of condescending assholes christians really are.

Every accredited medical, psychological and scientific institution in the United States agrees that homosexuality and heterosexuality are both normal, natural and unchangeable sexual orientations.

Civil marriage must be judged under our constitutional standards of equal protection and not under religious doctrines or the religious views of individuals.

Tax Payer Supported Christian Shelter Denies Entry To Gays & Lesbians

Emergency response plans in communities around the country often call on christian organizations to help distribute food and provide shelter in times of crisis. Sadly these christian relief groups more often than not refuse to serve the Gay and Lesbian community.

The majority of these faith based services receive tax dollars to help offset the cost of providing care. Without federal guidelines protecting Gay and Lesbian minorities the leaders of these christain based “charities” can take federal money and refuse to serve members of our community on moral grounds.

A recent example of this was seen in Georgia where the christian based House of Mercy kicked two battered and abused women, along with their children, out of the shelter because the christian leadership thought they were Lesbians.

[Two women] say they were put out in the cold, along with their children, after a disagreement with a staff member.

Elder Bobby Harris, director of the House of Mercy, says most people have an agenda when they come in and ask for help. He runs a tight ship. House rules include no secular music, no hats indoors and no sexual activity of any kind. Regular church service is required.

Harris says the shelter would welcome non-practicing gay people, but even if the residents engage in sexual activity off the premises during their free time, he discharges them.

via House of Mercy: No Practicing Gays Allowed | WRBL.

Elder Bobby Harris, director of the House of Mercy, went on to give this reason for denying care to Gay and Lesbian Americans.

Our goal is to aids mankind, mens, womens and childrens. We do not tolerate that act [homosexuality] here at all. Let me tell you one reason why, the bible of course and then we have little children…

Apparently Elder Harris is referring to the discredited lies created by registered christian hate groups that Gays and Lesbians molest and recruit children. This piece of christian propaganda is often cited by church leaders when justifying discrimination and violence against the Gay and Lesbian community.

As America’s social safety net is sacrificed to the gods of privatization, more and more “compassionate christian care centers” will get rich off Gay and Lesbian tax dollars while denying Gays and Lesbians care.

Imagine for a moment that your family is driven from home by rising flood water…remember Katina. You and your partner carry your two adopted children through waist deep water for an hour to reach the designated shelter. You climb the stair, finally out of the water, only to be denied entry by the christian minister running the shelter.

The minister claims that your “homosexual lifestyle” has brought gods wrath down upon the city. He turns you away quoting scripture as the congregants back him blocking your entrance.

As a Gay or Lesbian American do you really want to be at the “mercy” of these compassionate christians when you are in need? What is your backup plan when the “Faith Based Shelter” turns your family away for having two mommies or two daddies?

What Is A Non-Practicing Homosexual?

What exactly is a non-practicing homosexual. I have seen this term used more and more often by religious leaders in the past few months. If the christian church is going to use this nebulous term to further discriminate against Gay and Lesbian Americans I would appreciate a quick definition.

If I don’t get any for a couple of months does that make me a non-practicing homosexual? If a straight man doesn’t get any for a couple of months does that make him a non-practicing heterosexual? Does the christian church recognize a moral difference between the two…and if they do why?

Apparently with the “ex-Gay” movement completely exposed as a fraud and the reparative therapy cash cow dead in the field, the christian leadership needed a new phrase to advocate violence and discrimination against Gays and Lesbians while acknowledging the inherent nature of sexual orientation. Promoting hate against the evil homosexual agenda is a huge fund raising hook for the christian church…one they will not easily give up. A new lexicon was necessary.

The phrase “non-practicing homosexual” allows ministers to acknowledge the fact that sexual orientation is normal, natural and unchangeable while maintaining a method to discriminate against Gays and Lesbians people.

It goes something like this: God made homosexuals but demands they abstain from the homosexual lifestyle. Please help us minister to the wretched Gays and Lesbians whom god has afflicted with homosexuality by generously offering a tax deductible love gift at our Sunday service. Your charitable offerings will allow our generals in faith to combat the wicked sin of homosexuality by commanding Gays and Lesbians to abstain from the immoral homosexual lifestyle which of course leads to nothing but depression and death.

God forbid the christians let something like science cut into their profit margin.

Christian Minister Calls For Civil War Over Gay And Lesbian Equality

Bring It Bitch

A Washington D.C. minister called for civil war after the United States Supreme Court rejected a christian coalitions bid to place a discriminatory marriage resolution before the residents of our nations capital.

Rev. Anthony Evans, a D.C. minister who is working with Jackson to overturn the D.C. same-sex marriage law, called the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the Jackson case “a travesty of justice.”

“This law was forced down the church’s throat and what the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community,” Evans said.

via Supreme Court rejects D.C. marriage challenge : Washington Blade – Gay News.

Evans went on to say that of course the christian church loves the “dirty homosexual” but must be allowed the religious freedom to legally discriminate against those they view as morally impure…or else!

Reverend Evans is echoing the growing violent rhetoric heard in christian churches around the country. Many chrisitan ministers are calling for their congregants to arm themselves and defend America against the Gay and Lesbian threat. Still others are urging christians to disregard equality legislation in conflict with biblical law.

The call for revolution is particularly alarming considering the ultimate goal of christianity places the United States under biblical law.

“The Christian goal for the world,” theologian David Chilton has explained, is “the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics.” Scripturally based law would be enforced by the state with a stern rod in these republics.

via Invitation to a Stoning – Reason Magazine.

This model of christian nationalism is unfolding with terrifying ease in targeted countries around the globe. Gay and Lesbian minorities in developing countries such as Uganda and Kenya are particularly at risk as christians push legislation bringing secular law in line with gods law.

Christian leaders admits that they are using underdeveloped countries in Africa to prefect the message and method that will ultimately bring the world under christian dominion.

The rhetoric and violence against our community will only increase as we win our rights and establish Gay and Lesbian equality in America. Arm yourself and stand against the theofascists planning our destruction.

Florida Man Executes Two Because They Had “Homosexual Tendencies”

Matthew Guzman Executed Two Men

Matthew Guzman confessed to murdering two men in the Miami-Dade area because they had “homosexual tendencies”. This stunning news comes on the heals of the gruesome execution of a Gay couple in Wilton Manors, Florida over the christmas holiday.

Matthew Guzman, 21, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

According to police, Guzman shot and killed Paul Barrow, the co-owner of a Southwest Miami-Dade auto shop in December, because he thought Barrow had “homosexual tendencies.”

Guzman also confessed to killing his neighbor who, he claimed, also made homosexual advances toward him.

via WSVN-TV – Man charged with killing 2.

Who is teaching these young Florida men that killing Gays and Lesbians is morally acceptable? What institutions in the United States claim that killing Gays and Lesbians is justified? Which organizations in America are promoting violence against Gays and Lesbians?

The christian church

Leviticus 20:13 of the christian bible calls for the execution of Gay Americans. This obscure verse from the old testament is being used around the globe by christian organizations to justify killing Gays and Lesbians in many countries including the United States.

Registered christian hate groups in the United States are using the public airwaves to push lies and promote violence against Gays and Lesbians by claiming that homosexuals are pedophiles seeking to convert children and are responsible for bringing gods wrath down upon this once great country.

Their propaganda is working as an increasing number of Gay and Lesbian Americans are being executed by the followers of christ.

Using the 1 to 4 ratio of reported hate crimes to actual hate crimes in the Gay and Lesbian community we can easily say that in December of 2010 16 homosexuals were executed in the State of Florida! In Florida you can still be fired, kicked out of your home and apparently killed for being Gay or Lesbian.

If you are a Gay or Lesbian resident of Florida you can legally use lethal force to defend yourself against a threat to your person or family. Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law allows citizens to use deadly force in a public place to defend themselves if they believe they are in danger of death or great bodily harm.

UPDATE:

According to police investigators, ballistic comparisons matched the projectile and casing from the scene at Barrow’s store with those found at the scene of another murder, that of 64-year-old Harry Ray on Nov. 18, who was Guzman’s neighbor.

In that case, according to the arrest report, the suspect allegedly armed himself with a gun and knocked on Ray’s door. He asked to use the restroom, where he checked his 9mm semi-automatic firearm. He left the restroom and confronted Ray, who sat by his computer. He allegedly shot Ray several times in the head and upper torso, and then the forehead. Police said he allegedly tried to clean fingerprints at the crime scene with a wash cloth and collected some casings.

Guzman allegedly told police that Ray was a “racist” and “made homosexual advances toward him leaving him no choice but to shoot the victim,” the arrest report stated.

via Suspect in the killing of West Kendall mechanic charged with 2 murders – West Kendall – MiamiHerald.com.

Arm yourself

State Of California Declares Homosexuals Are Born Gay

Homosexuality Is Normal, Natural And Unchangeable

The fact that California, the most populated state in the union and the eighth largest economy in the world, just declared Gays and Lesbians are born with their sexual orientation is causing concern among the registered christian hate groups still operating in America.

A Christian social worker is taking exception to a new California law that declares homosexuals are “born gay.”

Beginning this New Year, California will implement AB 2199 and ultimately strike down the requirement on the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research on the “causes and cures of homosexuality.” According to Veronica Esqueda, a renal social worker in Los Angeles, the measure will portray alternate lifestyles as acceptable and normal.

“I do think it’s going to open up their comfort level, and I think it’s going to make it more acceptable,” she explains. “Obviously, I am one that believes that it’s not an error — you are born the way God intended you to be,” she notes, adding that she believes homosexuality is a choice.

California smallAB 2199, sponsored by Equality California, gained the support of homosexual activists who claim it is discriminatory to search for cures for their sexual orientation. Advocates argue that those in the LGBT (lesbian, “gay,” bisexual transgender) community were born to favor alternate lifestyles, so they contend the section of the Welfare and Institutions code is archaic and portrays them as sexual deviants. Esqueda, however, thinks the new law will suppress the Christian voice.

“I believe it is going to impact the conservatives, the Christians, and I think it’s going to basically have a discrimination [effect] against the conservative Christian believer,” she laments. “It’s going to be just another way to silence [their message].”

via Calif. welfare code: Homosexuality inborn (OneNewsNow.com). WARNING OneNewsNow.com is associated with the American Family Association, A REGISTERED HATE GROUP

Apparently Veronica Esqueda has not read the position statement on Gays and Lesbians issued by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the accrediting body for social workers in the United States.

…The increase in media campaigns, often coupled with coercive messages from family and community members, has created an environment in which lesbians and gay men often are pressured to seek reparative or conversion therapies, which cannot and will not change sexual orientation. Aligned with the American Psychological Association’s (1997) position, NCLGB believes that such treatment potentially can lead to severe emotional damage.

via “Reparative” and “Conversion” Therapies for Lesbians and Gay Men.

In other words the NASW agrees that sexual orientation is not a choice and hopefully they have recommended suspending Veronica Esqueda until her case load can be fully investigated.

The laws in California are now aligned with every accredited medical, psychological and scientific institution in the United States who agree that homosexuality and heterosexuality are both normal, natural and unchangeable sexual orientations.

The only organizations that do not believe that homosexuality is normal, natural and unchangeable are some marginalized and discredited registered christian hate groups who push agendas of discrimination and violence against the Gay and Lesbian community.

Kenya Orders Gays Arrested – Caves To American Christian Influence

Succumbing to pressure from wealthy christian ministries in the United States, Kenya’s government joined it’s neighbor Uganda in condemning Gays and Lesbians ordering their arrest on Sunday.

Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 28 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga has ordered a nationwide crackdown on homosexuals in Kenya.

Mr Odinga on Sunday said that police should arrest anyone found engaging in such behaviours and take appropriate legal action against them.

“We will not tolerate such behaviours in the country. The constitution is very clear on this issue and men or women found engaging in homosexuality will not be spared,” Mr Odinga said.

via Capital FM Kenya: Arrest gays, Kenyan PM orders.

Wealthy churches and christian advocacy groups located in the United States have given millions of dollars to African preachers and government officials in an attempt to integrate biblical law into constitutional legal systems.

Christian groups like the American Center for Law and Justice have even opened offices in the region and actively work against reproductive rights as well as Gay and Lesbian equality.

We’re looking long-term in Kenya because it’s such an influential country throughout Africa … and there’s a very strong, vocal Christian community there,” said Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice. “Yes, the ACLJ through the generous support of our donors is able to empower people in their own countries…

via Pointing Fingers in Kenya | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction.

Christians represent almost 80 percent of the population in both Kenya and Uganda. This is a huge market for American based christian ministries. Many have established churches in the two nations and are quickly recouping financial loses from falling membership in the United States. Prosperity based christian ministries in particular have flourished in this impoverished part of the world.

Prosperity gospel is a religious belief found among Christians, primarily in the United States, centered on the notion that God provides material prosperity for those he favors. It has been defined by the belief that “Jesus blesses believers with riches” or more specifically as the teaching that “believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the “sowing of seeds” through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings.

via Prosperity theology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The problem with christian prosperity ministries is that the pastor is the only one to prosper. When jesus fails to deliver for the flock, an immoral scapegoat is needed to keep the congregation in check and the cash flowing. The evil homosexual has always been the go to guy when the christian church needed to divert attention away from their dirty dealings.

Sadly the Gay and Lesbian population in many African nations are now being targeted for death because of greedy American christian ministers.

Demanding Higher Body Count, Focus on the Family Takes Over Group That Promotes Bullying Against Gay And Lesbian Teens

Focus On The Family Prayer Rally

Apparently Exodus International was not killing enough Gay and Lesbian teens to appease their christian overseers at Focus on the Family.

Focus on the Family announced Thursday it will take over sponsorship of an annual student-led event against homosexuality.

The event is called the Day of Dialogue, formerly known as the Day of Truth.

“We want to offer students the facts (about homosexuality) to engage a dialogue in schools,” Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger said.

Focus today launched the website Dayofdialogue.com (links to hate groups removed), a resource for students interested in being part of the homosexual protest next April.

…On Oct. 6 Exodus International, an Orlando, Fla.-based ministry coalition that claims to help gay people become straight, announced it would no longer sponsor the Day of Truth because of the rash of gay bullying.

via Focus taking over, tweaking anti-gay observance by school students, report says | focus, gay, taking – Top Stories – Colorado Springs Gazette, CO.

Exodus International is the christian ministry that actively worked with Ugandan Legislators to draft laws that execute Gay and Lesbian citizens in that country. Exodus International believes that Gays and Lesbians can be cured of their same sex attractions through prayer and conversion therapies. These barbaric therapies have been condemned by every accredited psychological and medical organization in the United States.

Some of their conversion therapies include forcing Lesbians to endure corrective rape. The logic is that once the Lesbian experiences “normal” sex they are cured of their same sex attractions. In many cases the Lesbian becomes pregnant due to the corrective rape often administered by members of her own family. Of course the Lesbian is forced to carry the fetus to term many times chained immobile in a bed so the they won’t hurt the baby.

Part of the conversion therapy used to repair Gays includes attaching electrodes to the patients penis, displaying homoerotic picture then shocking the penis when the patient becomes aroused. Many Gays suffered extensive burns on their penis as a result of this electro aversion therapy.

Both of these practices are used today in the United States by many discredited christian reparative therapists including those sponsored by Exodus International and Focus on the Family. These practices are quite common in countries such as Iran and Uganda that follow religious law and execute their Gay and Lesbian citizens. Both of these ministries push the adoption of christian based biblical law in the United States and actively promote the extermination of Gay and Lesbian Americans.

Focus on the Family and their founder Dr “Death” Dobson have promoted violence and discrimination against Gay and Lesbian Americans for over thirty years. Dr “Death” Dobson helped establish the fraudulent conversion therapy movement which helped his ministry make billions fighting against the “homosexual agenda”. Focus on the Family has a budget of roughly 130 million dollars annually dedicated to spreading hate against Gays and Lesbians and promoting discriminatory legislation. Focus on the Family is a major sponsor of the bigoted marriage amendments and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

For the record sexual orientation cannot be changed. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both normal, natural and unchangeable sexual orientations. The American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Science, the United States Supreme Court and 92% of Fortune 500 companies agree.

The Libertarian Party even supports full equality for homosexuals…including marriage equality and are currently lobbying congress for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

The only groups promoting the lie that sexual orientation can be changed are religious institutions justifying their discrimination against Gays and Lesbians around the world.

New York Republican Tea Party Candidate For Governor Carl Paladino Advocates Corrective Rape For “Dysfunctional Homosexuals”

Conservative Christians Torture Gay Man

In true christian conservative fashion New York Republican Tea Party Gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino claims he loves the “dysfunctional homosexual” sinner but hate the “dysfunctional homosexual” sin.

“I don’t want [children] brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is an equal valid and successful option,” Paladino said during a visit with Orthodox Jewish leaders in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg….

“I didn’t march in the Gay Pride parade this year. My opponent did. There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual. That’s not how God created us, and that’s not the example that we should be showing our children – and certainly not in our schools,” Paladino said.

via Carl Paladino in blast at gays: ‘Nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual’.

Today in countries around the world “dysfunctional homosexuals” are rounded up and incarcerated in mental health asylums. “Dysfunctional homosexuals” are tortured with electro shock and their brains scrambled with corrective lobotomies. If their “dysfunctional homosexuality” is not cured most are imprisoned for life or put to death.

In many parts of the world…including the United States “dysfunctional homosexual” females are forced to endure corrective rape. The logic is that once the “dysfunctional homosexual” female experiences “normal” sex they are cured of their “dysfunctional homosexual” desires. In many cases the “dysfunctional homosexual” female becomes pregnant due to the corrective rape often administered by members of her own family.

Of course the “dysfunctional homosexual” female is forced to carry the fetus to term many times chained immobile in a bed so the “dysfunctional homosexual” female won’t hurt the baby. New York Republican Tea Party Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino also supports forcing a woman to carry her rape baby to term…even in cases of incest.

Part of the conversion therapy used to repair the “dysfunctional homosexual” male includes attaching electrodes to the patients penis, displaying homoerotic picture then shocking the penis when the patient becomes aroused. Many “dysfunctional homosexuals” males suffered extensive burns on their penis as a result of this electro aversion therapy.

Both of these practices are used today in the United States by many discredited christian reparative therapists including those backed by Exodus International. These practices are quite common in countries such as Iran and Uganda that follow religious law.

Step back a few years and you see the christian church burning the “dysfunctional homosexual” at the stake or stoning them to death. The christian church has a 200o year history of curing the “dysfunction homosexual”. Unfortunately this form of therapy almost always ends with the death of the “dysfunctional homosexual”…but their immortal soul is saved YAY!

Sexual orientation cannot be changed. Every accredited medical and psychological institute in the United States agrees that sexual orientation is fixed and cannot be changed. The only groups promoting the lie that sexual orientation can be changed are religious institutions justifying their violence against Gays and Lesbians around the world.

Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both normal, natural and unchangeable sexual orientations. The American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Science, the United States Supreme Court and 92% of Fortune 500 companies agree.

The Libertarian Party even supports full equality for Gay and Lesbian Americans…including marriage equality and are currently lobbying congress for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.

If Carl Paladino is elected as governor in New York Gay and Lesbian Americans must leave the state for their own safety.