How Republican leadership cherry-picks religious values to suit anti-gay narrative

[racaulk]

Last month, the hanging suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer - a 14-year old boy from Buffalo, NY who had been taunted and bullied since grade school by homophobic classmates – left yet another deep scar in the ongoing cultural and social debasement affecting the LGBT community.

And while the blame lies mainly with his direct “assailants,” the root cause goes far deeper; an indirect result of the clash between religion and politics, sexuality and nationalism.

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As if not publicly-vocal enough already, American homophobia has become further empowered by the voices of well-known advocates in the cause for social regression within the leadership ranks of the Republican party. They continually invoke calls for prejudice, discrimination and in many cases criminal behavior disguised as morality and religious virtue; as such behavior – much like the anti-Muslim, anti-minority sentiment running rampant throughout the country over the past decade – seems to have been given a “free morality pass” when examined amidst the mainstream rally cries of the radical Right.

Even in the wake of a rash of teen bullying/suicides over the past year or so, leaders on the Right still continue to stoke the flames of homophobia by suggesting – no, insisting – that the very existence of homosexuals is a direct contradiction to the word of their God and that such an existence is a threat to America itself.

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Link: http://www.onewhiteduck.com/2011/10/04/how-republican-leadership-cherry-picks-religious-values-to-suit-anti-gay-narrative

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[dtexdem]

2. They cherry-pick, and then poison the cherries.

nuff said