Nasty Rhetoric on Gay Marriage
Apr. 6th, 2004 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsMan, the rhetoric from the right has become unimaginably ugly. The center of the ugliness appears to be WorldNetDaily, which is as right-wing as it gets without putting on the red-and-black armbands. Consider this "for the children" article that basically says that gay marriage has destroyed the instutition of marriage in Denmark-- without informing us that marriage had collapsed as an institution in Denmark before gay marriage was instituted. If "marriage" is worth defending, it's worth defending-- and joining. The necessary mentions of NAMBLA and the ongoing excoriation of Judith Levine follow. Levine comes in for particular hate from the right because of her book "Harmful to Minors," in which she dares ask the question, "How is sex harmful to minors?"
The American Family Association follows with The Sexual Assault On America, which lists off the emotional aftermath of rape and then tries to ascribe those states to "America" as a whole: powerlessness at "stopping the Homosexual juggernaut", accepting blame for denying gays and lesbians their civil rights, so forth, ad nausea. This article is especially repugnant for its naked aggression against gay and lesbian supporters and it's description of civil rights as "the gang rape of a nation." Jesus wept. At least during the early 1900's the characterization of black men as "rapists on our white flowers" came from the pitiful and the pathetic, seeing light only in the yellowest of dingy newletters; to see it coming out of a man of the cloth throuh Agape press is a sign of how just how coarse and crude discourse has become. I am left a-gape.
WorldNet goes for the throat: "At least three of the world's major religions ôòó- Christianity, Judaism and Islam -- condemn homosexual relations. These faiths prescribe varying degrees of punishment for those who practice such behavior. The most serious punishment is death." Charming, huh? "The nature of the lust that consumes their bodies," he writes. Lovely. He cites "personals ads" in gay mags about barebackers, as if that were the totality of gay men's activities.
Man, the Internet just lets the ugliness hang out.
The American Family Association follows with The Sexual Assault On America, which lists off the emotional aftermath of rape and then tries to ascribe those states to "America" as a whole: powerlessness at "stopping the Homosexual juggernaut", accepting blame for denying gays and lesbians their civil rights, so forth, ad nausea. This article is especially repugnant for its naked aggression against gay and lesbian supporters and it's description of civil rights as "the gang rape of a nation." Jesus wept. At least during the early 1900's the characterization of black men as "rapists on our white flowers" came from the pitiful and the pathetic, seeing light only in the yellowest of dingy newletters; to see it coming out of a man of the cloth throuh Agape press is a sign of how just how coarse and crude discourse has become. I am left a-gape.
WorldNet goes for the throat: "At least three of the world's major religions ôòó- Christianity, Judaism and Islam -- condemn homosexual relations. These faiths prescribe varying degrees of punishment for those who practice such behavior. The most serious punishment is death." Charming, huh? "The nature of the lust that consumes their bodies," he writes. Lovely. He cites "personals ads" in gay mags about barebackers, as if that were the totality of gay men's activities.
Man, the Internet just lets the ugliness hang out.
