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Great Moments in Journalism, Part 245
Note to the San Francisco Chronicle: If you’re going to cite the leader of a well-known hate group as a scientific source, you probably should mention his affiliation to said organization in the article.
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” He told the 1985 Conservative Political Action Committee conference that “extermination of homosexuals” might be needed in the next three to four years. He has advocated tattooing AIDS patients in the face, and banishment to a former leper colony for any patient who resisted. He has called for gay bars to be closed and gays to be registered with the government.”
Wow, I knew the guy was a jerk, but man, I underestimated him. He should have been born sooner, and in Germany, he would have felt right at home.
Actually, your statement is in no way out of line. The only thing missing is an attempt at deportation prior to the system of “re-education camps” and when that’s not a good enough “solution,” well…
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,020.htm
The other person of note that you may have heard of before is Phelps, who has outdone Falwell-and-9/11:
“Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country that harbors gays…The Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist in Kansas, contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays. The church, which is not affiliated with a larger denomination, is made up mostly of Phelps’ children, grandchildren and in-laws.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9102443/
Lynx, neither of the two people mentioned earlier are representative of the Religious Right — they are extremists even by conservative Christian standards.
Now if you want someone even better — someone who wouldn’t accept an election of President Gingrich:
“They didn’t intend to put drunkards to death. … Those who would face execution include not only gays but a very long list of others: blasphemers, heretics, apostate Christians, people who cursed or struck their parents, females guilty of ‘unchastity before marriage,’ ‘incorrigible’ juvenile delinquents, adulterers, and (probably) telephone psychics. And that’s to say nothing of murderers and those guilty of raping married women or ‘betrothed virgins.’ Adulterers, among others, might meet their doom by being publicly stoned–a rather abrupt way for the Clinton presidency to end.”
http://www.reason.com/news/show/30789.html
I know that they aren’t representative of conservative Christians of course, but it does worry me that more reputable conservative Christian organizations use Cameron as a source. Cameron should not be used as a source for anything other than as an example of what happens when mental illness goes untreated.
As for Phelps… he’s even worse, the fact that his fixation is on homosexuality is I think mere coincidence, I bet he just as well could have ended up carrying signs saying “God hates cloth mixers” “God killed your son for wearing a linen-cotton mix” “Fruit of the Loom Dooms Nations”…