I live in Fallbrook, CA - very conservative area, on the edge of Camp Pendleton in San Diego County. Our local paper ran this event announcement this week:
Pastor against homosexuality to speak April 3
TEMECULA — Scott Lively, Esq., founder and leader of Abiding Truth Ministries, known for his vocal stand against what he considers to be the promotion of homosexuality in today’s culture, will speak to the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly at a dinner meeting Friday, April 3, at Temeku Hills Clubhouse, 41687 Temeku Drive.
Check-in for the event is 6 p.m. and dinner begins promptly at 6:30.
Lively is the author of the book "The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party" and its sequel, "The Poisoned Stream."
http://www.thevillagenews.com/...
This is what our local Republican Party organization is promoting.
I hope anyone who finds this as distasteful as I do will write a comment on the Village News Blog at: http://www.thevillagenews.com/...
Here's what I wrote:
I am shocked that the Village News would run an announcement for this hate-filled propaganda. And I wonder how many Republicans embrace the idea of hosting this equivalent of the KKK at their gathering.
The very idea of the Nazi movement welcoming homosexuals is way beyond revisionist history - it's insane. It has all the moral authority and truth of Holocaust deniers.
Here is an excerpt from a Holocaust survivor website:
"After taking power in 1933, the Nazis persecuted homosexuals as part of their so-called moral crusade to racially and culturally purify Germany. This persecution ranged from dissolution of homosexual organizations to internment of thousands of individuals in concentration camps. Gay men, in particular, were subject to harassment, arrest, incarceration, and even castration. In Nazi eyes, gay men were weak and unfit to be soldiers, as well as unlikely to have children and thereby contribute to the racial struggle for Aryan dominance. Follow the links on this special focus page to learn more about the Nazi campaign against homosexuals in Germany."
Author and historian Erik N. Jensen regards Scott Lively’s linkage of homosexuality and Nazism as the recurrence of a "pernicious myth", originating in the 1930s attacks on Nazism by Socialists and Communists and "long since dispelled" by "serious scholarship".
Where do true Christians stand on this outrage? Where do Republicans stand on this outrage? Where does the Village News stand on promoting this garbage?
Here's what my wife wrote:
Maybe someone is slandering the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly by announcing that they are entertaining this preposterous topic? If not, this meeting fuses two of Republicans’ favorite things as of late: an irrational hatred of homosexuals and irresponsible, sloppily researched revisionist history. Maybe this is why higher education has been one of the casualties of the W. era; an uneducated population is defenseless against flimsily fabricated propaganda, no matter how absurd.
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