Actually its more of a stiletto to the heart of the matter.
George Rekers, that self loathing homosexual homophobe is shredded with words. I agree with Rich that his name should be blazoned in neon lights across the ether,for the damage he has done behind the scenes.
Notably his deep relationship with the Family Research Council, that powerful hotbed of hate hidden behind the words of God.
Rekers is no bit player in these wars. Though he’s not a household name, he should be. He’s the Zelig of homophobia, having played a significant role in many of the ugliest assaults on gay people and their civil rights over the last three decades.
He is a liar and a fraud, and has made his career from attacking a second class minority; and until we get our human rights this is our legal status.
I cannot show him any pity for hating and denying his own humanity, he has done too much harm to others to have any sympathy at all.
If you are bored with a repeat stop here, but this needs repeating as we go into the DADT, ENDA, and DOMA fight.
Rekers was also on the board of another notorious peddler of gay "cures" — the National Association for Research and Therapy on Homosexuality, or Narth — until he resigned last week. Such groups have done nothing to stop homosexuality but plenty to help promote punitive "treatment" and suicidal depression among untold numbers of gay youths.
The hate and false innuendo coming from the right, their furtive mission to label Elena Kagan as a lesbian, as if this is an automatic disqualification fro SCOTUS, shows just how low they wish to take us.Mo Dowd has some fun with this today in the NYT.
She went to Harvard, not Smith. It’s Elena, not Ellen. She barely drives, much less a Subaru. She’s never been spotted at Home Depot or the Meow Mix bar. And she doesn’t have Ani DiFranco on her iPod.
And she hasn't been spotted entertaining Republicans, who then bill the RNC for their pleasure.
Anyway, back to Rich's verbal assassination.
Thanks to Rekers’s clownish public exposure, we now know that his professional judgments are windows into his cracked psyche, not gay people’s. But there is nothing funny about the destruction his writings and public activities have sown. His fringe views have not remained on the fringe. His excursions into public policy have had real and damaging consequences on a large swath of Americans.
It has always astounded me just how much venom these 'men of god' can work up about what others do in their lives. It is sick how they can twist loving relationships into something vile, meanwhile misquoting a fantasy book, written well after the the lifetime of Jesus, and they do so dishonestly. Let's get this in perspective, they use a religion that encourages love, to spout bile and then pick and choose from the 'source'.
These are not 'men of god' these are charlatans and divisive characters, they feed of societies baser instincts, they are an anathema in this era. They will go the way of the dinosaurs and I hope Rich is right, that this is indeed their last hate filled fling.
By late last week, double-entendre wisecracks about Kagan’s softball prowess were all the rage on Fox News and MSNBC. These dying gasps of our culture wars, like Rekers’s farcical pratfall, might be funnier if millions of gay Americans and their families were not still denied their full civil rights.
If only love sold as well as hate, then would would indeed live in an enlightened time.
We want our basic human rights, once we have them then the hate will fade. Only when we are considered equal and viable members of the community will the vile innuendo fail.
Human rights are non negotiable.
Have a great Sunday
Alessandra