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Title: Stop Exploiting LGBT Issues to Demonize Islam and Justify Anti-Muslim Policies
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URL Source: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/13 ... -justify-anti-muslim-policies/
Published: Jun 14, 2016
Author: Glenn Greenwald
Post Date: 2016-06-14 07:51:08 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 477
Comments: 7
In the late 1990s, Eric Rudolph — raised Catholic and affiliated for a time with a Christian Identity sect — bombed abortion clinics and a gay bar, insisting they were venues of immorality and evil. Last July, an Orthodox Jewish Israeli attacked the marchers in the Jerusalem LGBT pride parade, stabbing six of them, and one of them, a teenager, died of her wounds; justifying his attacks by appealing to Talmudic punishments for homosexuality, he had just been released from a 10-year prison term for doing the same in 2005. Yesterday, a Christian pastor from Arizona, Steven Anderson, praised the slaughter of 49 people in an Orlando LGBT club on the ground that “homosexuals are a bunch of disgusting perverts” and are “pedophiles.” Violent attacks on gay bars in the U.S. have long been common, as sociology professor Greggor Mattson documented today: “The crime blotters of the gay press have always been punctuated by attacks on patrons at gay bars and continue to be today,” including killings. In 2014, a brutal hate crime against a gay couple was carried out by staff and students at a Catholic high school. In overwhelmingly Catholic and evangelical Brazil, killing of trans women is now an epidemic. The Terrence McNally play Corpus Christi was repeatedly targeted in the U.S. with bomb threats and had to be canceled because it depicted Jesus as gay. A 2015 Pew poll found that U.S. Muslims were more accepting of homosexuality than evangelical Christians, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses:
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Greenwald is a fag and fags are disgusting. That being said these murdering Muslim motherfuckers are more disgusting and every one should be run out of America, NOW !
That may be but he has contributed more to the cause of freedom than most.
Strange he doesn't mention his own orientation. Who knew when he was first gaining fame on the Moyers show et al! You never know...... gayinflue nce.blogspot.com/search/label/Marlon%20Brando
Would a straight have mentioned his orientation? If not, why should he?
No, because that's the default position. (Should I tell her why I don't go to the one here? 'Twould be racially incorrect :-3
#7. To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
The majority are right-handed (the default) but no reason left-handers have to reveal their minority status
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#2. To: noone222 (#1)
Greenwald is a fag and fags are disgusting
#4. To: Ada (#2)
#5. To: NeoconsNailed (#4)
Strange he doesn't mention his own orientation.
#6. To: Ada (#5)
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Replies to Comment # 6. No, because that's the default position.
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