FRC: Obama Plans to "Impose Homosexuality"

[SzczerbiakManiac]

As seen on The Advocate, the Family Research Council, a whack-job fundie group, sent out an action alert which claims Obama wants to "impose homosexuality and silence Christianity in workplaces."


Impose homosexuality?!?!?!? Really!?! How... I mean... What the... SERIOUSLY? That statement is so obtuse I'm dumb-struck.

But just for the sake of argument, let's say those Liberals in DC actually do want to enact this plan. How would they go about it? Do they send goon squads into every Christian home, burn their Bibles, feed their crucifixes into a tree chipper, and point guns to their heads until they copulate with a member of their own sex?

I know the FRC is just trying to scare people, but doesn't this kind of ludicrous claim hurt their credibility? Sheesh, why don't they just say Obama is an alien from outer space and is the head of a galactic race that can only gain nourishment from eating Christian babies?

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

feed their crucifixes into a tree chipper,

Well, actually, these FRC types probably don't have a lot of crucifixes. They're predominantly Protestant, and crucifixes aren't their thing. (Alas, many of them think that the Catholic church is nothing less than the seat of the antichrist. Maybe not as widespread a belief as it used to be, but I still hear it often enough here in the South.)

It's scary to think that anyone takes this nonsense seriously, but these scare tactics really work. A lot of people in my family and circle of friends have started to parrot religious right talking points at me lately as though they are true, and they won't listen to my (hopefully reasonable) answers, because I'm a non-believer, so how could I possibly know. Grrrr....

[Deebs]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

It's scary to think that anyone takes this nonsense seriously, but these scare tactics really work.

Exactly. They are targeting idiots who already believe that homosexuality is a choice. It is infuriating. Disgusting and infuriating.

[Alex]

I don't see what's so ludicrous. They obviously don't mean you'll be forced to be homosexual but that you'll be forced to accept homosexuality in the workplace. And that's true. In the same sense that blacks were imposed on the workplace.

They're still horribly silly to be bothered by that.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

I don't see what's so ludicrous. They obviously don't mean you'll be forced to be homosexual but that you'll be forced to accept homosexuality in the workplace. And that's true. In the same sense that blacks were imposed on the workplace.

They're still horribly silly to be bothered by that.

Yeah, that.

Every time I hear some nimrod complain that recognition of gay marriage would mean that children will be taught about homosexuality in school I wish I could respond with, "Yeah, so?" Damn right they will, they'll be taught that everyone has a right to be with whomever they choose to be with. And that's the way it should be.

But alas, such honesty is not effective in preventing nimrods from voting away people's rights.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Every time I hear some nimrod complain that recognition of gay marriage would mean that children will be taught about homosexuality in school I wish I could respond with, "Yeah, so?" Damn right they will, they'll be taught that everyone has a right to be with whomever they choose to be with. And that's the way it should be.

So you're going to teach your kid they'll be taught that everyone has a right to be with whomever they choose to be with. What is wrong with you?! Don't you know you have to protect future generations from this path to hell? Sheesh! [/sarcasm*]


*sometimes it seems sarcasm tags are still needed around these parts

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On a side note I told someones 9 y/o that 2 guys kissing was not wrong or disgusting. She came back with "but aren't you a Christian?" and when I told her "no" I thought her little head was going to explode. I did apologize to her dad - I am not that close to them and my brain to mouth filter was not working. Heck, on that topic I don't have one. In my world I don't associate with people who think homosexuality is wrong. I wasn't apologizing for saying it, but that courtesy apology when you just made a parents life a bit more difficult.

I think I was her first experience with someone who openly doesn't believe the same way her parents do. I hope it opens up dialogue and future conversations with her parents about not everyone believing the same way.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Alex

They obviously don't mean you'll be forced to be homosexual but that you'll be forced to accept homosexuality in the workplace. And that's true. In the same sense that blacks were imposed on the workplace.

I don't share your certainty (but I'll agree it's a possibility). If that's what they meant, why didn't they say, "impose homosexuals"?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

I don't share your certainty (but I'll agree it's a possibility). If that's what they meant, why didn't they say, "impose homosexuals"?

Because it's not "imposing homosexuals", it's imposing the concept of homosexuality as being ok.

If they went to every business and presented them with a homosexual person, saying "you must hire them", then that would be imposing homosexuals.

If one believes that by "imposing homosexuality as an ok concept" you are "silencing Christianity" (by not letting Christians complain that working with homosexuals is against their religion) then the statement they are making makes sense.

Discrimination is discrimination, no matter the religious guise, and it looks like we're getting down to brass tacks.

[JWBear]

It's very ironic that this is the same group who, given the chance, would impose their narrow brand of religion on everyone else and silence everyone who disagrees with them.

[Kevy Baby]

Why is it with some people that whenever somebody's opinion differs from theirs, that person is a "radical?"