Anti-LGBT Christian organizations are exploiting county clerks and peddling lies about marriage equa

[DonViejo]

Anti-LGBT Christian organizations are exploiting county clerks and peddling lies about marriage equality

In an essay published Friday at Huffington Post, Alvin McEwan of the blog Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters wrote about the network of far-right Christian legal organizations that are exploiting and manipulating county clerks who refuse to allow same-sex couples to marry.

“We are all being played for fools. The clerks who are pitifully stalling or outright refusing to marry couples (gay or heterosexual) under the guise of ‘religious freedom,’ and the LGBT community are all being manipulated and exploited,” McEwan said.

“We should be aiming a lot of our fire at the anti-gay organizations and personalities who are instigating this mess,” he went on. “Individuals like Tony Perkins and Bryan Fischer and organizations such as the National Organization for Marriage, the Family Research Council, or the American Family Association want a resistance against marriage equality.”

These groups, he said, are trying to create a media circus around the fight for same-sex couples to marry, and in order to do so they are buoying up doomed efforts be local county clerks to flout the law.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/anti-lgbt-christian-organizations-are-exploiting-county-clerks-and-peddling-lies-about-marriage-equality/

[Bluenorthwest]

1. The anti marriage equality forces of the religious world held a three day conference in Rome in

November, called by the Vatican, attended by Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, attended by NOM, all at the invitation of the Vatican. Francis was the keynote speaker. Tony Perkins called the atmosphere 'almost euphoric'.
They are prepared.
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

[AZ Progressive]

2. I don't understand why this is such an important issue for religious conservatives

as well as the Vatican. Is it because LGBT people are "violating" the rules of sex in their mind? Is it an issue of a violation of societal order in their mind? Is it simply that they see LGBT people as rebels that "need to be quashed otherwise the rebellion will spread"?

BTW I think the bible spoke out against the actual act of sex (and because it was used for things other than loving relations) but these people don't get it and just use the bible to justify their bigotry.