Marriage Equality and the Christian Right: "It's the End of the World!"
As People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch reported, Garlow told Christian radio talk show host Janet Mefferd that gay people really don't want to get married, but rather they are determined to "destroy marriage" and "force us to affirm an immoral behavior": "If same-sex so-called marriage is established as the law of the land, many of the people who are listening to my voice right now, not maybe immediately but at some point in the future, if they are followers of Christ, will be forced underground. Their buildings will be taken away from them, many of their rights will be taken away from them."
Matthew Hagee, the son of pastor John Hagee, he of the multi-million dollar San Antonio, Texas-based media ministry, warned on "Hagee's Hotline" that, "The only relationship in natural law that can produce consumers is the relationship between a man and a woman. When you create a society that does not recognize this relationship as the foundation of its existence and you cease to produce what is required to sustain your economy, you will not survive."
The National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown, whose organization has been trying to drive a wedge between the African American community and the LGBTQ community for the past several years, also spoke to Mefferd and told her that while he "was not alive during the Civil Rights Movement [the March 26 anti-gay rally in Washington, D.C.] is what is must have felt like" to be involved with the Movement. LaBarbera, who has been fanning the flames of anti-gay bigotry for years, told Mefferd that "If you want to understand the homosexual movement, .it's a movement at war with nature, with God and with truth." The Religious Right group Government Is Not God PAC recently warned that if the Supreme Court strikes down Proposition 8 and DOMA then "religious freedom, freedom of speech and the First Amendment will die": "If homosexuals win, the Bill of Rights dies and religious liberty/free speech will die with it," GING PAC maintained. "We either fight this evil or see our children and grandchildren brainwashed and/or coerced into accepting homosexuality as the new normal in our society."
This is by no means the last we will hear from these guys. They'll be rocking and railing against the gay for many years to come. Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides, as time passes they and their conservative Christian comrades (and there are plenty of them to go around) will become more and more isolated. In some cases, martyrdom is what there hoping for. After all, that formula has paid the bills for the past several decades and will likely keep the lights on at those ministries and organizations for years to come.
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