The followers of Republican Supply Side Jesus love to hate. He is not the real Jesus. He is a Theocon invention to justify their false gospel of war, bigotry, greed, and intolerance. Whenever their hatred produces consequences, they act innocent, often blaming the victims of their hatred.
Back in August, Focus on the Family launched “True Tolerance,” its campaign to stop schools from implementing anti-bullying plans that include protections for LGBT students. Since the start of the school year, there have now been five reported cases of teens who have committed suicide following anti-gay bullying. GLSEN has been documenting anti-gay bullying, and according to a 2009 survey, the vast majority of LGBT students reported being verbally harassed, and “40.1% reported being physically harassed and 18.8% reported being physically assaulted at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation.”
Focus on the Family, however, says that bullying isn’t the problem, anti-bullying policies are. The group’s True Tolerance [Pseudo-Christians delinked] campaign argues that school strategies to target bullying are really covert ways for “activists who want to promote homosexuality in kids” to “capture the hearts and minds of our children at their earliest stages.”
Candi Cushman of True Tolerance asserts [pseudo-Christians delinked] that “gay activists” are “infiltrating classrooms under the cover of ‘anti-bullying’ or ‘safe schools’ initiatives.” That’s why Focus on the Family claims to be defending the “innocence and purity” of children against LGBT groups that conspire “under the cover of so-called safe-school initiatives” and use [pseudo-Christians delinked] “‘Safety’… as a political arm-twisting tool to force an adult agenda into schools.” [emphasis added]
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How absurd! Their logic that the policies to stop the bullying causes the bullying is analogous to having the resurrection precede the crucifixion. This is nothing more than a desperate attempt to duck accountability for their own criminal anti-Christian behavior.
Furthermore, this rush to evade accountability is not exclusive to the Theocon wing of the Republican Party. The Neocon, Corporacon, Plutocon and InsaniTEA wings are equally at home with it, as Rachel Maddow aptly demonstrates.
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The consequences of homophobia are quickly growing too large for FOTF and its ilk to ignore. Of course, maybe I’m being overly optimistic — these people aren’t known for their attention to reality.
Disgusting. That the AFA and FOTF would put in place policies to stop bullying measures and call it “True Tolerance” is beyond the pale. 5 suicides in a month would say that this is a growing problem; Ellen made a special appeal on her show about it; she was almost crying.
Repubs have no personal responsibility when they throw other people under the bus.
Talk about bullies trying to play the victim card – this just makes my blood boil!
Today I saw a bumper sticker that I’m going to get: