{"id":9424,"date":"2012-11-10T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2012-11-10T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:51:22","slug":"pseudo-christian-hate-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/pseudo-christian-hate-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudo-Christian Hate Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"

One might think that, given their disastrous fate on Tuesday, Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians would back off their continuous stream of hatred toward and encouragement of violence against LGBT people.  Sadly, if one did think that, one would be wrong.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) plans to expand its campaign to stoke homophobia abroad to undermine pro-equality American companies, according to audio of a conference call obtained by The American Independent. When asked during the call about Starbucks, which had spoken out against anti-gay ballot referenda, NOM President Brian Brown suggested<\/a><\/font> his organization planned to intensify its campaign<\/a><\/font> against Starbucks and other similar companies in countries where homophobia is pervasive:<\/font><\/p>\n

Their international outreach is where we can have the most effect\u2026So for example, in Qatar, in the Middle East, we\u2019ve begun working to make sure that there\u2019s some price to be paid for this.<\/strong><\/span> These are not countries that look kindly on same-sex marriage. And <\/font>this is where Starbucks wants to expand, as well as India. So we have done some of this; we\u2019ve got to do a lot more.<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

This strategy is incredibly irresponsible: by associating Starbucks with gay rights in homophobic countries, NOM is singling out Starbucks employees for anti-gay abuse and more generally stoking anger towards LGBT people. The broader Middle East is home to three out of the five countries<\/a><\/font> in the world where homosexuality is punishable by death. Though Qatar specifically isn\u2019t one of them, its government defends<\/a><\/font> other countries\u2019 right to execute LGBT persons and, according to the State Department<\/a><\/font>, \u201cthere was an underlying pattern of discrimination towards LGBT persons based on conservative cultural and religious values prevalent in the society.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Please do not blame all Christians for this despicable behavior.  These bigots\u2019 and their dogma have absolutely nothing in common with the teachings and example of Jesus Christ or authentic Christianity.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One might think that, given their disastrous fate on Tuesday, Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians would back off their continuous stream of hatred toward and encouragement of violence against LGBT people.  Sadly, if one did think that, one would be wrong. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) plans to expand its campaign to stoke homophobia abroad to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}