Fox News contributor compares LGBT activists to racist southern cops from the 60s

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Source: Raw Story

Writing for Townhall, Fox News contributor Erick Erickson compared the tactics of gay rights activists — which have included boycotts of anti-gay businesses and public ridicule of homophobic Christians — to the tactics employed by Alabama police chief Theophilus “Bull” Connor who turned fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators in the early 60?s.

Citing a tweet by New York Times writer Josh Barro, who wrote: “Anti-LGBT attitudes are terrible for people in all sorts of communities. They linger and oppress, and we need to stamp them out, ruthlessly,” Erickson lamented that “those who believe in traditional marriage are not worthy of respect or civility.”

Erickson writes, “…enormous energy is being expended by the left in America to make Christianity and Christians unacceptable,” before stating, “As gay rights activists use the tactics of Bull Connor to push for what they declare civil rights, they are targeting churches, religiously affiliated groups and Christian businesses for harassment and lawsuits. ”

Among the offenses Erickson found comparable to siccing police dogs on children protesting for equal rights on the streets of Birmingham, Erickson cites a teacher at a Macon Catholic school who filed a discrimination complaint against his employer for firing him for wanting to marry his partner, and “photographers, florists and bakers compelled against their will to provide goods and services to gay marriages.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/08/fox-news-contributor-compares-lgbt-activists-to-racist-southern-cops-from-the-60s/

[msanthrope]

1. Those damn gays!!! Using attack dogs and firehouse hoses and batons on peaceful Christians!!!!

(Sarcasm, people. Sarcasm.)

[randys1]

2. Another person who needs to be publicly shamed

Dont care how you do it, but we cant allow this behavior to go unpunished.

[candelista]

7. That appears to be a threat.

What do you have in mind?

[randys1]

9. No, no, no no, no NO NO NO NO

i said

SHAMING

you know like what happened to Steve King the other day when he was confronted on his ignorant and hate filled views


S H A M I N G

the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.

[shenmue]

3. And now, Spot the Loony

[Android3.14]

4. “…enormous energy is being expended...

Let me correct that sentence for you, my Aryan friend
“…enormous energy is being expended by the Christo-fascists in America that makes actual Christianity and actual Christians want to vomit.”

[christx30]

11. Can I do one that might have been

said by Bull Connor?
"…enormous energy is being expended by blacks and other minorities to make segregation and segregationists unacceptable." with the same tone of voice that says "why WOULDN'T they want to sit at the back of the bus?"
Doesn't take much changing of the language between this guy and some jackhole standing in the schoolhouse doorway or firehouses in Selma, AL.

[Voice for Peace]

5. no it is you (Fox) and the rw christians making christianity and christians unacceptable.

LGBT & the Left could care less whether you are white or christian or not.
It's the ignorance & cruelty that offends.

[DRoseDARs]

6. So adorwable when wittle Ewick Ewickson uses words to make sentences!

He twies so hard.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Revisionist history at its finest

Mr. Erickson forgets that white Southern churches were as much a hindrance to the civil rights movement as black churches were its backbone. Perhaps he also forgets the the Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 to promote the concept that slavery was sanctified by scripture. Slavery in a moot point nowadays, but in keeping with that nonsense, the Convention in our time condemns the trend to wider inclusiveness in American society as with respect to homosexuality.

Mr. Erickson seems to think that Christianity is monolithic, and that the monolith is a solid wall between homosexuals and social equality. He is wrong. There are many Christianities, and the Christians I know are as as likely to embrace social equality as to reject it on Biblical grounds. Many of the Christians with whom I am acquainted who embrace social equality for all people do so on the authority of the same Bible as those who reject it. Who is right? I decided long ago that I am not a Christian, and I'll let Christians argue among themselves about it.

Meanwhile, I embrace social equality, the brotherhood of all humans, without regard to a belief in any particular God. And, consequently, I think the homophobia that Mr. Erickson is defending is ridiculous in and of itself, just as was the hysterical racism from the time the first ship carrying a cargo of kidnapped black Africans arrived in an American port up to the racism of birthers and tea partiers and sovereign citizens that continues to plague all of us today. Where gay rights activists think that they are being discriminated against by a business or a church and that it is egregious enough to warrant a boycott or even a lawsuit, I will join by gay brothers and sisters and refrain from doing business with the bigots.

Where do right wing assholes like Mr. Erickson, who self-style themselves conservatives, get off on embracing individualism but dare to criticize an individual for daring to sue an institution, a Catholic school, for firing him because he expresses his own individuality by marrying his homosexual partner? No matter what the Supreme Shysters say, a school or a church is an institution and not a person, and does not enjoy the same legal protections as someone made of flesh and blood. To allow such nonsense creates chaos, like the Hobby Lobby decision does. We know what the Supreme Shysters are saying: That dog is a father; that dog is your dog; therefore, that dog is your father. It's nothing but sophistry.

[Skidmore]

10. Fox and its fanbase are like a plotline

in "Fringe."

[OKNancy]

12. Locking

rawstory retelling what was written yesterday by a right-wing writer on another site is not important breaking news of national interest.