Dr. Paul Hard.
It happened in Alabama, and as the Chief Justice Roy Moore was speaking after being suspended for defying the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling.
He will go on trial in September.
A few hundred feet away from Moore’s speech to crowds with many holding signs like ‘homosexuality destroy families’ and ‘sodomy ruins nations’, there was an alternative press conference organized by the Human Rights Campaign.
Among the people speaking there were people like Dr Paul Hard, who has been involved in a legal fight for his husband who died five years ago to be recognized as his husband.
And when he began to speak about his partner’s death, a man in the crowd laughed.
‘You can’t have a husband,’ he said.
John Archibald, a columnist who was there at the conference, asked: ‘How can any man, no matter his position on Roy Moore or any issue, stand before another and mock his pain?
‘How can one stand under the banner of God and laugh at another man’s death?
‘How — in the name of God — can one deride genuine grief?’
He added: ‘Christians cannot let these people define their religion. All they have is volume. As a substitute for moral authority.’
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Lovely, isn’t it, how Christians behave? If they don’t like something, they can be as ugly and immoral as they like, smug in their sense of self-righteousness. They should be busy cultivating a sense of shame. If you aren’t one of those very ugly Christians, where are your voices? Get busy, and drown these assholes out, put them down, tell them in no uncertain terms that they are not Christians, regardless of them sharing the same beliefs.
Via Gay Star News.
“I don’t fetishize a man whipped then nailed to a tree.”
That’s easy: Persistent dehumanization via religious indoctrination. Violence is easy to perpetrate when you’re attacking an idea and forget the idea represents people. Often the prerequisite for hate-motivated attacks is for the perpetrator to view their victim as “less than,” and there are no shortage of congregations and chapters whipping up fear over a scapegoat.
Shiv:
That’s true of course, but I don’t think that’s what is happening now. Yes, othering continues, but now, the attacks are on people themselves, they don’t care about any idea, especially when the idea of “same sex marriage will destroy all marriage” has been shown to be bullshit, in the starkest terms, so many times.
They are well past any pretext of fighting ideas or concepts. They openly hate people, and would be busy stoning them, in fine Christian tradition, if they could get away with it.
sodomy ruins nations
Wait… Does that mean sodomy is capitalism? Because capitalism ruins nations -- so I guess they must be the same thing?
Marcus:
I’m sure some people would say it is, at least that it’s forced sodomy.
If I went to a christian funeral, with the crying family in the front row, and then, when the priest said something about the deceased being with god now, started laughing and said “how can you be so stupid and believe in the christian god” I really couldn’t blame people for kicking my teeth in, because it would be the most assholish thing to do.
How’s this guy any different?
Gilliell, I recently went to a funeral for a friend, and the preacher made some exceedingly rude and obnoxious comments about atheists. Of course, since it was the preachy guy doing it, no one was going to do anything.
It’s a really obnoxious abuse of the pulpit, though, and demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of the religion behind it.