ACLU to Christian right: ‘You created this anti-queer climate’
Some ACLU attorneys are placing the blame for what happened in Orlando on the anti-gay Christian right..
Click here for reuse options!“You know what is gross — your thoughts and prayers and Islamophobia after you created this anti-queer climate,” ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio tweeted on Sunday morning.
…Strangio — who “spend[s his] life fighting Christian homophobia while being loved & supported by [his] Muslim family” — and his colleagues connected the shooting back to Christians and Republican politicians who oppose gay marriage. “The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months and people blaming Islam for this,” Strangio tweeted. “No.”
Another ACLU attorney who specializes in religious liberty issues scolded Republican lawmakers who tweeted out their condolences. “Remember when you co-sponsored extreme, anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act?” the ACLU’s Eunice Rho tweeted at Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and other Republicans,
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Kick Frenzy June 13th, 2016 at 13:40
Hear! Hear!
Warman1138 June 13th, 2016 at 13:58
So true it hurts, because as soon as things settle down the ”phobes” are going to go at it again. And worse yet, some of them aren’t even waiting that long and have already started.
granpa.usthai June 13th, 2016 at 14:29
Exactly what I’ve been saying.
giving free legal passes to open Criminal acts that foster, aid and abet acts of terror on US Citizens in The United States of America who only want EQUAL RIGHTS under the WRITTEN LAW only encourage.
It’s time (past time) for this government to enforce the law against any and all who openly defy it, then try to cloak themselves in their ‘religious rights’.
you have the right to believe whatever the “F” you want to believe, you don’t have the right to force that belief on another American, and you sure as hell don’t have the right to special exemptions in the matters of EQUAL RIGHTS for ALL US Citizens.
Otherwise, it ain’t ‘Fing” equal at all!
Suzanne McFly June 13th, 2016 at 15:36
Oh, there is that mirror the right keeps losing. Keep it in front of their face till November, I hope they fall hard and realize that their hate is destroying them.
amersham46 June 13th, 2016 at 19:30
It is not the only negative climate the have created
Snick1946 June 13th, 2016 at 19:56
Case in point. I drive past a Evangelical church every day. Went past this morning and again tonight. Flag is still flying at full staff.
Warman1138 June 13th, 2016 at 23:12
Before the week is up the righteous right hand spin machine will make it…… everyone else’s fault, especially liberals and gays. Then again, they’ve already started, haven’t they?
Stefanie June 14th, 2016 at 12:11
To be fair, while the christian crazies have certainly set u a shitty climate the LGBT community has valiantly knocked down over the years, this has nothing to do with Christianity and everything to do with Islam. This man was not influenced by the baptists or the mormons. He was influenced by Islam. By his Taliban supporting father. If you want to deny that gays in Muslim countries have it a WHOLE lot worse than gays in the US/wester countries, be my guest. But it won’t make it true. Gays have civil rights violations because of the climate Christians created. But it was never legal to kill a gay because he wasn’t following the bible. Try that defense in Arab Emrites, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Malaysia. This was Islam, pure and simple, and denying it doesn’t help solve the problem of batshit religious people being assholes.
Hirightnow June 14th, 2016 at 13:59
5 Muslim Nations Where being Gay is Legal
1. MALI
Gays in this African nation might face local homophobia, but the law
is on their side. In 2010, a Malian volunteer for the Peace Corps wrote
that she looked up the laws dealing with sexuality, and saw that Article
179 of the Malian penal code did not specify heterosexual or homosexual
sexual activities, but instead decried public indecency. She said that
she was relieved because most “countries in Africa, 38 to be exact, have
laws against homosexuality and some with the death penalty.”
2. JORDAN
Jordan was under the Ottoman Empire, where homosexuality was
decriminalized 75 years earlier, but between 1922 and 1945 the country
was a subject mandated by the League of Nations. However, in 1951 the
new nation made homosexuality legal. “Jordan is considered an open
minded country, and when coming to cities, the tolerance is even
higher,” said the editor of My.Kali, a gay magazine that is based in the capital, talking to the Italian-based e-Zine Il Grande Colibri.
“And considering the fact that it’s an Islamic country, the morality of
the culture could be a huge pressure to many people to remain discreet,
but it never stopped many of my friends and other LGBTQ people to come
out and show who they are,” he added.
3. INDONESIA
In Indonesia being gay has been legal since, well, forever. No,
really, the country never had any legal prohibitions against
homosexuality, at least since its founding as a nation. Further, the
country has the longest running LGBT organizations in Asia. Despite
having the largest Muslim population, Indonesia has remained a great
example of the importance of the separation of religion and state. On
the other hand, Singapore (non-Muslim) and Malaysia (Muslim), who are
neighbors to Indonesia, have laws that make it illegal to be gay. The
later two have both been colonized by the British Empire.
4. TURKEY
In 1858, the Ottoman Caliph decriminalized homosexuality. This
affected many countries in three continents. When Turkey became a solo
nation in 1920, it didn’t see a need to change this law. Omer Akpinar,
who is with KAOS LG, which is one of the largest LGBT organizations in
Turkey, told Mashable that their organization was never censored.
Jack Scott, a British writer who moved to Turkey with his partner and
who is the author of Perking the Pansies: Jack and Liam Move to Turkey, said his “obvious union with Liam has never attracted bad publicity from any Turk,” talking to the real estate company Quest Turkey.
5. ALBANIA
Being gay has been legal in Albania since 1995. This pre-dominantly
Muslim nation has been in the forefront of gay rights in the Balkans. In
2013, ILGA Europe said that the country was the friendliest nation to
the gays in the area, as it has a welcoming government and an
anti-discrimination law. Kristi Pinderi, who is with the LGBT
organization Pink Embassy, says that the anti-discrimination law
is “important because in theory a teacher, for example, who is
transgender, and decides to go and teach wearing a dress, I can’t
imagine what the reaction would be, but the law protects that need, if
there is a need like that,” talking to the organization International Day Against Homophobia.
Other countries with a large Muslim population and where
homosexuality is legal include Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Ivory
Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Niger, Northern Cyprus,
Palestine, and Tajikistan.
Religious EXTREMISM, whether Islam , Christianity, or whatnot, is the problem.
I have yet to hear one atheist say that homosexuals should be imprisoned/executed/put into involuntary “treatment”.
The problem with religions, though, is that it will always breed extremism.
(Meanwhile, in the real world, this nutjob appears more likely to have been a repressed homosexual, whose RELIGION, and father, constantly told him that the way he secretly was was “wrong”…no wonder he snapped.)
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Bunya June 14th, 2016 at 14:40
“But it was never legal to kill a gay because he wasn’t following the bible.”
That’s because murder is a felony. Trust me, if it were okay to stone gays to death, the Christians would be stockpiling rocks.