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A resolute Lon Mabon will try to reinvigorate the anti-gay movement from his Salem home.
the world and we can’t give up in Oregon even
though we’ve had our sethacks.
JRC: What is responsible for the OCA’s
setbacks?
LM: If you recall, it was a pretty much unprece
dented attack on the OCA with everybody joining
in. The newspapers— The Statesman Journal, The
Register-Guard, The Oregonian— all giving coverage
opposing the OCA and passing on false accusa
tions, such as that I hate homosexuals.
JRC: Don’t you hate homosexuals?
LM: No. Ask [former state Rep.] George
Eighmey, who I’ve known for 15 to 20 years or
[former state Rep.] Gail Shibley. They know I don’t
hate them. [See sidebar.] I think homosexuality is
a sin, just like I think adultery is a sin. If all the
adulterers were trying to get protected status, 1 would
be opposing them, too.
JRC: I notice that Scott Lively is a speaker at
your conference. Does he still have credibility in
your movement, after his conviction for battery
against photojournalist Catherine Stauffer?
LM: Again, if anybody really cared about the
facts of the situation, she was asked to leave and
she refused. I wasn’t there, hut from what I was
told, Scott was escorting her out and she went dead
weight on him. Scott simply picked her up and
removed her. The policy of the OCA is you should
call the police, let them deal with it. I wish that’s
what he had done, but did he purposely or even
unintentionally hurt her? 1 don’t think so. But the
trial was held in downtown Portland. We’ve never
fared too well there, politically. I don’t think it hurt
Scott’s credibility at all.
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JRC: Has news surrounding deposed
Christian leaders Ted Haggard and Christian
Coalition of Oregon chairman Lou Beres hurt
your movement?
LM: Haggard, at least he was honest enough
to say he has been fighting homosexual urges all
his life and couldn’t get a handle on it, thereby
saying he thought it was wrong. He is just like
anybody else who succumbs to immoral urges and
fails, so I don’t think it helps or hurts anything.
I know Lou Beres personally, and he has denied
the [child molestation] allegations. To my under
standing, the allegations were false. I know he had
bad press on it. When it is said out there numer
ous times, people have a tendency to believe it,
even if it’s false.
Friends of Mabon
Lon calls out the wrong supporters
by Jaymee R. Cuti
hen Lon Mabon challenged Just Out to look up some of his gay and lesbian “friends” to
back up his said respect and kindness for sexual minorities, we accepted.
Former state Rep. Gail Shibley, D-Portland, Oregon’s first out sexual minority
legislator, said: “1 absolutely, in my core, despise every discriminatory and homophobic
and irrational and narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced and otherwise un-American and
un-Oregonian perspective that he has as a human being. This is not a personal issue. I feel sorry for him
in my finer moments; otherwise, I just disregard him.”
Shibley is the administrator of the Office of Environmental Public Health in the Oregon Department
of Human Services.
Gay former state Rep. George Eighmey, D-Portland, had this to say about Mabon and their relationship:
“I’ve never considered Lon a friend—a friendly adversary would be a better term. He’s never respected my
views.”
Eighmey, who is the executive director of Compassion in Choices of Oregon, added: “I have no hatred
for Lon Mabon, but what I have for him is pity. I pity that after all of these years, he has not been able to
learn from his past mistakes that his crusade was misguided and harmful. It's very sad and pathetic that
this man has devoted so much of his life to creating division.”
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