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Anti-gay Leaders Reach for Extreme Rhetoric
The war on love
P ETER M ONTGOMERY
A lot of conservative
religious leaders say
people of faith are being
“silenced” or “persecut-
ed” here in the United
States.
They’ve sung that refrain for
decades. It’s especially common in
their losing battle against the grow-
ing public support for the legal
equality of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender (LGBT) people.
As more Americans have seen
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their LGBT family, friends, and
neighbors come out of the closet,
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the claim that gay people are
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more extreme rhetoric.
Take Family Research
Council president Tony Perkins.
He warned a couple of years ago
that a potential Supreme Court
ruling against same-sex marriage
bans “could be the straw that
broke the camel’s back.” Nation-
wide marriage equality, Perkins
insisted, could lead to “a revolt,
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a revolution” that “could explode
and just break this nation apart.”
The Supreme Court is now
weighing a landmark marriage
equality case. And conservative
religious advocates are amping up
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rules that same-sex couples are
indeed protected by the Constitu-
tion’s promise of equal treatment
under the law.
A Supreme Court ruling favor-
able to marriage equality would
create the “groundswell of a po-
tential new American Revolu-
tion,” Liberty Counsel chairman
Mat Staver says.
“Talk about a civil war,” says
Focus on the Family founder
James Dobson. “We could have
another one over this,” he warns.
Political operative David Lane,
who has GOP presidential candi-
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greets with conservative pastors,
has said Christians in America
“must risk martyrdom” over mar-
riage equality. His colleague at
the American Family Association,
governmental affairs director San-
dy Rios, used the same word, re-
peatedly urging opponents of gay
rights to “prepare for martyrdom.”
Even politicians are getting in
on the game. GOP presidential
contender Mike Huckabee and Al-
abama Chief Justice Roy Moore
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cation route and defy a Supreme
Court ruling in favor of marriage
equality. Attacking “judicial su-
premacy” is emerging as a central
theme of Huckabee’s campaign.
The “tyranny” these activists say
they’re resisting is simply the effort
by LGBT people and their allies to
win a measure of legal protection
for their lives and families. Like
other social justice movements in
our nation’s history, it’s a peaceful
struggle to change people’s hearts
and minds using the tools available
in our free society.
How far will Roy Moore, Mike
Huckabee, and other conservative
leaders go to undermine the legit-
imacy of the Supreme Court? No
one knows. Maybe all this “resis-
tance” rhetoric is empty bluster
and political posturing.
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right is losing the battle for the
hearts and minds of Americans.
And they’re threatening to bring
on a constitutional crisis — or
worse — if the Supreme Court
rules in favor of marriage equality
later this year.
Peter Montgomery is a Senior
Fellow at People for the American
Way. (Submission courtesy of oth-
erwords.org)