Yet another example of militant anti-Christian hate-mongers just looking for an opportunity to bash Christians, “objectifying” them with a torrent of bigotry. The article here notes that the police are still investigating the attack in question where the victim was homosexual. But homosexualists, more interested in marginalizing their enemies than in facts, want to jump in already, and with the most malicious and unsubstantiated fraudulent bigotry. It’s so typical. The same kind of hate-mongering was on display a few days ago in an article by a secularist leader in P.E.I. in relation to the recent arson attack on a home where two homosexuals were living. Homosexualists continue to minimize the seriousness of assault and physical harm by lumping a whole range of objections under the label of hate. Then they spend much more time condemning verbal criticism than real assaults, and they fraudulently try to link criticisms by Christian leaders in churches with vigilante behaviour by people who never set foot in churches. The fraud is so transparent, but homosexualists aren’t called on it, certainly not by mainstream media like the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, which writes puff pieces like that below which demand no evidence for the fraudulent claims and which offer no counterpoint from critics of these bigoted activists.
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New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal – November 25, 2010
Gay supporters say churches deserve some blame for homophobia
Reaction Pair’s comments come in wake of reported attack on homosexual in St. George
By Derwin Gowan
ST. GEORGE – Some clergy should reconsider what they preach, two PFLAG Canada officials said in separate interviews this week. Some people learn hatred of homosexuals from what they hear from the pulpit on Sunday, said PFLAG volunteer Mack MacKenzie in Saint John and national executive director Cherie MacLeod in Moncton. PFLAG is a national support organization for people with gender-identity issues. It was formerly an acronym for “Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.”
MacKenzie and MacLeod spoke following a reported assault on a young gay man in St. George Nov. 12, but their comments were not referring specifically to that attack. The RCMP is still investigating, but the mother of the young man’s partner calls it a hate crime.
Parents should teach children to respect other people, St. Stephen town councillor Robert Tinker said in an interview following the alleged assault.
MacLeod agreed, but asked where parents learn their attitudes. “I have to look to churches,” she said. MacLeod accused “right-wing zealots” in some pulpits of espousing unchristian hatred.
Rev. Bob Johnson does not argue that the church bears some blame for homophobia. “I would agree with them (MacLeod and MacKenzie) that is certainly part of it in some communities,” he said in an interview Wednesday. In 1996 Johnson performed a covenanting ceremony between two men at Centenary-Queen Square United Church in Saint John. Today he pastors half-time at Milltown United Church in St. Stephen. Some clergy or denominations are “giving permission for those things (attacks on gay people) by quoting scripture out of context,” he said. Plantation owners in the U.S. South cited St. Paul to justify slavery, Johnson said. “We learned over the years that, no, this isn’t the way people should relate to one another,” he said. “We interpret the Bible differently from our forbears because we have different life experiences.”