This anti-gay movie is true evil: What are Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee doing in the vile “documentar

This anti-gay movie is true evil: What are Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee doing in the vile “documentary” “Light Wins”?

"Light Wins" is 2015's most bigoted, dishonest and disgusting film. Doesn't matter to two GOP presidential hopefuls

EDWIN LYNGAR

“Prayer, God and his commandments were kicked out of the classroom because they might influence children not to lie, steal and kill. But ushered into that void was a dark agenda that robs children of their innocence and puts their life [sic] at risk … We now know with the redefinition of marriage comes a state invitation to indoctrinate your child,” says Janet Porter of Faith2Action speaking in her film “Light Wins.”

If you actually believe what is said about gay people in “Light Wins” you’d have no choice but to grab a torch and pitchfork and join a Christian mob to drive “homosexuals” into the sea. The slander against gays is as breathtaking as the ambition and dishonesty of the film. It first gained notoriety among a wider audience after Right Wing Watch brought attention to some snippets of the film released online. Those clips come off like a gay version of “Reefer Madness,” that hysterical anti-pot film from the ’30s. I found the clips so absurd, I thought it would be “fun” to buy the whole movie (released in March) and pick it apart. By the end of this 100-minute misinformation marathon, I was not laughing. It is as paranoid, dishonest and bigoted a thing as I have ever seen in my life, but it’s also earnest, deeply religious and well organized.

It’s hard to believe such a work could still have any impact, even in the darkest recesses of our superstition-driven society, but the film lays down a step-by-step case on why being gay is “dangerous,” why gays cannot also be Christians and how schools are indoctrinating your children into the “homosexual lifestyle.” If you could switch off your critical thinking skills, you too could be caught up in the anti-gay hysteria. It’s easy to dismiss such a collection of bizarre claims, but that’s a mistake. This movie will damage someone, a gay child in a Christian household, perhaps, or a middle-aged Christian agonizing over his or her sexuality, real people who are too often suffering.

Porter is careful in her movie to avoid slamming individual gay people; instead she leverages the whole “love the sinner, hate the sin” routine. She uses a lot of roundabout talk about “darkness” and “homosexual acts” and “religious freedom” to mask the cruelty and hate, but the point is more than clear. “When evil is called good,” Porter says in her opening monologue, “darkness is ushered into the land, and with that darkness comes a threat to our freedoms.” She equates gay people with the hordes of Sauron but adds a “no offense intended” to make the whole thing seem OK.

As much as I hate to repeat vile awfulness, I have to cite some more examples from the film. For instance, David Benham compares gays to “adulterers” and “thieves.” James Dobson, a fundamentalist pillar of cruelty, claims gay marriage could destroy the fabric of society. John R. Diggs Jr., an actual medical doctor of some kind, likens “homosexual behavior” to bestiality and child sacrifice, all while quoting scripture to back up his insults. Throughout the movie, the Bible is used less as a book and more as a blunt instrument.

The film features a rogue’s gallery of discredited villains, kooks and bigots, people like Ken Ham, David Parton, Gordon “Court Martial” Klingenschmitt and Phyllis Schlafly, just to name a few. There are too many to mention by name, although I want to point out that Schlafly takes an extra moment to brag about defeating equal rights for women. Basically, if you’ve ever said something really stupid and have been called out by Right Wing Watch, you got invited to be in this movie.

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