Shocking Right-Wing Homophobia Caught on Tape By Courage Campaign

from AlterNet:



July 31, 2010 |


Larry Adams has become an overnight internet celebrity of the worst kind: at a National Organization for Marriage (NOM) rally in Indianapolis, a camera caught Adams holding a sign with two nooses on it and the words “solution to gay marriage.” Beneath this violent slogan Adams had posted a lengthy Leviticus quote about putting men who lie with men to death.

During a long interview at the rally, now a bit of a YouTube sensation, Adams explains in one breath that the state should crack down on homosexuality and in another, that he’s here to save sinners from hell. In the widely circulated video, Adams comes across less as a malicious enemy than a confused, casually hateful dupe of a larger movement -- and that’s the point, say the people who caught him on camera.

They are representatives of the Courage Campaign’s Tour Tracker team, which has been following NOM's “One Man One Woman” summer bus tour -- which kicked off on July 14 and continues through August 15 -- from meeting to meeting across the country, gathering footage and reportage as they go and posting it on the web.

The idea? To let images of bigotry-spewing anti-gay marriage protesters and their counter-protesters speak for themselves.

Unfiltered Juxtaposition

“We’re taking the debate over marriage equality out of the hands of political operatives and putting them into hands of American public in an unfiltered format,” says the campaign’s spokesperson, Todd Stenhouse. In addition to Larry Adams, they’ve picked up footage of people speaking in tongues, featured speakers who’ve gone on the record comparing homosexuality to pedophilia and alcoholism, and more. There were the folks in Maryland who tried to have the Courage Campaign videographer wrongfully arrested (the police chief later apologized) or the priest who denounced all non-traditional sex acts, heterosexual or homosexual: “God is not in the sexual acts they commit... If we’re using another for pleasure.. then we’ve dehumanized them,” he said. The priest also repeated the myth that gayness comes from a psychic wound. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/sex/147691/shocking_right-wing_homophobia_caught_on_tape_by_courage_campaign_/

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And they took lots of pictures. Most of the NOM demonstrators were from out of state!

K&R

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They refuse to cover this kind of ugly truth.

When people really understand that once they are done with the gays, they will go after the unemployed and any other undesirables.....sound familiar?