Illinois Family Institute: IFI's Director of School Advocacy Laurie Higgins recently likened gay couples to incestuous ones, saying that: "Incestuous relations between consenting adults is no more depraved and perverse than sexual relations between two men or two women, which we now celebrate in our streets and our public schools." In the past, Laurie raised eyebrows when she drew a comparison between churches who didn't speak out against the Holocaust and churches that currently fail to speak out against homosexuality (which she then tried to roll back, unsuccessfully)
But of course figures on the religious right (i.e. the ones who declared this "culture war) are still refusing to take responsibility for the clear, demonstrable reality of SPLC selectees, so as to instead take on the victim role. Something that Witherspoon Institute fellow Matthew J. Frank did in the pages of The Washington Post -- THE. WASHINGTON. POST! -- on Friday:
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a once-respected civil rights organization, publishes a "report" identifying a dozen or so "anti-gay hate groups," some for no apparent reason other than their vocal opposition to same-sex marriage. Other marriage advocacy groups are put on a watch list.
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The SPLC's report on "hate groups" gives the game away. It notes that no group is listed merely for "viewing homosexuality as unbiblical." But when describing standard expressions of Christian teaching, that we must love the sinner while hating the sin, the SPLC treats them as "kinder, gentler language" that only covers up unreasoning hatred for gay people. Christians are free to hold their "biblical" views, you see, but we know that opposition to gay marriage cannot have any basis in reason. Although protected by the Constitution, these religious views must be sequestered from the public square, where reason, as distinguished from faith, must prevail.
So there are two options here: (1) Mr. Franck is willfully bearing false witness so as to protect his own interests, or (2) He has not done enough homework to actually write the piece that he penned and WaPo printed. In either scenario, he is wrong and needs to publicly correct the record.
Though considering this is the "pro-family," "values voter" community we are talking about and that it is the 20th of December and not the 12 of Never, we will not hold our breath for a retraction/apology.
