Recently the US Senate passed the Employment Non Discrimination Act; a landmark bill that would create new federal laws to protect the LGBT community from workplace discrimination. And, of course, this means the religious right hates it. Also this means they are bringing up positively ridiculous reasons to oppose it.
For example here we get Pastor Kevin Swanson (who earlier this year declared the Girl Scouts to be Communists who spread lessons on lesbianism through their cookies) a man who has some some interesting ideas on the ENDA. But not good "interesting." More like huge iceberg of fat in the London sewer type "interesting."
"Friends, we’re getting to the point here where it may be a few family businesses and homeschools that would be able to keep homosexuals and homosexual indoctrination away from their children."
I've always wondered what they mean when they talk about "homosexual indoctrination." I've known a fair amount of gay people in my life. None of them ever talked about an indoctrination process. It makes me wonder if they think gay people are made at secret meetings featuring creepy cloaks, Gregorian chant music, goat blood and drunken ping pong tournaments.
What? Your secret cult ceremonies don't have drunken ping pong? I'd clean up in those on account of not actually being drunk. Which might be a form of cheating but.....shutup!
Ah, but Swanson just goes on.
"Who knows? It may become extremely difficult to get your children out of sodomite schools or the Greek form of education where you know what happens in homosexual indoctrination."
I'm pretty sure the only sodomite schools in our present world exist entirely on internet videos of a very certain type.
"It may become more difficult for people to keep their kids away from this unless they’re able to homeschool their children and keep them out of schools where homosexual indoctrination and homosexual forms of laboratories are mandated in private and public schools in America."
So....whatever it is that Swanson imagines "homosexual indoctrination" to be he thinks this law will somehow mandate it be placed in schools.
To be honest this somewhat confused me until another Pastor, Dave Buehner, clarified things by letting us know this is all based on a solid foundation of complete crazy:
"What’s shocking about this is this is just one small step away from, it’s a giant step towards and one small step towards putting the convicted pedophiles in charge of the daycare. That’s where we’re at."
That is shocking. Especially since a search through the bill reveals absolutely no provisions for schools hiring pedophiles. It's almost like Dave Buehner just plain made that crap up.
Not to be outdone by Kevin "Girl Scout cookies are evil" Swanson or Dave Buehner, Mat Staver, of the Liberty Council, also has some completely nonsensical objections to the law.
"So you can go into these restrooms or changing rooms, if you’re a man, and want to go in and molest, or watch, or sexually assault young girls..."
Once again I fail to find anything in the bill that allows for changing room rape. I suspect this is another imaginary provision.
"... This will ultimately, in addition to colliding with religious liberty, in addition to forcing a radical agenda on people, this also will put individuals at risk and ultimately result in significant damage and even death of some individuals"
Whoa, death? Preventing discrimination gets people killed? How does this work? Does Mat Staver think murderers are a protected class of people that employers will be forced to hire? If so then he hasn't just fallen down the slipper slope he rigged the entire slippery slope mountain with TNT intending to blow it up.
And that appears to be exactly what is going on. Because if Mat Staver set the explosives up under the slipper slope it appears that Matt Baber, also of the Liberty Council, will be the one pushing the trigger.
“When you have laws like ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, being pushed, hate crimes legislation, that are as you point out so well Wendy, that are very vague in their definition of what is sexual orientation, we will arrive at the point where you know these people who define their sexual orientation by a sexual attraction to children want to be lumped in among those who cannot be discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation.”
Got that? We can't stop discriminating against some people because then we'd have to stop discriminating against all people including those that actually are dangerous to society.
And just like that the slippery slope goes boom.
Strangely that slippery slope hasn't materialized in the 17 states where there already exists legislation against LGBT discrimination. Funny how that worked out.
For example here we get Pastor Kevin Swanson (who earlier this year declared the Girl Scouts to be Communists who spread lessons on lesbianism through their cookies) a man who has some some interesting ideas on the ENDA. But not good "interesting." More like huge iceberg of fat in the London sewer type "interesting."
"Friends, we’re getting to the point here where it may be a few family businesses and homeschools that would be able to keep homosexuals and homosexual indoctrination away from their children."
I've always wondered what they mean when they talk about "homosexual indoctrination." I've known a fair amount of gay people in my life. None of them ever talked about an indoctrination process. It makes me wonder if they think gay people are made at secret meetings featuring creepy cloaks, Gregorian chant music, goat blood and drunken ping pong tournaments.
What? Your secret cult ceremonies don't have drunken ping pong? I'd clean up in those on account of not actually being drunk. Which might be a form of cheating but.....shutup!
Ah, but Swanson just goes on.
"Who knows? It may become extremely difficult to get your children out of sodomite schools or the Greek form of education where you know what happens in homosexual indoctrination."
I'm pretty sure the only sodomite schools in our present world exist entirely on internet videos of a very certain type.
"It may become more difficult for people to keep their kids away from this unless they’re able to homeschool their children and keep them out of schools where homosexual indoctrination and homosexual forms of laboratories are mandated in private and public schools in America."
So....whatever it is that Swanson imagines "homosexual indoctrination" to be he thinks this law will somehow mandate it be placed in schools.
To be honest this somewhat confused me until another Pastor, Dave Buehner, clarified things by letting us know this is all based on a solid foundation of complete crazy:
"What’s shocking about this is this is just one small step away from, it’s a giant step towards and one small step towards putting the convicted pedophiles in charge of the daycare. That’s where we’re at."
That is shocking. Especially since a search through the bill reveals absolutely no provisions for schools hiring pedophiles. It's almost like Dave Buehner just plain made that crap up.
Not to be outdone by Kevin "Girl Scout cookies are evil" Swanson or Dave Buehner, Mat Staver, of the Liberty Council, also has some completely nonsensical objections to the law.
"So you can go into these restrooms or changing rooms, if you’re a man, and want to go in and molest, or watch, or sexually assault young girls..."
Once again I fail to find anything in the bill that allows for changing room rape. I suspect this is another imaginary provision.
"... This will ultimately, in addition to colliding with religious liberty, in addition to forcing a radical agenda on people, this also will put individuals at risk and ultimately result in significant damage and even death of some individuals"
Whoa, death? Preventing discrimination gets people killed? How does this work? Does Mat Staver think murderers are a protected class of people that employers will be forced to hire? If so then he hasn't just fallen down the slipper slope he rigged the entire slippery slope mountain with TNT intending to blow it up.
And that appears to be exactly what is going on. Because if Mat Staver set the explosives up under the slipper slope it appears that Matt Baber, also of the Liberty Council, will be the one pushing the trigger.
“When you have laws like ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, being pushed, hate crimes legislation, that are as you point out so well Wendy, that are very vague in their definition of what is sexual orientation, we will arrive at the point where you know these people who define their sexual orientation by a sexual attraction to children want to be lumped in among those who cannot be discriminated against based upon their sexual orientation.”
Got that? We can't stop discriminating against some people because then we'd have to stop discriminating against all people including those that actually are dangerous to society.
And just like that the slippery slope goes boom.
Strangely that slippery slope hasn't materialized in the 17 states where there already exists legislation against LGBT discrimination. Funny how that worked out.
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