Mother Jones: Gay Marriage Leads To Mass Murder? (yes, according to the religious right)

[marmar]

Gay Marriage Leads To Mass Murder?
— By David Corn | Thu April 9, 2009 9:02 AM PST


Is there a connection between same-sex marriage and mass murder?

That's what one religious right outfit is suggesting. This week, Morality in Media disseminated a statement noting that the Iowa Supreme Court had legalized gay marriage on the same day that a gunman murdered 13 people in Binghamton, New York. The headline on the release: "Connecting the Dots: The Line Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders." The group's president, Bob Peters, notes that the "underlying problem is that increasingly we live in a 'post-Christian' society, where Judeo-Christian faith and values have less and less influence." And, he continues, this "secular value system is also reflected in the 'sexual revolution,' which is the driving force behind the push for 'gay marriage.'"

Here's the punch line:

It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass murders on the gay rights movement! It is my intention to point out that the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day epidemic of mass murders.

That is, he's not saying that gay rights activists are directly responsible for the murderous actions of gun-toting madmen. But Peters maintains that those who champion gay rights are undermining the moral fiber of society and that this assault on traditional values creates an environment in which killing sprees can more easily occur. These acts of gun violence, he insists, are the poisoned fruit of the push for gay marriage.

Talk about exploiting tragedy to advance an agenda. It might be tempting to dismiss Peters and Morality in Media as marginal, but this group did receive federal funding from 2005 through 2007. The money supported a Morality in Media project, ObscenityCrimes.org, which paid two retired law enforcement officers to review citizen complaints about obscenity on the Internet and to forward the best leads to the US Justice Department for possible prosecution. A total of $300,000 was provided to Morality in Media through two earmarks Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) placed into spending bills, according to Peters. And a portion of that money went to cover Peters' salary. As The New York Times reported in 2007, no obscenity prosecutions had resulted from the Morality in Media's obscenity-tracking work. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/04/gay-marriage-leads-mass-murder

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Stupidity should be painful. k+r, n/t

[fasttense]

2. The religious right have lost the gay marriage argument

and are just simply making up shit.

[BlueJazz]

3. So $300.000.00 (of Taxpayers money) went to these Nuts while I see homeless people every day.?

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[NMDemDist2]

12. $300K so two old guys could watch internet porn

just saying...

[Rebubula]

4. Stupidity

The level of Stupid in people like this never ceases to amaze me.

History is chock full of mass murder, wars, oppression and genocide, rape (the most under reported crime in the history of humans as many societies have deemed women lesser than men) and the destruction of the Earth.

Gay marriage will not change this for better or worse.

However, there will be some Fabulous Weddings!

[drm604]

6. And many of those mass murders were inspired by religion.

I am not claiming that religion invariably causes mass murder, but it has a stronger history of it than gay marriage does.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. No logic to this, sorry

There are too many other factors that are far more likely to have caused the rash of mass murders, the stress of the poor economy being chief among them. The problem here is that the Talibornagains are reaching for any excuse to justify their hate and prejudice.

[xchrom]

7. ...

'Talk about exploiting tragedy to advance an agenda. It might be tempting to dismiss Peters and Morality in Media as marginal, but this group did receive federal funding from 2005 through 2007. The money supported a Morality in Media project, ObscenityCrimes.org, which paid two retired law enforcement officers to review citizen complaints about obscenity on the Internet and to forward the best leads to the US Justice Department for possible prosecution. A total of $300,000 was provided to Morality in Media through two earmarks Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) placed into spending bills, according to Peters. And a portion of that money went to cover Peters' salary.'

[pipi_k]

8. The brainless will remain brainless,

unfortunately.

If some guy kills a bunch of people because he was mistreated at work or laughed at or lost his job, or his wife left him, it doesn't matter to the fuckwits of the world. Blame it on gay marriage.


If a couple of kids decide to shoot up a school because they feel disenfranchised from their peers or angry with "the system", blame it on gay marriage.


Mass murder on 9/11. Yep...gay marriage.


And one of the worst mass murders of all time....over 6 million human beings...

Gay marriage!!!




Good lord it must suck to be them, to have only ONE functioning brain cell, and even that one is just barely conscious.

[keroro gunsou]

13. personally

i blame gay marriage for my best friend's current happiness with his partner and their son.

i will never want for amusement ever, so long as there are religious fuckwits running around screaming stupid shit like this....

dammit, it's not even 11am cst, and i already need a drink.

teh stupid, it burns.

[nichomachus]

9. The only arguments against gay marriage are either lies or preposterous claims

There are no solid, defensible, logical arguments against it, which is why these people have to use lies, fear, and overblown rhetoric.

[Danascot]

10. No but there is a connection between right wing ideology and mass murder

Exhibit #1 from recent history: the Iraq war.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. This is the message of the Faith Based World:

hate. The end. They are all about hate. Violence, grandstanding, finger pointing hate.