For the Christian Right, Gay-Hating Is Just the Start

G and I listened and talked with Chris Hedges, the award winning journalist and religious/political  comentator as he talked about the rising danger of the Religious Right to our country...as presented in his new book, American Fascists, The Christian Right and the War on America.The following article deals with issues which he discussed..with great passion

He focused on the Rights efforts to dehumanize groups as evil deviants who could be used as scapegoats. The first have been gays, lesbians, Muslims and Secular Humanists...the same kind of beginning as in previous Fascist countries...These are serious threats....

For the Christian Right, Gay-Hating Is Just the Start

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Posted on March 19, 2007, Printed on March 22, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/49160/

On the morning of March 8 in Sioux Center, Iowa, a bus parked outside a hotel was found covered with anti-gay slurs, along with a hate-filled message on a piece of cardboard reading: "God does not love feary fags."

The bus was one of two that were transporting some 50 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, along with supporters, on the start of a two-month trip to 32 Christian colleges with policies that discriminate against those who are not heterosexuals. The Equality Ride, as it is known, organized by Soulforce, had first traveled to Sioux Center to visit Dordt College, a school that counts "sexual activity with someone of the same gender" as possible grounds for "an employee's discharge or a student's dismissal." .... more

Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and the author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" and "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning."

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