http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/18/1413068/-A-Texas-Conservative-Openly-Call-For-Violence-Against-LGBT-People?detail=email
On Thursday, Texas conservative Steven Hotze launched his "Faith, Family, Freedom Tour" with the aim of influencing Huston's upcoming municipal elections and, of course, trying to fight their civil rights ordinance, which will be decided at the ballot box in November.
The launch was nothing short of disturbing and disgusting.
From the Texas Observer:
On Thursday, he launched a multi-city tour of Texas, “The Faith Family Freedom Tour,” at a nearly half-empty event at a hotel ballroom in Houston. Sponsored by Christian conservative notables such as Cathie Adams and Jonathan Saenz, speakers included former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who explained why he thought the judiciary could be effectively overruled by the people, a radio host named Terry Lowry who told the crowd that “Satan and his demons are seducing the people of Houston,” and a reparative therapist who warned the audience that the science of making kids un-gay could someday be banned.
But it was Hotze who stole the show. He began his time on stage by showing his audience a video that warned of the audacious plans of the gay rights movement. “Just like there was a communist manifesto, there’s a homosexual manifesto,” Hotze said. “The hackles will stand up on the back of your neck when you see what they have planned.”
The Gay Manifesto is, of course, a satirical essay from 1987, not an actual LGBT conspiracy. If someone said the same thing about Jews, they would rightly be condemned as anti-semitic. So, this is, in and of itself, homophobic.
Then things took a turn for the weirder. “Our strongest weapon in the fight,” he said, pulling out a sword from its sheath and brandishing it for the audience, “is the word of God. The word of God is like any two-edged sword.”
He pointed the sword at the audience. “For thousands of years, men fought with swords,” he said. “Can you imagine that piercing right through the enemy like this? That’s what the word of God does. I’ve decided, I’m not going to fight the homosexuals with sweet words. I’m going to fight them with God’s word.”
please read the rest of the article. the religious right who claim to be suppressed in the act of suppressing others. seducing the people of Houston IMO those fears are more of a uncertainty about their own sexual preferences than somebody seducing them into homosexuality like leading a horse to water getting him to drink when he'a already thirsty not a trick or seduction it's reality coming home to roost.
Gay manifesto this further questions are they afraid of themselves and who they might really be they are saying that Gays have some Svengali like influence over their masculine hetero persona, doesn't that sound like an admission of either weakness in belief or the lure and curiosity of the unknown???????????
does he understand the implication of a double edged sword it cuts both way not just one.
