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 | The Creator's rights Party at http://www.christiangallery.com
(now defunct) is a Christian group that opposes women's rights to have an abortion, the theory of
evolution, etc. They sell bumper stickers for $3.00 each. Typical wording are: "Jail
Faggots," "Execute Murderers [and] Abortionists," "Abortionists
kill babies for $." They reveal the homosexual plank in their party platform in
an essay at: http://www.christiangallery.com/1stmurdr.html#faggots
They propose, as an act of love, to arrest every gay and lesbian, and arrest every
supporter of equal rights for homosexuals. This will give them an "opportunity to
be delivered from their bondage to whatever it is that is moving them to choose behavior
that will inevitably cause them to be burned in the fire [of hell]." [They do not appear to have a plan to achieve this deliverance once gays
and lesbians are in jail.] Their essay at http://www.christiangallery.com/arstfags.htm
accuses homosexuals of being guilty of murder because they: "destroy the
definition of manhood, removing from that word any distinctive that would separate it from
other words. To destroy the distinctive activities of the man is to remove the presence of
the man as surely as if the man himself were literally destroyed. If nobody does what the
man is supposed to do, then the man literally is destroyed, or at least paralyzed and
thereby made unfit for any activity except death...In short, homosexuals are vaginally
defeated males or vaginally defeated females whose very existence is defined in terms of
their commitment to destroy the historical meanings of man and woman."
Christiangallery.com has created a new crime: semantic murder. One of the additional sites on Christian Gallery.com was the Nuremberg Files. The latter was found guilty of threatening abortion providers and was severely fined. Christian Gallery's internet service provider removed the entire website. |
| The Occidental Pan-Aryan Crusader at http://www.crusader.net
attempts to unite the "European and European-American world for the preservation
of the Aryan race." It is an equal-opportunity hate site, directing its hatred
against Jews, African-Americans, Spanish-Americans, immigrants from India and Asia, as well
as gays, lesbians, and probably anyone else who is different. It supports both
Christianity and European pagan religions. They have spawned the Cyber Nationalist Group
(CNG) which repeats much of the material described above. In addition, they make
some interesting points of their own:
Their quotations from professional mental health literature date to 1975 and before. |
Sponsored link:
| The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas has perhaps the best known
gay/lesbian hate site on the Internet, at: http://www.godhatesfags.com/
It had the catchy name "God Hates Fags." On 1999-AUG-18, the ownership of this web site was transferred
to a totally different webmaster: "godlovesfags.com"
It picked up a pink background and incorporated a gay-positive message. Many
of the essays in that site were lifted from our web site without
acknowledgement. This we feel is regrettable for two reasons: Some of the
text copied is two or more years old, and is obsolete. No hyperlinks were
provided so that their readers could access more information. For example,
they copied part of our essay that describes faith groups' approach to
homosexuality. But they did not provided hyperlinks so that their readers
could find out what their own denomination's position is. The substitution only lasted a few days. The Westboro Baptist Church regained its full domain name. Jon Bell, a journalist for the Topeka Capital-Journal wrote an expose on the Church and on Fred Phelps, its minister and the family patriarch.. 1 The essay appears as an attachment to a lawsuit by Bell against the newspaper. He claims that Fred Phelps is "a disbarred lawyer and Baptist preacher from Mississippi." Bell alleges that brutal abuse was common in the Phelps household. He refers in his article to a letter by 47 religious leaders from the Topeka area who have condemned his anti-gay activities. "Godhatesfags" was a popular site; their visitor counter read 266,297 on 1998-SEP-17. It had accumulated a count of 5,353,910 counts by 2005-SEP-03. However, they don't indicate when the count began. The Webmaster was Ben Phelps. As of the earlier date, 739 Alexa visitors have scanned the site. 22 had expressed their opinion of the site. 1 selected the "I like this site option." 21 selected "I dislike this site." (Alexa is a free Web navigation service.) The site seemed to be continually on the move. Their initial ISP was Kansas State University. When the University was inundated by angry Emails, they pulled the site. However, it was back on-line in a few hours at the advice of the university lawyer. According to Loren Javier, the interactive media director for Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD), the church has had a difficult time obtaining an internet service provider. She claims that it was kicked off "pair Networks," "NetGate," and other ISPs. It was also hosted by KC One Internet Services. It was then hosted by Cyber Promotions Ben Phelps reports that the site receives about 50 Emails per day; most are negative. There are more critical letters from persons identifying themselves as Christians than from gays and lesbians. The home page showed an inverted U.S. flag - an international sign of distress. There are pictures of members of the church engage in peaceful sidewalk demonstrations, carrying posters reading: "God Hates Fags," "Fags Hate God," "AIDS cures Fags," "Fags Burn in Hell," "Fags are Nature Freaks." Church members frequently picket funerals of persons who have died of AIDS; they feel that this is a compassionate activity. Mourners often are thinking of their own mortality, of heaven and hell. That is an ideal time to hit them with thoughts of hell fire and damnation. Some points raised on his site:
Many Internet sites have responded negatively to the WBC. A few are:
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| The American Guardian offers "frontline defense against:" child
porn, child abuse, abortion, sexual exploitation of children, homosexuality and adultery.
They are at: http://www.thundernet.org/ The
site received a "Best of the Christian Web" award for 1998. As of
1998-SEP-19, the were the 86th most popular religion site on the Internet. The bulk of the
site deals with homosexuality, although they cover such side issues as "Thou
Shall Not Commit Adultry [sic]," "hate crimes against Christians,"
"Why we support the Disney boycott," etc. Much of the site is similar to those described above. Some unique points that they raise are:
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| The Melchizedek Vigilance Newsletter is at http://www.melvig.org/mel/MELVIG.HTM So is
the Society to Remove All Immoral Godless Homosexual Trash (S.T.R.A.I.G.H.T).
Their parent organization is God's Order Affirmed in Love (GOAL), which seeks
"to rebuild the foundations and re-establish a new bold vision for the Christian
ethic in the world today." Part of STRAIGHT's foundation rebuilding program is
to:
Some additional comments:
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| SHADOWGOV.COM is at http://www.shadowgov.com/.
It is sponsored by the Official Bob Enyart Live Web Site. Bob Enyart hosts a
syndicated nightly TV talk show that is broadcast or carried by cable TV into 80 U.S.
cities. It is also broadcast via short wave and on the Internet at http://www.enyart.com . Enyart was a state coordinator
for Operation Rescue Colorado. He has been called "Denver's answer to
Rush Limbaugh." SHADOWGOV.COM is a fictional essay which describes the takeover of the existing American government by a shadow government of the Christian religious right. The United States becomes a theocratic dictatorship overnight. In their first two days in office, the new government issues two proclamations, implementing a number of basic changes in the country:
Only two out of the first five days of the new administration are available online. The full manuscript of The First Five Days are available for $24.95. The Webmaster writes: "Your order supports the spread of these godly ideas!" |
References:
- The full court document is at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/michael_haggerty/ A better formatted version is at: http://www.killcreek.com/devolution/addicted.html
Copyright � 1999 to 2005 by Ontario
Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Latest update: 2005-SEP-03
Author: B.A. Robinson
