The claim of moral superiority is much easier to do from the position of not having it tested where it counts.

Tony Perkins fails on the simple level of not being or having to deal with living as gay in a heterosexually dominated world.
He is so smug, as if the ‘Bible speaks for itself’ is the end of the discussion.
And there is no need for anyone to speak in challenge to it.

Even if I remind a devout Christian who is anti gay, not only of the most important directive regarding treating another as you’d be treated, but also why it matters and the socio/political context of religious abuse in America towards other groups: they don’t engage that fact.

Perkins is very willing to have gay people be the human sacrifice for his socio/political aspirations, but doesn’t care about the damage the legacy has done already.
He completely chose to deny it even happens. Typical also of many of his ilk.

If a person has decided that a fellow human being is already dead to him, doesn’t exist as a person to learn from, but to dictate to, then Perkins already lost his moral compass and obligation to the second directive of the savior he admires.

I find this arrogance and denial insufferable.
There aren’t even any anti gay people when given the example of their style of conversation on this, I ask them if they are white men, would they argue they know more about racism and sexism than a black woman who has experienced such things over a lifetime.

So how could they lecture gay people so baldly on the facts of living as a gay person?

Since I know many do it anyway, trust me that my experience is also dismissed as someone with a bad attitude and to get over it.

Seems to me, that people like Perkins aren’t invested in getting over their animus towards gay people, regardless of having nothing good to point to for their efforts.

I look at the pictures of those young boys who took their own lives and think of every child like them and wonder how to possibly reach someone like Perkins.

He’d see his own flesh and blood on the street too. No doubt.
We know that happens.
Charity for the poor, not for a gay person’s orientation given by Creation.

But an epiphany about what gay CHILDREN or those suspected of it endure shouldn’t come too late and after they are gone.

Glad they decided to show up. I just hope they do more.

I’m interested in this because I’m very pro-gay(if the term “pro-gay” makes any sense at all, considering it is actualy NOT a choice) but also very pro-life.

Plus, I cannot understand how the FRC think they speak for all Christians.