Comments on: New Yorker Whitewashes “The Family’s” Involvement In Uganda’s “Kill-The-Gays” Bill

By: anteros

anteros — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:24:40 +0000

irksome. i hope they don’t get away with this.

brings to mind two things:

1. ssempa calling american evangelicals flakey, very wimpy and inconsistent regarding their positions on the bill.

2. bahati and oyet’s claims that american evangelicals who publicly distanced themselves from the bill were secretly supporting the bill after openly denouncing the bill.

By: Albert McMeen

Albert McMeen — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:43:52 +0000

I sent this as a letter to the editor of the New Yorker:
I was a Manhattan resident for 40 years and a long-time subscriber to the New Yorker. So, I was shocked to read Peter Boyle’s whitewashing of The Family’s connection to the anti-homosexual bill in Uganda. You are promoting those who think we should somehow change ourselves to please God. My chosen career ended in 1980, being fired for being a gay VP of Irving Trust Co. I became a faculty member of LIU and continued raising my two sons to become productive members of society. Please publish stories of gay people overcoming adversity in our prejudiced society, not provide a reprieve for those discriminating against us.

By: MJC

MJC — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:04:23 +0000

Ok I have read it—thanks for posting. The Fellowship still seems creepy to this American. Prayer meetings at Pentagon offices, which then moved to the Justice Department? It all sends a shiver.

By: MJC

MJC — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:45:34 +0000

I am reading the piece, but some of it seems to confirm Sharlet’s research, as well. Here is one example:

D. Michael Lindsay, a Rice University sociologist who has studied the ways in which evangelicals have become part of the American élite, was astonished by what he discovered about the Fellowship. “They are the most significant spiritual force in the lives of leaders—especially leaders in Washington—of any entity that I know,” he says. “They are mentioned more often in the interviews I’ve conducted than any other group. They have had a more sustained influence over the decades than any other entity. There is nothing comparable to them.”