Monday, July 28, 2014

Hate Group Leaders React to 4th Circuit Ruling

Here in Virginia, anti-gay hate groups and their out of state allies are beside themselves over the 4th Circuits 100% correct ruling that the Marshall Newman Amendment violates the United States Constitution.  Victoria Cobb of The Family Foundation ("TFF") - an organization which was one of the architects of the Marshall-Newman Amendment which pushed for its passage with lie filled propaganda - is acting as if someone took a huge dump in her Cheerios. Worse yet, she is disingenuously whining about caring about children who need a "mom and dad" even though once children exit from their mothers' womb, TFF's fetus worship stops and children are basically kicked to the curb except in the context on using children as a weapon to fight gay rights.  TFF spends lots of money, but very little goes to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked or sheltering the homeless.  One might even describe Ms. Cobb as Virginia's number one modern day Pharisee.

Not to be outdone, the extremely reactionary and anti-gay animus filled Bishop of Richmond,  Paul Loverde, is likewise acting as if the sky is falling.  Like Cobb, Loverde feigns concern for children, yet one doesn't hear him speaking out for the sacking of priests, bishops and cardinals implicated in the sexual abuse of children and youths.   Along with Cobb, Del. Bob Marshall and failed gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli, Loverde invested a great deal of effort into passing the Marshall-Newman Amendment and force parishes in the Diocese to read an anti-gay letter in the weeks before the vote in 2006.  If one wants a modern day example of the neurotic - can we say psychotic - sexually obsessed, sexually frustrated ascetic clerics described in "The Origins and Role of Seme-Sex Relations in Human Societies" that I have referenced in several posts, look no further than Loverde.

And what group of gay haters would be complete without the shockingly misnamed hate group Family Research Council (the only research that FRC advocates is that of right wing quacks some of whom have been thrown out of legitimate professional associations because of their fraudulent "research").  Leading the charge against the 4th Circuit is Peter Sprigg, a man who has ZERO legal credentials, and who spent much of his "career" as an actor in a "Christian acting troupe."  Sprigg accuse the 4th Circuit of ignoring "natural law" - a theory concocted over a 1,000 years ago by church leaders who might nowadays be deemed inane or mentally ill.  This is the same crowd that believed that a husband and wife were fornicators or "adulterers" if they enjoyed sex too much - Victoria Cobb likely believes this batshitery.

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