Commentary from LGBT Ally Rachel Wolff: Are We the Ones We've Waited For?

Nov. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- The freedom of speech is the most revered freedom, a right that everyone should fully appreciate and understand. It is a precious right that must be respected; preserved.  This freedom extends to everyone. Everyone is equally free to verbally, harass, and humiliate anyone and everyone. And a major target today is the GLBTQIA community; and more than a few hardline religious groups take full advantage of the freedom using it to wage an all-out war against the Gay Rights Movement.   Hateful, hurtful words are used as assault weapons against the GLBTQIA community. Statements so carefully crafted; they barely skirt the law yet they achieve a desired outcome of igniting negative reactions both nationally and internationally.  Their well-crafted statements are designed to damage and destroy the pursuit of equality; liberty and justice by gay rights activists.  

Their inflammatory statements frequently border on idiocy. Fear the devil? Why, when we have the masters in the art of coercive indoctrination spewing hateful hurtful lunacy.  Instead of showing respect and reaching out and building trust, their lunacy promotes fear and hate which is directed towards people of the same gender who want to marry and live a life free from persecution: They have every right to be treated with dignity, courtesy and respect.

The most flagrant peddlers of homophobic lunacy on the rightwing hate watch list include Brian Fisher, Tony Perkins and Brian Brown, each are well known and well documented for irrational statements like same gender marriage paves the way for the Anti-Christ; same gender marriage will break the nation apart. Religious idiocy: Shun gay family members; blood will flow if gays are permitted to marry there will be mass resistance; revolutions and revolts.  Dangerous idiocy: ‘abduct children of gay parents. Ghoulish madness: ‘roundup the gays and lesbians and place them behind electrified fences until they die out.’ Outrageous idiocy:  the creation of ignorant and unbelievable myths and lies.  Hate poisons all systems, how can their dangerous madness favor freedom, family, life, and religious liberty?  

Life is filled with choices and these homophobes could give hope to millions by being voices of peace and understanding. They could show themselves as true leaders and be voices of inspiration in promoting equality. They could give people the ability to roam the sky instead of binding them to the earth. What happened to the spiritual precepts of dignity and respect for all people regardless of race, creed, color or gender or sexual identification?  

These nefarious homophobes are always posed in carefully staged settings which show flags and symbols of justice and liberty: they claim their cause as saving their country, yet their dangerous and fanatical idiocies are heard in Africa the Middle East and other countries; why? Logic and reason must prevail: Same gender marriage is not calamitous! What is calamitous is the madness to consider dividing the nation. Humanity experienced the Inquisition; the crusades; the holy wars; the holocaust; genocide-mass-murder and cold wars-world wars. Those are extreme horrors, yet homophobic idiocy equates two people of same gender who love each other and want to marry to be paving the way for the Anti-Christ.    

Men of quality and worth do not tell myths and lies or by deliberate strategy link homosexuality, which is not a crime to pedophilia which is a crime involving and adult and children/youth; involving building and breaking trust; involving secrecy, hiding and shame. Fact: Pedophilia is a perverted self-indulgent sexual desire for children and classified as criminal offense. It is felt by an adult and noted in all states as a crime. Fact: Homosexuality is sexual attraction to someone of the same sex.  Fact: Homosexuality is not a criminal offense. Fact: Homophobia is irrational.  Fear closes the mind: Hate poisons.

Self-identity is more than a part of a person; it is the complete personality: Universally gays and lesbians are made to feel ashamed; made to feel that their feeling of attraction to their own gender is wrong.   Homosexuality is not a crime. It is atypical: it is not aberrant; it is not abhorrent.  

A church represents the spiritual heart and the leadership represents its voice and the essence of spiritual values. The church should be a safe place, an asylum, but how can it be when the leaders use hurtful words and sits with others to plan and plot treacherous activities?  The parables denote acceptance, equality, harmony, freedom; inclusion and respect. Man is heir, not ruler so why hinder and oppose the spread of different thoughts and new social developments?

Homophobia contributes to and promotes worldwide GLBTQIA persecution: The Christ withstood harassment, torment and persecution and today the same fanatical idiocy does the same to the GLBTQIA community. Homophobes breathe the same air as everyone else, bend down to put on their shoes and sit on a porcelain throne and use paper that comes on a roll; and one day each will stand at the entrance of the pearly gates: what defense will be strong enough for ‘St. Peter’ to overlook their illogical-intentional; obsessive and deadly persecution of the GLBTQIA community?