Homophobia Inc.: Message of Hate Raises Hundreds of Millions in Tax-Free Dollars Every Year…

Homophobia has flourished in the Bush era, both as a powerful political tool — it’s doubtful Bush would have won Ohio and thus reelection in 2004 without it — but also as a big business whose top-producers raked in revenues of over $400 million in a…

Homophobia Inc.: Message of Hate Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars - Tax-Free…

Homophobia has flourished in the Bush era, both as a potent political tool, and as an industry unto itself. In just one year, the top 10 Christianist groups that promote homophobia and use it as a fund-raising tool have raised over $400 million in tax-…

Be cautious to tie religious groups with homophobia. True, the Bible (assuming they’re a Holy Word-orientated Christians) does call homosexualism a sin, but it’s treated like any other sin. When you lie, when you cheat, etc.

You don’t HATE or FEAR the person. You simply hate the sin.

I am not justifying that being gay is wrong. I am pointing that out it is rather unfair of folks to say Christians “preach hate” against gays when we equally (or SUPPOSE to) give love to all, regardless of what you did, or where you’re from.

yay BSB.

Sound to me like you are the guys that are intolerant. As Christians (as a whole) tend to be more tolerant than the supposed (you) tolerant groups. To me you are all (you meaning democrats, homosexuals, vocal minorities, Islamists) are just a bunch of whiny liberals trying to force YOUR views on US.

Heaven forbid people are allowed free speech in this country. I’m not saying that I endorse or support these crazies but at a certain point they have just as much of a right to their fucked up opinion as you do to your reasonable one. :)

Also the guy above me is making me cringe in pain.

Well, if it WERE a sin in the first place… which according to my research into Biblical history it is not (findings here: http://christianityv2.googlepages.com/Version2andHomosexuals.html)

But in essence of these communities it is obvious that thier goal is in Mammon, and not in God. Maybe they should reread the book of Matthew (6:24)

People do what they want. Why the heck would you care what about your neighbors affairs for instance? Its not your life so why? Its not like theres outdoor public gay bars or stuff like that. I can understand gay prostitutes tho..thats sick.

As for “sins”, as if being in love with a different sexe is a sin at all. What the hell is the sin in that? Homophobes on the other hand, thats hate. Thats what the devil supports!

I’m happy to say i’m straight, but the dudes i’ve seen getting beat up just because they have a different taste, is just senseless.

ALL homophones who justify their homophobia with their religion should burn in hell.
Plus if the governement supported it instead of being against it, i bet theyd make more money in some ways haha.
Nuff said.

THE CHURCH AS LIED, TORTURED, STOLEN, MOLESTED, and SPREAD HATRED and INTOLERENCE since its inception.

pathetic mindless fools

radical religion is truly all that is bad in humanity

“Just a bunch of whiny liberals…”

Talk about intolerant.

“You don’t HATE or FEAR the person. You simply hate the sin.”

You must know that’s not the case. What about Falwell saying that AIDS was a punishment for gays? Can you get much more homophobic than that?

Furthermore, Christians are all too zealous to not only preach their beliefs but to force them on others, hence the opposition by Christian organisations to same-sex civil unions in the US. A moderate Christian would say, ‘I feel this is wrong’ and leave it at that. Sadly, these organisations spout hate and feel it is within their remit to abridge the rights of others who do not share their religious convictions, and this is happening on a federal level as well as stated in the article, despite the fact that it is unconstitutional for the US government to support or sponsor any particular religion.

[.. top 10 Christianist groups that promote homophobia raised over $400 million in tax-free dollars ..] it seems really problematic to me, could you recommend an European gay traveler to visit the US? Ar the US a gay friendly destination or at least certain parts of it?
Post your comments on the egotour blog to help European gay travelershttp://blog.egotour.eu
Dirk

Simple solution. End the tax free status for all religious organizations regardless of their views. Why should the state be subsidizing any particular group anyhow.

There is a reason why the U.S. became a world power so fast. It was our morals, family values that came from are religion, even if you are not religious, the morales of wrong and right came from this. At one time we were a righteous nation and we prospered because of it. Now that everything is about selfish old me, family values are being destroyed and so is this country. Soon pedophiles will have rights and people will be saying, your being intolerant, who are you to judge. Kids are loosing their innocents to early today.

“family values that came from are religion”

completely untrue

“Kids are loosing their innocents to early today.”

the same could have been said a hundred years ago, a thousand.

If anything is destroying america, it’s the neo-cons and their religious agenda.

This is complete bull-crap. I am bi, and have listened to focus on the family radio show and read their publications all of my life. They believe homosexuality is wrong, and don’t hide it. They are NOT “homophobic”. I have never seen or heard of one of their reps being scared of a gay person. Furthermore, they do not build their business on saying being gay is bad, that is just one of their many moral standpoints. They have just as much right to say it is wrong as anyone else has to say it is right, or are you as intolerant as you say they are?

Let me get this straight, these religious groups are saying that it is crazy, wrong, immoral and a sin to be gay. Yet their belief system is basically based on a 2000 year old carpenter who watches over us and judges everyone? Some would feel that that view is crazy, wrong, and just downright ludicrous.

Well gee, SnopesDawg, when you put it that way…

:-)

Religion is a mental defect. Still, you are free to believe whatever crazy crap you want to, as long as it doesn’t run roughshod over my life. When it does, you’ll find yourself on the wrong end of a barrel of a gun.

…I’m not saying that I endorse or support these crazies but at a certain point they have just as much of a right to their fucked up opinion as you do to your reasonable one.

Everyone is entitled to the right of free speech and any other, but only so far as it does not infringe on the rights of others.

“Simple solution. End the tax free status for all religious organizations regardless of their views. Why should the state be subsidizing any particular group anyhow.”

Exactly! Altogether now, U-N-C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N-A-L!

oh and I laughed a little when someone wrote ‘homophones’

I just want to meet the person who believes dumping money into this ridiculous cause is going to get rid of gayness, so I can’t point and laugh, maybe fall on the floor laughing, roll around a bit and continue to laugh, pee my pants, cry from laughing so hard, and pass out from laughter in their front yard.

Religion is inexcusable. It’s destructiveness in all facets of man’s existence is well known. We would do best without it. There are some “Christians” on this comment board who rail against “intolerant” liberals, gays, etc and “the sin”. Well at least these groups (I included) may be “intolerant of Christnazis’ hate speech, but at least we are not KILLING christian people or DENYING THYEM THEIR EQUAL RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS. I lay the deaths of Matthew Shepard; a man here in Sacramento, Satender Singh and countless othere Gay men and Lesbian women at your feet, those your warped culture hates. You should not hate homosexuality as you claim it is “unnatural and against God”. Well my closed minded friends, as an individual at the Museum of Natural History in Norway says. “Of all the species on Earth, Man commits the two most unnatural acts; wearing clothes and practicing religion”.

“This is complete bull-crap. I am bi, and have listened to focus on the family radio show and read their publications all of my life. They believe homosexuality is wrong, and don’t hide it. They are NOT “homophobic”.”

Translation: I am gay, but believe I can be cured by the beliefs of the people at FOF.

No confident bisexual is going to listen to and defend FOF.

The only ones forcing their view on someone are christians.The religion of hate and intolerence.
When a Rev talks I shut down..It’s just mindless drivel from people who can’t think for themselves.
And all this hate from a group that truely does CHOOSE the religion that they are..Something they like to say gays do which just ones again shows their total ignorance

sorry to be OT, but…

bob @10:31: America did not become a world power because of Christian morals or family values. America became a world power through unfettered capitalism becoming oligarchy at the turn of the last century. This allowed the small number of ‘robber barons’ to become fabulously wealthy and steer the economy, business, etc.; many companies today bear the kernel of those barons’ creations

[…] Turn Homophobia into Cash! Pensito Review lists the amount of money collected by anti-gay Christian groups in Homophobia Inc.: Message of Hate Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars - Tax-Free.  The intro states: In just one year, the top 10 Christianist groups that promote homophobia raised over $400 million in tax-free dollars: […]

This all begins as Jesus being a bastard child. That is because he is fatherless. Now.. knowing science, this is magic. All Christians should be burned at the stake if they believe EVERYTHING the bible taught.

Hey Bob: Exactly WHEN was the U.S. a moral, Christian nation? During the 200 years of SLAVERY, when North and South found justifications for stealing, raping, human trafficking, etc. in the HOLY BIBLE? How about all of those years when you REMOVED and SANITIZED the nation of the Native Americans? Was it a righteous Christian nation when it had another hundred years of SEGREGATION, IMMIGRATION RESTICTION,CHINESE EXCLUSION. Oh, let’s not forget ANTI-SEMITISM that was made disresptectful after the full extent of the HOLOCAUST was revealed. You Jesus freaks make me sick. If there was a Jesus and he came back, you’d be the first ones he’d smack down.

Now all you RIGHTEOUS CHRISTIANS want to gang up on and strike down the homosexuals! I say “physician, heal theyself.” I say “thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou see clearly to cast out the mote of thy brother’s eye” (Matthew,7:5). I say get your own f***ing house in order!

Hold on everybody—-John DeCamp, senator from Nebraska wrote a book called “The Franklin Coverup”. Do some research, or better yet, read the book. THEN come back here and blog about anti homosexuality. HYPOCRISY–sheer hypocrisy. And IF, according to wikipedia, this book is a HOAX, why was John DeCamp never successfully sued? He named names–that’s slander if it’s not true. He could have been sued. Some individuals ATTEMPTED to, until he told them to go ahead–he had the proof to back up his words. The lawsuits disappeared. Yeah, read the book and find out about religious individuals who were involved in this, and politicians all the way up to the White House, and law enforcement officials too. And quit lumping pedophiles in with homosexuality–the words have two different meanings, and anyone well read knows that most pedophiles are heterosexual males.
I also find it extremely annoying when someone goes on a rant about “family values” and how this country came to be when they can’t even spell. And can someone tell me what a “homophone” is? Is it a person who hates talking on a phone, or are they just afraid of them?

Hey Danielle -

Could you give us a short summary of what DeCamp said in the book.

I agree about spelling and grammar. It underscores the fact that bigotry is a by-product of ignorance.

A homophone is word that sounds like another word but has a different definition, such as “bough” and “bow,” as in “bow down.”

bob—”There is a reason why the U.S. became a world power so fast. It was our morals, family values that came from are religion, even if you are not religious, the morales of wrong and right came from this. At one time we were a righteous nation and we prospered because of it. Now that everything is about selfish old me, family values are being destroyed and so is this country. Soon pedophiles will have rights and people will be saying, your being intolerant, who are you to judge. Kids are loosing their innocents to early today” (8-31-07).

Actually “bob,” the fact is that America became wealthy abnd powerful on the backs of American Indians, whose stolen lands, stolen resources and enslave labor created the USA (even democracy came from American Indians). If anything, it was America’s non-righteousness that made it powerful. Your facts are mistaken, and your conclusions are hollow fear-mongering. If things are bad today from greed and selfishness, it’s just more-of-the-same from an American Indian perspective. Tolerance is called for to heal, not rage and war.

you may excuse your own hatred, and say it isn’t hatred. you can curse and try to cage and beat down love. you will lose, and you will lose your humanity in trying.

I like to refer to Christians and their “not-hatred” of gays. They will tell you they hate the sin and love the sinner, so they don’t hate gays. The truth is, they don’t merely hate everyone who disagrees with them; they’re in total denial about it, too.

“Not-hatred” encapsulates both of those things very well, I think.

The ultimate hatred is in every last buckcrazy religion’s version of (gag) “:paradise.” Anyone who wants to sit NAKED next to some vile “Creator” watching everyone who doesn’t kowtow to this missing abusive supreme “Parent” BURN…well, who cares if it’s labeled what it is…it’s RIGHT to hate these creeps. The Mormon and Islam versions of “paradise” are, if possible, even more vile. Screw them all. There would be more honor in burning for eternity than in joining up with these thugs even if their delusions were true.

Isn’t that interesting? Homosexual mentioned in the Bible? I am not a Christian but I have read the bible—growing up in a southern small town, that was the thing to do but, from cover to cover I never read that word or anything like it. In fact, when I became aware of any difference in the way sexes interacted, it was called “queer”. That’s not in the Bible either. But I do remember very clearly, “judge not lest ye be judged” and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Funny those passages never seem to come up. Must be like the intelligence before invading Iraq–pick and choose what you want to hear or believe and ignore the rest. I’ve read that “God didn’t make man in his own image–man made god in his own image”. Pityful really.

Most of what has been posted here turns my stomach. Substitute “gay” with red-headed, black, asian, christian or any other group label and then see how “tolerant” the thoughts and discussions are.
These “religious” institutions that are making $$$ hand-over-fist are doing so with TAXPAYER MONIES. If they want to spread this bullshit version of the “word of god” then let them do it without benefit of a Tax Exempt status.

Wanna know what’s really ironic? It’s that both Bush and Cheney have rumours abound about their sexuality and even delving into sexual perversions. Cheney is one perverted mutherfucker, according to vast rumors. Just keyword Cheney and sexual perversions and you’ll see. Bush is a blowboy, according to one eyewitness who actually saw him blow a guy. Look at his inner circle and show where there’s one of them that hints of any masculinity. Who was Gannon/Guckert servicing? And all the anti-gay preachers — they’re all effeminite and small. And, Falwell died of the sin of glut, no doubt. Tell me why sexual sin is more grevious than the sin of glut to the point of premature death! Larry Craig ought to be tarred and feathered. Bottom line is all these repugs fall under the realm of lower consciousness. They’re a point above predators, on the scale of counsciousness. Jesus, Ghandi, Buddah were all higher consciousness beings. Big Dick Cheney has no idea what a higher consciousness even means. If the Country collectively did have a higher consciousness we’d have Kucinich as President.

[…] Homophobia Inc: Message of Hate Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars […]

I’d like to caution contributors to this story who are equipped with the heresy of compassion , as opposed to the Rev. , who chastised those in support of ALL human lives. Please do not view the anti-gay comments by anyone as being simply the ’same old , same old’.It was precisely that type of thinking in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. ‘True believers’ aka the Moral Majority , and the other diverse and falsely named ‘family groups’fought funding for research into HIV and the development of treatment options. Their success was such , that the subsequent delay in production of medications denied thousands of gay men even a fighting chance at additional life.Keep in mind ; that the oppositiont to gay marriage has/had nothing to do with marriage and everything to do with the religiously inspired and completely hateful and irrational opposition to our very existence.

[…] Homophobia- Big Business! 5 09 2007 Evangelicals & Republicans…Isn’t It Time to Give It a Rest? This is a hardsell given how profitable hate has been historically. Homophobia has been the biggest fundraising tool for the radical right since the fear of miscegenation and the fight against racial integration. Over $400 million tax free and homophobia driven dollars have been raised this year alone by the top ten Christian groups according to some recent research on the Internet. When will the hypocrisy end? As Joni Mitchell says in Dog Eat Dog - […]

[…] Message of Hate Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars- Tax Free. […]

Let’s not forget that Jim Bakker, who had an eye (and God knows what else) for one of his male cameramen, got his TV start at CBN at the knee(s) of Pat Robertson.

A young friend of mine applied for a job at CBN years ago, and was asked by Robertson if he was saved, and told to “Kneel in front of me.” (He didn’t elaborate. One could assume it was for prayer.) I know another employee at CBN who worked as a male hustler (soliciting men) in New York during the 70s. So much hypocrisy, so little time…

Madison:

Dr. Joyce Brothers: “All bigotry is rooted in ignorance.”

Regarding what the Bible says about self-righteousness, check out Ecclesiastes 7:16:

“Do not be overly righteous or overly wise…why destroy yourselves…”

Correct if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that another famous politician ran on a “Family Values” platform. His name was Adolph Hitler.

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[…] So, I read this article and was intrigued by their use of the term homophobia. As I have understood the term phobia, it’s a fear of something. Wikipedia backs this up. But, go to the Wikipedia definition of homophobia. The first paragraph talks about fear a little, but mostly about discrimination against, hatred of and, something I find completely offensive, disapproval of.I find it chilling to contemplate a society when disapproval of another’s actions is construed as hatred or a phobia. Even worse, I shudder to think that there may be a day when it is illegal to disapprove of somebody else’s actions. It seems to me the foundation of this country was dissent. […]

[…] leaves it up to the fatcats in the national homophobia lobby — which raises hundreds of millions of tax-free dollars every year — to cough up millions for advertising for Prop 8, or risk being blamed for the latest […]

ok. I’m gay, or bi- to me this definition is somewhat beside the point. I am also the biological father of twin boys. Now, before the Christians gasp and shake their heads, I want to point out something: my ex-wife and i have a great relationship, our lives are going well, and we both delight in the raising of our children. Furthermore, my ex comes from a strong conservative family, and is a baptized Christian. She voted for McCain, and I for Obama. Her mother and father watch Fox Neews and 300 club regularly.

With some trepedation, they have come to accept me, even though it has not necessarily swayed their views on gay issues. But we get along. What my ex and her parents have that I don’t is a movement with discipline and leadership.

The problem with the gay movement is that (in some ways) it’s diversity is its own worst enemy. To win in a democracy, especially now-a-days, any movement needs discipline and leadership to succeed. You can’t just rely on celebrity endorsement and throwing money into adds. The movement needs better faces than rich supporters and awekward celebrities.

If the Right has the leadership and discipline to win this thing, then perhaps they deserved to win. that’s the bitch of democracy. perhaps rather than whine about it, gays could learn from it.

So, anyway, here’s the deal- the gay rights movement needs to back off the marriage issue, and focus on acceptance of the more secular issue of civil unions, or domestic partnership laws. As a whole many of the more Fundamentalist Christians object to this, than do the vast majority of middle-of-the-road christians. In states like Oregon, the constitution, by popular vote, defines marriage as a union between man and woman… however, with little protest, the legislature and Govener signed into law a civil union law, which guaruntees legal rights to gay couples. Opponents have failed to gain the necessary support and signatures to overturn the law.

The middle is ready for such legeslation. Strategically speaking, doesn’t it make more sense to push the secular, legal rights side of Civil Unions, rather than pushing against a religious principle? This movement would be better served redefining the meaning of the legal social contract, rather than trying to change religion.

Had the opponents of prop 8 been smart, they would have said “fine, you can be married, but we’re gonna fund Civil Union laws in 5 North Eastern States.”