Badpuppy Gay Today

Wednesday, 26 March, 1997

Masquerading under the guise of religion, a Baptist hate group in Topeka, Kansas, has published a "religious" bulletin for its members that has been re-published in the April issue of Harper's. Referring to Hawaii as a "moral leper colony," because of the December 3, 1996 decision by a Hawaiian judge that may allow same-sex marriages, the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas has instructed its members to "think" Cuba when they go on vacations. This, says the bulletin, is because people testing HIV-positive there are "sensibly" quarantined by Fidel Castro's communist government.

Hawaii, on the other hand, say the Topeka Baptists, is a place where "none but the dregs of humanity will voluntarily go." Therefore, they report, the Pacific islands state is a fit habitat "only for fags, perfectly suited to be a sanatorium for the compulsory quarantine of all guilty, homosexual AIDS carriers."

Referring to Hawaii as "the Island of the Damned, the Anteroom to Hell, and the Sperm Bank of Satan" the Westboro Baptist Church foresees a locale where the "fags" can "eat, sleep, and copulate, and the whole of Hawaii will be their toilet."

"Patronize Cuba!" suggests the tax-exempt church, crossing a political line that is presently forbidden by the United States Government. "Unlike Fidel Castro," insist Westboro's moralistic guidance counselors, "our U.S. politicians are intimidated by the homosexual lobby and will not quarantine AIDS carriers."

As with present-day AIDS quarantines in Cuba, it was the Castro government's 1965 imprisonment of gay men at an island concentration camp that occasioned history's first organizational gay and lesbian demonstrations. The first, under the auspices of The Mattachine Society of Washington, took place at the White House on April 17, 1965, and the second, sponsored by the New York Mattachine Society, Inc., followed the next day at the United Nations.

The Westboro Baptists are being instructed that "Castro has more sense in this matter than all of our moral midgets now in power combined." Addressing the communist dictator, the Baptists have petitioned him, assuring him he has a "golden opportunity." Open the gates, they plead, so that Cuba can become a "vacation mecca where decent, snowbound Americans can go in lieu of Hawaii."

Keeping Cuba a "fag free" place, according to these "Christians" who "love" others as themselves, should be among President Castro's priorities. Thereby, they instruct him, "predatory, disease ridden sodomites" can be :rounded up and quarantined like the unclean dogs, hogs, four-footed beasts, and creeping things the Bible says they are." The bulletin refers to "filthy, fornicating American faggots sucking, slobbering, and sodomizing."