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"If this campaign is about truth or love, then George Orwell must be its honorary chairman," said Shields of CRA's disingenuously named ad campaign. "No matter how much the Religious Right tries to dress it up, bigotry is still bigotry." The Center for Reclaiming America calls itself an "outreach" of Rev. D. James Kennedy's Fort Lauderdale-based Coral Ridge Ministries, which promotes lies and distortions about gays and lesbians. For example, one fundraising appeal used especially lurid lies to spur donations and inflame outrage among supporters.
CRA and its parent Coral Ridge are not alone in targeting gays for hatred and discrimination. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, for example, warned his supporters, "Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, the only way for them to 'breed' is to RECRUIT! And who are their targets for recruitment? Children!" Televangelist Pat Robertson has likened gays to Nazis. Focus on the Family's James Dobson has predicted that gays are going to oppress Christians. Anti-gay hatred is a staple of Religious Right organizations and figures. "The Religious Right's newfound rhetoric of 'love' is nothing more than a new label wrapped around the same old poison," said Shields. |
