This makes my stomach turn. Just last week the Sutherland Institute, the conservative think tank behind the 'Sacred Ground Initiative' (in opposition to basic protections for LGBQT citizens in Utah) had a meeting.
My friend Jude had pre-registered for the meeting out of genuine curiosity in regards to their arguments. When he arrived, he noticed that a "NO" had been scribbled next to his name. He was told that he wasn't on the list. When he pointed out that he was, in fact, on the list, they told him to follow two men, who then escorted him away from the property.
Anyway, the Sutherland Institute just released 3 highly edited clips of their "Sacred Ground" meeting with god fearin' background propaganda music. I posted one below, which I felt a bit of hesitance about. But, despite how agonizing it is, it's good to know what's stirring on the other side of the argument and what our legislators and some other Utah folk are hearing.
Have a bucket handy. This is just a taste.
Admittedly, now I'm a little relieved that Jude got turned away from this 'Sacred Ground' meeting for looking like a rabble rousing queer. I couldn't imagine actually sitting through that. It's astounding to me that anyone would be afraid and misinformed enough to actually buy into this kind of nonsensical rhetoric, like there being a delicate science to family structure.
Scientific structures keep families together? What about love?
Oh wait, I guess that whole "love" aspect to family isn't hyped up to be all that important to some families in the god fearin' state of Utah, with one of the highest rates of LGBT youth homelessness in the nation. That's just science, I suppose?
Or not.
Related articles:
Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness (PDF)
My friend Jude had pre-registered for the meeting out of genuine curiosity in regards to their arguments. When he arrived, he noticed that a "NO" had been scribbled next to his name. He was told that he wasn't on the list. When he pointed out that he was, in fact, on the list, they told him to follow two men, who then escorted him away from the property.
Anyway, the Sutherland Institute just released 3 highly edited clips of their "Sacred Ground" meeting with god fearin' background propaganda music. I posted one below, which I felt a bit of hesitance about. But, despite how agonizing it is, it's good to know what's stirring on the other side of the argument and what our legislators and some other Utah folk are hearing.
Have a bucket handy. This is just a taste.
Admittedly, now I'm a little relieved that Jude got turned away from this 'Sacred Ground' meeting for looking like a rabble rousing queer. I couldn't imagine actually sitting through that. It's astounding to me that anyone would be afraid and misinformed enough to actually buy into this kind of nonsensical rhetoric, like there being a delicate science to family structure.
Scientific structures keep families together? What about love?
Oh wait, I guess that whole "love" aspect to family isn't hyped up to be all that important to some families in the god fearin' state of Utah, with one of the highest rates of LGBT youth homelessness in the nation. That's just science, I suppose?
Or not.
Related articles:
Report: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness (PDF)
I want to rant for hours about this. This is such bullshit, this isn't even true. It's not TRUE AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteScientifically, studies have been done that actually prove that multiple parents are the ideal situation for raising children. You know that old saying it takes a village to raise a child. Well, scientifically that has turned out to be pretty accurate. By multiple parents I don't even mean polygamy. I just mean that it takes more then a mother, more than a father. AND FURTHER MORE scientifically, I was raised by a straight mother and father and I'm a big queer so where is your science (god) now?
F! I dislike these people. They didn’t answer the question at all they just made up some stupid BS and tried to pitch it in a faux sacrament meeting setting. I did have to giggle at the thought of Jay actually sitting in this conference and not being able to hold hir tongue. Ok I am done now, I’ll go back to my own space for ranting.
That is the worst thing ever. I cannot even rant due to bottled anger. I mean, why do these people need to live? God.
ReplyDeleteAs a former/jack-mo, I know the culture here talks about the last days before Christ's return. Apparently they believe that Utah will be home to one of the most wicked places on earth. This *may* have something to do with the fearmongering this type of group perpetuates.
ReplyDeleteI really, really, am curious if even one of these folks has considered - framed within their religious beliefs - that the hatred groups like this or the Eagle Forum is truly the least Christlike way a person can act? I mean, where else will you find such intolerance in the world? Rwanda? the Congo? Utah? We are only a step behind. I'm sure this group would have the pitchforks and torches out if they weren't so afraid of the media exposure.
Fear and hate. That's all it is.
I love this. Once it cut to the image of the building, I almost laughed out loud. Laws of physics and the laws of our country aren't very comparable. That's like comparing the laws of man with the laws of God. Or whatever.
ReplyDeleteBut really, I'd have liked it if he'd answered his own question. You know you have no leg to stand on when you can't answer your own hypothetical question.
No offense to people with no legs to stand on.