In which we collect "the worst of the worst"; a scavenging of slurs and diatribes against the gay community distinguished either by (a) pure, unadulterated, mince-no-words hate smears, or (b) by the elaborate pretense of intellectual discourse. These last are the worst frauds, the "Mein Kampfs" which give the appearance of intellectual and moral legitimacy to skinheads. In our view, these typify a broader threat to the entire community -- to all of us.

We present the source material (or links to it) here, with our responses and analysis, in the hopes that the careful reader will see common threads in all hate literature, and why some people find superiority theories so convincing.

Some links below appear to require little or no elaboration. Many sites are extremely offensive to thinking people.

July 29, 2000: The Other Side of Hate Propaganda

Following is the "other side of the abomination dialog" that you almost never get to see first-hand. It's pathetic.

Evangelical Christians have their own WebRing, as may any affinity group. Are these a threat to independent thinkers? Are they a threat to the gay community? Unless they spout violence (and this site didn't), we don't think so. On the whole: these sites mainly influence like-minded other sites, and have no real impact on the gay community, or on newcomers who need real information about what it means to be gay.

Nevertheless, such sites are often cited as "evidence" by the unthinking, the unwashed, and by malevolent gay-haters and gay-baiters such as the "Reverend Phelps". In this capacity, "trash religion" sites serve the same role as soiled mattresses at the dump: when a public dump becomes a community hazard, you go after the dump operators, not the folks who unloaded their garbage.

Here's a Horror Files site with a twist.

E-mail from "Tony_Earl CNLGLFG [Tony_Earl@webtv.net]", was detected in our very first trial of freeware program "SPAM Buster" (our free trial version also had a serious defect, so we uninstalled it).

The E-mail subject was "sorry about matthew" (all lower case), which gives you an idea where this is headed ...

The URL belongs to a site put up by a guy named Tony Horton, or Tony Earl. You can't tell which by reading the web page, but it doesn't matter.  It begins much like other twisted, sick, perverted anti-gay Christian hate propaganda: "No one is born gay. It's a perverted choice you made."

"In short i was a homosexual with a lost soul and now im no longer a homosexual living and seeking God's will at all cost in my life."

The site unfolds a pathetic layer: the site is sick, confused, and litters the bottom of its parrot cage with droppings of politicized bible-babble. Like all evangelists, the site assumes people will be interested in these dogmas because it name-drops God, biblical citations, and a particular church sect. 

Don't get caught up arguing whether the site's author is a gay who thinks he's straight, or bi, or a straight boy who thinks he used to be gay. Psychosexuality has nothing to do with what's wrong with this page. Page content is driven by religious propaganda, not a real, living, breathing person. Behind this, there are hints of a confused and tortured person who thinks his sexuality has something to do with it.

This site is living proof that the values we humans embrace are the "drivers" of the human Operating System. Install corrupt DLL's, and your OS will always be a mess.

In a nutshell, the site is harmless to anyone who already knows better. A Javascript banner advertises this as an "Awesome Christian Site", and this site is linked by a WebRing affinity grouping, presumably, to others of its bent. The site also plays some annoying churchy music.

Please do not harass this person with correction, polite or passionate disagreement, flame mail or anything else. There's no common ground here; nothing to talk about. If you had heard there's sites like that "out there", but never seen one, here's your chance for a real education. That's all. It's a free country. Let it go at that.

The Westboro Baptist Church Home Page "This is NOT a joke --- this is a legitimate website of a Baptist church -- it is filled with more hate than you can possibly believe. If you plan on sending them nasty e-mail, I would not waste my time --- they have filters set up to delete lots of the mail. I would suggest you look at the site though and see what kind of people are out there.......some of you will be amazed at it".

This one is dangerous.

The image above is the actual web page logo of the Westboro Baptist Church. These creatures will be picketing Matt Shepard's funeral Friday, October 16, 1998. Not because Matt was murdered, but because he was gay. Undoubtedly they will say deserved to die. Matt was beaten and murdered by homophoblic youths in a particularly savage and notorious gay-bashing in Laramie, Wyoming.

Matthew Shepard
in memoriam
1976 - 1998

As you peruse these pages and the hate links collected here, ask yourself whether you can see a clear causal relationship between the lawless, un-Christian hate rhetoric of the Rev. Phelps and his kind, and the current resurgence of gay-bashing, violence and discrimination against others on the basis of sexual orientation alone.

To Rev. Phelps and his cult, Billy Graham is a "heretic". The Christian Right are seen as mealy-mouth, waffling cowards. This outfit is the Reverend Phelps group, in the flush.

Try to remember that these folks are related to Christianity, as coliform bacteria counts are related to public swimming pools.

"The Ad" - The Christian Coalition ad finally came to San Francisco. It was all there in the 8/16/98 Sunday San Francisco Examiner. It was all we expected, and less. A lot of good people simply won't know what to make of it. Would they spend all that money for an ad if there wasn't some truth to it? Let's examine that hypothesis in detail.

EXPOSE: "Inventing The AIDS Virus" . A book that pretends AIDS is a hoax. Hoax books and elaborate "proofs" are coming back into fashion in some circles -- particularly when they're defamatory. Our take on the book, and on the thinking which makes it attractive to certain types of people. Source material, analysis and links.

RELIGIOUS TRACT (link): Aberrant Sexuality The theological underpinnings for the anti-gay True Believer. In March, a jury found John C. Salvi III guilty of murdering two receptionists outside a Boston abortion clinic. In Israel, a smirking Yigal Amir was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of a Peace Prize co-winner, prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. What kinds of ideas might gay-bashers seek for their moral justification for murder? Why do some political fundamentalists want so desperately to believe in a "cure" for homosexuality? Read this tract. It doesn't get any better than this. Guaranteed 100% non-violent.

Please note: the link provided above is to an individual's personal web page. Neither their sincerity nor right to freedom of expression are in question here. La Parola's link is NOT to be used for harrassment, crank mail or the like. Protect free speech on the web. Visit, form your own opinion, and leave quietly.

Commentary

CHURCH AND STATE (link): Christian Coalition Home Page . The horse's mouth: that part of an equine anatomy presented to those inspecting its teeth.