Churches contribute to gay suicides

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A complete and utter red herring! Because nobody is claiming that Christianity, as a religion or personal values system, is to blame. Many gay people are Christians. Many LGBT supporters are Christians. Many other Christians are non-supporters of LGBT rights and maybe their lives in general, but still don't get involved in the anti-LGBT politicking that has come to define the religious right (and that has wounded so many impressionable minds). So saying "Christianity [is] not to blame for attacks on gays and lesbians" is a clever sidestep that completely misses the big dance.

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As a followup to Jim Daly's CNN blog or Maggie Gallagher's syndicated column suggesting that faith-based condemnation plays no role in LGBT suicides:
Rolling Stone -- the real, nearly 43-year-old publication co-founded by the openly gay Jann Wenner -- responds to its Uganda imitator:
Like Maggie Gallagher before him, Jim Daly conveniently overlooks the key issue here: The day-to-day work and messaging that make up a large portion of his paycheck-earning career. Jim is still vocally opposed to same-sex marriage; is one of the major backers of the so-called Manhattan Declaration, which essentially declares war on gay couples' right to legal recognition (and which features some truly eye-opening signatures); he says that gays "find themselves in homosexuality," and will, via their legal loving, bring forth the "judgement of God"; he claims that pro-equality companies like Wells Fargo are pushing a "radical homosexual agenda"; and he heads up an organization that, when its worker bees are not busy claiming that a highly qualified SCOTUS nominee would be a non-starter if he or she was gay or lesbian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], still prints all of the following things on its official website, all of which can be found by simply typing "homosexual" into the search box on the org's main landing page (the exact kind of search a scared mother in the midwest would make if seeking answers about her gay son):
The current war against judges who sided with equal protection and due process in removing gender discrimination from marriage may not be exclusively partisan. But if this, one of the very first editorials written about the Iowa judicial retention system, doesn't sound like a rebuke of the Iowa For Freedom coalition's attempt to remove judges based on personal faith objections rather than merit, we don't know what "Mad Men" era assessment could've more ably made the case:

A new newspaper out of Uganda bearing the name Rolling Stone has published one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds we have ever read. The article printed the addresses and photos of 100 homosexuals in the country, calling for them to be hanged. Not only are we not affiliated in any way with the Ugandan paper,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we have demanded they cease using our name as a title. But there is a larger issue at stake: Homosexuality is still a crime in much of Africa, often punishable by life in prison. “Half the world’s countries that criminalize homosexual conduct do so because they cling to Victorian morality and colonial laws,” says Scott Long of Human Rights Watch. “Getting rid of these unjust remnants of the British empire is long overdue.”
African 'Rolling Stone' Impostor Spreads Hate Agenda [*THE* Rolling Stone]
Over on CNN online, Focus on the Family president Jim Daly is weighing in on who is and is not to "blame" for the ongoing fear, harassment, and suicides involving LGBT young people:

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Not only is Christianity not to blame for attacks against gays and lesbians, when properly interpreted and practiced, it is the cure for and solution to the mistreatment and abuse of anyone, for any reason.
If there is a single golden thread woven through the Bible and the faith it informs, it is this: when it comes to human rights and how we treat each other, no person is superior or inferior to the next. Yes, sin exists; and God does not condone it. But he does embrace the sinner - and that means every one of us. Scripture makes it clear we’ve all fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), yet makes it just as clear (Romans 5: Cool

that “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
So, to violate the dignity of another person, in any form or fashion, is to contradict the very basis of Gospel-centered living. And to suggest that an orthodox understanding of Christianity encourages abuse against homosexuals is a sad misreading of the very tenets of the faith.
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In the end, it's the graceless behavior of bullies - against homosexuals or anyone else - that should serve to remind both Christians and non-Christians why Jesus came to earth at all: It is his way, exclusively, that provides the power to transform hearts, minds and actions.
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Yep, we're getting pretty damn tired of the yo-yo treatment too, Tony. Might you Family Research Council folks consider playing with your Wiis instead?

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Okay, so this isn't gay-specific. But when a comedian-turned-commentator takes to the über-anti-gay WorldNetDaily site to say this about the über-gay-friendly Joy Behar....
Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found.
More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people is negative, and about the same number say those messages contribute "a lot" to negative perceptions of gay and lesbian people.
Churches contribute to gay suicides, most Americans believe [CNN]
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Hmm...active items treated like personal playthings, repeatedly smacked down by larger hands? String-pulling that's easily tangled up by even the supposedly skilled? Gifts that are routinely tossed in the closet, waiting for someone to wise up and see the worth? Or worse: Written off as broken and thrown out like garbage?
Uhm, we're not raising an eyebrow at religion, Mr. Daly. We're raising it at your anti-gay work
Let "the people" vote. Isn't that what these public-opinion-happy "pro-family" types are always saying?
Now if Spin magazine would address the way anti-LGBT social conservatives co-opt their title (or at least its concept).

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