XGW Digest: August 29, 2009
-US District Judge David Carter dismisses a lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act on a technicality.
-Harvey Milk is inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
-Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute equates homosexuality with Nazism.
-A Chicago police officer comes under investigation for allegedly harassing and falsely arresting gay and lesbian motorists.
-Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio speaks out in favor of gay marriage.
-Concert promoter Live Nation cancels the four performances it had scheduled for extreme anti-gay singer Buju Banton.
-Washington Families Standing Together files a lawsuit against the WA Secretary of State’s office over the certification process for anti-gay Referendum 71.
-Jason Kuznicki dissects the Washington Post’s puff piece on Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage.
The whole Nazism thing left me sickened. If I had a penny for every time I’d heard that tired gay Nazi canard, I’d be rich. I also love how evangelicals are so selective about their “evangelical” German heroes. Bonhoffer was neo-orthodox and held liberal theological ideals. Niemoller as well. The one truly evangelical hero from that period, Kurt Gerstein, is never mentioned, because his story requires evangelicals to recognize a degree of moral ambiguity not usually seen in evangelical practice (Gerstein was an SS officer who tried to alert the allies to what was going on in the camps. He also tried to sabotage quite a few gas shipments to the camps, but in order to sabotage those shipments he also to stay involved in the extermination process. That’s real life, something evangelicals definitely do not want to deal with).
Another week, another embarrassment for Illinois.