From the Queerbashers for Jesus: A Pink PurgeTommi Avicolli Meccabyline‚ Oct. 20‚ 2006The LA Times reported recently that some fundamentalist Christian leaders want a "pink purge" to rid Congress and the Republican Party of homosexuals in key positions. They believe that queers who serve as top aides and advisors to conservative congress members are sabotaging their efforts to ban gay marriage and make America a theocracy. They even see some Republican congress members as too sympathetic to the "gay agenda." They've supposedly even compiled a list of all the gay Republican insiders in D.C., and they're ready to out them. A "pink purge" would be nothing new. LGBT folks have always been the object of Christian witch hunts: Whether it was during the Middle Ages when we were burned at the stake or the McCarthy red scare years when we lost our jobs. Over the last five decades, Christian ministers and politicians have gained great wealth and influence denouncing the "homosexual menace" and the "gay agenda." Even when some of those ministers and politicians were gay themselves. |