I have worked on a number of high profile gay activist projects. I have found that gay Christians have been the most formidably adversaries I have had to face.
The Log Cabin chapters in the south are full of white supremacist evangelical Christians that oppose all the same things the wing nuts do. They use the same character assassination techniques to quash personal freedom. They hate public expression that might be labeled “flamboyant”. They hate gay “camp”. They hate drag queens. They hate gay people that “flame”. They hate all gay people that are NOT white evangelical Christians.
When I worked on a campaign to discredit the self proclaimed reverend Grant Storms I was literally physically assaulted, verbally assaulted and in general harassed for months by gay Christians and gay Christian groups that supported the so called Reverend Grant Storms. This is a man that during the Homo Fascist Convention advocated killing gay people.
When I worked on the very first Gay Day in Rhea County Tennessee I was constantly battling gay Christians that would come to fund raisers and disrupt them because I was labeled as a “Christian basher”. Christianity over trumps everything even when it is not in their best interest.
Christianity is the enemy of freedom. We have to get over our aversion to confronting the evil nature of the Christian religion. Christians are dangerous to a freedom loving society. The proof of this is in the fact that George W. Bush got more gay votes then any other president in American history. Unfortunately most gay people in America are Christian and Christians will support things that go against their best interest if it has enough Jesus behind it. The Jesus factor doesn’t even have to be proven. All the Christians need is a hand full of so called religious leaders to tell them what to think and do and they will blindly follow in lockstep. John Kerry goes to church every Sunday; Bush never goes to church, a few Christian leaders tell the Christian sheepeople Bush has more Jesus and that’s all it took.
Christianity is our obstacle to freedom and until we have the guts to wage a war against Christianity we will never achieve equality and will in fact most likely become criminals when homosexuality is criminalized once again. All of this in the name of a mythical character written about in a book of fairy tales.