Chase Strangio, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the “Christian Right” is implicated in the slaughter of 49 LGBT people at a gay bar in Orlando because they work to pass “anti-LGBT bills.” “The Christian Right has introduced 200 anti-LGBT bills in the last six months, and people are blaming Islam for this. No,” Mr. Strangio said.
The illogical conclusion of Mr. Strangio is not the only such allegation drawing a moral equivalence between Christianity’s teaching on sexuality and the mass shooting which a man who swore allegiance to the Islamic state carried out.
Sally Kohn, an MSNBC contributor, accused those who subscribe to traditional sexual mores of hypocrisy for condemning the murder of gay people. “Always fascinating to watch conservatives who won’t support basic non-discrimination laws bash Islamic fundamentalists for being anti-gay,” she said. “You either support the dignity & equal treatment of all LGBT people or you support their systemic dehumanization,” she said in another post.
Lesbian author Victoria Brownworth responding to a tweet from former Republican governor Mike Huckabee expressing sympathy for the victims of the attack and their families. “We don’t want your hypocritical prayers. You led the fight against LGBT people. You promote this every day.”
Kate Kendell, director of The National Center for Lesbian Rights said, “In the past two years, cowardly and irresponsible politicians have proposed more than 200 anti-LGBT laws — including those passed this year in North Carolina and Mississippi. Make no mistake; these laws and the pandering of so many elected officials to those who promote anti-LGBT bias foster a toxic climate.
Attempting to blame Christians for the mass murder of gays by an Islamic extremist demonstrates the lengths to which gay rights activists will go in their quest to mute the voice of Christians. True Christians love LGBT people and yearn for their salvation. They also yearn for them to give up their sins like they do for any other sinner. LGBT activists misrepresent Christians by attempting to portray legal protections of society’s biblical or traditional sexual mores as hatred toward LGBT people.
This is a classic example of how commandment keepers will be misrepresented by those demanding that everyone must keep Sunday as a day of rest.
The people of Sodom also jumped to false conclusions about Lot when he refused to give them the two visiting angels that were being sheltered in his home.
“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.” Genesis 19:9