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| By Corrine Hicks
The Queer Resources Directory www.qrd.org is an electronic library that puts a vast array
of information about the RRR--the Radical Religious Right-- at your very fingertips: www.qrd.org/qrd/www/RRR/rrrpage.html
This huge library, which first went online in 1991, allows you to know your enemies—those "spiritual" people who want you either closeted or dead—and it provides hyperlinks to Web sites where you can study the burgeoning hate literature that spews forth daily in the names of—who else?—God and Jeeeezus.
You can study the Vatican's texts that malign gay men and lesbians, find out what the so-called Christian Coalition is pushing, dip into the shenanigans of the American Family Association and the Family Research Council, front-groups for fundamentalist money-making hate schemes.
Want to know who is behind the worsening climate of violence against the homosexual community in America? Its all here in red, white and blue, contained in a Fight the Right Action Kit that's been supplied by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF): www.qrd.org/qrd/www/FTR/tblcntnt.html.
Your worst—your most vicious enemies, Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition can be monitored at: www.cc.org
The much discredited "Ex-Gay" Movement, sponsored by a variety of "Christian" hate groups can be accessed too: www.messiah.edu/hpages/facstaff/chase/h/exodus Hate sites generally are catalogued and critiqued through hatewatch.org Whether in Europe or America, intolerance and dogma march hand in hand. Hatewatch keeps track of worldwide developments. If you're anxious to help those organizations that work to keep religion and the government from getting too cozy, separating them as is stipulated in the U.S. Constitution, there's more that one site devoted to such a lofty purpose. Separation of Church and State can be found at www.louisville.edu/~tnpete01/church/index.htm Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an organization whose activism is regularly reported upon in GayToday is accessible at www.au.org And, of course, there's that ever-lov'n "Christian" gentlemen, Kansas' best claim to fame since the Wizard of OZ, The Reverend Fred Phelps. Freddie—get ready—will jump into your purview just as his namesake did in Halloween— if you can just stomach typing: www.godhatesfags.com This is the site of the man who recently picketed not only Matthew Shepard's funeral but the Thomas Road Baptist Church, Rev. Jerry Falwell's precinct, for being too lenient while pretending on TV he loves gays and lesbians but not our homosexuality.
Some of the wonderful topics now on the God Hates Fags site
And don't forget Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women for America: www.cwfa.org a haven for Stepford Wife types who'll do anything and say anything to twist facts and keep sex as fun at a non-respectable distance. Concerned Women began with a concern its members might lose their meal- ticket husbands and was founded to fight passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
If you want to keep up with the prissy, prudish perversions of Gary Bauer's Family Research Council go to: www.frc.org Bauer hopes to take as his loving partner in domestic mischief none other than that big-mouthed, boring,, butch-posing bigot, the greenbay fudge-packer wanna-be, Reggie White. You may have seen Bauer on CNN. He looks like one time film star Peter Lorre. If you don't remember Peter Lorre, well, forget it.
Finally, be sure to check in on Focus on the Family—and James Dobson, its evil mastermind: www.family.org. Dobson's dumb doings have been ably recorded by Gil Alexander-Moegerle, once among Dobson's closest confidantes, but now the author of a book titled James Dobson's War on America (Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York). Mr. Alexander-Moegerle's own site is therefore of interest: home.earthlink.net/~gmoegerle/ The Queer Resources Directory properly quotes Sun Tzu's tome on The Art of War in describing what it takes to do battle against one's foes, religious or otherwise. It is wise to keep Sun Tzu's advice in mind when traipsing through RRR Land: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Related Stories from the GayToday Archive: Free Speech Delete Key is Hit by U.S. Congress The Internet: Another Stupid Censorship Law |
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