The gay manifesto by michael swift
Ed Vitagliano
AFA Journal news editor
February – “All churches who condemn us will be closed.” That was what Michael Swift, a “gay revolutionary,” declared in a February issue of the Gay Community News.
“Michael Swift” was a pseudonym, and the first line of the now-infamous homosexual rant – which was even reprinted in the Congressional Tape – claimed that the entire piece was a “cruel fantasy” that explained “how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.”
The “dream” was filled with a nightmare scenario that seemed like something out of a fascist coup d’etat: “All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. … [W]e shall make films about the love between heroic men. … The family unit – spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence – will be abolished. … All churches who condemn us will be closed.”
As the article found its way into Christian publications, believers were horrified, and homosexual activists tried to make light of its contents, claiming that it was intended merely as a satire.
Not many Christians, however,
From: Michael Swift: "Gay Revolutionary, Gay Community News, Feb. , (reprinted from The Congressional Record, with preface restored)
In , Michael Swift was asked to contribute an editorial piece to GCN, an important gay community magazine, although adequately to the left of most American gay and lesbian opinion. A decade later this text, printed in the Congressional Record is repeatedly cited, apparently verbatim, by the religious right as evidence of the "Gay Agenda". The video Gay Rights, Unique Rights, put out by Lou Sheldon's Traditional Values Coalition cites it with ominous music and picture of children. But when the religious rights cites this text, they always omit, as does the Congressional record, the vital first line, which sets the context for the piece. In other words, every other version of this found on the net is part of the radical right's excellent lie about gay people. For a discussion of the whole "Gay vs. Religious Right" phenomenon spot Chris Bull and John Gallagher: Perfect Enemies: The Religious Right, the Gay Movement, and
Update, July On Tuesday, Hice breezed past Michael Collins to win the Republican nomination and all but guarantee a trip to Washington in January.
In his seven years in Congress, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) distinguished himself by calling biology &#;lies straight from the pit of hell&#; and accusing President Barack Obama of establishing a secret national police press to push a Marxist dictatorship. But the noun who may replace Broun in Washington could excel him.
In a book, that candidate—pastor and talk radio host Jody Hice—alleges the gay community has a secret plot to recruit and sodomize children. In It&#;s Now or Never: A Call to Reclaim America, Hice also asserts that supporters of abortion rights are worse than Hitler and compares gay relationships to bestiality and incest. He proposes that Muslims be stripped of their First Amendment rights.
On Tuesday, Hice clinched a spot in the runoff to replace Broun, who declined to run for re-election in order to run for Senate. Hice will face businessman Michael Collins in the July 22 runoff. In a district that gav
On 13th of June, Agneta Skardžiuvienė, Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson of the Republic of Lithuania, found that Telšiai Žemaitė Gymnasium violated the Law on Equal Treatment of the Republic of Lithuania by not ensuring the absence of discrimination and material promoting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in its curriculum. It has been confirmed that one of the school’s teachers, during a moral (religious) studies lesson, gave information that degraded gay individuals, promoting a negative attitude toward them and encouraging discrimination.
The Ombudsperson launched an investigation after images surfaced on Facebook depicting slideshow frames from the teacher’s lesson – the lesson described homosexual individuals as practicing sadomasochism for entertainment, raping and abusing minors, and even compared them to serial killers who cannibalized their victims. The investigation assessed whether Telšiai Žemaitė Gymnasium properly fulfilled its duty to ensure that its curriculum does not discr