It is not enough these days for hard-core ideologues to disagree with their critics. They go for the jugular. The politics of personal destruction has never been so prevalent and so vicious.
This is certainly the case with radical LGBTQ activists and supporters. The way they treat Christian critics is particularly deplorable—they are bent on demonizing them.
Jack Phillips is well known as the Christian baker who would not personalize a wedding cake for two gay men who were celebrating their “marriage” (he never denied serving homosexuals from buying anything). On a radical LGBTQ website, them.us, his lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom were dubbed a “hate group,” no doubt influenced by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s characterization of them. But the real haters are those who slandered these courageous lawyers.
Christians across the nation are protesting males from competing with females in sports, essentially destroying women’s athletics. As a result, the Human Rights Campaign, a gay titan, declared “a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans for the first time in history.” By setting off false alarms, it makes them look like the zealots they are.
The big bogeyman for these radicals are so-called Christian Nationalists, otherwise known as Christian patriots. Leading the charge is Amanda Tyler, who leads a campaign against these nefarious creatures for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. I wrote a two-part series on her work (“Myth of Christian Nationalist Violence”) that is available on the Catholic League website. More false alarms—her “evidence” of a Christian Nationalist threat is risible.
Zooey Zephyr is a trans Montana representative who says Christian Nationalists are trying “to put down roots in our part of the state.” As a result, “We’re going to throw away democracy.”
The website at lgbtqnation.com warns that “far-right white Christian cultural soldiers have raided and assaulted public education with their so-called ‘anti-woke’ and ‘anti-DEI’ crusade.” These trans-happy activists are angry with Christian parents who don’t want to sexualize their children with school material that is not age appropriate.
Rev. Pat Robertson was a highly influential Christian televangelist. When he died, “The Advocate,” a prominent gay publication, was not satisfied to say they sharply disagreed with him. No, they said he was “a truly evil man.” When Dr. James Dobson, a well respected Christian psychologist, died, the same people blamed him for promoting conversion therapy. They said he was encouraging “psychological torture,” adding that his goal was to kill these homosexuals.
Opus Dei is a Catholic organization that attracts many who want to deepen their spirituality. But to radical LGBTQ activists, it is a “far-right” menace and a “reactionary” group. For proof, the activists cite a book on the group by Gareth Gore. I reviewed this book (see “Why the Need to Bash Opus Dei?” on our website) and found it to be one of the most intellectually sloppy volumes I have read in a long time. It is replete with factual errors.
Earlier this year, President Trump established a Commission on Religious Liberty; the Catholic League has been working with them for months. Its goal is to combat anti-Christian bigotry, but to the gay-trans crowd, this is a “chilling mission.” Evidently, it is not a “chilling mission” to eradicate other expressions of bigotry, just those that are anti-Christian in nature. Other opponents say this effort is really designed to create “Christian hegemony, resulting in Christian privilege.” Still others say its goal is “Christian nationalism.”
When the IRS dropped its prohibitions on the clergy from addressing political issues, “The Advocate” said this “takes the devil’s bargain to a new and dangerous level. It’s akin to something like doing away with all gun restrictions.” The author said, “I worry most about the Catholic Church,” citing concerns about its pro-life work.
When the Congress was about to pass Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” House Speaker Mike Johnson was seen praying before the vote. This sent a gay-trans activist into orbit. He said a photo of this “infuriated me.” Imagine that. A Christian politician prays in public and that is enough to drive some people over the edge.
Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld is one of the more prolific Christian-bashing gay writers in the country. He says the very concept of God is used “to divide us by imposing a hierarchical positioning of people and groups into ‘us’ (the ‘ingroup’) versus ‘them’ (the ‘others,’ the marginalized, the heathens, the unbelievers, the ‘outgroup’).” Gotta give it to him—he has a very fertile imagination.
Another sage, Rodney Wilson, is convinced that “Jesus and St. Paul were asexual, and everybody in heaven is nonbinary.” He cites as evidence that St. Paul wrote, “in Christ we are neither male or female.” Hard to believe anyone really believes this, but apparently some do.
Demonizing Christians and disparaging God. That’s what radical LGBTQ activists are good at doing. Evidently, they cannot engage in a meaningful dialogue without resorting to invective and smear tactics. Relying on bigotry to defend their agenda suggests they are incompetent, as well as unethical.
