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By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:30:25 +0000

BTW, just seen this review: http://global.christianpost.com/news/god-loves-uganda-film-exposes-violent-evangelical-movement-targeting-gays-88896/

By: Ford

Ford — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:30:25 +0000

Richard Willmer –
I’m repudiating the idea that, as I think you are suggesting, we have reached some sort of tipping point and that most people will soon view gay-bashing as illegitimate. There is a large portion of the evangelical Christian community that continues to spew anti-gay invective as a misguided expression of moral disapproval (in the name of Christ no less!). This is not the fringe of the faith – it is the core of the largest denominations of the largest religion in the United States.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:29:20 +0000

I too agree with SGM, as my comment above made very clear (and I quote what I said): “By contrast [re. the Obama-Hitler business], some of the anti-gay rhetoric (e.g. in relation to child abuse) is often carefully calculated by those who indulge in it to build on irrational prejudices and thus to stir up hatred – as was the case with much Nazi propaganda against Jewish people.”
I posted the CP review without comment. I’ve not seen the film, so cannot make an informed judgement about the review. The thesis that at least some of these ‘missionaries’ have stirred up anti-gay sentiment is, given other things I’ve heard, entirely credible.
Does that make my own position clear for you, Ford? (I have the impression – maybe quite wrongly – that you are worried about ‘where I stand’. 🙂 )

By: Zoe Brain

Zoe Brain — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:28:23 +0000

Sorry, anything Mr Barton says or repeats has to be fact-checked.

By: Richard Willmer

Richard Willmer — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:28:23 +0000

So really the ‘Hitler position’ seems to be ‘guns for everyone, except those arbitrarily selected on ideological grounds to be murdered’, or something of that sort?
I didn’t know that. Thanks, Zoe.
(I think it highly unlikely that anyone in the USA is going to propose anything remotely like this, or that might lead to anything remotely like this!)