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   From: bugchasers@queers.com   
      
   A goofy guy named Adam Weinstein writing for a goofy website   
   called Gawker has called for the jailing of those who deny   
   global warming. Weinstein says, “there is the body of purulent   
   pundits, paid sponsors, and corporate grifters who exploit the   
   smallest uncertainty at the edges of a settled science.” Those   
   who disagree with Weinstein on a scientific and political point   
   are criminally negligent and should face not just fines but even   
   prison.   
      
   As goofy as he is, he’s not the only one.   
      
   Just this past weekend serial adulterer Robert Kennedy Jr., who   
   may have driven his second wife to suicide—and who also attended   
   the New York march on climate change—also called for the jailing   
   of those who disagree with him.   
      
   In an interview with something called Climate Depot Kennedy said   
   those who are skeptical of global warming are “treasonous” and   
   ought to be treated that way. A few years ago a memo was put up   
   at agenda-setting left wing site Talking Points Memo—since taken   
   down—saying those who disagree about global warming should be   
   executed.   
      
   In recent days, the President has said that global warming is   
   one of our top national security concerns, even more pressing   
   than Islamic radicalism. After all, climate change affects the   
   whole planet, while Islamic radicals are only beheading a few   
   lousy Christians.   
      
   Climate change and the call for prosecutorial punishment for   
   disagreement is a glimpse into the modern liberal imagination   
   but it is not the only area where the modern left wants not just   
   to bully opponents but punish them. Walking in goose-step with   
   them is the LGBT left. A new report from the Human Rights   
   Campaign (HRC) shows the same frightening glimpse of the   
   increasingly dangerous bullyboys of the hard left.   
      
   The report is called The Export of Hate and features attacks on   
   many of my friends and colleagues.   
      
   It sure is a scary report. It looks that way and reads that way.   
   “There exists a network of American extremists who are working   
   tirelessly to undercut LGBT people around the world at every   
   turn.” Undercut. Yes, you read that right. They undercut. And it   
   does not get any more evil than that.   
      
   The report says that their “vicious brand of bigotry is   
   currently finding little traction in the United States” and so   
   they have cast their evil eyes overseas where they find   
   audiences with Parliaments, heads of state “and their wives” and   
   where popular opinion against the homosexual agenda is   
   widespread.   
      
   The report features scary mug-shot drawings of their enemies—the   
   scarier the better, so as to frighten every LGBT donor from here   
   to Timbuktu.   
      
   Have you ever heard of Scott Lively? Likely not. He runs a teeny   
   tiny group with an annual budget of less than $100,000 but he is   
   the bête noir of the bullyboys. They credit him for instituting   
   the new “draconian” laws in Russia against homosexual propaganda   
   in grade schools. They credit him with the new anti-LGBT laws in   
   Africa.   
      
   According to the report, Lively’s crime is suggesting there is a   
   global battle going on between “Christians and homosexuals.” You   
   would be forgiven if you considered that the new HRC report is   
   all about that battle but from the gay side. For Lively, though,   
   saying such a battle exists is a crime. The report says Lively   
   is active—cue scary music—in Uganda, Eastern Europe, Russia, and   
   the United Kingdom.   
      
   The report targets Peter LaBarbera, who runs Americans for Truth   
   about Homosexuality (that has a whopping and truly scary annual   
   budget of $110,000). LaBarbera’s crime is saying that kids are   
   better with a single parent than with a gay couple. He is   
   exporting such hate to Jamaica and, you won’t believe this,   
   Canada. Actually, LaBarbera was stopped at the Canadian border   
   some months ago and not allowed in because of his political   
   views on homosexuality.   
      
   And then there’s Paul Cameron. You have not heard of him either.   
   His Family Research Institute exists on $54,494 a year. His main   
   claim to fame years ago was to look at obituaries and determine   
   that gays die earlier than others. He’s been to Moldova, Russia   
   and Poland.   
      
   Sharon Slater of Family Watch International is a close and long   
   time UN ally of mine. The report lists her annual budget as   
   $26,569. Slater’s crime, according to the Human Rights Campaign,   
   is denying there is such a thing as “sexual rights.” Of course,   
   there isn’t such a thing. It has been debated for years at the   
   UN and repeatedly rejected. But, in this case, agreeing with the   
   UN is tantamount to a crime.   
      
   Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage is listed.   
   His group is larger than most with an annual budget, at least   
   during campaign season, north of $11 million. Brown was tagged   
   because he said man-woman marriage is a core pillar of society.   
      
   The fabulously wealthy, powerful and politically connected HRC   
   has even put up some super-scary videos showing how super-scary   
   their political opponents are. They are shot in black and white   
   with super-scary music and a super-scary editing technique that   
   makes you think they were shot surreptitiously. In hers, Sharon   
   Slater is shown saying the super-scary thing that there’s no   
   such thing as “sexual rights.” This is what passes for thought   
   and speech crimes by the hard sexual left.   
      
   Scott Lively believes he is being targeted for murder. An   
   exaggeration? Two years ago a homosexual activist loaded a   
   backpack with Chick-Fil-A sandwiches and loaded a pistol with   
   bullets and shot his way into the lobby of the Family Research   
   Council in Washington, DC. His intention was to kill as many   
   employees as possible (this is where my wife works) and stuff   
   their dead mouths with the bigoted chicken sandwiches. At trial   
   he said he was inspired to murder by a report from the hard-left   
   Southern Poverty Law Center that said FRC was a hate group   
   exactly like the Skin-Heads and Nazis.   
      
   Since the HRC report came out, Lively has received several death   
   threats which he has put up on his website. One guy wants to rip   
   out his throat. Another wants him raped in prison and then   
   killed.   
      
   This is nothing less than the criminalization of political   
   differences. And worse than that, it is a call for vigilantism.   
   Peter Wolfgang, who runs the Family Institute of Connecticut,   
   was repeatedly threatened with murder by a gay activist who was   
   later convicted and imprisoned. Wolfgang gets death threats all   
   the time.   
      
   Sarah Palin put crosshairs on pictures of her political   
   opponents and was accused of causing the shooting of Congressman   
   Gabby Gifford. Our moral betters tell us repeatedly about the   
   importance of civility in political discourse. Yet, here is a   
   $50 million a year gay group putting up mug-shots of its   
   political opponents and nary a peep of complaint from anyone   
   except their targets that what they are trying to do is bully,   
   shout down, marginalize, criminalize and even victimize those   
   who disagree with them politically.   
      
   And here’s the thing. To suggest that Lively or any of these   
   folks, myself included, have in any meaningful way affected the   
      
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