First Goats, Now Mass Murder

When the push for gay rights really started to heat up in the last few years, I was sure the most far-fetched argument I would hear was the theory that if same-sex marriages were allowed, it wouldn't be long before people started demanding they be allowed to marry their goats. How homosexuality and bestiality are connected, I still don't understand. But just when I thought the arsenal of those protesting same-sex marriage couldn't get more ridiculous, they pull come up with something else.

Bob Peters, president of Morality in Media, has released new "proof" that the gay rights movement is directly linked to the mass murder. An article by On Top Magazine quotes the the press release, titled Connecting the Dots: The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders as saying Peters believes that the "secular value system" or our post-Christian society is what is powering the push for gay marriage. To Peters support for homosexuality is just more proof of the decaying moral standards of our society.

One thing about this theory that stands out in my opinion is its similarities to a January 2008 press release by Peters titled Mass Murders by Individuals and the Role of Guns, Religion, and Popular Culture. In this press release issued only three months ago Peter does not mention homosexuality once as a instigator of mass murders. In that article his three reasons for an increase in mass murder are lack of respect for guns ("It is sometimes said that guns don't kill people, people do. And there is truth in that statement."), American youths' desertion and religion values ("Today, of course, ridicule of religion and use of ministers as comic characters or villains is commonplace... part of the good that religion brought is a commandment, 'You shall not commit murder.'"), and pop culture ("...the film industry now wallows in, glamorizes and celebrates murder, revenge and sadism...") Connecting the Dots... seems largely like a cut-and-paste job of Murder by Individuals... accept instead of blaming guns, religion, and pop culture, Peters blames decaying moral standards which manifest in the gay rights movement. Other than that the rhetoric is the same ol' same old.

I can't help but wonder what's going to come next. Is there any limit to what the religious right-wing will say to get the American people on their side. It just makes me think that they keep stretching so much because the real reason for their disapproval wouldn't attract as much attention as the sensationalized version. When you get down to it, many of them believe sex and/or marriage is between a man a woman, and anything else is an abomination and against God's will. I personally don't agree with it, but they have every right to believe that. But it's not as flashy as bestiality and mass murders. Oh well! I guess they'll do anything for to continue the fear mongering they apparently need to win any support.