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Gay-Basher Chuck Colson: “I Can’t Think of A Single Time” I’ve Gay Bashed

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Chuck Colson, who calls legal same-sex marriages “so-called marriages,” is sadden to learn he made the GLAAD list of 36 anti-gay pundits they will be tracking and holding accountable. Colson best-known as a Watergate felon turned prison minister, is also one of the triumvirate  — along with NOM, National Organization For Marriage founder Robert George – who drafted the virulently anti-gay “Manhattan Declaration.” And last year he also wrote, “‘gay marriage’ will inevitably undermine all marriages.” But amusingly, Colson today writes that he is in fact no gay-basher: “Over the years I have been very careful not to engage in gay-bashing. I can’t think of a single time I have.”

Colson calls the list’s existence — and the entire GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project (CAP)  — “intimidation,” and labels it “par for the course for many in the so-called gay-rights movement.”

Not interested in dialogue, they seem more interested in demonizing and shouting down their opponents.

For another, their definition of “gay bashing” is skewed. For them, anything short of renouncing the historical Christian teaching on sexuality is akin to hate. If I say that homosexual sex is a sin, they say I’m hateful.

Yes, that’s right. You are. How would you like to be denied your marriage?

Because, Mr. Colson, you seek to deny us the right to marriage, yet say “homosexual sex is a sin,” just as “pre-marital sex is a sin.”

You — and your ilk — demand we never be afforded the joys and responsibilities of marriage, nor those of sex. How is that not gay-bashing, but gay-affirming?

Colson continues:

I seek to honestly discuss the issues. So if any reporter has evidence of gay bashing on my part, I’d like to hear it. But again, I reject the notion that disagreement – even strong disagreement – is gay bashing or hateful.

I can’t speak for the others on this latest list, but I for one, will not be intimidated into silence. No matter what list I make!

It’s amazing that the GLAAD project has had such an effect on those who would seek to not only silence the LGBT community, but imprison or even put us to death. Yes, it’s unfair to hold accountable each individual for statements the others have made, but it hopefully irks a few that they’re on the same list as Bryan Fischer, who says gays are Nazis and would see us jailed.

That’s the funny thing about lists. Take the SPLC updated list that now holds 27 anti-gay hate groups, and the larger list of all hate groups that has blossomed into over 1000.

I wonder if Fischer is irked he’s on the same list as the KKK?

But back to our friend Chuck Colson.

Eric Ethington at Pride In Utah one year ago this month wrote:

Rabid extremist Chuck Colson has just released a video condemning GSA’s (Gay Straight Alliances) in Utah, saying that they are indoctrinating kids to rape others just like in prison.

But, Colson is no gay-basher, right?

Here’s the video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oyyt7uDht1Y%3Fversion%3D3%26hl%3Den_US

Heck, in 2008, after winning the Prop 8 battle, you actually signed the disgusting full page ad in the New York Times titled, “No Mob Veto.”

Here’s a copy:

(For more on the lies-filled No Mob Veto ad, read Wayne Besens’ excellent op-ed in the Huffington Post.)

Mr. Colson, you asked, so I’m answering.

Yes, you and your ilk who call us sinners, who seek to deprive us of the very rights you were afforded upon your birth, yes, you are gay bashers. It’s not a particularly nice name to call someone, but what you’ve done to earn it far outweighs the label.

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Trump Says Judge’s Daughter He Attacked Is Not Protected by Gag Order – DA Disagrees

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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is asking New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to clarify if the gag order he placed on Donald Trump protects the judge’s own daughter, who Trump has repeatedly attacked this week. District Attorney Alvin Bragg says the  gag order does cover the judge’s daughter, while Trump’s attorneys say not only does it not, but it should not.

“Following a request for clarification about the scope of Trump’s gag order from the Manhattan DA’s office, Trump’s lawyers now argue that not only is Judge Merchan’s daughter not covered by the gag order, but also that she should not be covered,” reports MSNBC executive producer Kyle Griffin.

Courthouse News’ Erik Uebelacker reports that District Attorney Alvin Bragg “believes Trump’s tirade against Judge Merchan’s daughter violates his gag order.”

He cites this line from Manhattan District Attorney’s Alvin Bragg’s pre-motion letter (below): “The People believe that the March 26 Order is properly read to protect family members of the court.”

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Uebelacker notes, “Trump’s lawyers say the order does ‘not apply in the manner claimed by the People.'”

He also points to the language in the gag order that bars Trump from: “Making or directing others to make public statements about (1) counsel in the case other than the District Attorney, (2) members of the court’s staff and the District Attorney’s staff, or (3) the family members of any counsel or staff member…”

Katie Phang, MSNBC host and legal contributor, posted the pre-motion letter:

MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin on-air reported Trump’s attorneys “say in the event that Judge Merchan is considering making his daughter subjected to this gag order a full briefing is necessary because the implications are over President Trump’s First Amendment rights, and then they take a swipe at Judge Merchan’s daughter.”

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Rubin continued, adding that Trump’s attorneys also “say because she [Merchan’s daughter] is engaged and providing support to the enemies of former President Trump it’s totally appropriate for him to talk about her.”

Earlier Friday, Rubin noted, “Trump’s attack on Judge Merchan’s daughter last night represents the fourth time in three days that he has singled her out—and exposed her to potential harm. And she’s sadly not alone.”

“Last year, during the New York Attorney General’s civil fraud trial, Trump similarly went after the wife of Judge Arthur Engoron, who publicly said her purported social media account was not, in fact, her own,” Rubin noted.

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Biden Should Have Attended Slain NYPD Officer’s Wake ‘For Optics’ Says Tomi Lahren

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Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren blasted President Joe Biden for not attending the wake of a slain NYPD officer on Thursday, saying because Donald Trump did, the President should have changed his plans even if it was just “for optics.”

“The fact that Joe Biden didn’t change his plans to make an appearance, knowing that Donald Trump was going to be there, to me, that’s pretty brazen. You have the opportunity to show up, even if you are just doing it for optics, and he chose not to,” Lahren said on Fox News Friday afternoon (video below).

Trump was invited to the wake by Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, while one of the NYPD unions warned NYC Democratic leaders to not show up. Over the past decade about 100 police officers are killed in the line of duty annually, including 118 in 2022, according to data from USAFacts.

After attacking the Biden campaign for doing “a horrible job, optically,” Lahren, who purchased a 2000 square foot house in Nashville after she “fled” Los Angeles, explained to Fox News viewers how Trump “cares about the forgotten Americans.”

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“I come from South Dakota, I come from Middle America,” Lahren said. “He doesn’t have to pretend to understand the plight of the smaller folks out there, but he can still resonate with them, because he cares about them.”

“The thing that people in middle America love about Donald Trump and always have, is that he comes as he is. He doesn’t try to wear blue jeans and cowboy boots and try to ‘be’ one of us,” she said, “but he still is one of us in that he cares about us. He cares about the forgotten Americans.”

Speaking to reporters at the wake on Thursday, Trump, who is facing 88 criminal felony charges, said, “we have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently because this is not working. This is happening too often.”

Watch below or at this link.

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USA Bible Founder Says Trump Endorsement Means He Believes ‘Same Thing’ As Every American

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Amid the controversy of Donald Trump endorsing, promoting, and reportedly earning royalties from the “God Bless the USA Bible,” Lee Greenwood, the creator of the book, is speaking out to defend the ex-president.

He says there’s no difference between when Trump took the presidential oath of office by placing his hand on a bible, and now endorsing Greenwood’s version of the book, which sells for $59.99.

“You have to remember that when President Trump took his oath of office, he put his hand on a Bible to swear that he would defend the country and the Constitution,” says Greenwood, a singer-songwriter whose “God Bless the U.S.A.” has been used by many Republicans over the past few decades, with Trump playing it at his rallies.

Greenwood, speaking on the far-right media outlet Real America’s Voice, also says that Trump’s endorsement merely telegraphs that he believes the “same thing” that every other American believes.

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“This is just more of the same except for now, he’s actually telling the world and telling our country and all of its citizens, I will protect you and I will make sure that you know that I believe in the same thing you believe in, that this country was founded on faith.”

Not all Americans are Christian. A survey last month found seven out of 10 Americans oppose or are skeptical of Christian nationalism. And experts – not to mention founding father John Adams – have said America was not founded as a Christian nation.

In 2022 religious liberty expert Amanda Tyler, the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), told the Center for American Progress, “I believe that the single biggest threat to religious freedom in the United States today is Christian nationalism.”

Nor do all Christians support Trump’s endorsement of the “God Bless the USA Bible.”

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“Catholics on social media criticized Trump for using the Bible to make a buck, with some saying that if the real estate mogul thought it was so important for every American to have a Bible, then he should give it away for free — instead of selling it for $59.99,” The National Catholic Register reports. “For others, the most egregious offense was that the God Bless The USA Bible packaged the divinely inspired Word of God together with political documents, mixing the sacred and the profane.”

Watch Greenwood’s remarks below or at this link.

 

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