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.â€Â 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:
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.