Scott Wooledge, a Daily Kos writer and founder of the political action graphic design studio Memeographs today posted this graphic (above) which encapsulates the “response” from anti-gay organizations to the hate crime murder of Mark Carson, the 32-year old gay man shot to death Friday night for being gay. Wooledge writes:
LGBT rights orgs have been very clear violence will not be tolerated. Opponents of LGBT rights however have never made it clear to their followers that anti-gay violence is not a tactic to “fight the gay agenda.” After a big spike in anti-gay hate crimes in 2012, can they not issue a joint statement such as gay rights groups did here. And remind people, we can disagree without hurting each other?
In fact, Tony Perkins of the certified anti-gay hate group Family Research Council blamed the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s labeling of the FRC as a hate group for the shooting at FRC headquarters. Meanwhile, Perkins, NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, and dozens of religious right anti-gay groups have labeled gay people every name in the book — some even say LGBT people are “worth of death,” yet never do these anti-gay groups nor their leaders denounce anti-gay hate crimes, even when they are the murder of a gay man for being gay. Some, like Matt Barber of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and the Liberty Counsel, claim we are “politicizing” Mark Carson’s murder:
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Only after activists like Jeremy Hooper at Good As You called him our for it, a day later he decided to attempt something like a human response — while, yes, politicizing the tragedy:
Image, top, via Memeographs