The Supreme Court’s decision on DOMA last week will lead to a “bleak future” including “imprisonment” for Christians warns Janice Shaw Crouse of the rabidly anti-gay group, Concerned Women For America (CWA). Crouse, writing in the radical right wing Washington Times claims the “real problem with the Supreme Court marriage decision is buried in the fine print.” Aside from the footnotes, SCOTUS decisions are all published in the same font.
Crouse, who appears in the Coral Ridge Ministries’ DVD, “The Obama White House Radicals,” is the author of two books: Children at Risk: The Precarious State of Children’s Well-Being in America, and Marriage Matters: Perspectives on the Private and Public Importance of Marriage.
“Justice Kennedy contemptuously declared that all who support the traditional definition of marriage are haters; supporters of marriage as between one man and one woman for life are disparaging, injuring, degrading, demeaning and humiliating homosexuals — in spite of the fact that marriage between one man and one woman has been unquestioned ‘in virtually all societies for virtually all of human history.’ As Justice Scalia points out, it is one thing to disagree; it is quite another to label those holding opposite points of view as ‘enemies of the human race,'” Crouse claims:
In other words, believing that the Bible is the Christian’s authoritative “rule for faith, doctrine and conduct†constitutes the degrading, demeaning and humiliating of others. In essence, the Judeo-Christian values that have guided citizen’s behavior and actions throughout American history are no longer respected as the standard of conduct for good citizenship in this nation.
Licking their wounds, conservatives have trumped up false frar-mongered claims by the bucketful after last week’s Supreme Court decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. But Crouse’s fabrications are near the top of the ludicrous list. She writes that “the rulings warn of a future where Christians will have a choice: Keep silent about their faith or face not just being cast as a social pariah, but harsh retribution in the form of fines and imprisonment. It is hard to envision such an outcome, but the pivotal changes and losses of religious freedom and freedom of speech over the past few years portend a bleak future Christians must take seriously.”
“Being cast as a social pariah,” perhaps, at least in a few year, but “fines and imprisonment”? Really? How? Under what law?
There are no “fines and imprisonment” for spreading falsehoods.
Crouse should know.
A “Senior Fellow” at Concerned Women’s Beverly LaHaye Institute, Crouse in 2011 falsely claimed that gays die 20 years younger than average, commit suicide at three times the average rate, are prone to syphilis and anal cancer, and cannot maintain long term relationships — usually terminating them after just a year and a half.
Even Crouse’s lies are protected by the Constitution.
Hat tip: Right Wing Watch