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Theocratic Gay-Bashers Behind Lawsuit Against NY Marriage Equality

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The Plaintiffs seeking to have New York’s Marriage Equality Law overturned on procedural grounds believe, in their hallucinating dementedness, that they have a constitutional right and a divinely-inspired duty to impose their religious strictures against gay people on the whole population.

Given that Judge Robert B. Wiggins of the Livingston County, New York Supreme Court ruled that their lawsuit may go ahead on a restricted basis, we should all take a moment to remind ourselves of the character and mentality of these theocrats seeking to deprive gay-inclusive, gay-friendly New York families of their rights.

The Plaintiff with the lowest public profile is Rabbi Nathaniel S. Leiter. Rabbi Leiter — who as a Jew should understand and avoid the evil of fraudulent and malicious claims of a minority group that holds disproportionate power — devotes a whole page on his website to an explanation of how marriage equality in D.C. is part of a sinister plot. He refers to gay human beings as “deceptionist deviants” and says that political leaders in Washington will “ hire homosexualists, eventually allowing infiltration to the highest levels of their staff.” Never mind that Americans have already elected out gay people to elected office, including the out gay (and Jewish) Barney Frank.

Reverend Duane Motley of the so-called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms would not know the Constitution if his wife ripped it up into little pieces and poured milk over them for his breakfast. Here is what Motley has to say about Legislators of faith that vote for equality:  “I think what they’re doing, they’re putting politics before their faith, they left their bibles at home when they came to work. That’s wrong and if you’re a Christian, you’re a Christian all the time. We don’t need part-time Christians.”

Then there is Reverend Jason J. McGuire, who, during the week that the Marriage Equality Act passed, declared that what was “missing” from the debate was his insane belief that a gay person can successfully pray to Jesus and thereby be made heterosexual. Reverend McGuire is a party to the lawsuit against equality because he thinks he was not given enough time to convince elected officials that same sex marriage should not pass because all anybody has to do is pray to Jesus and they will be made heterosexual. Rabbi Leiter and Reverends Motley and McGuire are odd bedfellows in this lawsuit, as in private, the Rabbi most likely scorns the Christians for their religious beliefs and the Reverends most likely think that the Rabbi will spend an eternity in hell if he does not accept Jesus. Yet, all three are nasty, theocratic anti-gay bigots, so they are able to get along.

Liberty Counsel’s genius attorney Lena Lindevaldsen, who brought this suit against equality for the Plaintiffs, says with a straight face that Satan arranges all homosexual love matches. Recent news reports have stated that Judge Wiggins dismissed the whole case that the theocrats brought against Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; what they do not mention is that it was not legally possible to bring this case against him. That is to say, Lindevaldsen was too ignorant of the law even to understand against whom this case could be brought. Where she made allegations involving Governor Cuomo’s use of a message of necessity, she also was displaying her ignorance, as a Governor’s certified facts accompanying a message of necessity are by law not subject to judicial review.

Where this gang of theocratic political gay bashers struck pay-dirt was in getting their case reviewed and decided by the honorary theocratic gay basher Judge Wiggins. One of the reasons Wiggins should have written his Decision without bias and political propaganda — besides, of course, that the Rules of Judicial Conduct say that that is what a judge should do — is that when he writes about a baseless allegation but sides with the Plaintiffs while scolding the Defendants, he awakens a suspicion that he could be in collusion with the Plaintiffs. Though professional ethics should have precluded Wiggins’s editorializing against a Governor’s certified facts in his Decision, he did so. Judge Wiggins believes that the theocratic professional political gay bashers should have had more time to try to perpetuate the injustices that gay New Yorkers were experiencing through marriage discrimination.

Wiggins even found Governor Cuomo guilty of “arm-twisting” to get the Marriage Equality Law passed.  Is it not a remarkable thing that although the U.S. legal system considers that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty, Judge Wiggins found Governor Cuomo guilty of “arm-twisting,” though there was no trial pertaining to that charge? And here is the interesting thing about this “arm twisting” charge against Cuomo and the forces of equality; on June 14, the Reverends McGuire and Motley sent the Republican New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos a vicious, gay-bashing letter telling him that if the Marriage Equality Act passed, “the pound of flesh will come from the Republican majority.” The same obnoxious monsters that sent Skelos that letter are complaining in a lawsuit that they were not given enough access to lawmakers. Were you Senator Skelos, would you  want to meet with bullying theocratic lobbyists that had sent you such a crude, threatening letter with a reference to classic anti-Semitism?  “The pound of flesh will come from the Republican majority.” These same God-fearing hypocrites are now running around trumpeting Judge Wiggins’s lying political propaganda that Governor Cuomo is guilty of arm-twisting to get the Marriage Equality Act passed.

A Bronx cheer please.

 

New York City- based novelist and freelance writer Scott Rose’s LGBT- interest by- line has appeared on Advocate .com, PoliticusUSA .com, The New York Blade, Queerty .com, Girlfriends and in numerous additional venues. Among his other interests are the arts, boating and yachting, wine and food, travel, poker and dogs. His “Mr. David Cooper’s Happy Suicide” is about a New York City advertising executive assigned to a condom account.

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