More anti-gay ridiculousness, this time from Aaron Fruh, an
Alabama pastor who seems to be treated as an authority on the issue of
homosexuality by the American Family Association and who was picked up by Janet Porter’s coalition Israel: You Are Not Alone, which is campaigning against any concession Israel might
make to the Palestinians on the grounds that giving Palestinians land or rights
is a direct cause of terrorism.
Fruh claims that any society that has failed to oppress gays
has been destroyed by God: “So when it comes to civilization and society, God
knew that the people of the earth were going to destroy themselves through
same-sex marriage,” said Fruh,
“so that’s why he brought the flood.” So just you dare! Like so many others
Fruh also claims that marriage equality is actually “heterophobic” because it discriminates
against heterosexuals and “against the unborn children who will never see the
light of day if you revise the historical, moral and legal view of traditional
marriage.” In other words, he appears to believe allowing gays and lesbians to
marry means taking away heterosexual couples’ right to marry and have children,
and that banning homosexual marriage will make homosexuals enter into
heterosexual marriages instead. In fact, marriage equality is the “height of
bigotry,” and gays and lesbians are “hateful and malicious” toward married
heterosexuals (yes: he takes advocacy of gay marriage to be a direct attack on him for being non-homosexually married),
but his arguments make it rather abundantly clear that Fruh doesn’t really
understand what it means to be “hateful and malicious” against groups of
people, or what “bigotry” involves.
Diagnosis: Fruh has emphasized that “I don’t consider myself
homophobic,” but it really doesn’t matter how he considers himself. Fruh is abysmally
homophobic. And angry. And evil.
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