IF J R R Tolkien were alive today, he would be spinning in his grave.
So thinks Hilary White, of the hilarious fundie website, LifeSiteNews:
Blathers White:
In the original Lord of the Rings books, the fatherly and honourable character of Gandalf was described by J R R Tolkien as an ‘incarnate’ angelic being sent by God to help defeat evil on earth. As a devout traditional Catholic (sic), experts on Tolkien agree that he would have been horrified to see his creation being used to promote the homosexual disorder as normal to children.
And who’s using Gandalf to promote “homosexual disorder” among the innocent young?
Sir Ian McKellen in his role of Gandalf
Why, no other than Sir Ian McKellen, who played the venerable old magician in the Lord of the Rings films.
As part of a programme to combat homophobic bullying, Sir Ian visited a “faith” school, and took along along Gandalf’s sword with which he knighted a pair of children ‘Sir Minority’ and ‘Dame Minority’. “It and it went down very well,” he said.
But not with the likes of White, who wails:
McKellen is again using his fame to promote homosexuality – this time to children in schools. McKellen is a founding member of and long-time campaigner for Stonewall, one of the world’s most successful homosexualist lobby groups. His new task with the group involves tours of British schools to speak to them about ‘tolerance’ of homosexuality.
The homophobic Father Finigan
Nor did it please Father Timothy Finigan, founder of the quaintly-named Association of Priests for the Gospel of Life, who claims that Stonewall’s efforts in schools are part of a larger government agenda.
Nobody wants to see kids calling each other nasty names or bullying people in any way. But what the government is trying to do in their policies on homophobia is to address schools’ ‘heteronormative’ or ‘heterosexist’ culture.
Finigan says that parents often choose Catholic or other faith schools because of the increased student discipline, in which pupils who are seen to be different are less likely to be bullied. The programme to specifically address “homophobic” bullying, he suggested, is largely an attempt to browbeat anyone who might defend true marriage and family.
We’re all against bullying, but you can also engender a culture in which people who are in favour of the family are bullied into silence.
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I’ve always disliked the term “pro-homosexual”, or the claim that gay rights groups “promote homsexuality”.
The wording completely changes the focus of the groups. It makes the claim that gay rights groups are dedicated to spreading homosexuality which sounds fairly nefarious (I would not want anyone “promoting homosexuality” to me, just as I wouldn’t want anyone promoting heterosexuality… people are who they are), and to the audience that these people write for… that’s all that’s needed to sway their emotions, and thus their opinions, on the matter.
Gay rights groups promote (most of them at least, there’s bound to be some crazy fringe group that really is dedicated to making everyone gay) the acceptance of homosexuality; they do not try to make people gay, they just try to make sure that people who *are* gay aren’t ridiculed by the community.
The fact that they have to misrepresent the facts to get people to support their cause annoys me far more than their cause itself. If they at least had the courage to just come out and say “we hate gay people because this book tells us”, at least they’d be being honest.
‘Nobody wants to see kids calling each other nasty names or bullying people in any way. But…’
‘… if it’s them poofters getting persecuted it’s okay by us because we’re bigots. But we haven’t got to say it aloud because we white bigots have to be careful. I envy all those Muslim lads, so I do. They can just come out with any old mad hate-filled stuff they want! Fair play to them.’
Further to what ‘Me’ says, I am particularly sick of the way fundies try to convince the public that tolerance towards gay people is all about ruination. A frequent example is the phrase ‘anti-family’, as if ‘family’ is the wholesome antithesis of ‘homosexual’ and that they cannot co-exist.
‘What the government is trying to do in their policies on homophobia is to address schools’ ‘heteronormative’ or ‘heterosexist’ culture.’
Gosh, so schools may no longer go on the pretend presumation that all their pupils are heterosexual! Live in the real world Finigan!
This frightens me. They’re probably one of those nut-job schools that bans the Harry Potter books because they teach kids to be gay!
“homosexualist”? WTF?
But Christians hate families -esepcially loving, protective and functional ones!
Once you start looking, you find case after case of families who object to church workers trying to screw up their kids or otherwise muscle in on family life being told to leave churches where those familes have worshipped for generations, sometimes even losing jobs and houses or being run out of town for reporting sex abuse by clergy.
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