Christian Leader Will Host Rally to Condemn LGBTQ People "Destroying" America | Beth Stoneburner | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
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By Beth Stoneburner April 28, 2021
Ken Harrison, leader of the "Promise Keepers," a Christian Nationalist group for men, is organizing a rally this summer. But the focus will not be on Jesus. It'll be on combatting the LGBTQ agenda that's apparently going to "destroy" the American identity.
He explained all of this to Steve Bannon during a recent interview:
Ken Harrison of the 'Promise Keepers' says he is organizing a rally of "80,000 christian men" this July in Dallas Cowboys' stadium, to fight against the LBGTQ agenda to "destroy the identity of the American people." pic.twitter.com/76d9G3UbPy
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 26, 2021
… One of the things they're doing to make their agenda happen is they're destroying the identity of the American people. And if they can get Christians — especially Christian men — to sit down, be silent and be passive, then they can be effective, and it's working.
I mean, Christian men are not standing up for what's right. I mean, you think about how quickly we went from homosexual marriage to, now, men putting on dresses and being called women and playing on women's basketball teams… Where are the Christian men?…
The same people who routinely mock the WNBA want you to know they're doing everything in their power to rescue women's basketball. And the same people who have accumulated so much power over the past few decades want you to know they're being silenced. And the same people currently attacking trans people want you to know they still haven't figured out how to deal with same-sex marriage.
(By the way, being transgender and cross-dressing are not the same thing. His bigotry, like all bigotry, is rooted in ignorance.)
And besides that, even if Christian men were to stop being "silent" and "passive" — which they aren't — how would that stop anyone from being gay or trans?
Even Christians who more or less share Harrison's theology about LGBTQ people should be concerned by the way he conflates salvation with the culture wars. This is what Christian Nationalism is: It's not about Christianity, Jesus, or building any kind of "kingdom" on Earth. It's not about patriotism; just ask those who rioted at the Capitol in January. It's about maintaining a system that oppresses certain minorities who don't look, act, or think like Harrison. It should be condemned by decent Christians everywhere.
There's no American "identity" worth salvaging if it means perpetuating Harrison's bigotry.
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Is it any wonder that the once Grand Old Party of Abraham Lincoln is now known merely as the gop?
How is the GOP part of this story?
Caitlyn Jenner...
I didn't know he was in Promise Keepers.
He is a republican.
How does that connect him to the story about Promise Keepers?
Start at the top of the thread and read down. I was responding to someone.
He and his organization will destroy American, not the LBGTQ community.
LGTB People are in the fabric of American families!
Attacks on LGTB people are attacks on our families.
Another "loving" christian, eh?
We are all God's children except same sex families?
Apparently, some people seem to think that.
So, will this rally look something like this?
Is that a scene from Trump's 2020 gop convention?
Don't be silly, that was Mar-a-Lago last weekend.
This one was from the 2020 GOP convention....
Wait, is that men wearing dresses ?
What a cement-head. These are the types of assholes that are destroying American identity. Whatever happened to Goldwater Republicans?
The Alt+Right populists took over the Tea Party and this is the result. Those more aligned with Goldwater Republicans either turned hard right to keep their seats or got kicked to curb and joined PACs like the Lincoln Project.
Does anyone around a person like this ever step back and question whether or not there is any kind of rational connection in these words? What is wrong with “the identity of the American people?” What does that mean?
I’m pretty sure no one is putting on a dress to play basketball. Just saying. I mean, I’m open to a nuanced discussion of transgender men on women’s sports teams, but this is just hysteria.
The gay agenda is largely the same as everyone else’s agenda. Get a good night’s sleep. Eat a nice meal. Make rent. Have friends. Be healthy and happy. I don’t really think there is a gay agenda that prevents anyone - be they bigots or not - from leading the private life they want to lead.
He is still fighting those inner demons eh? If he just accepted that he is gay I am sure he would feel a lot of weight lift off his shoulders.
Like an obese binge eater trying to get fast food, bacon and chocolate cake banned so they won't be tempted...
"Get behind me Satan!...".
Do the "Promise Keepers" also praise HItler for murdering homosexuals along witih Jews and Gypsies?
Not in public.
These assholes are the ones destroying America. Disgusting pieces of shit
First off, there is not any such thing as christian leaders. Jesus has been crucified by the money changers and the only remnant remaining are the grifters.