Anti-Gay Rhetoric Chronicled On New Web Site

Religious Right "message of love"sounding a lot like hate Washington, DC — Over 120 examples of anti-gay religious right hate speech are chronicled on a new Web site, published today by Wired Strategies.

The archive, part of the larger Matthew Shepard Online Resources site, is a free resource to counter fundamentalist assertions that their vocal campaign against the civil rights of gay Americans is simply a "message of love."The site includes quotes from Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, and other extreme political activists. Hyperlinks are provided to speech on "family values"Web sites, which still host many of the most demeaning anti-gay references. John Aravosis of Wired Strategies hopes the site will help visitors get involved by providing links for them to email examples of hate speech to national and local media.

In addition, the site chronicles the quotes of Dr. Paul Cameron, a now-discredited scientist, whose extreme views on gays (e.g., "Unless we get medically lucky, in three or four years, one of the options discussed will be the extermination of homosexuals") led to his removal from a number of professional organizations, and his censure by a court of law. The site details how groups like the Family Research Council, the ex-gay movement, and the American Family Association to this day use Cameron's debunked "research"to malign gays. . . .