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Religious Right Group Claims Same Sex Marriage Leads to Mass Murder

By David Corn, Mother Jones.

Recent acts of gun violence, they claim, are the poisoned fruit of the push

for gay marriage. 

Is there a connection between same-sex marriage and mass murder?

That's what one religious right outfit is suggesting. This week, Morality

in Media disseminated a statement noting that the Iowa Supreme Court had

legalized gay marriage on the same day that a gunman murdered 13 people in

Binghamton, New York. The headline on the release: "Connecting the Dots:

The Line Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders." The group's president, Bob

Peters, notes that the "underlying problem is that increasingly we live in

a 'post-Christian' society, where Judeo-Christian faith and values have

less and less influence." And, he continues, this "secular value system is

also reflected in the 'sexual revolution,' which is the driving force

behind the push for 'gay marriage.'"

Here's the punch line:

    It most certainly is not my intention to blame the epidemic of mass

murders on the gay rights movement! It is my intention to point out that

the success of the sexual revolution is inversely proportional to the

decline in morality; and it is the decline of morality (and the faith that

so often under girds it) that is the underlying cause of our modern day

epidemic of mass murders. 

That is, he's not saying that gay rights activists are directly responsible

for the murderous actions of gun-toting madmen. But Peters maintains that

those who champion gay rights are undermining the moral fiber of society

and that this assault on traditional values creates an environment in which

killing sprees can more easily occur. These acts of gun violence, he

insists, are the poisoned fruit of the push for gay marriage.

Talk about exploiting tragedy to advance an agenda. It might be tempting to

dismiss Peters and Morality in Media as marginal, but this group did

receive federal funding from 2005 through 2007. The money supported a

Morality in Media project, ObscenityCrimes.org, which paid two retired law

enforcement officers to review citizen complaints about obscenity on the

Internet and to forward the best leads to the US Justice Department for

possible prosecution. A total of $300,000 was provided to Morality in Media

through two earmarks Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) placed into spending bills,

according to Peters. And a portion of that money went to cover Peters'

salary. As The New York Times reported in 2007, no obscenity prosecutions

had resulted from the Morality in Media's obscenity-tracking work.

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