In the middle of a discussion over the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell debate, Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Counsel had something truly bizarre to say:
Matthews: Do you think we should outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: Well, I think certainly..
Matthews: I’m just asking, should we outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: I think the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas which overturned the sodomy laws in this country was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place in this country for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.
Matthews: So we should outlaw gay behavior?
Sprigg: YES!
Video from the relevant part of the interview (Full video here):
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This is what these people are really about, folks.
People like these just won’t be happy until people like me are tattooed and sitting in concentration camps waiting for our turn in the shower.
[...] tonight, in the year 2010, Mr. Sprigg called for the criminalization of homosexuality: Matthews: Do you think we should outlaw gay [...]
Comments like this are reprehensible. That’s why they should be ignored. This gentleman knew exactly what attention he would get by making this statement. Why should Chris Matthews (and Below the Beltway) give him his forum? Let these bugs stay under the rock.
Sprigg is under the impression that the government is the defender of the social mores. He, like most conservatives, feel that the government should dictate how each and even person must behave. It is also people like that that insist that the government should be small, and not interfer with the lives of the people. An interesting discripency this!
It is the Sodomy Laws that are a cause of much of the harassment directed toward the glbti community and those laws are based on religious precepts, not legal ones. Sprigg wants to have, however “symbolic” as Rev Falwell called such laws, a means to legally harass, discriminate, and otherwise make second class citizens of the glbti person!
[...] not just the FRC’s Peter Sprigg who wants to ban homosexuality: It might be worth noting that what I actually suggested is that we [...]
And?
You’re certainly right, “Rev JDSpears.” It’s certainly time that society get past those pesky “social mores” like having laws against racial discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations, and “dictat[ing] how each and even [sic] person must behave” in barring theft, fraud, battery, and murder. Never mind that the Fourth Amendment provides more than adequate protection against sexual deviants who actually keep their private lives “private.” But then again, modern deviants don’t want “privacy,” or even “tolerance”; they want “acceptance.”
You talk about it like 5000 years of societal values were somehow — oh, what’s that word? — perverse.
“People like these just won’t be happy until people like me are tattooed and sitting in concentration camps waiting for our turn in the shower.”
Yes, but it will be a nice shower this time, with cute little shower curtains and imported Italian tile.
To James Young-
Not/heterosexuals have always existed. Not/heterosexuality exists throughout all the kingdoms of nature. You don’t want to see it so you don’t see it- or you see it as an aberration. While it may not be that thing you like to think is your so cherished norm- your norm isn’t anything at all. Because it isn’t everything. And in context of the whole- all exists. My not/heterosexual orientation is exactly the same as yours- whatever that is. It is completely NORMAL to me. And as you can plainly see- there are simply millions and millions and millions of people like me around- everywhere. The suggestion that my completely normal to me sexual orientation should be a criminal offense- is OFFENSIVE TO ME.
I came to understand my different than your not/homosexual sexual orientation when I was 13 years old. 2003- the year I turned 50- SCOTUS finally came to the realization that YOU (whoever you are) no longer get to criminalize my intrinsic to my health and well being sexual orientation.
MY SOCIETAL VALUES.
I live in a country that basis its current perception of itself as- that we are all equal- but I’m not treated equally. Until I am there is a problem with your PERVERTED 5000 YEARS OF SOCIETAL VALUES.
Does the (or a) “conservative” mentality, believe (because it needs to psychodynamically) in one main right way, deviation from which causes danger? And similar sentiments. This is the root-reason why such people will continue their thinking on gays and such. Partly they were outward trained this way; mostly they remain inward needing this way…
[...] Yikes. Let me just say prision orange does not look good on me. [...]
Hate to be sane amongst all this fun, but he doesn’t say homosexuals should be imprisoned in the quoted materials. He says that homosexuality should be outlawed. Lots of things are outlawed that are not punished with imprisonment. For example, racial discrimination in employment is outlawed but there is no penalty of imprisonment. Anticompetitive behavior is criminal, but no one has been imprisoned for anticompetitive behavior in the last fifty years.
To Pensans-
Obviously you’ve never been arrested for being sexual.
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