N.C.'S GAY-BASHING ASSHOLE BIGOT QUEEN

(The Wehrmacht uniform belt buckle read "Gott mit uns," God is with us).

by Scott Rose

The sickening spectacle of Spammy Fitzbigot and Mary Frances Forrester exultant in their North Carolinian bigot victory is appearing in publications all over the internet today.

That these nasty lying bigots appear in the photo together with the image of the gay-bashing, Jew hating Billy Graham looming over them emphasizes that they worship according to the perverted hate script of the Christofascist branch of Christianity.  A church in Devon Park that was used as a polling place had a huge gay-bashing sign out front. (The Bigot Ballot nonetheless reportedly lost at that polling place). Billy Graham's bigot spawn Franklin Graham recently blew a racist dog whistle when he spoke of "the seed of Islam" being passed to President Obama by Obama's father, who was atheist. Look out, when you get vicious bigots smearing minoritiesby claiming that something evil about the minority generally is transmitted to all of the minority members' children through their "seed."

Mary Frances is the widow of the late N.C. State Senator James Forrester, who sponsored the Bigot Ballot and was another lying sack of gay-bashing bigotry.

Mary Frances Forrester notoriously wrote an anti-gay hate speech document in which she alleged that acceptance of LGBT human beings would cause the downfall of American civilization and that the average life span of gay males is 39. In telling those bald-faced, gay-bashing lies, bigot Mary Frances alleged that the Ten Commandments are the reason gay human beings must be shunned and oppressed, though the Ten Commandments say nothing about gay human beings, and include the injunction "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against thy Neighbor."

Mary Frances Forrester the lying, gay-bashing bigot was in league with the lying, gay-bashing bigots of the so-called National Organization for Marriage.  If you can stomach it, you can watch a video of both Forresters spewing their bile at an anti-gay hate rally.

What is it, exactly, about "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against thy Neighbor" that Mary Frances Forrester does not understand?

During her campaigning for the Bigot Ballot, Mary Frances Forrester seems never to have met with any real-live gay human beings, and never to have met -- with an open mind and heart  -- with, for example, heterosexual parents fully accepting of their LGBT children.  She had taken her lying, gay-bashing stand, and could not be bothered with any such silliness as "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

When Michelangelo Signorile interviewed James Forrester, Forrester made a fool of himself. He lied about health statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, and cited the professional lying anti-gay and anti-Muslim bigot Frank Turek as a source for his misinformation.

The Bigot Ballot campaign brought out the worst in the bigots. Pastor Sean Harris's "special dispensation" for anti-gay parents to break the bones of their own children -- if the children are not strictly conforming to some vague gender norm -- caused decent human beings everywhere remember that the 3-year-old Ronnie Paris, Jr. got beaten to death by his own father, who thought he seemed gay. Not only do these gay-bashing Christofascists not love their neighbors as themselves; they don't even love their own children if the children seem gay.

James Forrester is already in the dust bin of history; Mary Frances certainly is in it in spirit. As we look forward to holding our society accountable for its promise of "liberty and justice for all," we must never forget these words of Coretta Scott King:  "For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions. We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say 'common struggle' because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination."