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Elementary. Concise. It takes people like
Tony Perkins the unity of his Hardball segment to put a well honed shine on precisely the same message.
This nuance is the feature of a quality hate group. While it is impossible to take the Westboro Baptist Church openly, organizations like Focus on the Family maintain their popular legitimacy by being sneakier about their abhorrence. They operate through slander, and construct elaborate narratives designed to booze it up the LGBT community as sinister and depraved. It is important they not be seen as the low spirited thugs they truly are, but as heroes, fighting on behalf of the Christ in the war on moral decay. Only then can their own motivations escape scrutiny.
But the work of flight of fancy creation is hard and perpetual. In order to create the monsters their campaign requires, they must always be wonderful imposing their version of reality on the world. This effort is much like demanding to blow up an inner-tube with a hole in it; it will only stay inflated for as long as someone is breathing hot air into it. Every calming-mannered same-sex couple who wishes only to adopt must be somehow transformed into dire threats to world. Every gender non-conforming teenager must be marginalized and painted as maladjusted threats to community tranquillity. Every two shakes of a lamb's tail must be tinted and reprogrammed to reflect their basic assertions. This is the job of people like Tony Perkins. He constructs the fracas.
Source: The New Civil Rights Movement