After New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees got slammed for making a 23-second video with Focus on the Family (FotF), a longtime antigay hate group, the group is claiming that it’s not actually an antigay hate group (even though it totally is).
You may recall that Brees’ video encouraged Christian kids to participate in “Bring Your Bible To School Day,” an event deliberately started by its founders as a way to “counter the promotion of the homosexual agenda and express an opposing viewpoint from a Christian perspective,” according to longtime queer journalist Matt Baume.
Related: Focus On The Family Exec Shuns Gay Daughter, Now She’s Speaking Out
After being called out by fans for working with bigots, Brees said he doesn’t think FotF Family is a hate group, even though he’s worked with them for nearly a decade.
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He said, “I do not support any groups that discriminate or have their own agendas that are trying to promote inequality. Hopefully that set the record straight and we can all move on, because that’s not what I stand for.”
And now FotF is trying to act like it’s not rabidly antigay either by releasing a video responding to Bree’s blowback. In the video, the group says, “Some in the LGBTQ community were offended by because obviously Drew Brees didn’t know, according to them, that we were a ‘hate group.’”
Aha, that’s cute. It’s not according to “us” — it’s according to the decades of comments the group has made demonizing queer people.
As our own Graham Gremore mentioned, “Focus on the Family opposes same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. It also supports gay conversion therapy and religious freedom laws, believes trans people are deranged, says anti-bullying groups promote homosexuality, and has lobbied for legislation allowing antigay workplace discrimination.”
It has also compared same-sex couples to pedophiles and animal rapists.
Naturally, hate groups don’t like admitting what they are because it’s not good for business. But if it walks like a hate group and talks like a hate group …
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Am actually gonna give Brees a pass, he was supportive in the past on Ellen. Maybe his handlers just put him up to it…He seems sincere and did condemn that vile group of hate-filled noxious smcubags…
As for Dobson just waiting for that abhorrent pukes kiddie sex scandal to finally erupt….
Chrisk
I’ll just stick with my tried and true actions speak louder then words.
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Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
If I read this correctly (one of the links posted in the article) it seems to me GLADD could be called an anti-Christian group. They are encouraging youth (not just gay youth but all youth) to wear purple every third Thursday to show support for gays but this Christian group is condemn for suggesting they bring a bible to school to show support for their beliefs? Pick you battles wisely or better yet learn to think thoroughly before lighting your torches and grabbing your axes. I think both groups ought to have a hands off policy toward youth. Kids today are messed up enough without one side battling the other for control over their minds for no other reason than to promote their own agendas. Argue all you want thats all it amounts to regardless of what side of the fence their on.
Juanjo
Focus on the Family is not being criticized because they want Christian kids to take bibles to school and verbally harass non-Christian kids [although that is a fair reason to criticize them]. They have been condemned by gay rights groups and by individual gays because Focus on the Family opposes same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. It also supports gay conversion therapy and religious freedom laws which discriminate aganst gay people, among others. It asserts trans people are deranged, says anti-bullying groups promote homosexuality and has lobbied for legislation allowing anti-gay workplace discrimination.”
UlfRaynor
There is a massive difference between the two factions.
Many Christians believe we don’t deserve the right to exist, while we believe they don’t have the right to make that decision for us and take a stand against them.
Hardly the same thing.
I find the example you used to be very problematic, a day where kids are allowed to bring religious indoctrination into a public, government funded institution, I think violates the separation of church and state.
Religion has no place being peddled in a public school, period!
Chrisk
“The SPLC defines a hate group as “an organization that — based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities — has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristic.”
Do these organizations ever tell the truth? I mean that’s all they do.