The symbol of the noose has been used as a form of hate speech against African-Americans throughout the United States for some time now. It goes back to the era in America, especially in the American South, where lynchings were common place. In 1920′s Georgia, an African-American World War I veteran was lynched for voting in a local election. He voted, and then went home to await the Klan, which eventually showed up and murdered him.
Hate symbols rarely ever remain isolated to just one group, especially in this day and age of almost blind, rampant hatred. Larry Adams of the Cross Bearer Ministry in Indianapolis, Indiana displayed that one quite well. Adams, who was one of the paltry few to show up to support the National Organization for Marriage, held up two signs at the recent Monday rally. One of them had a pair of nooses drawn upon it with a passage from Leviticus declaring that death was the only appropriate punishment for lesbians and gays.
Among the symbols of the LGBT movement are a pair of triangles. Both triangles have their points facing downward. One of them is pink and the other black. The pink triangle is the symbol for male homosexuality, and the black triangle is the symbol for an ‘anti-social woman.’ Both triangles derive from Nazi designations during World War II. Gay men were either imprisoned or sent to the concentration camps. More than a thousand are known to have died, and many were experimented upon in order to try and find a “cure” for homosexuality. Many more were sent to prison where there are no firm records of the numbers who died, and while many of those convicted under Nazi rule were released from prison after the fall of the Nazi regime, gay men were forced to fulfill the sentences handed down by the Nazi courts even after the Allies took Germany.
The number of lesbians who went to the camps is impossible to actually know. Many lesbians were labeled as ‘anti-social’ because they would not conform to the Nazi standards of womanhood, but since that could apply to just about any woman and not just lesbians, it is impossible to know the exact number. Many sent to the camps were also sent for other reasons. The majority of lesbians were sent to be “reeducated” and largely suppose to become complacent women fit to breed the Nazi vision of the Master Race.
Should it be surprising that the same rhetoric that is being used now to oppress lesbians and gays is the same one perpetuated by the Nazis in Germany? Not really. It is often drowned out in the horrifying slaughter of innocent lives that many of the elites in Nazi Germany were Christians, and devoutly so. They believed whole heartedly in some of the worst parts of Christianity, including the erroneous belief that Jesus Christ was executed by the Jews, and that homosexuality was downright evil.
It is not surprising that hate-mongers in the US would start using the noose as a symbol to oppress lesbians and gays at this point. It is a symbol of hatred already, and just broadening its definition a little is helpful to those who seek to strike fear into those they seek to oppress, especially since more obscure symbols are not going to work.
In the end, Larry Adams is no Christian. He is a theocrat. He believes in imposing his non-Christian Christianity upon others, and in demanding that all people follow his beliefs. He cites a passage which is suppose to have no application to Christianity any more, but that is not surprising. After all, a person who will use a symbol of hate would never be willing to live up to the reality of the religion he purports to believe in, or the word of its God.
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NOM Signage Shows The Hatred And Bigotry That The Group Wants To Keep Hidden
Hate symbols rarely ever remain isolated to just one group, especially in this day and age of almost blind, rampant hatred. Larry Adams of the Cross Bearer Ministry in Indianapolis, Indiana displayed that one quite well. Adams, who was one of the paltry few to show up to support the National Organization for Marriage, held up two signs at the recent Monday rally. One of them had a pair of nooses drawn upon it with a passage from Leviticus declaring that death was the only appropriate punishment for lesbians and gays.
Among the symbols of the LGBT movement are a pair of triangles. Both triangles have their points facing downward. One of them is pink and the other black. The pink triangle is the symbol for male homosexuality, and the black triangle is the symbol for an ‘anti-social woman.’ Both triangles derive from Nazi designations during World War II. Gay men were either imprisoned or sent to the concentration camps. More than a thousand are known to have died, and many were experimented upon in order to try and find a “cure” for homosexuality. Many more were sent to prison where there are no firm records of the numbers who died, and while many of those convicted under Nazi rule were released from prison after the fall of the Nazi regime, gay men were forced to fulfill the sentences handed down by the Nazi courts even after the Allies took Germany.
The number of lesbians who went to the camps is impossible to actually know. Many lesbians were labeled as ‘anti-social’ because they would not conform to the Nazi standards of womanhood, but since that could apply to just about any woman and not just lesbians, it is impossible to know the exact number. Many sent to the camps were also sent for other reasons. The majority of lesbians were sent to be “reeducated” and largely suppose to become complacent women fit to breed the Nazi vision of the Master Race.
Should it be surprising that the same rhetoric that is being used now to oppress lesbians and gays is the same one perpetuated by the Nazis in Germany? Not really. It is often drowned out in the horrifying slaughter of innocent lives that many of the elites in Nazi Germany were Christians, and devoutly so. They believed whole heartedly in some of the worst parts of Christianity, including the erroneous belief that Jesus Christ was executed by the Jews, and that homosexuality was downright evil.
It is not surprising that hate-mongers in the US would start using the noose as a symbol to oppress lesbians and gays at this point. It is a symbol of hatred already, and just broadening its definition a little is helpful to those who seek to strike fear into those they seek to oppress, especially since more obscure symbols are not going to work.
In the end, Larry Adams is no Christian. He is a theocrat. He believes in imposing his non-Christian Christianity upon others, and in demanding that all people follow his beliefs. He cites a passage which is suppose to have no application to Christianity any more, but that is not surprising. After all, a person who will use a symbol of hate would never be willing to live up to the reality of the religion he purports to believe in, or the word of its God.
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