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Titolo: Reggie White Pushes Hate at Southern Baptist Convention

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Reggie White Pushes Hate at Southern Baptist Convention
Crowds Give Standing Ovation and "Amens" to Famed Bigot
Advertisers Avoiding Ex-Green Bay Packer's Endorsements
By Jack Nichols
Atlanta, Georgia—Reggie White, former Green Bay Packer and a persistent promoter
of "religious" anti-gay hate messages, got a standing ovation here last week
while addressing the Southern Baptist Convention.
Under the Georgia Dome, White was given a welcome reserved for heroes by a
"Christian" denomination that once heartily sanctioned slavery and based  its
support for slavery on Biblical texts.
"We love you Reggie," shouted Baptists of both sexes, while the burly one-time
footballer-turned –ordained-Baptist-minister responded, oddly, by addressing
only members of his own sex: "I love you guys too."
Paige Patterson, President of the Southern Baptist Convention had introduced
White: "I know most of you are aware of Reggie White's comments on what the
Bible says about homosexuality," Patterson said, "I've learned that it has cost
him every single endorsement he had."
Recalling for GayToday how orange juice advertisers had once fired '70s
gay-baiter Anita Bryant, Miami gay activist Bob Kunst laughed: "Reggie White's
secret drag name must be Anita."  Kunst, who, in 1977, made Anita Bryant look
foolish during a nationally-televised debate, was on a journey through the South
which would take him to Washington D.C. to protest a George W. Bush, Jr. Tuesday
fundraiser.
Kunst added, "If Reggie White needs tips on how to walk, talk, and look just
like Anita, I'd be glad to be his dramatics coach. And I know just the store
where he can dispose of those ugly football booties of his to slip into a nice
pair of lavender high heels."  Kunst joked that White had once been notorious as
a Green Bay 'Fudge' Packer.
White's appearance at the Baptist Convention was part of a campaign to convert
African Americans to the Southern cult. The denomination's history as a foremost
oppressor of blacks, however, has resulted in widespread skepticism among those
who are unwilling to forgive its 19th century crusades against them.
Walter Bell, a gay representative appearing June 15 on CNN's Talk Back Live,
commented on a Convention delegate's anti-gay tirades. "I think it's funny," he
said, "that this is the same group that, many years ago would have been speaking
up against blacks going into white churches. You know, they have been wrong
before, and they're wrong again now."
Addressing the Convention delegates, Reggie White reported that he and the Rev.
Jerry Falwell had been quoted in USA Today as critical of gay "lifestyles."
White exclaimed, "I've never been critical of gay lifestyles. I've only
proclaimed what God has said about it." The Southern Baptist crowd applauded
wildly.
Reading a passage from the book of Leviticus, an often-quoted passage reputed to
condemn same-sex lovemaking, White repeated: " `Do not lie with a man as one
lies with a woman' and "Let me repeat that again for some here with the media.
God said it, not Reggie White."
White also criticized the media for failing to take seriously bogus religious
therapy "cures" for homosexuality promoted by "Ex-Gay" groups that are run by
Southern Baptists and other religious fundamentalists. "Three weeks ago, a young
man came to me and said God had brought him out of this sinful [gay] lifestyle,"
he claimed.
Such therapy "cures" have been denounced and dangerous and fraudulent by the
American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and the
American Psychoanalytic Association.
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While I'm no Reggie White fan, I found htis article offensive and
unhelpful.  White is so ridiculous, why does one have to be more offensive
than him? The gay critic of White sounds just as bigoted as white.  I also
resent the constant references to slavery, as if Southern Baptists should
be mocked for their great-grandparents errors.  We Mormon know what that
feels like with the polygamy issue.
In short, two wrongs don't make a right. (although 3 lefts make a right).
Ciao!
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