Big (anti)Gay Al

July 9, 2004 by

The Rev. Al Mohler is "fascinated" with homosexuality. "Fascinating" is his word:

The spectacular success of the homosexual movement stands as one of the most fascinating phenomena of our time. In less than two decades, homosexuality has moved from "the love that dares not speak its name," to the center of America's public life.

The center of America's public life? That seems a bit much — Bravo isn't even the center of basic cable.

In the latest of a long, long, long series of columns exploring his consuming fascination, the Southern Baptist mullah discusses "Why the homosexual movement has won."

Mohler attributes this big gay triumph to the "strategy" outlined in a single book: After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear & Hatred of Gays in the 90s, by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. This book, Mohler writes, was "the authoritative public relations manual for the homosexual agenda."

According to Mohler, this book (Amazon sales rank 1,004,438) reshaped America and brought homosexuality to its place at the "center of America's public life." He objects to the "public relations strategies" outlined by Kirk and Madsen, things like "raising serious theological objections to conservative biblical teachings" and "exposing the inconsistency and hatred underlying antigay doctrines."

Mohler's fevered imagination conjures up a monolithic, orchestrated "homosexual movement" in which local sleeper cells and militia groups gathered 15 years ago to read aloud from Kirk and Madsen's "manifesto" and to systematically orchestrate its grand scheme. (One pictures a nervous Mohler eavesdropping on strangers at Teddy Bear's in Louisville, hoping to glean insight into what goes on at these secret meetings.)

Mohler is so obsessed with this notion of a grand scheme and a gay agenda that he fails to appreciate why a greater number of "mainstream" heterosexual folks seem to have become more accepting of their homosexual neighbors: They've gotten to know some of those neighbors (sons/daughters/aunts/uncles/coworkers/friends) as people.

That's probably the strangest thing about guys like Mohler. Despite his fascination with homosexuals, he seems to think he doesn't know any.

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  • Patrick (G)

    “fascinating” choice of word, that.
    fascinating, from the roman term for phallus…
    In what way, exactly, is Rev Mohler “fascinated” by homosexuality ?

  • real live preacher

    I’m sorry to sound so judgemental, but as an ex-Southern Baptist, I remember well what Al Mohler has done with his career and to that denomination.
    Al Mohler has never let little things like facts, details, credentials, scholarship, reality, respect of history, or integrity stand in his way. Remember that this was the man who was instrumental in the brutal takeover of Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville. He fired men who were so beyond him in scholarship that he really shouldn’t be mentioned in their circles. He set himself up as king there and ran the institution into the ground. Southern used to be the scholarly center of Southern Baptist Life. A decade later no serious scholar would step foot in the place.
    About every five years he makes a completely asinine statement of one kind or another and puts himself in the news for about fifteen minutes.
    Witness one of his wonderful theological revelations from the past when he decided that the historic Baptist principle of “Soul Competency” and “The Priesthood of Every Believer” was a mistake from the very beginning. The priesthood of every believer has been a centerpiece of Baptist thought since 1601. It may be the most important gift that Baptists bring to the greater Christian community. Of course, it doesn’t jibe with the fundamentalist agenda because it takes away their ability to control from the top.
    Never mind history, reality, and the New Testament. Al Mohler has a new way of interpreting things.
    http://www.baptiststandard.com/2000/4_17/pages/mohler.html
    Again, I’m sorry for the bitter tone. I spent twenty years fighting this guy and his friends and finally gave up and left. And yes, some things are worth fighting for.

  • Scorpio

    Well, if you were homosxual, would *you* tell a nutcase like him about it?
    Of course he “doesn’t know any” — it’s because they know him!
    Scorpio
    Eccentricity


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