"Why This Religion Prof Quit Calling Right-Wing Hypocrites 'Hypocrites' Long Ago"
 "For as long as I’ve followed the news and its weekly examples of the latest clergy or politician who has professed what are often called “Family Values” – which everyone knows is code for anti-LGBTQ+ equality - it has become routine, even expected, to find that the more someone righteously protests, the greater the likelihood that they have related skeletons in their closets struggling to burst out. This past month has provided more examples.
It’s a well-worn psychologist’s expectation that the louder people rail about it, the more likely it is that they’re covering up their own guilt.
They’re easily, and rightly, labeled hypocrites. And preaching moral outrage against others while living and doing what they object to seems to be a necessary part of legalistic, moralistic right-wing religions.
Especially around sexual issues, on which right-wing religion (both its leaders and followers) and the politicians who take advantage of it have historically focused, their own sexual dysfunctions get covered like addictions by their religion.
But labeling them hypocrites is too easy. It actually lets the religious views, and most of the people who endorse them, off the hook...."
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including his, in this issue, saying that we must go beyond just calling bigots hypocrites - the religion itself has to be held accountable. He names names and is right: 'What we’re seeing is the heart of what right-wing religion itself really is, not merely hypocrisy.'"
-- veteran LGBT activist (since 1959) and a founder of LA's Homosexual Information Center in 1968, Billy Glover
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