FRC panties in a bunch over US embassy hoisting LGBT flag
The folks at the Family Research Council can always be counted on to express outrage whenever they perceive the government doesn’t adhere to biblical principals and also play the martyrdom card in the same breath. Today I got yet another email from the FRC Action group expressing shock that the US government did something they disagree with. Of course every single link embedded in the email went to their donate money page. Not a single link went to an independent news sources — not even Fox news.
What had the FRC so upset? The US embassy in Israel hoisted the LGBT flag in solidarity with a large number of parades and other activities promoting LGBT equality this weekend. According to the FRC this single incident means “the Obama administration is now promoting homosexuality through our U.S. Embassies all over the world.” Not only that but President Obama is “forcing foreign governments to adopt the radical homosexual agenda at all costs!”
The FRC also cried about the persecution of Christians around the world. Unsurprisingly they had only one example — that of Meriam Ibrahim being punished for Islam apostasy in Sudan. Of course there are a large number of other examples that could be cited. Meriam’s ordeal is awful and every single atheist I know has expressed outrage over what was done to her. Yet I find the FRC’s outrage self-serving and ironic given that Christians often exhibit fatwa envy. That is, they clearly wish they could get away with exhibiting the same behavior towards non Christian religions (not to mention those of no faith).