From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 09:12:22 EDT

Reprinted from the [Boise] Idaho Statesman,
Thursday, July 21 1994
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ANTI-GAY MANUAL TERMS HOMOSEXUALS
"SPAWN OF THE DEVIL"

Book calls activists 'most violent ... people on earth'

The Associated Press

TWIN FALLS, IDAHO -- Homosexuals are "spawn of
the devil" and contribute to the destructions of the family,
according to a manual distributed among Idaho
Citizens Alliance members.

The "debat manual" has been sold to alliance members
who are pushing the anti-gay initiative on Idaho's November
ballot.

Gay-rights activists denounced the book and ICA Chairman
Kelly Walton.

"The danger to Mr. Walton is that out of one side of his
mouth he says he loves gay and lesbian people, and out
of the other side of this mouth, he provides his supporters
with a manual that is filled with out-and-out lies," said
Brian Bergquist of Don't Sign On.

The guide says, "Promiscuous sodomite activists are the
most violent and irrational group of people on earth."  It
denigrates feminists and says "from God's point of view,"
contraception is wrong.

"Debating the 'Gay Rights' Issue" was writen by Brian
Clowes, an anti-gay rights activist from Vancouver,
Wash., and distributed by the United States Citizens
Alliance, the Idaho group's parent organization.

DISTRIBUTION QUESTIONS

The Idaho alliance distributed the document to about a
dozen of its county leaders, said Walton, who added that
he had not read the entire guide but disagreed with some of
its claims.

Carol Patrone of the Oregon Citizens Alliance said her group
had distributed hundreds of the guides to conservatives
across the Northwest.

The guide says gays "agressively demand: the closing of
all churches that oppose them; the total destruction of the
family; exile and actual murder of those who oppose them in
any way; the 'conversion' by forced sodomy of all young
men to homosexuality; the official condemnation of normal
love between men and women, and the raising of private
armies of thugs to enforce their agenda."

The guide also says many gays are masochists and
enjoy being beaten.

"One statement that is sure to get an outraged response from
sodomites and a chuckle from normal onlookers is an
innocent observation that 'gays' should enjoy getting beat
up by 'homophobes'," it says.

Walton said the notion that gays should enjoy getting beaten
by homophobes "does not necessarily reflect the views
of the ICA at all."

"I hope you take that in the jest (the author is) delivering
it," he added.

NO LAUGHING MATTER

Gay rights activits do not find it funny.

"The similiarity between the type of deceitful rhetoric
the ICA is selling in this manual and what Germans
heard about the Jews from the Nazis is uncanny," said

Mary Rohlfing, co-chair of Idaho for Human Dignity.

The guide also opines:

Homosexuals may be infiltrating the Catholic priesthood
so they can abuse young children and destroy the
credibility of the church.

"The average homosexual male is 34 times more likely to
commit mass murder and 196 times more likely to be a
serial killer than a heterosexual male" and 90 times more
likely to molest children, the guide says.

Twin Falls County Prosecutor Richard Bevan said that
in his experience, about 80 percent of molesters choose
victims who are of the opposite sex.

Berguist said he doubted "any rational person" would
believe the allegations.

"The sounds kind of like desperation to me," he said.

SOFTENING THE RHETORIC

David Smith of the Naitonal Gay and Lesbian Task Force
said gay opponents are softening their rhetoric as November
approaches.

"They do focus groups, polling and research, just like we do.
They know hateful, acerbic messages aren't reasonating
with people," so they're trying a new approach," Smith said.

Walton said the manual should be judged in its entirely.

"I'm sure if you went through any book and took some of the
most outrageious things you could find, you could do a pretty
good job of mischaracterizing it."

But after hearing some passages, he distanced himself
from the manual.

"The author has gone off the deep end on some of those
quotes.  It's almost funny, if he wasn't being serious,"
Walton said.

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For more information, contact Don't Sign On at 208-
344-4295 or write to PO Box 797, Boise, Idaho 83701.

Submitted by Rober Shaffer        [email-masked]
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