One of the things our right wing opponents have been beating like a drum in the opposition to LGBT inclusive human rights laws is the widely discredited trans bathroom predator meme, when the reality is the bathroom predators predominately are white males who aren't getting dressed in drag to enter bathrooms to prey upon women. The conservafools doing the loudest squawking about it usually are the ones engaged in the predatory behavior they ascribe to others.
We have our latest example of right wing projection tactics blowing up in their face in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Eureka Springs on February 9 passed a non discrimination law covering BTLG people that a coalition of conservative businessmen and pastors are trying to overturn in a May 12 referendum , and they are employing heaping helpings of lies and faith based transphobia to do so.
Turns out that one of their spokeskneegrows, 60 year old pastor Acra Lee Turner, who has been loudly bearing false witness against the local LGBT community, is living in a glass house of his own.
Turner, who since April 15 has been pastor of Penn Memorial Baptist Church in Eureka Springs, was revealed by the Arkansas Times to be a convicted sex offender. As a 22 year old, the was convicted in 1977 of sexual assault in Stephens County, Oklahoma and sentenced to three concurrent sentences of 30-60 for three counts of rape. One of the people he sexually assaulted was an 80 year old woman who was beaten so badly she was almost unrecognizable.
He was paroled in August 2000 over the objections of the families who were victimized by Turner. His crimes also predate the establishment of the Oklahoma State Sex Offender Registry.
Turner has also been pimping the lie the anti-HERO ministers tried to push here in Houston until I and other Black LGBT Houstonians gleefully had fun destroying it in several hearings, that LGBT civil rights are not a human rights issue.
No LGBT person says Turner, "has been lynched, no one has to sit on the back of the bus. It's not a human rights issue, it's a human behavior issue."
And you're the last one that needs to be talking about human behavioral issues.
As for the tired lynching line, try telling that BS talking point to Matthew Shepard's family. Or reciting it to Paul Broussard's family. Or try uttering it to the families of the hundreds of transpeople who have been murdered because of the anti-trans hate you and your TERF allies have been spreading. While the haters haven't been hanging LGBT peeps from trees, far too many of us are getting murdered, and when it comes to trans people, they disproportionately look like us.. Bottom line is that you are hypocritically being played by white conservatives who don't give a rats anus about your Black convicted sexual predator behind to oppose a human rights law.
And you and your friends aren't Christians, you're the purveyors of the 'dry as dust' religion that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr warned us about.
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