July 11, 2007

Hatewatch for the week of July 11th 2007

Christian Reconstructionists flock to 'Worldview Super Conference'
Several hundred Religious Right activists attended a four-day conference sponsored by American Vision, a radical ministry promoting a Christian theocracy that includes the death penalty for homosexuals, fornicators and those who spread "false religions."

Hate crime victim commits suicide
David Ritcheson, who was beaten unconscious and sodomized with a patio umbrella pole during a racially motivated 2006 attack that sparked widespread outrage, jumped to his death from a cruise ship...

'Cool Church' spreads anti-gay myths
Leaders of the Tucson Community Church, which promotes itself as hip and intellectually curious, are telling parishioners that homosexuality reduces life spans by 30 years, among other homophobic falsehoods...

KKK items discovered with bomb materials
Bounty hunters found KKK and neo-Nazi paraphernalia along with guns, ammunition and bomb-making materials in a storage unit rented by fugitive Christopher Reindeau...

Fox News hypes flimsy report on lesbian gangs
A "national underground network" of lesbians toting pink-colored pistols is terrorizing America, according to a recent segment on the popular Fox News Channel "The O'Reilly Factor."

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