Is Ken Hutcherson a "special envoy" for White House?
Eli Sanders at Slog is covering a controversy between anti-gay rights preacher Ken Hutcherson and the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Hutcherson says he was named a "special envoy" by the FBCI, and the White House says, no he wasn't. Hutcherson has been working with conservative, anti-gay rights politicians and clergy in Latvia as that former Soviet republic struggles to conform to basic EU standards regarding human rights. Hutcherson apparently travelled to Latvia with a person who wrote a book called "The Pink Swastika," according to Sanders' post. The book supposedly claims that gays were responsible for the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. If that's so, it's a new low, even for Hutcherson.
Postman is also on the story, and he's pretty clear on what the White House is saying about this. (No, we didn't name him anything.)
As this is posted, Hutcherson has claimed to Sanders that he has a video proving that he is a "special envoy."
A May 16 article from Gay.com of the UK and Ireland mentions the struggle in Latvia and Hutcherson's involvement:
Hutcherson says he was named a "special envoy" by the FBCI, and the White House says, no he wasn't. Hutcherson has been working with conservative, anti-gay rights politicians and clergy in Latvia as that former Soviet republic struggles to conform to basic EU standards regarding human rights. Hutcherson apparently travelled to Latvia with a person who wrote a book called "The Pink Swastika," according to Sanders' post. The book supposedly claims that gays were responsible for the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust. If that's so, it's a new low, even for Hutcherson.
Postman is also on the story, and he's pretty clear on what the White House is saying about this. (No, we didn't name him anything.)
As this is posted, Hutcherson has claimed to Sanders that he has a video proving that he is a "special envoy."
A May 16 article from Gay.com of the UK and Ireland mentions the struggle in Latvia and Hutcherson's involvement:
Not content with a healthy contingent of home-grown homophobes, religious leaders in Latvia have been importing anti-gay firebrands to support their cause.Ok, then. I keep having to say the same thing, but it looks like Hutcherson has some explaining to do. If he's basically hanging out with Nazi sympathizers, then whatever shred of credibility he still had just vaporized.
Last week, ex-NFL player Pastor Ken Hutcherson flew in from Washington to give advice on fighting LGBT rights.
He was joined by another American, Scott Lively, co-author of The Pink Swastika- Homosexuality in the Nazi Party. This disturbing book is an insane diatribe claiming that ‘homosexualism’ not only gave birth to Nazi imperialism but also led to the Holocaust itself.
The scary tome, which happens to be on its 4th edition, also claims that: “homosexuality is primarily a predatory addiction striving to take the weak and unsuspecting down with it”.
Just in case you were wondering, a ‘homosexualist’ is any person, gay or not, who “actively promotes homosexuality as morally and socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy”.
