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SPECIAL EDITION OF
HOMO-FASCIST WATCH
Report for December 12, 2003
In a soul-revealing move on
Monday, December 8, 2003, the sodomite organization Action Wisconsin
launched a vicious, dishonest attack on Wisconsin Christians United and
Pastor Grant Storms. Action Wisconsin is a political group which lobbies
(i.e., bullies) politicians in Madison and around the state.
Once the press began calling WCU's office after reading the Action
Wisconsin press release posted below, WCU responded with a flurry of press
releases, letters, and phone calls. Action Wisconsin's smear campaign has
revealed that they are as reckless politically and legally as they are
sexually. We have also sent most of our press releases below to all of
Wisconsin's state senators and assemblymen to make that point. Once you
have read Action Wisconsin's press release, be sure to read WCU's
answering releases. State
Senator Attends "Homo-Fascism" Conference, Action Wisconsin Asks
Majority Leader Panzer to Investigate
For Immediate Release: December 8, 2003
Contact: Joshua Freker, 608.441.0143
Madison - Today Action Wisconsin sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader
Mary Panzer, calling on her to investigate, identify, and discipline the
state senator who attended the "International Conference on
Homo-Fascism" in Milwaukee on October 10, 2003.
The conference was sponsored by Wisconsin Christians United (WCU), a group
dedicated to stopping "the advance of sodomite tyranny and
brutality." The group recently announced on its website that a state
senator had attended the conference.
"The attendance of a state senator at this conference is similar to a
senator attending a Ku Klux Klan rally or neo-Nazi conference, and should
receive tremendous scrutiny-especially at a time when legislators are
advocating a constitutional amendment targeted at gay people," said
Christopher Ott, executive director of Action Wisconsin. "Anyone has
the right to attend such a conference, but the people of Wisconsin deserve
to know if their legislators are aligned with extreme hate-group
activity."
In a speech at the "Homo-Fascism" conference, a WCU
representative said, "The sodomites are the devil's special
forces.they're the advanced guard." Another speaker made sounds like
gunfire as if he were shooting gay people, saying, "God has delivered
them into our hands.Boom boom boom.there's twenty! Ca-ching! Glory, glory
to God." Excerpts of the speeches are attached.
"We are deeply concerned that a state senator would feel comfortable
attending a conference that espoused such frenzied, hysterical
hatred," said Action Wisconsin President Tim O'Brien. "While
conference participants are a clear threat to the security and freedom of
the lesbian and gay communities, so too is a state constitutional
amendment that would codify us as second-class citizens. They are both
branches from the same tree of intolerance."
When the Assembly failed to override Gov. Doyle's veto of AB475, Rep. Mark
Gundrum (R-New Berlin) accused the governor of being "obsessed with
the gay agenda," a charge often leveled by hate groups against anyone
who supports tolerance. Recently, Rep. Gundrum and Senator Scott
Fitzgerald announced their intention to introduce yet more anti-gay
legislation, this time a proposal to enshrine discrimination in the state
constitution.
"We trust that Senator Panzer will be as appalled as we were to find
one of her colleagues in the audience for a speech apparently advocating
the murder of his own constituents," said Ott. "We also hope
that every legislator will think twice before supporting any more
hate-inspired legislation."
WCU, the sponsor of the conference, advocates the eradication of civil
rights laws and the criminalization of intimate conduct between same-sex
couples. One WCU brochure, "A Little Discrimination Can Be a Good
Thing," openly advocates workplace discrimination, saying that in
some cases discrimination is "not only right, but is also essential
for obedience to God."
Quotes from speakers at the October 10, 2003 International Conference on
Homo-Fascism in Milwaukee
Grant Storms - Christians Conservatives for Reform - Louisiana
24:40 "They [gays] want to kill you."
25:00 "They have contempt for the things of God.. They are a scornful
people."
26:35 "It's us or them. There is no in between. There is no having
this peaceful co-existence. They have to eliminate us and the word of God
if they want to succeed. It's almost like capitalism and communism-it is
going to be one or the other. You can't have both.. Either they're right,
or we're right. Either we're going to succeed, or they're going to
succeed. Either it's going to be a homosexual, anti-God nation, or it's
going to be a nation that stands for God and says that thing is sin. Can't
be both, won't be both. Something is going to happen. Either they'll crush
us and.silence us and kill the ones that won't be silent or imprison the
ones that won't be silent. Or the church of the Lord Jesus Christ will
rise up and say this is a Christian nation; this is the way it will
remain. Go back in the closet."
31:20 "There is a philistine army out there. It's called the
homosexual movement, whether you can see it or not, understand it or not,
they want to eliminate us."
43:40 "For 20 years we have been begging bad legislators and bad
judges to try to do the good thing. Enough is enough my good friends;
let's start taking it to the streets."
59:00 "God has delivered them into our hands, Hallelujah - Boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom [like gun fire] - There's twenty! Ca-ching, glory,
glory to God, let's go drive through the McDonalds and come back and get
the rest."
Peter Hammond - Frontline Fellowship and African Christian Action - South
Africa
16:50 "These people [gays & lesbians] aren't producing anything
except new disease."
56:25 "He was found dead murdered by his live-in lover in an
apartment. This is the standard norm. This is the way it works in the
homosexual community. Why are those involved in homosexuality 10 times to
20 times more likely to sexually molest a child than so-called
straights?"
56:55 "Lesbians tend to be selfish people."
65:02 "Deceived, Diseased, Dead-the three `D's' of
homosexuality"
70:02 "This is the battlefield. Just like the Muslims-we didn't want
to fight them, but when they are attacking you, you have no choice but to
fight back.."
72:00 "Bring them to repentance or bring them to judgment."
Peter LaBarbera - Illinois Family Institute
6:30 "Yes, I am anti gay because what gay is in the culture . it is
the ideological basis for a whole propaganda movement. Hitler would be
proud how they used that word."
7:30 "They hate us, they hate Christians, they hate Jesus Christ, and
they hate the word of God."
60:40 "Of course pedophilia is next."
Ralph Ovadal - Wisconsin Christians United
10:30 "The sodomites are the devil's specials forces, the brown
shirts; they're the advanced guard."
13:08 "It's [homosexuality] about lawlessness. It's about brutality.
It's about rebellion. It's about control. It's about crushing anyone who
stands in the way of their satanic vision."
44:14 "This is a war."
59:14 "We need to draw blood on the devil."
David Crowter - Christian Watch U.K./Europe
12:27 "Its [homosexuality] origin is satanic"
Note: Action Wisconsin transcribed the above excerpts from a recording of
the conference provided by Wisconsin Christians United. The numbers
represent the time on the CD's that the comments were made.
Wisconsin Christians United Press Release
December 8, 2003
Action Wisconsin Proves WCU's Point On
October 9-10, 2003, WCU put on an event called the International
Conference on Homo-Fascism. Speakers from several countries shared how
religious liberty and freedom of speech have been attacked by the
proponents of homosexuality. WCU has made tapes
of the conference available to everyone and anyone at www.wcuweb.com. On
December 8, 2003, Action Wisconsin sent out a press release filled with
mischaracterizations of the conference and comparing WCU to the Ku Klux
Klan. Action Wisconsin is also calling on State Senator Majority
Leader Mary Panzer to "investigate, identify, and discipline the
state senator who attended the 'International Conference on Homo-Fascism'
in Milwaukee on October 10, 2003." In
addition, Action Wisconsin published comments made by speakers at the
conference. These comments were taken totally out of context from five
hours of speeches. For instance, Action Wisconsin has attempted to make it
look as though Pastor Grant Storms was encouraging Christians to shoot
homosexuals. In reality, Pastor Storms--a very animated, Billy-Sunday-type
speaker--was relating the biblical story of Jonathan and his armor bearer
and, in a technique which some preachers use, put a modern motif to it. As
Action Wisconsin well knows, he then went on to tell about how Christians
today need to stand up for what they believe in against all odds in the
political and religious struggles in which we find ourselves. Pastor
Storms's message had nothing to do with violence! Action Wisconsin knows
that none of the WCU speakers spoke of doing violence and that they
stressed the importance of sharing the gospel with homosexuals in hope of
bringing them to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. WCU encourages
anyone interested in the truth of what was said at our conference to
obtain tapes of the speeches. We likewise encourage anyone who truly wants
to know what WCU is all about to check our web page at www.wcuweb.com. "Action
Wisconsin has proved our point. There is a form of fascism afoot which
employs slander, demonization, and demagoguery to marginalize and silence
all who oppose the homosexual agenda and stand for what the Bible says
about homosexuality. Action Wisconsin has combed through five hours of
speeches and taken a few comments out of context. Now they are calling for
a witch hunt to track down a state senator who simply dropped into the
conference to listen for awhile. If that isn't fascism, what is?
And how dare they compare WCU to the Ku Klux Klan? We hate racism. One of
our speakers at the conference ministers to the suffering Christians in
the South Sudan, who happen to be black. The church another speaker
pastors is 50% black. We have many individuals involved with WCU who are
black. This vicious, dishonest attack by Action Wisconsin upon WCU and, by
extension, all who hold to what the Bible says about homosexuality will,
in the long-run, serve well to further alert citizens to the danger of a
virulent form of fascism. Action Wisconsin has done their dirty work. Now
they are counting on the media to run with the story as they have framed
it. As for our part, we will continue to stand for biblical truth."
Pastor Ralph Ovadal, Director, Wisconsin Christians United
Wisconsin Christians United Press Release
December 9, 2003
WCU Planning Legal Action Against Action Wisconsin
Yesterday, December 8, 2003, the homosexual political
organization Action Wisconsin sent out a news release in which excerpts
from the speakers at a Wisconsin Christians United conference
were taken out of context--in one case, grossly out of context--and then
used to support a claim that WCU supports the murder of homosexuals.
Shortly after the conference, WCU made available to the public through
WCU's web site tapes and CDs of the five hours of speeches given at the
event. That is not exactly something a group bent on propagating murder
would do. Action Wisconsin officials received those CDs and have admitted
to listening to them to extract excerpts. They are now planning on the
press finishing their dirty work for them. This morning, WCU e-mailed the
following letter to Action Wisconsin, notifying them that we expect them
to come clean on the lies they have publicly spread and to publicly
apologize or we will take legal action. We are also making complimentary tapes
or CDs of the conference available to the media.
To Action Wisconsin:
I trust you read my note yesterday. To aid you in issuing your
clarification and apology today, I again point out that you know full
well that Pastor Storms was not pretending to shoot gay people. You
heard the audio of his speech, as you have admitted. You know that Grant
was preaching on the biblical story of Jonathan and his armor bearer.
You know that when he said, "Boom, boom, boom," he was
speaking of Jonathan fighting the Philistines. You know that his comment
on "McDonald's" was simply a preaching technique using a
modern motif. You know that he then went on to use that story as an
analogy for how Christians must fight our spiritual, political, and
religious battles without fearing the odds against us. You also know
that all of the speakers at the WCU conference dealt with the political
and religious agenda of the homosexual movement. In addition, they not
only made many analogies regarding spiritual warfare but also spoke to
the need to share the gospel with individual homosexuals.
To publicly lead the public to believe that two Christian pastors were
reveling in the fantasy of shooting gay people is reprehensible and
going a bridge too far legally. Not only that, but to also present
Pastor Storms and me as potential assassins is to put both of us, not to
mention our families and churches, in more danger. We already receive
our share of documented death threats, and in my case, even physical
assaults from the "gay community." Your personal character
assassination of us could certainly lead someone to go one step further
out of a perceived need to protect gay people. There are several other
clarifications of your press release and your letter to Senator Mary
Panzer which it would be wise for you to make. I have spoken with Grant,
and he joins me in insisting that you make this matter right
immediately. We realize there is probably not much we can do about your
juxtaposing us alongside neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan; but your
blatant, systematic misrepresenting two Christian pastors as
cold-blooded killers urging others on to murder is something we will not
tolerate. You may rest assured that we are going to pursue this matter
legally. If you think for one moment that we are going to put up with
Action Wisconsin purposely spreading the lie that we are in favor of
murdering gay people and that we even acted out such murder in public,
you are very sadly mistaken.
Pastor Ralph Ovadal
Wisconsin Christians United Press Release
December 10, 2003
Action Wisconsin Will Be Held Legally Accountable for Vicious Attack upon
Christian Pastor
"For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds." 2 Corinthians 10:4 On
December 8, 2003, the homosexual political organization Action Wisconsin
sent a press release far and wide in which they claimed that a speaker at
WCU's October 10, 2003 International
Conference on Homo-Fascism advocated the murder of homosexual people!
To substantiate this horrific allegation stated as fact, Action Wisconsin
provided a quote from Pastor Grant Storms, one of the speakers at the WCU
conference. The truth of the matter is that Pastor Storms was preaching
from 1 Samuel 14 and drawing lessons from that passage. Pastor Storms, an
animated preacher who pastors a church in New Orleans, was stressing how
important it is for Christians to trust in God and not be afraid even if
we seem to be overwhelmed and out-numbered by our opposition in the
current struggles over matters of law, liberty, and morality. Below you
will find in bold italics the quote Action Wisconsin took out of context.
Unlike Action Wisconsin, we have provided what Pastor Storms said just
prior to and just after the quote they are using in their attempt to make
WCU appear to be a bunch of would-be murderers.
"'And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and
upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before
Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. And that first slaughter,
which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men' [1
Samuel 14:13-14]. Come on; let's go! God has delivered them into out
hands. Hallelujah-Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom-There's twenty! Ca-ching.
Glory, glory to God. Let's go drive through the McDonald's and come back
and get the rest. They had a willingness to fight. I'm going to tell
you why pastors don't get out on the frontlines, Brother Ralph, why
pastors don't get out there on the frontlines, and why they're not
involved in fighting the abortion and homosexual issue and so forth.
They don't have a willingness to fight. They don't want to fight. You
gotta have a willingness to fight. You gotta have a willingness to
fight. You gotta want to get in there and scrap for God. I mean scrap
with the devil for God."
As a footnote, the reader should know that each time
Pastor Storms said "boom" in the comments above, he made the
motion of waving a sword, not shooting a gun. "Action
Wisconsin has admitted in writing that they listened to Pastor Storms's
message, thanks to a CD copy of it they obtained from WCU. Now they can
explain in court why they attempted to smear a Christian pastor's
reputation in writing to the whole world by presenting him as a violent
man 'who made sounds like gunfire as if he were shooting gay people' and
was 'advocating the murder' of homosexuals. WCU has secured an attorney to
file a civil lawsuit on behalf of Pastor Grant Storms. We are not going to
tolerate such outright, vicious lies against a minister of the gospel. We
are going to press this legal matter with vigor and, by the grace of God,
will see a victory won for all Christians who have been similarly
demonized by Sodom's propagandists."
Pastor Ralph Ovadal, Director, Wisconsin Christians United
Homo-Fascism
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