I hadn't planned on posting today, but I found something so outrageous that it demands one. On Monday, homeschooling maven Kevin Swanson used his online radio show, Generations Radio, to suggest that the decade-long rampage of Jerry Sandusky is proof positive homosexuality needs to be a capital offense. Swanson claims that Sandusky's behavior is merely a reversion to what happened in Greek times, with the institution of the gymnasium--which was supposedly built around child molestation. PFAW got excerpts.
Even Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare, to some extent, had some writings that were somewhat favorable of homosexuality. Now, homosexuality had not existed for about 1,000 years, between about 300 AD to 1400-1500 AD where certain mentions of it were extant in some of the classical literature of the day, because classical literature tends to bring back homosexuality as the ‘cool thing’, but it hadn’t existed for about 1,000 years. It was, obviously, very very important to humanism, it always has been important to humanism, and whenever you get a humanist, classical approach to education, you’re probably going to get the gymnasium. The gymnasiums were all built around the idea of pederasty and pedophilia.
Now, I don’t want to get into a lot of the details on this, because it’s very very very gross, but they trained young boys in homosexuality. This is part and parcel of the homosexual vision, still is, by the way, to this day. This is the goal, this is where they’re headed, if you read the homosexual literature, which I encourage you not to do, but this is the direction that they’re headed. This is the goal of humanism. The goal of humanism is to make it to Sandusky. The problem is Sandusky was prosecuted and that’s an indication that we’ve got 2,000 years of Christianity, and these guys are not going to get away with it.
To Swanson's mind, the only solution is to put gays to death.
Listen to the whole thing (if you can stand it) here.
I knew that the "they recruit" meme is pretty much an article of faith among fundies. But this is absolutely breathtaking. Never mind that if Swanson bothered to do any research, the mainstream gay rights movement essentially kicked the pro-pedophilia crowd out of the party a long time ago.