The following excerpt from the excellent article in the New York Times illustrates what people who try to control, limit and condemn other people's healthy sexuality and reproduction are usually trying to hide--their own sexual crimes, perversions and on-going sexual shame:
t r u t h o u t - Frank Rich | A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time: "Perhaps the closest historical antecedent of tonight's crusade was that staged in the 1950's and 60's by a George Wallace ally, the televangelist Billy James Hargis. At its peak, his so-called Christian Crusade was carried by 500 radio stations and more than 200 television stations. In the 'Impeach Earl Warren' era, Hargis would preach of the 'collapse of moral values' engineered by a 'powerfully entrenched, anti-God Liberal Establishment.' He also decried any sex education that talked about homosexuality or even sexual intercourse. Or so he did until his career was ended by accusations that he had had sex with female students at the Christian college he founded as well as with boys in the school's All-American Kids choir. "
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