Gay author Jonathan Rauch is touring the nation to promote his new book, “Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America.”
Christian Reconstructionist talk-radio king Bob Enyart interviewed Rauch on April 9.
Listen to the half-hour interview (MP3 file).
Always fair and even-tempered in real life, Rauch kept his cool on the radio show as well. Some of Enyart’s questions assumed, strangely, that heterosexuality is always moral, and he also seemed to presume that gay guests are not entitled to any privacy in their personal lives.
XGW, its primary author, and certain readers have periodically invited the Exodus ex-gay network since 1997 to challenge Enyart’s hate — and that of other antigay celebrities who embarrass the Christian faith with their vitriol.
Exodus has repeatedly declined the invitation. Randy Thomas, in particular, believes that to disagree publicly with a “Christian” extremist would wrongly suggest that Christians are “divided.”
(Thanks to two IGF colleagues for the links.)
In a few weeks, the world of conservative christians will observe an event Enyart originated. His contribution to presenting the gospel was: May Is Homos Make Me Puke Month. This observance was widespread among christians in Colorado, and has probably spread throughout the country.
Enyart is also a teevee talk show host. Apparently he is the toprated christian one in the nation.
What amazes me is that christians let him continue to model Jesus to the public. I have been continuously astonished by this. But it has gone on long enough for me to conclude that we have moved beyond a lack of awareness to a conscious policy of tacit support.
As soon as Enyart asked Rauch for a concession that if homosexuality is “wrong” I closed my mp3 player. If he had asked if homosexuality was “bad or harmful” I would have listened.
I can’t believe you guys even tried. This stuff, and the bigots who now control all of America, make me see red. I can’t even listen to them. Jon Rauch is one of the only gay conservatives that is worthy of respect or admiration. That even he is treated like trash by bigots outrages me.
This guy is a horrible person, he needs to stop judging everyone.
It’s interesting that you say that Bob should quit judging when you’ve judged him as a terrible person. What gives you the power to judge and takes it away from him? He’s trying to do what is RIGHT. Not to stop what society may deem as “bad or harmful” but to let people know what is WRONG based on the Bible. He’d be more than willing to discuss his position with any of you. But I think that you are all unwilling to step out of the box and really hear what he has to say without an un-Christian biased ear. I hope you all find Truth.
Enyart is not trying to do what’s right when he devotes airtime to threatening and defaming innocent, polite, and moral individuals.
Given his anti-Christian behavior, he is unqualified to tell others how to behave Biblically.
Talk-radio shoutfest hosts who preach hate are much worse than your average religious hypocrite; Enyart actively leads Christians and other people of faith astray.