Wonder what Hutch'd say if someone talked about doing things like that to someone he loves?

Anthony Robinson, a retired minister and columnist in the Seattle P-I, has an interesting column about the practice of ridiculing gay people as all being ludicrous stereotypes as part of "manning up" up Christian straight guys in a confused world of gender roles.

No one who knows the Seattle area will be surprised when Rev. Ken Hutcherson turns up in the column:

'Reasonable people can disagree over whether gay marriage is a good idea.

'But Hutcherson goes beyond reasonable, at least to judge by the report of Seattle psychologist Valerie Tarico. Tarico, a former staffer at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, was raised in a fundamentalist church. In recent months, she has made it her business to attend services at many of the large, conservative churches in the Seattle area, including Hutcherson's, to see what's going on.

'On a Sunday when Tarico was present, Hutcherson was preaching on gender roles. During his sermon, Hutcherson stated, "God hates soft men" and "God hates effeminate men." Hutcherson went on to say, "If I was in a drugstore and some guy opened the door for me, I'd rip his arm off and beat him with the wet end."

'"That was a joke," Hutcherson said Friday, when I asked him about the comment. But it's not really funny, is it?

'What it sounds like are the kinds of words that have paved the way for atrocities in such places as Serbia, Kosovo and Rwanda. You have to dehumanize somebody before you beat them up. Labeling some men as "soft" and "effeminate" and saying "God hates them" does that.'

It's really striking, in Hutcherson's comments going back years, how he talks so much about working serious violence on others.

BTW- we'll have an update on his Financial Network plan to get Christians to buys shares in Microsoft and give them to his company, and his still-undisclosed list of "powerful white people" who support his plan to make Microsoft a godly, queer-free company.