Women dread being propositioned by men whom they find unattractive, and men dread the exact same thing. The reason being that in either case the person on the receiving end of the come-on is held to have incited it.

Not entirely. The thing is that women are expected to always accept the advances of men who come on to us, whether we find them attractive or not. (One reason is that women aren’t allowed to be picky. The other reason is that we’re expected to reward men for being brave enough to ask us out.)

Straight men are aware of this obligation (although try getting them to admit it) so they fear gay men’s advances. If straight women must accept the advances of straight men, that must mean that straight men must accept the advances of gay men. Hence, the violent reaction.

If they don’t like being lumped together with people like Hutchison, perhaps they should do more to shun people like Hutchison and drive them into the fringes of religious society, as opposed to what they generally do now, which is pretty much nothing.

And no, posting on blogs about how many right-thinking (but silent) Christians there are out there doesn’t cut it.

Christ rarely, if ever, made any kind of show of overt masculinity, or perhaps I should say, what modern repressive culture considers to be masculinity. Exactly.

Because joking about how awesome and right it is to kill people perceived as gay never promoted or normalized violence against gays? And that’s assuming that he was being truthful about the joke thing, rather than recognizing that what he said was too hateful and hyperbolic to get a pass on once it was heard outside his church.

I thought it was MORE masculine to hold doors open for people, as in, an old-fashioned polite god-fearing gentleman sort of thing?

Ah, but the old-fashioned polite god-fearing gentleman holds doors open for _ladies_. So Hutcherson thinks that anyone for whom the door is held open is being treated as a lady. And them’s fighting words.

The Christ of the Gospels had a forceful personality, yes, but he was also a committed pacifist, who spent most of his time hanging out with other men and helping the poor.

Christ rarely, if ever, made any kind of show of overt masculinity, or perhaps I should say, what modern repressive culture considers to be masculinity.

So… Were do guys like this get this idea that god hates meek people who go out of their way to be kind to others?

Interestingly, there is a strain of wingnut fundie who’ll bash the likes of Pastor Hutch asking that very same question and then go on to complain about “teh gay agenda” for people making this equivalence. You’d be amazed at what fundies’ll blame on ye olde gay agenda.