In an unapologetic, yet hardly surprising, interview, Brian Camenker, the president of MassResistance, a Massachusetts-based pro-family organization devoted almost exclusively to fighting abortion and LGBT rights, went on Linda Harvey’s Mission America talk radio program to declare that violence against the LGBT community, especially in Russia, is the direct result of a gay person’s behavior. “The natural way people react to homosexuality — outside of all the diversity training — is a certain amount of revulsion. So if two men start kissing in the public street, you can expect a certain reaction from people.”
Thankfully, Harvey called on the Russians to punish those who have committed acts of violence (but not before questioning if incidents of Russian anti-gay violence could be proven or reminding her listeners that recent Russian anti-gay legislation was less about homosexual behavior and more about protecting children.)
Camenker went on to delineate how Russia and the United States differ in their approach to violence against the LGBT community. “It’s sort of interesting, apparently in Russia you get away with [violence, beating people up] but here it is just exactly the opposite — the homosexuals can disrupt churches, they can disrupt anything, they can do all kinds of horrible things in public as they’ve done at events where I’ve been and nothing happens.”
Perhaps, the next time someone runs into Camenker we can also explain to them that, unlike in Russia, most Americans will tell you the “disrupt” and “physical assault” are located on different pages in the dictionary.
