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September 4, 2008 - 11:07am
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'Right-wing Jack Davis' attacks homosexuality in 80's comic book
By Rob Tornoe
A panel from Dick Hafer's 1986 comic book 'Homosexuality: Legitimate Alternate Deathstyle': (Comics with Problems)Children raised in non-religious homes are four times more likely to adopt homosexual habits, and sodomy is a learned habit, much like alcohol or drugs, or so cartoonist Dick Hafer tells us in 'Homosexuality: Legitimate alternate deathstyle'.
The comic, published in 1986, is a 208 page diatribe of misnomers and hate which attempted to castigate homosexuals to the shadows and out of society in a time when mainstream Americans found it difficult to accept their views.
The cover of the anti-gay 1986 comic book.: (Comics with Problems)"Hafer was the right-wing's Jack Davis: a man who could, and did, lampoon any chosen target of what one could tent together as 'Republican Interests'," Comics with Problems founder Ethan Persoff said, who scanned twenty pages that focus on Hafer's church-supported views of gay lifestyles and posted them online.
"Reading these pages is like jumping into a bizarro world of bent pent-up pop-culture where the wrong is right, the shirt and haircut doesn't match, and most of the food shopping is done in bulk through QVC."
Illustrating how far society had yet to go in the acceptance of homosexuality, the back cover of the book features supportive comments towards Hafner's bigoted work from several mainstream sources, including former U.S. Representative William Dannemeyer (R-CA), who represented California's 39th district from 1979 to 1993, and is currently honorary national chairman of Citizens for a Better America.
"Dick Hafer has seriously - but honestly - addressed the issue of whether we should change our culture by accepting homosexuality as an alternative to the heterosexual lifestyle ordained by God"
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