Right Wing Uses Colo. Tragedy to Vilify Gays, Secularism

[maddezmom]

Last edited Fri Jul 20, 2012, 08:20 PM - Edit history (1)

Sad but not surprising: Whenever there’s a tragedy, someone uses it to demonize gay people, and it’s happened with the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association is apparently the first to play the gay card this time. Reacting to news that the Aurora Chick-fil-A was providing free food to police and other emergency personnel on the scene, Fischer tweeted, “Chick-fil-A provides free meals to first responders in CO. Let’s see Big Gay demonize that,”

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Also blaming the tragedy on “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs” was Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who appeared on a Heritage Foundation radio show hosted by former congressman Ernest Istook of Oklahoma. “We have been at war with the very pillars, the very foundation of this country,” Gohmert said.

Gohmert and Istook also wondered why no one in the theater was armed and therefore able to take down the shooter; Colorado allows citizens to carry concealed weapons. “It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?” Gohmert asked. Read more and listen to the interview here.

more:
http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2012/07/20/right-wing-uses-colorado-tragedy-vilify-gays-and-secularism

these people are sick, sick, sick

[KamaAina]

1. Big Gay? You mean like Big Gay Al?

[immoderate]

2. Gohmert is only marginally human.

It's hard to believe that stupid mother fucker can walk upright, much less represent people in congress. Makes Roman Hruska look like a genius!

--imm

[Kalidurga]

3. I am so not surprised.

Saw this coming as soon as I read the news. I refuse to listen to RWers on this subject, because they shoot off their mouths before having any facts. Then when facts do come out they refuse to change their first impressions and have already decided they knew all the facts from the beginning.

I haven't really an opinion on this other than the shooter was mentally ill. I don't know which mental illness. I don't know if it was so severe the shooter was mentally incapable of knowing right from wrong. I don't know what party affiliation the shooter has or had, nor do I care. Mental illness tends to be equal opportunity. However, if it turns out that this guy listened to a lot of RW talking points and hate radio, I will amend my opinion and hold that ideology at least partly responsible (again regardless of party affiliation).

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Big Gay?

Oh FFS.

Stop. Just stop.

[closeupready]

5. I'm sure one of them will say God is punishing people

for gay marriage. Somehow. They ALWAYS find ingenious ways to blame gay people, MONOLITHICALLY, for everything bad that happens.

[longship]

6. Big gay??? Naw! It's Ben Gay for those muscle spasms.

But don't get me started about Absorbine Jr.


These people are horrible vultures preying on grief. Dispicible!

[TeamPooka]

7. They are hoping for a visit from Big Gay

if you know what I mean....
Repressed jerks.

[turtlerescue1]

8. There seems to be a pattern here eh?

If you cannot control it, condemn it. If you have no solutions, blame someone else. And do it in the name of Christianity, and being a liberal Christian that is so WRONG, guess these fine folks can't read the red lettered words, perhaps "blinded" in more ways than one.

[Initech]

9. Sorry fundies, but we're not buying the spin.

Plus I wouldn't eat that crap if it were free.

[tanyev]

10. Yeah, a bunch of armed people shooting in a dark theater while everyone else is trying to flee.

Brillllliant idea, Gohmert.

[RedCappedBandit]

11. Big Gay?

Right wingers are fucking idiots.