Trump-endorsed news outlet says it's God's "judgment" that a gay activist died from coronavirus

[riversedge]

Source: lgbtqnation.com




The site's publisher was one of the first to say the coronavirus was part of God's plan to kill sinners and that Christianity will protect people from the virus.

By Alex Bollinger Monday, March 23, 2020


Richard Weber Jr., who was a member of the LGBT Bar Association of New York, passed away last week from coronavirus at age 57.

To most people, this is a tragedy. But to Rick Wiles of the website TruNews, it’s reason to celebrate.



Wiles made national headlines earlier this year when his website got White House press credentials. The site is known for its extreme anti-Semitism, homophobia, and disregard for facts.

And now Wiles said on his webcast that Weber’s death is part of God’s judgment because Weber fought for LGBTQ equality.

“He was a senior lawyer for the LGBT Bar Association of New York,” Wiles said. “The lawyers who sue churches, the lawyers who sue ministries.”...............................

Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/03/trump-endorsed-news-outlet-says-gods-judgment-gay-activist-died-coronavirus/

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It is so shameful that trump allows a man like this to have WH press credentials.

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Rick Wiles
Photo: Vimeo screenshot/RightwingWatch

[BigDemVoter]

1. May Rick Wiles catch the Coronavirus

and end up on the ventilator. I'm a nurse, and we generally sedate patients and restrain them while on the vent as it prevents them from pulling out the tube.

As far as Ass Wipe Wiles is concerned, we would simply intubate that motherfucker and let him just sit on the vent with NO sedation while restrained. I would have ZERO problem with that.

I am absolutely BEYOND any kind of fucking homophobia. I may be a little sensitive to this, as I CLEARLY remember those repig motherfuckers during the AIDS crisis. I will NEVER forgive them.

[still_one]

2. There are a lot of these pseudo Christians who derserve KARMA, especially the asshole in the WH

[NurseJackie]

18. Why is it that hateful anti-gay sons of bitches like this guy frequently have things to hide? ...

... things that are eventually discovered. Whether it's a "rent boy" or a "pool boy" or a vice-cop in a men's restroom.

[still_one]

19. Very true Jackie

[bluestarone]

3. Wonder if that why 5 rethugs

Are under quarantine?

[sakabatou]

4. People like Rick Wiles are disgusting

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Ok Mr Wiles, how many gay prostitutes come to your house per month?

[keithbvadu2]

9. Or Rent Boys on his vacations?

[mpcamb]

6. Hey, Wiles, how 'bout all the other deaths? Why were they punished?

Look in your book and examine their lives and explain why.

[mwooldri]

7. My response ..

Since it's "God's judgement" let's read God's word...

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Book of James 4:14.

My belief is that death is God calling us home. Your belief may well differ, that's ok. In the end we are all mists in time.

Also as a stark reminder this hearse ... We don't know when we will be its passenger in the back... in a box...

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Dear God, please protect us from your followers

and if I may, a little karmic smiting is WAY overdue

[Harker]

10. Karma might smite...

or it might work more subtly.

How these hypocrites manage to ignore so fundamental a teaching in their holy book as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" baffles me.

[keithbvadu2]

11. If death is 'God's judgement' for gayness, then gay evangelists and gay conservatives still living s

If death is 'God's judgement' for gayness, then gay evangelists and gay conservatives still living shows that gay lifestyle is ok with God for them.

Ted Haggard and Ed Schrock are still alive after all these years.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/12/12/11-anti-gay-preachers-who-got-caught-doing-very-gay-things/

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. These christofascist bastards are like a broken record.

Whenever a sickness erupts or a natural disaster strikes, it's always the will of some invisible, supernatural, superstitious sky person wreaking havoc on gay people because they deserve it. What tripe.

That ANYONE in the 21st century is still mouthing this garbage is sickening.

If I remember my scripture correctly, we are ALL "god's children."

If you believe in "god" at all, one of your beliefs is that "god" doesn't make mistakes.

[TomSlick]

13. Jesus wept.

Luke 6:46: "Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?"

[lonely bird]

14. How'd that work for The Black Death

Or The Spanish Flu?

Did those people pray the “wrong way”?

[paleotn]

15. Cvd-19 doesn't believe in your god.

It doesn't believe in anything. It just replicates. That's all it does. And one hunk of human flesh is just as good as the next. Sorry, but I just can't wrap my brain around people thinking..."magic!"... will save them. Faith didn't save them from plague, small pox, cholera, yellow fever and on and on and it wont save them now. Religious people die at the same damn rate as everyone else. Sometimes at higher rates depending on their practices. Seriously...how many times does faith have to fail catastrophically before humans finally wise up?

[Lord Ludd]

16. I've been waiting for the Falwells, Robertsons, Grahams et al.

to crawl out from under their rocks & blame this on the "Other."
My wait is over.

[bfjd4u]

17. ah this is my first post

I'm an anarchist and by definition an atheist so I will have trouble with the majority of people's positions on this site but I can no longer stand by and watch what is happening without comment. I thought there was a way to introduce myself to the community but I cannot find it so I picked a post to comment on that reflects my abhorrence for the ignorant among us.

The most repellent thing about this current tragedy is that it will be used by the religious community to justify the continuance of superstition and repression in the pursuit of human suppression.

The inevitable potential proclamation of "victory" over this disease on Easter Sunday is in keeping with the worship of death which is the chief characteristic of monotheistic religion.

Regrettably, I exist on a primitive, backward planet infected by a filthy species of sapient beings that murders its own kind for pleasure.

You know, that's incorrect. Actually, the planet is quite advanced, it has an ecosystem that supports life, the only planet in the known universe that does so.

The only thing primitive about this planet is that it is the unfortunate host to the disgusting race of so-called "human" filth that infects it.

[yardwork]

20. Focus on the goodness of the planet.

As you know, the people who use religion to promote abhorrent views are not tapped into any spiritual goodness. Their spirits are dark.

You see goodness in the world. Focus on the goodness and let the others fade away.

Welcome to DU.

[The Magistrate]

22. Just A Friendly Note, Sir

Here we are dedicated to advancement of the Democratic Party. That is worth remembering, as is the fact a good many people here, and a great many good Democrats, are of religious inclination. If you look up at the 'groups' tab, you will find there an atheist's group, I expect.

Be well, and welcome to the forum.

[fleabiscuit]

23. Aren't we all. nt

[Swede]

21. These people of disgusting.

Fucking sick. It must be hell on earth to have this much hate inside you. I'm happy that they lead such miserable fucking lives. I