Angry Alabama preacher claims gay people stole all his batteries

[DonViejo]

This preacher’s twisted anti-gay rant to an Alabama city council is both vile and absurd

ARTURO GARCIA

At least one Birmingham City Council official can be heard laughing off-camera in footage of a street preacher’s complaint that legalizing marriage equality infringes upon his rights.

AL.com posted footage online of Cedric Hatcher’s remarks to the council during its Monday meeting.

“In two more years — in 2016, February the 9th — you won’t be able to marry your partner that you played football with no more,” Hatcher claimed. “You’re gonna be able to marry your dog, you’re gonna be able to marry your cat, you’re gonna be able to marry your snake, you’re gonna be able to marry your rat, the roaches. Some of you been with the roaches so long you might as well gonna marry the roach, he been around the house so long. You’re gonna be able to marry your broom, your mop. Ain’t we going crazy in this world, ya’ll?”

Hatcher’s remarks came after same-sex couples in Jefferson County began getting married in the city, in response to U.S. District Judge Callie Granade’s ruling striking down the state ban against such marriages.

“It was one of the most comedic scenes I’ve ever seen in public, when I witnessed men with size 13 and 14 shoes out there kissing each other in the mouth in front of little kids,” Hatcher said. “It was like a freak scene going on, that’s what I call it.”

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[Thinkingabout]

1. So he is willing to get up and say this where our little kids can hear?

This would scare them if they thought one of their parents might be a roach.

[MADem]

2. So.... hmmmm. Shoe size is what makes the kissing freaky?

Poor guy needs an intervention.

[cbayer]

3. Poor thing.

He and the Chief Justice should go out for a beer.

[packman]

4. He must have shoved some Ever Ready batteries

up his ass because he keeps goin' and goin' and goin'.

[pinto]

5. Dear Mr. Hatcher. I love my mop. She calls me Al -

And yours?

[okasha]

6. Ha! You just want to claim her as a tax deduction!

[skepticscott]

7. Or you're going to be able to marry

your hamster or your bicycle, etc. What kind of bigoted asshole would say such things?

[Heddi]

8. Ooh! Ooh! I know I know

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[skepticscott]

9. Got it in one!

Amazing the similarity. And that one of the two is still tolerated around here.

[Heddi]

10. SOmehow it's bigotry when a right-wing evangelical says gay marriage = marrying your pet

but it's TOTALLY A MISUNDERSTANDING YOU GIZE!!! when a DU'er says gay marriage = marrying your pet (or a bicycle, even. Or a dead grandmother).

homophobic bigotry: it's what for dinner!

[skepticscott]

12. And no doubt Cedric Hatcher would say

"I am NOT a bigot! I've been misunderstood, and my words have been twisted! I'm just calling things like I see them. I treat all people equally and some of my best friends are gay!"

[Warren Stupidity]

13. That's crazy. Nobody could say shit like that on DU and get away with it.

[skepticscott]

14. Yes, but perish forbid that a poster would use the word "barbarians"

to describe anyone engaged in brutal violence against innocent people.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. It Is A Mystery(TM)

[skepticscott]

16. Not at all

It's a MySterY. Or a mYsTEry. One of those god-y things that ivory tower "new theologians" say we're not supposed to try to understand, but simply experience.

[bvf]

11. "Ain’t we going crazy in this world, ya’ll?”

Well, some of us are already there, apparently.