Despite vehement disclaimers from around the world, followers of Jesus Christ — the epitome of human love, some say — vomited hate on the local, national, and global LGBT community, an unparalleled avalanche provoked by the same-sex marriage issue. In June, the US Supreme Court decided favorably, in spite of two of its judges (Alito and Scalia) who childishly displayed eye-rolling contempt. Our country’s foundations of civility, tolerance, and common human decency was sorely uncommon.
The plea for decency was best invoked in 1954, when John Welch, chief counsel for the US Army during Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist witch hunt, said to McCarthy, “Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness,” and concluded, “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Unfortunately, blacks, Native Americans, and Muslims did not escape these followers’ mendacious remarks. From their own words, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Andrée Seu Peterson When: May Where: World, a far right, “Christian” magazine, her opinion column. SAY WHAT? “If you think a man lying with a man is the moral equivalent of eating too many doughnuts, produce a passage in Leviticus where overeating called for execution.”
Bill Jack Founder of the “non-denominational” Christian organization Worldview Academy When: January Where: Statement released to Denver’s KUSA-TV, after requesting Bible-shaped cakes with “God hates gays” written in icing and two men holding hands with an “X” crossing them out, being refused by Azucar Bakery and becoming “very pushy and disruptive.” SAY WHAT? “I believe I was discriminated against by the bakery based on my creed. As a result, I filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights division.” (He lost his case.)
Erick Erickson | RedState founder and Fox Noise contributor When: January Where: His website and show, on the same day of the massacre of 12 in Paris at Charlie Hebdo’s magazine headquarters, comparing the terrorists with LGBT activists who supported the termination of Atlanta’s fire chief for his conservative views on perverts, i.e., gays and lesbians. SAY WHAT? “So they demanded the Mayor of Atlanta fire the Chief of the Fire Department for daring to write that his first duty was to ‘glory God’ and that any sex outside of heterosexual marriage was a sin. And the terrorists won in Atlanta.”
Robert Mugabe | President of Zimbabwe When: July Where: BBC Africa interview, following the US legalization of same-sex marriage, after proposing marriage to President Obama to get US aid. SAY WHAT? “Even Satan wasn’t gay; he chose to approach unclad Eve instead of unclad Adam.”
Ben Carson | Neurosurgeon, Republican presidential candidate When: March/October Where: Interview with CNN’s New Day, when asked whether being gay is a choice, providing no supporting evidence; and Meet the Press interview by Chuck Todd. SAY WHAT? 1. “A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.” 2. “Women who have abortions are like slave-owners who thought that they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave. Rape and incest, I would not be in favor of killing a baby because the baby came about in that way.”
Charles C. Johnson | Independent American journalist and owner of the website GotNews.com When: May Where: Successive Tweets following the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, first believing the conductor at fault was black, followed shortly after by the discovery he was gay. SAY WHAT? 1. “Affirmative action hiring low-qualified blacks is more often to blame for train derailments than poor infrastructure.” 2. “It is reasonable to ask if this night shift driver was on meth or had history with it, given gay proclivities to it.”
Rush Limbaugh | Radio talk show host When: May Where: The Rush Limbaugh Show, telling businesses to blame their anti-gay bigotry on Muslims. SAY WHAT? “Instead of telling the gay couple that you refuse to bake the cake for their wedding because you disapprove of homosexuality, you should now say you are not going to bake a cake for the gay wedding because you fear Muslim backlash. Or, due to your respect of Islam, you cannot bake a cake for a gay wedding.”
ISIS When: August Where: UN Security Council meeting, Jessica Stern, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission spotlighting the “barbaric treatment,” violence, and discrimination against LGBT people by ISIS in Syria SAY WHAT? “In addition to men perceived as gay, trans-identified people and lesbians are among those who have been raped and killed. Sodomy is punished with stoning, firing squads, beheadings, and by pushing men from tall buildings.” (This is not a lie, but outrageous because the issue has yet to be addressed.)
Mike Huckabee When: September Where: Facebook posting that turned out to be a lie as confirmed by The Vatican SAY WHAT? “The Pope recognized something that the chattering class in Washington and Wall Street will never understand — that Kim Davis followed her conscience and convictions. The Pope thanked Kim for doing so and congratulated her for her stand.”
Sarah Palin | owner of Sarah Palin Channel, online TV “news network,” currently shut down When: September Where: Interview with Fox and Friends host Steve Doocey, who, following up Palin’s statement that some immigrant groups should go home, asked: “Where are Native Americans supposed to go?” SAY WHAT? “Well I think they should go back to Nativia or wherever they came from. As if they just have some sort of automatic right to be in this country. But I say if they can’t learn to get off those horses and start speaking American, then they should be sent home too.” (Doocey was dumbfounded.)
Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez | Dominican Republic Cardinal When: December Where: Responding to allegations of corruption from James Brewster, the 7th openly gay US ambassador. SAY WHAT? “That man needs to go back to his embassy. Let him focus on housework, since he’s the wife to a man.”
