Let's Just Beat Those Gay Children Into Heterosexuality!

That's Bryan Fischer in the video above, urging people all over the world to discriminate against GLBT people. He considers them to have questionable character. Fischer is with the AFA (which some people think is an acronym for American Family Association; I suspect it might actually be Against Fags Always).

I think Bryan needs to buy a mirror.

Times are still tough for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans Americans. Take, for case in point, the words of Fayetteville, NC preacher Sean Harris. He wants parents to go all Rambo on their children:

So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,' you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed. 

Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too butch, you reign [sic] her in. And you say, 'Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.'

Doesn't matter that you can't beat the gay away. Doesn't matter that gender nonconformity can't be "cured." Beat the shit out of them anyway. Harris gives you special dispensation.

Way to go, supposed man of God.

Harris is now kinda, sorta saying he "misspoke."

The idiots roasted above aren't politicians-- just supposed Christians who are engaging in politics-- but in political news, recently hired gay aide Richard Grennell was forced to resign from Mitt Romney's campaign because of venom from anti-gay right-wing homophobes.

Sources


(2012, 2 May). NC pastor Sean Harris suggests parents beat the gay out of their children. On Top Magazine.

Forbes, Tricia. (2012, 2 May). Pastor says he "misspoke" when he told parents to punch children who seem gay. 48 News.

Rubin, Jennifer. (2012, 1 May). Richard Grennell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives. Washington Post.