The Air Force says it is investigating an airman who posted a series of videos of himself calling gay people “cockroaches,” “pedophiles,” “sodomites,” and “vermin scum,” among other antigay slurs.
“The sodomites, the homos, they do all their filthy acts in the dark of night where no one can see them,” the airman, who has not been identified but who was wearing his uniform in the videos, said.
“When you get these perverts on their own, they flee like cockroaches, like the roaches they are, the vermin scum, the pedophiles that they are.”
The airman posted the videos to YouTube under the username “Baptist Dave 1611” last week before taking them down a few days later.
In one of them, he voiced his support for Grayson Fritts, the cop/Baptist preacher from Knoxville, Tennessee who was caught earlier this month advocating for police to kill gay people.
In that video, the airman claimed most Christians agree with Fritts, but are too afraid to say anything for fear of the “homo mafia.”
In another video, he attacked parents who bring their children to “drag queen story hour” events at public libraries, accusing them of child abuse.
“If you’re making your son, for example, dress up as a woman and go dance at a sodomite bar, that’s hip, that’s cool, that’s trendy,” the airman said. “But if you just believe the Bible, and you take your kid to church, that’s child abuse, right?”
Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek issued a statement confirming the situation is being reviewed by the airman’s command team.
“The Air Force considers diversity to be one of our greatest assets; therefore, every airman is expected to treat each other with dignity and respect,” said Stefanek. “We do not tolerate behavior that is contrary to those values.”
Meanwhile, the Modern Military Association of America, a non-profit that advocates for LGBTQ service members and veterans, issued a statement calling the videos “alarming” and “dangerous” and demanding the Air Force hold him fully accountable for his actions.
“This alarming call for the execution of LGBTQ people by a service member in uniform no doubt adds fuel to the fire of those who wish us harm,” said MMAA Executive Director Andy Blevins.
“What this airman did is blatantly illegal under the [Uniform Code of Military Justice], and he has disrespected his uniform, the United States Air Force, and the military as a whole.”
Blevins continued, “The dangerous message this hate speech sends to those he serves with, including service members who may be LGBTQ, is completely unacceptable and could have severe consequences.”
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Chrisk
Brings back my own time in the Airforce. Met some real nutjobs and in all cases were indoctrinated in religion. One thought masterbation was the worst thing you could do and when I told him all guys masturbate he flew into a rage. Total koo koo bird crazy.
white-queer-african
Deep underlining fear here of being exposed as a queer! WHY? The church told him he will burn in internal hell for loving another man. Tragic.
rikard_pearson
Internal hell <3
Donston
The whole “homophobic/anti-gay guy secretly has is secretly struggling with his sexuality and sense of self, has same-sex affections, has passion for guys and wants to be with a guy” narrative is an old one that’s only true sometimes. It’s less often true than we give it credit for. Most people’s hatred is not about self-resentment and internal struggles.
white-queer-african
@rikard_pearson, so tragic too that you did not grasp my intentional use of the word internal and not eternal! Internal hell as in the internal battle of being a homo!
djmcgamester
I think we need to move past this outdated concept. If he hates blacks does that mean he’s secretly black? The guy is hateful.
The real question is “Why are we devoting attention to him?” We’re LITERALLY giving him a platform.
CenterRight
Lock up this crazy guy in a loony bin.
loren_1955
More and more I am realizing that religionists, those that love buildings and dogma more than the real words of Christ and the other master/teachers are the bane of this world. Apparently this man is not a believer in Christ’s words instead either a follower of Moses or Paul. Christ said through him the Mosaic law was fulfilled, in other words replaced by the higher law which was to love all. Paul, on the other hand, was hated and despised by the Jerusalem followers of Christ and therefore was sent on a perpetual mission to get him out of the way. His so called letters were never sanctioned or canonized by the body of the church, never approved and probably never even seen by church leadership, i.e. Peter, James and John. The only real Christian value in the New Testament are the writings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that contain the words of Christ.
Jim33702
He is a walking time bomb….I am retired after 30 years in the military. I had no problems with nut jobs like this guy. Some of the best service members are gay.
Mack
It seems to me that over the last year or so the right wing dipshits are coming after the LGBTQ community even more than they did in the mid-2000 when they passed all those anti-same sex marriage laws.
David
This guy SCREAMS self- hating closet case
niles
let me guess – YouTube considers this “debating the issues”. Just perusing around that site, you can quite easily find people calling for the deaths of gay people with no apparent fear of consequences.
djmcgamester
Which is weird because they ban and/or demonetize conservative views, and I’m not talking about people exposing themselves as racists, sexists, homophobes or whatever. It just means YT hasn’t found them. If you feel the person is making threats of physical violence against yourself or anyone else, report them.
Tombear
The modern fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians ideology has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus. If Jesus was incarnate today most of his friends would be gay men.
Bulovaboy
Oh please, I’m sick of blame. the ones who are the crazies and nut jobs are the ones who wish they were us. Closet freak cases and it was all taught from the parents. Crazy Christians who won’t put out a F—king dime to help anyone but their congregations. The Jews are so much more a peaceful generous race. I asked the catholics for help at my lowest point, they told me to see my local town hall. I ask the jews and I got more monetary help that I could have imagined. I will never again donate to a Catholic or Christian society!!!!! Losers.
Donston
There are guys people who embrace whatever “queer” identities, openly have sex-same relations and relationships but still exude internalized homophobia, anti-gay vibes, self-misandry, effemiphobia, superiority complexes over gays, etc. While there does seem be a healthy amount of guys who are “on the spectrum” but never come out and never have legit relationships with anyone but cis women yet still aren’t hateful and homophobic. And there are of course many dudes who attach themselves to “queerness” to be “cool” or “edgy” or to be “allies”. It’s all a crapshoot when it comes to this kind of stuff. The dots don’t always so easily connect.
Kangol2
A small but important point: Jews are not a race, but can be people of any race. Judaism is an ancient religion. That’s all.
Sanjo
Judaism is not a race but social groups are not strictly based on one construct.