There’s no shortage of places to put the blame for climate change: deforestation, unregulated industry, overconsumption, and the list goes on. But Minnesota state senator Eric Lucero has a new bright idea: maybe the whole thing is gay people’s fault!
Lucero took to Twitter on Monday to make his theory known. He starts off strong, writing “GLOBAL WARMING” in all caps. “Our Creator hates PRIDE and each of us as the creation will be held to account for our choices, eventually,” Lucero continues. “The 7-color natural rainbow is a reminder of His promise to never again enact worldwide judgment by WATER. The next worldwide judgment will be by FIRE.”
Maybe we could give Lucero the benefit of the doubt that he was just referring to the biblical sin of pride in his tweet, and not LGBTQ+ Pride specifically—if it didn’t happen to come just the day after the Twin Cities LGBTQ+ Pride March, his state’s largest Pride parade, and reference the rainbow so heavily.
So, yeah. To break it down, Lucero is effectively saying that climate change is the act of a vengeful god who hates “prideful” people, and those people are going to burn. This is pretty average wackjob stuff for Twitter, but from an elected official like Lucero, it’s pretty disconcerting.
Lucero’s claim about climate change is especially hypocritical given a video he posted earlier this year on Earth Day, or, as he calls it, “the Left’s religious holiday.”
“Democrats have been working hard to increase taxes, to increase regulation, under the false idea of human-caused global climate change and climate crisis,” Lucero says in the video.
So, are humans—LGBTQ+ humans, specifically—responsible for climate change, or is that a “false idea?” We’re getting mixed signals, Eric.
Of course, Lucero is also the type of guy to picture himself as a literal angel fighting literal demons, so maybe it’s best not to take anything he says too seriously. (Yes, this is a real tweet from a real elected official.)
Lucero’s anti-Pride tweet caught the attention of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Minnesota affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party.
“Our party believes in treating LGBTQ Minnesotans with dignity and respect. Republicans are threatening LGBTQ Minnesotans with judgment by fire,” the DFL Party tweeted. “Love vs. hate. Compassion vs. cruelty. Acceptance vs. bigotry. The choice between our two parties could not be more clear.”
And of course, the average Twitter user had a thing or two to say as well.
So you’re committed to passing strong legislation fighting climate change, right? That’s what I’m getting from this.
— Sophie Brauer (@SophieBrauer2) June 26, 2023
Mister P
Oh great. We can return to “ godly principles” and worship the god who has to decide to kill everyone by flooding the earth or kill everyone by fire.
G-Man
Exactly and by the way that dude looks gay as hell in that pink jacket. You know what they say about those protest the loudest.
still_onthemark
American Christians tend to get confused by ancient Greek words that don’t translate exactly into English. (See “agape” and “eros” = neither are exactly “love.”)
The Bible doesn’t condemn ALL “pride” in the English-speaking sense of the word. The deadly sin of pride is specifically about “spiritual pride”: arrogantly thinking you’re better than others in how you worship.
Having said that, this guy sure has a stereotypically gay fashion sense.
Matthewnow
He’s gayer than a picnic basket.
James
CHRIXTIAN TRASH LOSER.
overlarry
Pink jacket…. then LAVENDER jacket (or maybe it’s just the lighting)!! Is he trying to tell us something in “code”??
greekboy
The code is hesaqueer
Richpontone
Old Texas saying,
“Guilty Dogs bark the loudest”.
So, we know which dogs are sniffing his under parts.
GrizzOH2020
There’s the Stupid. What hole did this MAGAt crawl out of? (Rhetorically speaking)
Openminded
Why can homophobes not realize if they would simply realize the LGBTQ community deserves to have equal protections under the law and if they were given these protections, there would really not be any reason to have PRIDE anymore. Pass equality acts, gays are happy, no reason for Pride so the phobes are happy, problem solved for everyone.
Thad
I’m all for equality. But when that happens, Pride will become a celebration instead of a protest. More like St. Patrick’s Day or Puerto Rican Day. And who doesn’t love celebrations?
Thad
Fortunately, there are many sensible Minnesota politicians. But we remember Michelle Bachmann and cringe again.
FreddieW
I remember my favorite socks were that pink color in my 20’s. And right now I have a polo shirt about that color, too.
Seth
What a sad, small person to worship a deity that is little more than a common wifebeater standing over a body they broke screaming, “why do you make me hurt you!?!?”
HMFan
Methinks queen Lucero doth protest too much…