Admittedly, it was a slow news weekend — so slow that aggressively right-wing website Breitbart published an op-ed piece suggesting the rainbow flag is what prompted 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazees to grab a gun and fatally shoot four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga last Thursday.
“The gay rainbow flag,” writes Breitbart’s Editor-at-Large John Nolte, “is seen by many Christians as a symbol of hate and oppression, and for good reason. Under that banner, there has been an all-out assault by the media and the Left against our religious freedoms.”
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Making what could safely be called an Olympic leap in logic, Nolte ventures to say “the defiant act of flying the gay rainbow flag, especially in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that legalized same sex marriage in all 50 states, is undoubtedly offensive to devout Muslims, and therefore provocative.”
Wrapping up the screed, which ran on Saturday at a svelte 328 words, the columnist artlessly opines that “it’s time to shame and marginalize the gay rainbow flag — this offensive, provocative symbol of hate and oppression must be tossed on the ash bin of history… Before it kills again.”
It’s something of a pet theme in John Nolte’s work. The scribe has recently penned such pieces as “Take Down The Fascist, Anti-Christian Gay-Pride Flag” and “Be Afraid: Media Glosses Over Repeated Threats of Violence From LGBT-er.”
His work, to put it lightly, is punishingly stupid.
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Mike Benevenstanciano
I wish people would stop grasping at straws to demonize the rainbow flag. I’ve yet to see a lynching, executions, book burning, or gunmen holding hostages with that flag in the background.
Mike Jasinski
You know, what’s really sad? I was actually waiting for this.
Stephen Meeks
He is such a non-entity; unworthy of the attention he so desperately craves.
Kevin Cato
Who believes this crap?
Roger Honeycutt
We always get blamed for everything. Hurricanes you name it
William Meyer
What. An. Ass.
Stache99
What a fucking nut. I see no difference between him and those Muslims. Then again I forget who his target audience is.
AzLights
Azzhat. The rainbow flag had nothing to do with the murders in Chattanooga. And good luck ever shaming or marginalizing the rainbow flag. Christians are not being persecuted–they are finally being called on their hateful BS.
Bobby French
Fucking son of a bitch.
jwtraveler
@Stache99: “those Muslims”? Which Muslims are those? That attitude makes me think you have a lot in common with “those Breitbart writers”.
Bruce P. Majors
Wow you people are dumb, dumber than the most clueless person at Breitbart.
jwtraveler
Only in the U.S. does the 70+% majority group, which controls ALL aspects of the government, economy and media claim that it is being oppressed by a small, largely powerless minority group. We need Freud to explain this.
Interesting that Nolte and his fellow white-supremacists are still defending the heritage of the Confederate flag 150 years after the Civil War, but 3 weeks after the SC gay marriage decision, they’re ready to toss the rainbow flag as a symbol of “hate and oppression.” What an idiot!
Mickel Paris
This is illogical. Where is the evidence of this?
Gary Hecklinger
Wrong!!!
Christopher Hayward
What an a whole rotten person this man is.
Tony Godorecci
Raymond D Owens
Hate is so ruling right now, they look for anything to stir the hate
Daniel Alvarado
what a lunatic lock him up with the shooter
Brad Krueger
Always creating a distraction
Ron King
No …..more fucked up religious beliefs are responsible for senseless acts of violence.
Cagnazzo82
Breitbart… a legacy website that exists to cater the terminally dumb.
Shirley White
Bullshit!
Guy068
@AzLights: We need a new term for this kind of loon. Most of my family are devoted and loving Christians that have never made me feel any less for being gay.
Stache99
@jwtraveler: Untie your panty’s a bit. You do realize “those” means those in the article.
Jim Guinnessey
Nolte is just another far right mendacious baboon!
Robert Small
Your just f…I got crazy
Brad Olson
Caoimhin Mikael Lycke
This guy is a limp prick!!!
Avery Alvarez
Didn’t this idiot, Breitbart, die from a heart attack from the stress of his own paranoia? Then afterwards his unhinged fans claimed Obama personally sent a drone to kill him?
Maybe his followers should follow his example more closely. Rage a little harder….till you feel that tightness in your chest, or hear a little popping sound inside your head.
Craig Shapiro
This is a perfect example of what happens when Mental Disease goes unchecked. My source states that Breitbart was originally focused on a bag of Skittles as the cause. Where the hell is Nane McPhe.
BlueDude
This amazing bullsh*t rates up there with the top antigay nonsense of all time. Surely, another large number of sane voters noticed that, as well? The more these fu©ktards blather hatred, the better for us.
Devin Nix
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Dustin Wood
Wait…you really think he was serious? Are your minds really so lost in the literal that you can’t detect the ironic and sarcastic?
Brent Malone
Lol
SteveBmke
John Nolte is just another closeted Queer that needs to come out and be the big bottom God intended him to be! (No disrespect to my fellow bottoms)
S-
Marshall R. Krug
SERIOUSLY ??????
mikelphx
Breitbart is another far right wing blog demonizing gays. Anytime I run across the rare Gay Republican just share these stories. It usually wakes their Uncle Tom ass up.
Tommy Ogletree
No it wasn’t. The Bible was responsible for the attack.
Giancarlo85
Breitbart dropped dead from being an obese fat ass who did nothing for himself. Too bad he didn’t take his stupid fucking blog “news” site with him to the grave. A lot of right wing gays love Breitbart though… I’m sure some on here do too.
Mike West Westfall
Bill Cosby raped me through the TV while I was watching Fat Albert…
jwtraveler
@Stache99: There was ONE shooter. “Those” is a plural word, you pompous idiot. So which other Muslims did you mean? He does refer to ” devout Muslims” who he claims to speak for by saying they are “undoubtedly offend[ed]” by the rainbow flag, but then we haven’t heard from the “devout Muslims” so we don’t really know what they think. But perhaps you do. Again, you don’t seem much different from Nolte in this regard.
Billysees
@Roger Honeycutt:
” We always get blamed for everything. Hurricanes you name it. ”
Gay haters will say anything to discredit the LGBT community.
Charles Copenhagen
Interesting that a Right Wing Christian Conservative says he believes that Christians find the Rainbow Flag to be a sign of “hate and oppression”. I always thought that true Christians found the Rainbow Flag was a symbol of tolerance and the Condederate flag a symbol of “hate and oppression”.
Alà Dazz
It is
NJjoe
Breitbart is a kook! He is added to the basket cases out there who I swear are using mind altering substances.
enfilmigult
@Dustin Wood: Oh, it was serious. I subscribe to the Breitbart newsletter for yuks and this is par for the course. It isn’t a satire site, incredibly.
Ogre Magi
Islam and christianity are 2 rotten nuts from the same tree
omacdonald
Apparently the “gay” is so powerful. We can cause mass murder, hurricanes, earthquakes, 9/11, floods, end of democracy, hetero divorces. This idiots attribute so much power to us. On the positive flip side, we are responsible for great fashion sense, amazing hair care, sensible interior design, catchy show tunes and general fabulousness LOL. In reality, we are neither and are just plain normal human beings who want to be treated the same as everyone else. These fundies can go to hell.
scotshot
Gay flags don’t kill people.
Mentally ill religious hysterics with guns kill people.
Saint Law
Lol to read somebody writing in defense of Christian values on a website founded by a man killed by his own coke habit.
Billysees
@Charles Copenhagen:
” I always thought that true Christians found the Rainbow Flag was a symbol of tolerance and the Condederate flag a symbol of “hate and oppression”. ”
Check this out — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow
From that, ‘One of the earliest literary occurrences of a rainbow is in Genesis 9, as part of the flood story of Noah, where it is a sign of God’s covenant to never destroy all life on earth with a global flood again.’
I love the rainbow and think it’s a great symbol of LGBT folks.
Billysees
@omacdonald:
” On the positive…side, we are responsible for…general fabulousness LOL.
In reality, we are neither and are just plain normal human beings who want to be treated the same as everyone else. These fundies can go to hell. ”
Terrific comment. Good humor too.
tusgold
How in the hell do you com up with that> Like I miss the connection?