As Mayor Pete Buttigieg continues on the campaign trail, hot off the heels of his big win in Iowa and a strong showing in New Hampshire, right-wing nutbags continue to lose their minds. The latest example: Christian author Bert Farias, who penned a lengthy homophobic essay slamming Buttigieg and obsessing over his sexuality.
Farias penned columns for the far-right Christian site Charisma News as well as for his own personal website, referring to Mayor Pete as “Petunia,” calling him a “trophy of Hell” and accusing him of trying to indoctrinate the public with homosexuality.
“We now have a male presidential candidate who has a husband whom he publicly introduces and even kisses without shame, while millions of Americans applaud and approve,” Farias writes. “And perhaps worse yet is that the shock effect has been so reduced that the rest of us are numb and desensitized to this most shameful and abominable behavior.” He goes on to say that “Buttigieg and others of his kind will do everything in his power to normalize homosexual relationships even more in the eyes of America.”
At the expense of being called a homophobic bigot I release the word of God on holy fire! AMERICA'S DECADENCE AND THE AWFUL FATE OF PERVERTED MEN https://t.co/Am3N3hdPUg via @holyfireorg #truth #fire #homophobic #Godis #repent #turntoChrist
— Bert Farias (@BertFarias1) February 14, 2020
On his own site, Farias gets even weirder, posting pictures of half-naked men alongside another essay. “I can’t seem to get the image of the Democratic presidential candidate Pete “Petunia” Buttigieg introducing and kissing his husband Chasten (talk about a name for an alien entity appearing as an angel of light) out of my mind,” he writes.
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We have our own theories as to why Farias can’t stop thinking about Mayor Pete & Chasten, or a bunch of shirtless men. Maybe the title of his website offers a clue: “The Flaming Herald.”
JessPH
Deer Queerty, please stop giving lowlifes like him the publicity he desperately seeks.
kevininbuffalo
Exactly, I never heard of the creep till I read this article.
TomG
I love how these so-called “Christians” are the first ones to judge others. They seem to forget that is God’s job, NOT theirs !
Chrisk
I’ll bet Pete makes ol Bert real angry. How dare he live his life openly!!! Those that scream the loudest usually have something to hide. It’s that they’re either pedo’s or just gay themselves. Secure straight men just don’t give a rip about what others do in their bedrooms.
Chrisk
Oh god. I just listened to her on Youtube. Total Queen.
fur_hunter
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. I just read an article about a Southern Baptist preacher caught for abusing children. I don’t hear this ass hole complaining about that. The f ucking HYPOCRITES!!!! These fundamentalists totally DISGUST me and make me PUKE.
Chrisk
Yep. It’s either kids or just so deep in the closet she can see Narnia. Oh the hag next to him ain’t fooling no one.
roddy
Why are you giving people like this space in your webpage. He’s just an ignorant little man who wants to be a big man in the world. Just another form of bullying, if you ask me.
woodroad34
How conveniently he ignores the heterosexual orange blob that’s doing exactly what he says Pete will/might/who knows is doing. That’s fairly narrow thinking and pretty much what his religion is all about. I sincerely believe he is far from christ-like to be acting like a god.
daveddy
He’ll be found in bed with an underage, disabled, black boy before very long. Bigots like him will get their comeuppance.
Florida Guy
He needs to get out of the dark Ages. I hope mayor Pete wins then a majority of these homophobic people can finally come out of the closet ???
fiftybuff
Since he’s so fond of nicknames, how about “Bert Fairy Ass”?
RIGay
The best comment I have read so far about these cultists is:
It makes no never mind who is nominated, they would never vote for a Democrat in the first place.
But hey, let’s give them free publicity.
As Roy Cohen taught a young Donald Trump when he was having an affair on Ivanka – “Any publicity is good publicity! If people are talking about you, then they have done half your job.” These Evangelical nutjobs all signed on to be Twittlers winged monkeys and attack Mayor Pete. They will be loud and intrusive – designed to make his SEXUALITY the defining wedge issue in the campaign if he makes it through the primary. Let’s make it a stigma! Look how that POOR Iowa woman voted then learned he was GAY! We’ll make sure THAT won’t ever happen again!!!
And that will be the uphill fight until November.
James
CHRIXTIAN TRASH.
Gary Q VV
I viewed a few of Bert Farias’ “sermons, nay, spiels” on YouTube and he’s another dangerous “dime-a-dozen” vile interpreter of the Christian faith. Should we LGBTQ community care? Yes! But many of us spend too much time at the gym with our noses stuck on our phone viewing Grindr. “Wake-up Gay American, we’re starting to lose ground.”
GayEGO
Bert Fartas is part of the losing bigots who refuse to learn and evolve, such a shame!
Aires the Ram
I’m no fan of “Mayor Pete”. He is a leftist/communist who wishes to destroy the Constitution of this country, but he speaks softly, doesn’t yell, like many of the rest of them that hate this country. That being said, these so-called Christian mega-phones worry more about his sexuality, than they do about his leftist/communists leanings, and the fact that his father was a professor of Marxist Theory at the University of Notre Dame. That SHOULD scare the hell out of ANYBODY, most certainly these so-called Christian nutbags. But no, where Mayor Pete sticks his dick is more important to them than the fact that if Mayor Pete were EVER elected, he’d work feverishly on taking this country down.
Vince
I want to know what you’re smoking because it must be some pretty heavy-duty shit. Mayor Pete is one of the more conservative voices of the candidates. I think you need to educate yourself on what communism actually means. Not just what FOX news tells you.
winemaker
Mayor Pete just like all the other leftist and communist liberal giveaway gary’s ad grace’s with all their ‘free this and free thatt’ that most people know well is going to be paid for by the midle class American taxpayers li=ke it always has been,. Really the gay community needs to think about the country and what electing any ‘dimocrap’ much less Pete will do this great pl;ace we call the United states of America. To the liberals, the gay community along with the Latinos and blacks are nothing but pawns to pander to at election time n order to get votes, pure and simple, nothing more,. In California, what have the liberal slugs: pelosi, feinstein and newsom done for the gay community other than pander to us and when election’s over, ignore us,like any and all snakes. Go ahead, i’m waiting for some answers but won’t hold my breath. Time long overdue for the gay community to become smart voters and not willy nilly voters who always vote liberal.
RIGay
Not going to feed the internet trolls. Please stay in Russia where you belong.
Chrisk
winemaker
On the flip side what have the Republicans done for the gay community besides pass laws against our very existence?
Maybe you should examine your go to curse word “liberal” since you seem to have no clue on it’s definition.
lib·er·al:
1. open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
“they have more liberal views toward marriage and divorce than some people”
2.(of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person’s general knowledge and experience.
Kangol2
@AirestheRam, rather than throwing around terms you completely don’t understand, why not look them up, because if you did, you’d realize quicker than you can spell your own name that Mayor Pete Buttigieg is about as far from a Communist as you’re going to get in this race, and that includes the Orange Oafish Con Man Traitor Blob in the White House right now. He’s engaging in behavior that would make Stalin happy and half the time talks like a disciple of V. I. Lenin, whom his ex campaign-chief, Steven Bannon, admits to admiring. The other half of the Drumpf is in Franco/Mussolini/Hitler territory.
The sad thing that someone like you cannot see, because you so deeply invest in cartoon visions of the world, is that whenever we put a Republican in the White House, at least since Calvin Coolidge, the US and globe end up worse off than before. Just go down the list, and by the time we get to George W. Bush, whom I assume you voted for, we were in a state of national and global disaster. The economic collapse, 9/11, anthrax attacks, rampant wiretapping, the Afghanistan debacle, the horrific Iraq War, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and on and on were all products of a Republican President. Not a Democrat, not a liberal, not a progressive. But a Christian Republican who a minority of people voted for in 2000, slipped into office through the aid of his brother, and then went on to two of the most disastrous terms in US history. AND he pushed homophobic, anti-gay laws and rhetoric again and again. Why do you support people like this? Why do you throw around words like “Communism” without any regard for what they really mean?
Mayor Pete or any of the Democrats, or Bill Weld for that matter, would be objectively far better for this country than the treasonous alleged rapist creature in there now. By a landslide!
Joshooeerr
On the one hand we have a highly intelligent and articulate presidential candidate legally married and a pillar of his community. On the other hand we have a marginal religious leader whose extreme views are not even supported by a majority of christians. Exactly who is credible?
Bruno070
Dear Q, please stop publicising these homophobes. I have never heard of this homophobe until now.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The louder these pernocious noxious smcubags rant about the Gays, the harder it falls…
Countdown til the cadaver dogs start signaling finds of small corpses on this puddle of puke’s property…
TomG
I love how these so-called “Christians” are the first ones to judge others. They seem to forget that is God’s job, NOT theirs !
Billysees
You’re right, according to 1 Corinthians 5:12, Christians are only supposed to judge other Christians.
Minerva Pomerantz
First of all, it signals the death knell of the white male patriarchy that has enslaved persons of color and the entire LGBT community through institutional racism and bigotry. It isn’t ironic that a GWM could lead the transition to a white plurality society. It is almost a necessity.
Plus, stop the bullshit about government freebies. Nothing is free. Redirecting government resources to the middle and working classes are not giveaways. They are what government is supposed top do. So when Trump wastes 75 million dollars in a fake bombing raid on a Syrian airfield that leaves it fully functional the next day, you have to think that this was a “give away” to government contractors who have to replace those million dollar bombs. That is a REAL give away.
Kangol2
Not to mention, concerning that pseudo-bombing raid, that Syria is now in the hands of its bloodthirsty dictator, who continues to slaughter his own people, using gas and other means, as well as Russia. So Drumpf basically gave Russia the foreign policy victory it wanted. Why? And now Turkey is invading Idlib Province, and has also brought troops into the very areas where the US’s Kurdish allies reside. You know, the Kurds helping us defeat ISIS, which I’m sure most of the right-wing gay men on here would agree is one of the worst enemies of gay people on earth.
Hussain-TheCanadian
I think the reason why people like Bert Farias hates Pete B. So much is because Pete is the living embodiment of Farias contradictory claims about gay people.
Religious fanatics and right wing conservative freaks have claimed that gay people live sad, lonely, loveless, sickly, drug infested, friendless, and “godless lives”; they love touting gay related HIV figures, gay suicide rates, gay prostitution figures, homeless gay teens and so on.
They relish in these figures, they quote them on their TV shows, radio stations, town halls, schools, and churches. They “warn” their closeted followers, and any sympathetic straight person that misery and scorn awaits gays and their “enablers “.
Then here comes Pete, a 38 year old mayor, highly educated, loved by his family, married to a man that he openly and proudly introduces to the world, healthy, has lots of friends and supporters, tells gay people, especially the teens, that life is worth living, that there is a rightful place for you, dont despair, look at me, I’m one of you and I’m running for president.
That image, that reality, throws a rench into Farias propaganda and exposes it for the bull sht that it is. It shows the whole world, especially religious people, that gay men and women are not sick, alone, diseased, cursed, and miserable. They are successful, loved, funny, and above all human worthy of respect.
That’s what scares freaks like Farias.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
You won the internets today with that massive epic biitch slap to all clap trap bull shiit the noxious right wing smcubag try to peddle to “justify” their bigotry and hatred…
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Hussain-TheCanadian
@Plays well…
Thank you so much Plays, I’m telling you, these people fear our “normalness” than anything else, it takes away their supposed special agency in “knowing”, they claim to have “special powers” that allows them to see the “big picture” hidden away from the eyes of the masses, it’s a mind fck that requires absolute belief in conspiracy, that behind gay people is a special agenda that wants to destroy western society, and gay people (Jews and Black people ate the brunt of that worldview first) are instrumental in that.
It’s the Alex Jones effect, it doesnt matter that maybe 10% of the conspiracies peddled by Alex are feasible and probably true, and 90% is batsht insane, what matters is turning that 90% to feasible hidden truths that can be weaponized.
So when gay people are coopted into society, into the norm: marriage, children, good jobs, running for office, opening our own businesses, being doctors, lawyers, engineers, officers in the army and police, bakers, clerks, artists, actors and every other profession we can think of, that’s when the above bullsht conspiracy melts away.
That’s what people like Bert dont want to happen, have his power and money wither away because the gay people hes been slandering are more successful than he is.