A republican lawmaker running to represent Oklahoma City in the state House has made headlines lately for his horrible, homophobic past.
Scott Esk, 56, isn’t backing down, either — he’s just as awful today as he was a decade ago.
Back in 2013, Esk wrote on Facebook that gay people are “worthy of death” and “we would be totally in the right” to stone them. He’s also referred to homosexuality as an “insidious addiction.” Charming.
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The comments resurfaced a year later during his unsuccessful bid for a different House seat.
You’d think that he’d have learned his lesson this time around, but when contacted this week by The Oklahoman, Esk refused to comment.
He did, however, post a video to his YouTube page defending his abhorrent take.
“I’ve stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future and I am right now,” he said. “That’s got me in trouble. The media are not my friends, as far as I’m concerned.”
Notice how Esk is also attempting to play the ‘victim of the media’ card. In fact, he’s repeatedly attacked a local Oklahoma City television station for reporting on his very public comments in its current election coverage… aka journalists doing their job.
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“I had an opinion against homosexuality,” Esk said in his July YouTube video he made in response to a KFOR story. “Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does, but as far as I and many of the voters of House District 87 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian.”
Those Christian values were nowhere to be found when Esk lost his job as a data management analyst in 2011 after he allegedly threatened and harassed leaders at his church.
Come on, Oklahoma voters — show this clown the door.
wimo
Poor little thing!!!
GrizzOH2020
Ignorant trash.
Just.my.opinion
I do hope that Karma is a real thing. This man needs to be punished.
FtballBear27
Yep, can’t wait for Karma to bite him. The human race would be better off without the likes of him wasting oxygen
greekboy
I wish I was smart enough to doxx people like him. I’m not young enough or tech savvy enough to know how to do it. This a##hole deserves to get the full treatment
whereshouldistart
The squeaky wheel always craves the K-Y.
still_onthemark
Oh yeah, homosexuality is an “insidious addiction” so something must have happened down at the truck stop glory hole.
ron2013
Wow! Not one piece of useful information but PLENTY of gay bashing, and misinformation, with a helpful dose of Xristian hatred they call love. Makes me sick.
Kangol2
Where’s GQP cheerleader JT, who loves the putrid anti-LGBTQ RepubliQanon Party? And remind me again, how is advocating stoning others to death “Pro-Life”?
It also doesn’t sound 1) Christian or 2) Constitutionalist to me either but it does sound like a garden variety GQP fascist authoritarian dominionist!
Maybe someone in our pathetic “liberal” media will ask this homophobic hatemonger moron Esk that question and press him on an answer!
jt1990
@Kangol2 LOL thanks for the shoutout, but you got part of my identity wrong. I do support many causes of the Right, mostly because they are an antidote to the insanity of the Left. But this DL edgelord isn’t fooling me, or most who vote Republican. As evidenced by the fact he’s failed to gain office after a decade in conservative Oklahoma. His ranting is reminiscent of Maddie Cawthorn, the (North) Carolina Closet Queen. Who also didn’t make it very far in his career, and is now probably banging some dude while his gfs out of town.
FtballBear27
What a POS! If only he and the rest of his ilk would channel that animosity towards those within their cult who diddle with minors instead of law abiding LGBTQ+ folks.
Brian
This website could really be elevated if you’d provide some *context* for articles like this. Such as…
He is running for a state house seat that is currently held by a Democrat.
And that Democrat won 60-40 last election cycle.
woodroad34
As always, picking and choosing which things out of the bible he chooses to property interpret or obey. If he’s a Christian, follow Christ…if he’s Old Testament, follow Judaism
bachy
It’s amazing how cult-y some of these people sound. Like they’ve been brainwashed to be as fearful, close-minded and hateful as possible. While saying it’s due to Jesus’ teachings…?
Insane. And incredibly exclusionary.
FtballBear27
That’s why personally, I don’t want jacksh** to do with anything with that cult. Wish they’d quit putting it on others like their beloved clergy members put themselves onto children
CNY1983
did you get a load of those RATTY LITTLE TEETH? YICK!!!!
FtballBear27
I know right?? But then again he’s in Okhlahoma. Last time I checked, dental hygiene wasn’t too high on their lists there
Sotzume
Puhleeze girl…one look at that little closet case and you know she’s been sucking it at glory holes all over Oklahomo…..
James
WHAT A HIDEOUS STUPID UGLY CHRIXTIAN.
IvanPH
Oklahoma City is probably the only progressive area in Oklahoma. He’ll easily lose there.
Jon in Canada
I wait with great anticipation for the day I can read his obituary. The only good reich wing Christofascist is one pushing up daisies.
Tombear
Ginger trash!