A high-profile, right-wing pastor with a history of anti-LGBTQ statements has done it again.
Virginia’s E.W. Jackson runs his own radio show and streams via Facebook to his followers. On his Facebook show, “The Wisdom Meditation” last week, he discussed the Bible, but then went off on a tangent about Drag Queen Story Hour, which occurs in libraries around the country.
“This is child abuse to take these children to be entertained by these perverse individuals whose lives are a moral sewer,” Jackson, 68, said.
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“You want to live that way, it’s a free country, live that way. If adults want to be a part of such gross, disgusting entertainment, you have a right to do that. But child abuse is what I would call taking children to see one of these freaks go through a whole lot of sexual garbage trying to instill this mess in the minds of toddlers and kindergartners.
“I have no patience with this mess,” the Protestant Minister continued. “That person needs God, that person needs to be saved, that person needs to be delivered. God wants that person to be a normal human being. A drag queen is not a normal human being.”
“And the stupid parents who take their children into this mess need to be dope slapped. They need to have their children taken away from them.
“Do you think toddlers and kindergartners are [asking] to go to Drag Queen Story Hour?,” Jackson asked.
“Taking your children to church is not abuse. It’s what God commands us to do. But taking your children to Drag Queen Story Hour is abuse of a magnitude that is hard to overstate. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the equivalent of pedophilia, and it should be treated the same way.”
Jackson has previously asserted that homosexuality is “unnatural” and “gross”. Earlier this year, he said that besides concerns over the coronavirus, families should worry about the spread of the “homovirus”: Or what he regards as the militant LGBTQ movement to destroy the traditional family unit.
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In 2019, Jackson claimed that the United States would become a “homocracy” if Mayor Pete Buttigieg won the Presidency.
Jackson was the Republican Party nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in the 2013 election and a Republican primary candidate for the United States Senate in Virginia in the 2012 and 2018 elections. Although he commands a sizeable, grassroots following within the state, he failed in each of these election bids.
Cam
Countdown to his regular Wednesday evening rentboy exposing this hypocite.
5…..4…..3…..2….
Fname Optional Lname
OMG LOL ! LOL! This!
JessPH
Religious indoctrination is also an abuse.
Queerty, please stop giving this lowlife the publicity he desperately seeks
RickinTheCity
Me thinks he doth protest too much! And we’ve all seen where these hyper-protesters wind up! A newspaper outing after being caught with a local twink rent boy! It will be occurring soon!
NOLA Paul
We need to know what sick Republicans like him are saying. The so called Pastor is a disgusting loser.
wikidBSTN
Just another bigot in a frock.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Reverend I must congratulate you and your near foolproof plan to keep your name on the fingertips of the gay media. Without them (the gay media) elevating you to “importance” you would amount to nothing more than a babbling fool. Yes, you fit into their business plan of using youtube, reddit and outright made up stories of victimization to keep the clicks coming. Were you a smart man you would ask for compensation.
Kangol2
He ran for office (again) in Virginia and lost (again–cf. 2012, 2013, 2018, etc.). He’s always seeking relevance to keep those dollars flowing. He also has always been obsessed with gay people. Miss Thing’s closet is probably more stuffed than a Goodwill clothing donation box right about now!
ChrisGMN
Drag Queens aren’t normal human beings, huh? Bet he thought It was funny when Milton Berle did it. Also, I wonder kind of dress he wears when preaching – anything like most chrisitian preachers? Long frocks and flaming purses?
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I can only wonder what he thought of Flip Wilson’s “Geraldine” character from the 1970’s (damn, I am getting old).
Fname Optional Lname
Exactly, show me a kid who was not entertained with a character that dresses up! He is so far out of touch he could hold a Trump cabinet position!
Mack
Someone should have taken his kids away from him just for being a bigot.
rand503
Actually, the kids DO ask to go! They love seeing drag queens read to them.
Essie
While I don’t agree with this man’s politics or his anti gay agenda, I do agree that small children should not be taken to a story hour run by drag queens. Why? What is the purpose? If you want very young children to learn about people who are “different” there are many children’s books about same-sex parents, or friends who are “different,” etc. and those books are very good.
linedrive
Maybe some parents don’t want to teach their children about those who are “different”, as you say. Maybe they just want their children to see them as “human”. I’m just glad someone is still reading to kids.
Openminded
I seriously doubt the books read to the kids are raunchy pornographic stories. Why does he assume a Drag Queen doesn’t read the kids the same book a straight person reads to them?
How would he like it if someone “Assumed” that just because he was a black man, he wasn’t fit to raise his own children?
revjimbrooking
If this “pastor” were seriously interested in addressing child abuse he would direct his efforts to those who have children and fail to provide for them! He would hold accountable parents who neglect their children while they squander money and indulge their own desires. If he would get out of the library and visit the poorer sections of his neighborhood he would encounter children who are hungry, in need of clothing, love and affection, This is where the REAL abuse occurs. He might start with the members of his own congregation!!! His Christian intolerance and prejudice is showing!!! Shame!
linedrive
Why are so many straight people completely obsessed with gay people? If you don’t like us, just leave us the hell alone. We’ll be glad to return the favor.
Fname Optional Lname
WORD!
Fname Optional Lname
Who is she kidding? I bet you a sentence of a few weeks in county is all it would take to get this one in some size 14 pumps and some hips molded out of couch cushions! When they protest too much there is something stirring and I sense it’s a mess of denial!
Chrisk
High profile in what world? The only reason I know of this gross and disgusting shitbag is because of gay sites like this.
radiooutmike
Gay sites like this are the only only ones that “report” on stuff like this.
hansniemeijer
B-I-G-O-T
BigJay
For the information of all the crusaders of ignorance out there, more or less every parent in the United Kingdom take their children to watch the Christmas pantomime every year. The main star of this hugely loved 2 hour show is a drag queen. Drag is a huge part of British popular culture and loved for it. If this pastor whose faith and masculinity is clearly very weak was to get his way, most kids in the UK would be taken from their parents. Most of this type of pastors are typically fear mongering money grabbing career Christians who take advantage of other people and their prejudices to line their pockets. Shameful does not even begin to describe these types of people, surely God has no purpose for evil and hatefulness in his church.
tminer1978
You can tell this hypocrite wanna be prophet is more than likely gay he protests just a bit to much in my opinion! Taking your children to drag queen story time is something I highly recommend! They will have a blast and learn not to turn out to be judgemental jerks! My kids went to their first one 3 years ago and 2 years ago when they found out that it was going on again but was going to be boycotted by bigoted people they chose to be part of the people outside blocking the hateful protesters from harassing the littler kids and I’ve never been more proud