Good news, homosexuals: you aren’t literally like ISIS, only metaphorically. That’s according to gibbering idiot, Colorado state representitive and talking pacifier Gordon Klingenschmitt, who has a radio show about Jesus and whatnot.
On a recent episode, Gordon complained about a stationary store in Arizona that was cited for violating nondiscrimination law. Then he talked about a report that ISIS fighters had murdered a gay man. And then he said they’re basically the same: religious police engaging in persecution.
This is, obviously, bonkers. Being told that you can’t have separate drinking fountains or that you can’t refuse to serve Jews or that you can’t turn away the gays is not the same as being thrown off of a roof. Sorry.
“We have religious police here in America that are doing the same, on a lesser scale, to the Christians here in America that the Islamic State is doing to the homosexuals in Syria,” he says. Nope, not even close. Those stationary store owners aren’t being punished for their beliefs! They’re free to believe whatever the hell they want! Go ahead and believe that gay people are gross, fine, go ahead, knock yourself out.
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And in fact, if they wanted to extend that belief to their business practices, that would be fine too — if they were a private club, not open to the public. But the moment a business accommodates all members of the public, well, there are certain rules they have to follow. Religion doesn’t exempt you from having to wash your hands after using the bathroom, and it doesn’t exempt you from having to follow nondiscrimination laws.
Anyway, Gordon says that gays are “hiring religious police to metaphorically throw them off a roof.” No, not really. Bigoted business owners are walking off of roofs themselves, then complaining about the law of gravity.
Heywood Jablowme
” Religion doesn’t exempt you from having to wash your hands after using the bathroom,…”
Especially for someone named Klingenschitt!
Oh wait, sorry, I’m hungover… Klingenschmitt.
gaboy
Was Klingenshmitt complaining about a non-moving store (stationary) or a store that sells writing paper (stationery)? If the latter, it is better described as a stationer’s shop.
Heywood Jablowme
@gaboy: Damn… good call! But I guess technically you could have a stationery shop in a van (like a food truck) and then it wouldn’t be stationary.
Paco
His comparison is nuts. “Gay” isn’t a religion. The only religious police we have in America are the right wing evangelicals that keep trying to pass Christian based morality laws and specifically targeting them at LGBT people in the name of religious freedom. Because somehow, the mere existence of gays prevents them from being Christians.
jjose712
If gays were really like ISIS i’m pretty sure he would keep his mouth shut
abnerb
@Paco: @Heywood Jablowme: I’m a nonreligious person who sees something wrong with homosexual & lesbian conduct & I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes. Even if orientation doesn’t change, it’s best for gays/lesbians to be celibate just as it’s best for a person with tobacco orientation not to smoke. If homosexuality is inborn as some scientists believe, then it would be a birth defect.
If you don’t hear or read some1 talking religion when speaking against homosexuality/lesbianism, then ask them if they base it on religion & don’t assume you know their faith. There are atheists who are against gay/lesbian conduct, so it is possible to not believe in God & be against gay/lesbian agenda, though religious people are more likely to be against gay/lesbian agenda while atheists are more likely to be apologists for gay/lesbian agenda but not always case so don’t assume you know their faith if they didn’t say anything religious, as there are atheists who are against gay/lesbian conduct.
abnerb
I am not religious because among other things, if there’s a God, then why do bad things happen in world. There are atheists who are against gay/lesbian conduct, so it is possible to not believe in God & be against gay/lesbian agenda, though religious people are more likely to be against gay/lesbian agenda while atheists are more likely to be apologists for gay/lesbian agenda but not always case so don’t assume you know their faith if they didn’t say anything religious, as there are atheists who are against gay/lesbian conduct.
Heywood Jablowme
@abnerb: Well, this article is ABOUT a religious kook. But to address your totally off-topic remarks:
“I’m a nonreligious person who sees something wrong with homosexual & lesbian conduct” – WHY? You don’t give an actual reason. At least religious people have a reason.
“I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes.” Why? If you don’t have a reason for “thinking” that, why should anyone give a **** about your opinion?
Why do you spend so much time reading a gay website? I can guess why – because you’re GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY!!!!!
abnerb
@Heywood Jablowme: There are 2 topics which I post on which offends people-it’s gay/lesbian topic & the fact that I don’t believe everything I read about Holocaust. Talk of homosexual/lesbian is a good thing, yet call people gay as an insult. I don’t think any1 can rebut conclusion that sex abuse victims of gay/lesbian pedophiles have more risk of turning out gay/lesbian by copying the conduct they learned because conduct incl. sexual conduct can be learned. possible for people who are victims of same sex molestation (such as victims of gay pedophile priests) to copy this sexual conduct and do gay conduct in adulthood incl. turn out to be gay pedophiles.
abnerb
@Heywood Jablowme: While I don’t think homosexuality by willing & knowing adults should be a crime in the US (though I wouldn’t lose sleep if homosexuality were a crime), if a nation like Uganda wants to reinforce their laws against homosexuality, then we have no business lecturing Uganda on their laws against homosexuality-a nation where we have no interest. I don’t care that the American Medical Association says that homosexuality isn’t a disease-go ahead & cure it. Even if orientation doesn’t change, it’s best for gays/lesbians to be celibate just as it’s best for a person with tobacco orientation not to smoke. I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes. I’m a nonreligious person who sees something wrong with homosexual & lesbian conduct & I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes. Even if orientation doesnt change, best for gays/lesbians to be celibate just as best for a person with tobacco orientation not to smoke. If homosexuality is inborn as some scientists believe, then it would be a birth defect.
Any conduct can be learned and this includes sexual conduct. A kid can become a mugger by living in high crime neighborhood, seeing muggings in childhood and learning this conduct. Homosexual/lesbian conduct is bad for health like tobacco & needs to be treated like tobacco use by adults. If willing & knowing adults want to use tobacco or do gay/lesbian conduct, then that’s their life, but it must be treated as harmful like tobacco is. I know what APA, mainstream psychologists & psychiatrists say about gay/lesbian conduct, but they are ideologues. I think that they must make it a crime to do sex changes.
Just because there are other causes such as possibly birth defect, that does not change the fact that being a repeated victim of childhood sex abuse by gay and lesbian pedophiles can for some people cause them to do same sex conduct in adulthood vs. if they were not.
Heywood Jablowme
@abnerb: Well… yes, you should definitely stay away from children, you sound like quite a perv. And yes you should abstain from sex altogether. (No adult should be subjected to your insanity.) Just be careful not to get your keyboard all sticky with CUM when you jerk off while looking at gay websites!
Mikah92
Republican Religitard.
woodin
self loathing closeted gay man
Mo Bro
Being that the left usually defends radical Islam at any expense, I’m simply stunned that Queerty acknowledged ISIS is killing gays (even if it was in the context of another anti-Republican screed).
Daniel-Reader
The classic term for what he is doing is projection.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Heywood Jablowme: @Mo Bro: It’s shocking to me this guy is not attacked by the cast characters who attack me for my views on religion that is killing gays. I’m done with this site until they install a block button. They need one. Happy New Year to you both.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Paco: And you as well. Happy New Year.
Heywood Jablowme
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: I realize you’re obsessed with that “block button” thing, but I’ve never understood why. You seem awfully touchy and at times illogical.
In case you forgot – I haven’t – at one point you wanted to block ME because I used the term “f@g hag”! EEK! “Queerty, where’s the block button?” you said. Get over it, that expression has been around since Judy Garland discovered pills and maybe since Alexander the Fucking Great.
Can you name an example of a site that has a block button now? I’m not familiar with any. There was a site I used to frequent a lot that USED to have it, but they switched to Disqus many years ago. It’s getting increasingly rare for a relatively small site like this one to even have a proprietary comment system anymore.
Heywood Jablowme
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@abnerb: I don’t call you gay as an insult. I call you gay because you’re obsessed with homosexuality and you spend an obsessive amount of time on at least one gay website (+ doubtless many others). You’re gay gay gay gay gay!
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: Jeepers. Sorry, dude, I take it all back. We do need a block button if only for “abner”. (And for Giancarlo if s/he ever gets released from the insane asylum.) I don’t understand why Queerty doesn’t ban abner. He IS gay though – obviously!
NateOcean
Gordon Klingenschmitt, from the Al Qaeda branch of the Republican Party or the Taliban wing of the Tea Party?
Clay83
I think its time we just start pitying these religious wingnuts! It is like they have mental disabilities.
Kathukid
This guy is one of those self-hating gay people. He’s certifiable and needs to get help.
dommyluc
Dommyluc: Gordon Klingenschmitt is “like an asshole”. Not metaphorically; really IS a fucking asshole.
Louis
The irony is jackasses like this man are the ones that incite terrorism and violence and hate against LGBT Americans in this country.
Fuck you and your god Klingenshit.
woodroad34
His tiny hands are metaphorically “jazz hands”. “Just Gordon, 2017”