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Right-wing grifter gets dragged for declaring “condoms are gay” & implying he prefers bareback by default

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Shirtless man in jeans holding a condom.

We usually don’t like to highlight right-wing grifters who make inflammatory statements for the purpose of stoking outrage.

But we’re making an exception for the guy who says condoms… are gay!

Michael Knowles, who works for Ben Shapiro’s troll site, The Daily Wire, went on a ridiculous monologue Monday, during which he railed against the two Supreme Court decisions, Griswold and Eisenstadt, that established the rights of married and unmarried people to possess contraception.

Knowles thinks that’s a bad thing, because in his twisted mind, nobody should be having sex for fun.

And who has the most fun when they have sex?

Gays!

Knowles says the birth of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, which we weirdly calls the “Pride movement,” can be traced to the widespread availability of contraception.

Apparently, there were no queer people before the early 1970s. Who knew?

“I think a lot of people are beginning to notice that the contraceptive mentality is the beginning of the Pride mentality,” he said. “The contraceptive mentality divorces sex from the consequences of sex. It introduces a sterile sexual ethic, which is exactly what gave us the Pride movement. There’s no distinction here. If you can’t read between the lines, the conclusion that one draws is… condoms are kind of gay.”

When Knowles talks about divorcing sex from the “consequences of sex,” he’s seemingly bemoaning the fact that many people engage in sexual intercourse without the intention of procreating.

Or maybe he’s telling everybody that he refuses to wear condoms, potentially leaving his partners unprotected against all sorts of nasty STIs?

Or maybe he just prefers bareback?

It’s hard to say…

For decades, religious conservatives have spoken out against contraception. But Knowles’ thesis that links contraception and homosexuality is new; and frankly, utterly bizarre.

Gay and straight people alike were more then willing to drag this deranged diva.

The vitriol against LGBTQ+ people is rising to increasingly disturbing heights, with seven Republican attorneys general recently writing to Target saying the retailer’s Pride campaigns could’ve violated their state’s child protection laws.

Throughout June, conservatives threatened boycotts of big companies and retailers that promoted Pride and LGBTQ+ inclusivity.

Knowles was one of those right-wingers pushing boycotts, though multiple people pointed out that he doesn’t mind engaging in some Pride celebrations himself.

There she is… laying next to a guy in bed and posing with a drag queen! (Knowles was an actor before he got into hate mongering.)

There you have it: Knowles is both unhinged and a hypocrite! What a winning combo.

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