Ross Jackson’s message isn’t anything new. “All homos are going to hell,” the antigay Christian preacher spouted as he made his way onto James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was there to condemn sinful acts like homosexuality, drinking and listening to ungodly music — you know, college.
But it’s how students reacted that really got us.
Student journalist Laura Hunt live Tweeted the scene:
.@TheBreezeJMU this preacher has gathered quite the crowd in front of Carrier pic.twitter.com/as9hTiBy8X
— Lu (@americanlaurenn) September 16, 2014
.@TheBreezeJMU “All you horny frat boys that love to do drugs and get drunk, you are going to hell.” -Jackson — Lu (@americanlaurenn) September 16, 2014
.@TheBreezeJMU “Take it easy on the masturbation. If you love masturbation, y know what u are? You’re a potential homosexual.” -Jackson
— Lu (@americanlaurenn) September 16, 2014
Again, all just your run-of-the-mill hate speech, and all too often fodder for yelling matches.
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But one group of students decided to drown Jackson out with a bit of his own medicine in the form of Christian hymns about love. Whatever your personal beliefs may be, fighting hate with love is always a winning strategy.
And it’s pretty great watching the preacher squirm, unable to quiet the chorus.
Take a look below:
Jackson was eventually forced to leave the campus after he was issued a police summons for assault and battery, though it is unclear what incident resulted in the summons.
Good riddance.
Stache99
This minister is sick in the head. It’s funny how religion gets a pass for the crazy people who seem to flock to it like fly’s to shit.
haymichael
Ahhh that’s my school! I didn’t see the little sing-a-long but whenever I was around I couldn’t hear what the hateful guy was saying because there was either loud music blaring or the college kids were shouting to keep him drowned out.
Paul Nadolski
I still remember, the one time I went to San Francisco (11 years ago), some weird preacher (or something) condemning gays (and lots of others) near the cable car stop on Market St. No surprise that no one was paying attention!
Stache99
There was another time when that book he’s waving was used as justification for discriminating against him too. Everything from Slavery to the Jim Crow laws. He doesn’t seem to have a sense of history or irony.
He feels it’s his turn now to discriminate. I’m sure it makes him feel like more of a man.
Saint Law
This is why, for all its many, many, many faults I love America.
Merv
Personally, I prefer the “God hates f@gs” message of the preacher over the “love the sinner, hate the sin” message of the Christian students. I can do without the patronizing sugar coating over what are essentially the same message.
martinbakman
@Stache99: The media gives religion a pass. It sux. The media reports anything good about gays is controversial because it will bother religious nuts.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@Stache99: Damm, you took the words right off my keyboard!! :p
Very few things infuriate me more than a Black person spewing hatred and bigotry upon Gays. They are noxious, abhorrent, vile, twisted bigots. No different than those who denied them equality, lynched them, sicced dogs upon them, et all. These creatures seem to forget they went thru the same bigotry and hatred cast upon the Gays less than 50 years ago…….Descipibale ungrates!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
“Jackson was eventually forced to leave the campus after he was issued a police summons for assault and battery”
Proves these hatefilled bigoted rightwing nutbag creatures are disgusting twisted pigs who resort to violence when their messages of hate are rejected………
BTW: The dude playing the guitar is adorkable! :p
Tackle
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Bigots. These.They.Them. Creatures.
Onr would think that with ALL these plurals, a group or an army of Blacks was there. But all I see is ONE Black man. But we still have lazy ass bigots who refuse to treat people, especially ( Blacks) as individuals. Yes: one Black person accounts for the whole Black communit?
Bob LaBlah
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: I could not agree more with you and Stache99. It did cross my mind he might have been incarcerated at a young age and that book for the blind, lost, or just outright stupid (the Bible) was the only thing he was given to read (or ever read in his life) to make him BELIEVE that it was because of not following it he that he was incarcerated.
It seems ironic but a few hours ago I watched 12 Years a Slave on cable. One of the most memorable scenes for me was the one where the Owner is standing on the porch lying his ass off about what that book actually said but these poor people, who had no written language of their own from the start, sat there in total disbelief at what they were hearing because they thought it really was true. Brain washing at its most criminal. That’s all religion was and still is.