Joshua, who describes himself as “A Christian And I Make Videos Mainly About Religion, But I Try To Give A Good Variety Of Videos,” this week decided to tell YouTube about his beliefs on gay marriage. Namely, about how he wants it outlawed, and how “being gay is a serious sin. Or in God’s eyes, it’s a crime. So stop it. It’s not funny.” We fear posting this video on Queerty will bring out all kinds of bashing of this little boy, which, truly, is not our intent (and we will remove you from Queerty immediately if you head down that road). Because kids are kids. And by definition, they are naive, and that’s how they are supposed to be, because they do not yet have life experience or proper answers to questions. But this clip is a handy piece of evidence of why schools should, absolutely, engage kids in dialogue about gay families, despite “religious” reasons not to.
So little boys like Joshua do not grow up to become adults like Joshua. And instead grow up to become more like, well, this little boy.
terrwill
No, we can not hate on this kid. It is farily obvious
that he is no more than a trained little monkey mimicing
what is being fed to him by his reprehensive parents.
The frightwing nutbag lunatics ALWAYS must attempt to
mimic anything positive they detect comming out of the
Gay community. As obvious as this little monkey being
force fed his little tirade, is the honesty in Will Phillips.
You can see that his Parents are kinda aprehensive and
somewhat gobsmacked in what this little guy is saying.
I hope and pray Joshua turns out Gay and both parents have
similtanous massive strokes once he informs them………
stitch
clearly this child has formed this opinion through a combination of false logic (Texas has no gay marriage, and it’s awesome, so it must be the absence of gay marriage that makes it that way) and things he’s been taught by his parents and teachers (platitudes about god’s love and leviticus).
that said, this is a perfect example of why the “time is on our side” mentality will fail us. Bigots have children, and they teach their children the things that make them bigots. We may see a shift of opinion in our favor, but it will be far too gradual to change the lives of most of today’s LGBT folk. I’m 26 and living in Ohio. I really can’t imagine that I’ll be able to marry my partner anytime soon in this state, or that our marriage in another state will be recognized, or that we’ll have federal equality. Not while our hateful neighbors continue to teach ideas like those expressed by this kid.
sigh.
wmcarpenter
I was friends with a kid like this in grade school. He went hardcore conservative at about the age of 12, but he now works for the DNC and is a fierce advocate for human rights. Hobnobbing with Al Franken and the like. There is hope in the world and as our culture becomes more progressive so too will kids like this realize the folly of their ways.
terrwill
No. 2 · stitch:
As pointed out in another thread, there is a significant
correlation in the acceptance of Gay issues increasing as
the age of the respondents of surveys decreases. Once upon
a time these lunatic parents could spew their hatred and
the kids had no exposure to any different. The Gays were
similar to the boogey man. You never saw one so you could
only imagine they were horrible. With the proliferation of
Gays on the TVs like MTV younger kids actually see the Gays
and they are basically no different than the straights.
My first roomate in college came from SC. His Father was an
enangelical preacher who spewed fire and brimstone towards
the Gays every week from the puplit. At our first meeting
I told him my story and while I was the first Gay he actually
ever met he said he “was used to Gays by seeing so many on
MTV growing up”. I can’t say we became bestest friends,but
we are friends and still keep in touch. He met many of my
Gay friends and came to bars. Problem was that he was such
a freakin’ hottie that he would constantly get hit on and
really couldn’t relax and enjoy the atmosphere. None the less
in years past he would have probably requested an new
roomate immediatley upon meeting me had not he been exposed
to Gays thru the media and internets………..
In this one Stitch, I really feel time is on our side on
this one, after all I have read of Gay straight clubs in
elementary schools!!!
Tyler
I would shrug it off as a kid regurgitating his parent’s skewed logic, but for some reason that fact that he says “shame on you” really irritated me. I think that christian ideals are shameful, but you don’t hear me shaming all christians.
This is all the more reason that we need to be having informative conversations with all types of people at all times. If not, this hateful dogma will continue to be prevalent in our society.
1EqualityUSA
It’s interesting. This should be in the MOMA. Take note of the eyes and when they shift downwardly and to the content of his words during the shift. Take note of the content of his words when his eyes shift upwardly. MOMA-fodder.
1EqualityUSA
“We all know what this issue is about. It’s not about how to protect the sanctity of marriage, or how to deal with activist judges. It’s about politics and an attempt to drive a wedge between one group of citizens and the rest of the country, solely for partisan advantage … The Constitution has never been used as a tool to entrench currently popular views at the expense of an unpopular minority — and it should not be used that way now.”—Ted Kennedy (2004)
YCKTR
He’s obviously being fed this information…and what we CAN’T see off-camera speaks volumes. He’s clearly doing this to appease someone else in the room…hence his consistant need to look at them for approval.
Just sad. Period.
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YCKTR
If you go look at some of this kid’s other vlogs, the story just gets worse. He’s homeschooled because he tried to talk his 400 classmates into quitting violent video games…the result…he was bullied and taunted until he just stopped going to school. Poor kid. At what point is this considered abuse?
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terrwill
No. 9 · YCKTR: Same shit as the case of the “ex-Gay”
Lesbian who kidnapped her daughter to keep her from her
ex-lover. These nutbag lunatics care absolutley zero
about the damage they inflict on their kids, as long
as they can continue their jihad against the Gays….
1EqualityUSA
He’s alone in his room. When he shows true resolve, he stares directly into the camera as if to say, right to our faces, his opinions. He’s working from flash cards, an outline. The part of his speech that has been played over and over in his troubled head rolls off of his tongue. It comes out with more fluidity and his orbs cast up and outwardly. When he speaks of things beyond his comprehension, his eyes cast downwardly and to the right, using the left brain to tackle the complex concepts, which subconsciously lowers his voice, Sotto voce. He’s alone. His parents are busy.
YCKTR
Shall we just validate you now 1EqualityUSA, or wait until the trophy is engraved?
Fragile egos are boring.
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1EqualityUSA
“Fragile Egos” what a great name for a rock band.
YCKTR
I’ll let you have that one for free…
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Jaroslaw
#4 Terrwill – couldn’t have said it better myself. Time IS on our side but keep working anyway! I’m out at work – we had a big ruckus about a Gay history board (I said why not since we always have a Black history board) – opened a lot of eyes I think. I was surprised at the support from some circles and saddened by some remarks by people I thought knew better. Either way, it is out in the open now where it never was before. Plus, i think I did the first board ever on State property….(I work for the State)
rayg
he’s trolling aka not serious.
the kid is actually from ireland.
Anthony in Nashville
LOL @ “We fear posting this video on Queerty will bring out all kinds of bashing of this little boy, which, truly, is not our intent…”
Since when does Queerty have a conscience? If a black kid had made this video would you be so protective?
YCKTR
@ RAYG
Huh?
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YCKTR
@Anthony in Nashville
STFU is the only appropriate response to your moronic claim.
Get started on that ASAP please.
We’ll wait.
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Anthony in Nashville
@ YCKTR
Please point out the threads where Queerty has been considerate of and “willing to engage” black homophobes, regardless of age?
Jaroslaw
I’ve read some pretty raunchy, negative, nasty comments here, but I never thought people would “bash” a child. Queerty – where did you come up with that fear?
Chitown Kev
@18
Of course not but…
it would simply be another example of the virulent and rampant homophobia in the black community.
Alfonzo
This is the kind of logic stamped into this poor child’s mind by parents who are deathly afraid (or at least someone in his church) of him being gay. Too late however.
I was the same way when I was about 12 years old. I was taught that being gay was wrong and a sin and a sodomite (on a side note, how would they like it if we referred to THEM as pussyfuckers?) was going to hell. I knew I was gay at that time, but was also very afraid.
Without going too long, I know first-hand the kind of damage taught by this bigoted thinking. I feel very sorry for the kind of suffering he’ll have to endure (since he seems like a gay kid to me) as a result of what he’s being taught and growing up in a hostile atmosphere.
It looks to me as though his teachers may have missed the boat on what is taught in the Bible.
B
In No. 2 stitch wrote, “that said, this is a perfect example of why the ‘time is on our side’ mentality will fail us. Bigots have children, and they teach their children the things that make them bigots.”
The “‘time is on our side’ mentality” is correct because it is based on hard data – statistics about how attitudes towards gays vary with age.
While the kid in question is probably repeating what he picked up from his parents, don’t discount the effects of peer pressure (if he has normal peers and is not being kept in some sort of Fundamentalist Christian school or isolated community, with tightly controls on TV and Internet access). If he has anything like average children as peers, just wait until he turns 13 and starts to become naturally rebellious. He now has a set of beliefs to rebel against with the added bonus of completely mortifying his parents and impressing his peers.
If he doesn’t have typical peers so that bigoted attitudes are all he’s exposed to, there may be little hope for him, at least in the short term, but the number of children in such situations is thankfully small and probably dropping over time.
If he picked up his religious ideas from various websites with no parental guidance, he’s a real outlier – nearly all boys that age are more interested in sports and wouldn’t know Leviticus from Levi’s.
clinicalmarijuana
2000-2010
The decade of the grainy web cam rant.
Terrorist Television.
scott ny'er
sure. queerty will ban someone bashing a kid (and yeah, i haven’t seen anyone ever do that, i think some posters did make fun of a little fat kid who posted something similar on youtube about a year ago) but won’t ban that troll, michael letterman, when he threatens some of us.
scott ny'er
just watched it. Frightening. I’m so sick of christians who espouse their belief systems on others. Just go away.
Andrew
This is what RELIGION does to a young mind. I would blame cake and cookies for his fat face, though.
Jody
It’s tough, but I’m calling a Poe on this kid.
I could be wrong, he could indeed be that naive and sheltered, but after watching several of his other videos and reading the description of himself along the side of his page — an Xtian but a player of violent videogames that he admonishes others to quit but asks people to become his friend on Xbox Live — I’m thinking he’s having fun.
If so, good on you, kid. If not, Fred Phelps, you’ve got your heir right there.
rayg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI7Xedr5rfQ
Video isn’t concrete proof or anything so much, but I still don’t think the kid is serious. Partly because the Irish accent he does is pretty short and unconvincing. Either way even if he’s Irish, there’s no way he’s serious. He’s just some kid screwing with people on the internet.
He’s got youtube accounts all over the place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YZoegYSqA
^in full irish haha.
Regardless, I’m calling this a fake.
David Ehrenstein
The kid’s obviously gay.
sal(the original)
CALLING IVANKA TRUMP!!!
cubbie
Just watch, in about 10 years, this kid will be frequenting the gay bars. He is a obviously gay.
Mark
I feel sorry for this kid. As a song by Rodgers & Mannerstein says, you’ve got to be taught to hate and obviously this little boys’ parents have a done a great job along with the church. Hopefully he’ll change as he gets older, but it’s doubtful.
terrwill
No. 32 · sal(the original): I do not get the connection…Why Ivanka Trump?
The only Trump connection to this site would be her allegedley Gay brother Eric. (ever wonder why he is never given all the exposure that Donald Junior and Ivanka is???)
alan brickman
I feel sorry for him….
HiredGoons
I just love that addresses ‘YouTube’ as an entity.
terrwill
No. 34 · Mark: There is hope for little Joshua Jhiad read post #4
B
No. 28 · Andrew wrote, “This is what RELIGION does to a young mind.” … a little religion might actually help him – for instance, if he hung out a bit with Wiccans or Buddhists to
have his world broadened a tad. It’s kind of hard to maintain that your beliefs are the only true ones after being exposed to 10 others that are equally implausible, with no empirical evidence for choosing one over the other.
1EqualityUSA
Dear B, As for choosing one over the other, I suppose it would be the one that was like no other.
Keith in SF
Why do people think if they keep repeating “In my opinion” (ie Ms Ladyfingers – Carrie Prejean) that people shouldn’t be offended when they make up things to support their lies? I wonder where he was in Texas, my family is all over West Texas, and they’ve always claimed that everyone having guns controls the crime rate. Maybe he’ll grow out of this…
B
In No. 40, 1EqualityUSA wrote, “Dear B, As for choosing one over the other, I suppose it would be the one that was like no other.”
If so, that rules out Christianity as the choice as it is an offshoot of Judaism and Islam is an offshoot of Christianity
(as religions evolve – bifurcate, actually – they sometimes promote or demote various deities, demigods, prophets, or whatever). For Muhammad to be the last prophet in the sequence, they had to demote Jesus from the “son of God” to a prophet/messenger, but Jesus probably wouldn’t be mentioned at all in Islamic texts if Islam didn’t evolve from Christianity in some way. A lot of variant Christian beliefs were stamped out as they killed off the heretics, but Islam’s geographic center was far enough from Rome so that “heretical” variations on Christianity had a reasonable chance of surviving.
scott ny'er
read No. 30 · rayg’s post and click on the links. Something is fishy here. This dude might just be a great actor and pulling a fast one.
gay-kinda-sorta
Goddamnit I cannot listen to his voice. I feel sorry for this kid, he doesn’t have a chance of ever not being fucked beyond repair. Poor kid’s gonna go his whole life full of hate and prejudice.
rayg
scott ny’er
after talking to a few friends who’ve run across this before, i’m positive he’s a fake and just messing with people.
naghanenu
For once I admire how Queerty handled this. A
The kid seems really convinced. This is why we need more programs that expose gay families to children.
Whatever his families beliefs there is something called tolerance
Lukas P.
Clearly this baby-preacher isn’t underfed! A steady diet of toaster pastries and hatred does not lead to popularity or good self-esteem. [sigh]
Kids who repeat and recycle what they hear from A-dolts only understand a small percentage of what they’re saying. I bet that this kid couldn’t come close to defining most of the biblical words he’s spouting, nor explain much about why gays/lesbians want to marry in the first place. And what we do once married….
Where are the parents in all this? Egging him on? ¿Ignoring him, feeding him lines, unaware of what he’s doing or just hoping that he doesn’t get slammed with hate mail??
If mom and dad are profiting financially from any of this, someone please alert the authorities. Kid will need an agent and an att’y. And a shrink.
kademonster
this pretty much just makes me really sad.
Mike in Asheville, nee "in Brooklyn"
Ban me if you want, but this kid is a shit.
And per your question: What’s More Frightening: Middle-Aged Religious Bigots, Or Grade School Religious Bigots?
The answer is the Grade School Religious Bigots, because the Middle-Aged Religious Bigots die off more quickly. (For Rush Limbaugh, the devil is calling.)
Had I, at that age, produced such stupid hate-filled dribble, there would have been a bar of soap and a corner waiting for me. Certainly I would have gotten a terrible case of “soap poisoning.”
Do they still make Life Buoy? And where do I send a case of it?
Travis
His parents should be charged with child abuse.
sal(the original)
@ terrwill,umm look at the celebrity news section.ivanka went off on some snot nose kids on a flight,funny stuff
LARP
What that boy needs is a good sound bare bottom spanking!
Brian NJ
These parents should be in jail for exposing their kid to the kind of negativity that christianu2ber1997 got. He may be a closet-case victim, and needs help. Sick.
Lukas P.
IVANA = Donald Trump’s ex wife
IVANKA = Donald Trump’s daughter
Got that clear?
THIS LOUD MOUTH KID IN THE VIDEO = Mouthpiece for bigots, unrelated to Trump.
Richard in DC
Take a look at this Gem of a video if you have a chance… http://www.youtube.com/user/joshchristian100#p/a/u/1/72RqwWWt9Gg
scott ny'er
Peeps!!!
HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!!
HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!!
HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!! HE’S A FAKE!!!
the post by rayg has links that expose him. (post No. 30)
that said, I do believe kids like this exist and are brainwashed by religion.
gregg
I found out about this first from that “Stop calling me a homo” guy’s youtube account http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristianU2ubur#p/u/6/YPKDEkTUiCg
It also says he’s from Topeka, KA home of the God Hates Fags cult, the plot thickens.
scott ny'er
if u listen closely, his irish accent comes thru. He does a brilliant American accent tho.
kudos to rayg and his friends for their detective work. 🙂
scott ny'er
LOL. I forgot about the stop calling me a homo vid. I think that’s the one Queerty is referring to and a bunch of Queerty posters made funny comments.
back to this dude. Now that I think he’s a fake American and really Irish, I’ve got to say he was entertaining if nothing else.
David S.
@Keith in SF
“they’ve always claimed that everyone having guns controls the crime rate. Maybe he’ll grow out of this…”
You treat support for gun ownership as an opinion to “grow out of,” but you’re the one who comes off as smug and ill-informed. The effects of gun control and gun ownership rates on crime — both violent and not — are widely debated. There are studies that back up what your relatives think, as well as ones that contradict it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_arguments_of_gun_politics_in_the_United_States#Relationships_between_crime.2C_violence.2C_and_gun_ownership
B
No. 57 · gregg wrote, “I found out about this first from that
Stop calling me a homo’ guy’s youtube account http://www.youtube.com/user/Ch…..PKDEkTUiCg
It also says he’s from Topeka, KA home of the God Hates Fags cult, the plot thickens.”
He seems a bit young for the dialog he is using. Maybe he has an older brother who is writing some of it for him.
1EqualityUSA
You can’t fake autonomic responses. He must believe in what he is doing.
Tim in SF
The scariest thing in this blog post is not this kid, it’s how far down the shitter this blog has gone. In one paragraph you have half a dozen grammatical errors and another half dozen errors of punctuation.
Hire a fucking editor.
Eric
When he grows up and makes it into high school, I hope he gets a hardon in the locker room.
Brad
Did a search of the net to find out how much of an effect he has had on enraging people after his account was suspended and stumbled on this site.
Thought you guys might find this vid of some trolling people did on him; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoi1rIl9oQ
he admits to once being gay, his pastor “helped” him, and he still gets the urge to masturbate over men.
This kid has lost all his identity and is a long lost dangerous cause.
allie
its best to eliminate them before they grow up