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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Wed May 28, 2014, 11:43 PM May 2014

Family Research Council's Ken Blackwell Links Isla Vista Massacre To Gay Marriage Laws

There are times when there simply aren't enough words in the English language to describe my outrage and disgust. This is one of them.

Family Research Council's Ken Blackwell Links Isla Vista Massacre To Gay Marriage Laws
The Huffington Post
By Curtis M. Wong
Posted: 05/28/2014

The Family Research Council's (FRC) Ken Blackwell has sparked the ire of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates by linking the deadly Isla Vista attacks near the University of California Santa Barbara's campus to the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage.

As Right Wing Watch First reported, the FRC's senior fellow told Tony Perkins (the organization's president) that the violence were the result of “the crumbling of the moral foundation of the country” as well as the "attack on natural marriage and the family” in a "Washington Watch" broadcast.

He added, "The teaching of sexual roles and the development of human sexuality in our culture ... when these fundamental institutions are attacked and destroyed and weakened and abandoned, you get what we are now seeing, and that is a flood of disturbed people in our society." ...

... It isn't the first time that a conservative pundit has made headlines for linking the LGBT community to a tragic event or natural disaster. In 2012, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson suggested that the massacre at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School was the result of America turning its back on God.... MORE at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/isla-vista-shooting-gay-marriage-_n_5405028.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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Family Research Council's Ken Blackwell Links Isla Vista Massacre To Gay Marriage Laws (Original Post) theHandpuppet May 2014 OP
FRC: "New evidence suggests dinosaurs getting gay married caused asteroid to hit Earth!" ck4829 May 2014 #1
Yes, there's apparently nothing that can't be blamed on gays theHandpuppet May 2014 #3
So, is Mr. Blackwell saying . . . ? gratuitous May 2014 #2
Aren't Inkwell's 15 minutes of fame over yet ? eppur_se_muova May 2014 #4

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
3. Yes, there's apparently nothing that can't be blamed on gays
Wed May 28, 2014, 11:51 PM
May 2014

So-called Christians like Blackwell, Dobson et al are hideous, disgusting pieces of human filth.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. So, is Mr. Blackwell saying . . . ?
Wed May 28, 2014, 11:47 PM
May 2014

Is Ken Blackwell saying that Elliott Rodgers was an instrument of God? I hear the good folks at Westboro Baptist Church are looking for new members. Maybe he should look into that. Birds of a feather and all that.

eppur_se_muova

(36,258 posts)
4. Aren't Inkwell's 15 minutes of fame over yet ?
Wed May 28, 2014, 11:55 PM
May 2014

After helping GWB get the Ohio vote "by any means necessary", hasn't he accomplished enough to be proud of ?

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