Christian hate-preacher claims no gay people "should be able to breathe air"
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Christian hate-preacher claims no gay people "should be able to breathe air"
It's the latest homophobic screed from New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preacher Jason Graber
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In a disturbing livestream on Sunday, Christian hate-preacher Jason Graber claimed that allowing gay men to donate blood would “kill a lot of people” (which is blatantly untrue). He went on to say that gay men were “AIDS dispensers” and that “no f****t should be able to breathe air.”
Graber is a preacher at Sure Foundation Baptist Church, a New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (New IFB) church in Spokane, Washington. He has previously called for the execution of gay people and believes teachers who allegedly “groom” students should be “taken out and shot in the back of the head.”
On Sunday, his anti-gay screed was actually a tangent during a discussion about leadership qualities.
Graber said good leaders needed humility and that Donald Trump lacked it. For example, during his presidency, the Food & Drug Administration independently decided to reduce the ban on gay men donating blood to make sure there was enough available during the COVID crisis. Previously, gay or bisexual men could not donate blood if they had sex during the previous 12 months; the FDA reduced that number to 3 months. (They eliminated the delay almost entirely last week.) Almost immediately after the FDA’s decision, Trump distanced himself from it.
Graber didn’t realize that, nor was he aware that all donated blood is screened for safety. There’s no reason to pretend the easing of the rules—in 2020 or now—ever compromised public safety.
And yet he allowed his ignorance to justify a vile rant against gay people. The clip begins around the 41:45 mark:
… For President Trump, in order for him to… be a good president, he would have to realize that he made a bunch of mistakes… He'd have to realize that… one of the big one of the big mistakes I think he made was… they they were having a campaign to make it so that f****ts could donate blood, okay? That's a stupid thing to do!… You're gonna kill a lot of people by doing that. I mean, we call them AIDS dispensers for a reason… No f****t should be able to donate blood, but then again, no f****t should be able to breathe air.
His words were met with enthusiasm from the tiny crowd in the room.
As I’ve written many times before, the size of this guy’s church is irrelevant. What matters to New IFB preachers like Jonathan Shelley and Steven Anderson is their social media reach, which allows them to spread their hate-filled, faith-based messages to a much wider audience than they could ever get otherwise.
They’ve used that amplification to celebrate the deaths of murdered LGBTQ people, call on the government to execute homosexuals with a firing squad, spread Holocaust denialism, promote misogyny, and more. Anderson’s sermons have been so outrageously awful that 34 countries won’t allow him to step foot within their borders. In 2020, he began spreading misinformation about COVID, even urging his congregation (and YouTube viewers) to avoid any eventual vaccines.
Graber hasn’t quite achieved the notoriety of his peers. Still, he says Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be a judge, women shouldn’t be allowed to vote, and that abortion doctors should be executed.
All of that, he claims, is what the Bible commands.
As of this writing, his church’s YouTube channel is still up and active.
So are channels (and alternative channels) run by all of the other New IFB preachers.
Christian hate-preacher claims no gay people "should be able to breathe air"
"he says Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t be a judge...that, he claims, is what the Bible commands."
Uh, Jason, darling, there is a female judge in your bible. He name is Deborah. I realize that jerks like you only use the bible to reinforce your own opinions and prejudices, but you might have a shot at at least some semblance of surface consistency.
I agree with you that she shouldn't be a judge, Jase, but the bible and the fact that she's a woman aren't really the issues. IOW, buy a fucking clue.
I live in the western part of Washington. Graber is an example of just why Spokane is KEPT in the Jesusland eastern part of the state.
Such violent rhetoric from this "man." Why on Earth is he not getting a knock on his door and being charged as a religious terrorist? Oh, that's right. Christians are so very persecuted here in the US. :S