Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake airs an ad featuring a homophobic and extremist pastor.

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SCOOP: @KariLake, the GOP candidate for governor in Arizona, has aired an ad featuring a homophobic and Islamophobic pastor whose church calls for the "submission" of women in their families.

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Arizona GOP candidate Kari Lake airs an ad featuring a homophobic and extremist pastor.
He heads a church that calls for the "submission" of wives.
6:50 AM · Oct 25, 2022

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/arizona-gop-candidate-kari-lake-airs-an-ad-featuring-a-homophobic-and-extremist-pastor/


It’s an ordinary and straightforward negative ad. A local businessman in Phoenix named Justin Erickson, who says he’s a husband and father of five children, earnestly complains that his family and his employees are “overwhelmed” by rising costs, and, as ominous music plays in the background, he declares defiantly that he can’t vote for Katie Hobbs, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Arizona, because she’s “too liberal to be governor.” The spot was paid for by the Yuma County Republican Central Committee and authorized by Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed election denialist who is the GOP candidate for governor. It covers the Republican basics: A seemingly conscientious and decent owner of a small business—and his family—is dealing with economic hardship and feels endangered by those liberal Democrats. But the ad leaves out important information: Erickson is not merely a local business owner concerned with inflation; he is a homophobic and Islamophobic pastor.

Erickson runs a company called Hard Wired Coaching that conducts personality tests. His bio states he is “certified to coach and consult using the most accurate and practical psychometric on the planet.” He is also a pastor at the fundamentalist Desert Bible Church in Scottsdale. As the leader of that entity, he has preached slanderous anti-gay falsehoods, has declared Islam a “Satanic” force, and has advocated for “the submission” of women within their households.

In a 2014 sermon on homosexuality, Erickson proclaimed that “fifty percent of the homosexual LGBT-Now-Q community, 50 percent have AIDS. One in twenty are child molesters, on the sex offender registry.” These numbers were way off. In 2014, Gallup found that about 9 million Americans self-identified as LGBT, and a different study concluded that about 700,000 gay and bisexual men were living with HIV, far fewer than half the gay and lesbian population. Moreover, Erickson’s stats about LGBT child molesters were dangerously false. Under his math, about half of the 800,000 or so people on sex offender registries would have to be gay, yet according to one study, heterosexual pedophiles outnumbers homosexual pedophiles by 11-to-1. He was recklessly and inaccurately depicting LGBT people as threats to children.

In that sermon, Erickson also claimed, “80 percent of homosexuals have STDs, and—how sad is this?—2 percent, 2 percent of homosexuals in the LGBT community make it to the age of 65. The average lifespan for an average person in our world is 75. Those is the LGBT community, most of them don’t make it to 39.” There seems to be no scientific basis for these claims. Though HIV still presented a health risk for gay men, the American Journal of Public Health in 2016 noted, “no general population-based survey, to the best of our knowledge, has examined whether self-identified lesbians, bisexuals, or gay men are more likely than are heterosexuals to experience early mortality.”

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[asiliveandbreathe]

1. she is the Tokyo Rose of WW2..or Hanoi Hanna during the Viet Nam War..

Disgusting, evil,

[Walleye]

2. This is a woman who has benefited all her life from feminism. And shits on us every chance she gets

Madeleine Albright’s special place in hell must be getting pretty crowded

[PatSeg]

5. It would seem so

Like so many ambitious opportunists, Lake will do or say anything to get what she wants. She doesn't care who she steps on in the process. The republican party is a good fit for her.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. The Republican party is the gathering place of sexual offenders

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/17/2092543/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-31

[FloridaBlues]

4. Ads like this will fire up Dems and Indies to vote! It will have a reverse effect

[keithbvadu2]

6. "submission"? Yet she refuses to take her husband's name?

"submission"? Yet she refuses to take her husband's name?

and wants a leadership role over him.

[kwolf68]

7. I remember 1992

The Rep Convention was all about social issues, the moral majority came out and ranted and raved, the American people said fuck that shit and they were done.

They have come back with a no holds barred drive toward creating a Christian version of Saudi Arabia, theocracy for the masses. And because of the rigged economy and the lack of truth telling on WHY the economy is in the state it's in, we're lurching strongly toward theocracy. I guess the media figures when the fascist state here is complete they can just work for the Magagovernment.

[Initech]

8. Sounds like another "church" should lose its tax exempt status.