Five GOP Candidates To Join Pastor Who Says AIDS Is God's Punishment For Gay People

[KamaAina]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/five-gop-candidates-join-pastor-who-says-aids-god-s-punishment-gay-people

In yet another example of what the Religious Right’s recent focus on “religious liberty” is really about, five Republican presidential candidates are scheduled to speak this weekend at a “religious freedom” event hosted by a conservative pastor who has repeatedly declared that AIDS is God’s punishment for gay people’s “immoral act” and has called for a “class action lawsuit” against homosexuality.

Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee are scheduled to join a “Free to Believe Broadcast” on Saturday, hosted by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Vision America’s Rick Scarborough, two of the most outspoken anti-gay activists in the country.

Both, even while attempting to curtail the rights of LGBT people, have claimed that it is their rights that are being violated by the LGBT movement: Perkins has said that the supposed persecution of anti-gay Christians in America is inspiring ISIS, and Scarborough has declared that he is ready to burn to death in the fight against gay marriage....

Scarborough has declared that AIDS, “a homosexual disease,” is God’s “judgment as a result of an immoral act.” Just last year, he repeated his belief that AIDS is “God’s judgment on a sinful generation, adding that “God would probably give us the cure for AIDS today” if the U.S. stopped supporting gay rights:

Scarborough? Any relation to Morning Joke?

Haitians, IV drug uers, and Charlie Sheen could not be reached for comment.

[Mike Nelson]

1. They want those...

...Republican primary voters.

[joeybee12]

2. And then later claim they weren't aware of such extreme views

Assholes

[busterbrown]

3. And losing the gay and woman vote...10fold no text

[Mendocino]

4. I dated a girl for while,

we broke up. She eventually married a guy who was a hemophiliac. Both are now gone. It boils my blood when these so called "christians" make these kind of pandering statements.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Is God a man or a woman? Or, is he both? and if so, does he hate himself for it?

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Problem with those of you who praise the Pope being critical of those who associate with Tony

Perkins is that the Pope associates with Tony Perkins. Reading materials:

Tony Perkins Will Join Anti-Gay Leaders At Vatican Marriage Meeting
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-will-join-anti-gay-leaders-vatican-marriage-meeting

Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/

[KamaAina]

7. What on Earth does the Pope have to do with this thread?!

Sounds like gratuitous Pope-bashing to me.

[hifiguy]

8. Tony Perkins = human sewage.

Same equation applies to the rest of them.

[Skittles]

9. shame on them

that is disgusting

[11 Bravo]

10. They're Republicans. "Disgusting" is their default position.