Southern Baptist Pastor Jody Hice, who claims there is a homosexual plot to sodomize children and says the First Amendment does not apply to Islam, just won his GOP primary race, for a seat in the U.S. Congress.
Tea Party Republican Pastor Jody Hice last night won the Georgia 10th district GOP primary. Today he is officially the Republican nominee for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Hice says that gay people have a secret plot to seduce and sodomize America’s sons, thinks same-sex marriage is akin to bestiality and incest, and compares abortion to the genocide waged by Adolph Hitler.
Hice is hoping to replace Georgia Congressman Paul Broun — and Broun has endorsed Hice. Rep. Broun, you’ll remember, became famous for claiming “evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell.”
Pastor Hice says people make the choice to be gay, based on “tendencies,” and compares those tendencies to a tendency to be alcoholic, violent, a drug addict, and a liar. Hice also lambasts those who are opposed to harmful “ex-gay” therapy, saying that as a society, by banning it, “we are enslaving and entrapping potentially hundreds of thousands of individuals in a lifestyle that in reality they are not.”
Hice also says that “you can’t even speak against a person who is a cross-dresser or a man who wants to believe himself to be a woman,” “if we speak against… or look cross-eyed even” at a transgender person, “we are guilty of a hate crime.”
The Atlanta, Georgia pastor is also one of the founding members of Pulpit Freedom Sunday, which seeks to eliminate IRS restrictions on religious organizations, including pastors, and allow them to endorse candidates without losing their tax-exempt status.
Hice also blames the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, where 20 first graders and six adults were slain, on “kicking God out of the public square,” and he’s accused the ACLU of of “moral terrorism.”
And Hice, given that a Democrat in Georgia stands little chance of being elected today, will likely become the next U.S. Congressman for the Georgia 10th district.
Hat tip: Right Wing Watch, MSNBC