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The South Carolina GOP candidate who made headlines Monday for referring to gay people as “Gremlins” is back, this time seemingly threatening to defend his district against them – with a cannon.

(Watch the entire video above or on Facebook, or skip ahead to the 3:33 mark to see Culler’s remarks about gay people.)

Yesterday, the news was filled with headlines about the Republican congressional nominee for South Carolina’s 6th district calling gay people “Gremlins.” Anthony Culler found a cheap way, just weeks before the election, to get some attention by issuing an anti-gay, homophobic, hate-filled rant that said gay people are “bullies,” “self-destructive,” “have a strong tendency for substance abuse,” and are a “scourge on society.”

As The New Civil Rights Movement and others reported, Culler, who is attempting to unseat Democratic Congressman James Clyburn, wrote a lengthy rant on Facebook. 

An excerpt:

Same-sex couples that seek to destroy our way of life and the institution of marriage are NOT cute and cuddly but rather (for those of you that are old enough to remember the movie), Gremlins that will only destroy our way of life.

Same-sex “marriage” is a pestilence that has descended on our society, against our will, by those in the courts and government that do not value the traditional family. These people, like my opponent SC-6 Congressman Jim Clyburn who OPENLY supports same-sex “marriage,” seek to destroy the traditional family and the values we cherish.

Late last night, Culler posted to Facebook a seven-minute video in which he seems to threaten to protect South Carolina residents of the 6th district from “gremlins” – with a cannon.

“And another thing you can count on is no matter how many ‘gremlins’ there are across this country,” Culler says, pausing as he pats the large black cannon he’s been leaning on, “we here in the 6th district, stand against it.”

To be clear, in his Facebook rant, Culler specifically referred to same-sex couples as “Gremlins.” 

And in last night’s Facebook post beneath the video Culler writes,

“Gremlins” and pro-abortion activists need to be concerned…there’s a Christian running in South Carolina that you can’t intimidate or stop.

So, the GOP nominee is not able to claim, in case he tries, that he was speaking about same-sex marriage. He very clearly seems to be referring to same-sex couples.

There is nothing remotely “Christian” about threatening people and using a cannon as a part of that threat. There is nothing remotely “Christian” about telling a segment of your potential constituency that they “need to be concerned,” possibly for their lives, because they’re gay, or in a same-sex marriage.

Culler, in last night’s video, refers to the South Carolina 6th district as “the Black district” and a “Christian district.” In the SC-6, there live about 670,000 people. There are same-sex couples in the SC-6. There are people who are parts of their families, who are their mothers, fathers, son, daughters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces. Many of them probably do not relish the idea of a vigilante crusading congressman threatening their loved ones with a cannon.

 

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