On the front page of Erick Erickson’s RedState is an article attacking Michael Sam for proposing at the Vatican.
Erick Erickson is a Fox News contributor, the founder of the Tea Party website RedState, and “the most powerful conservative” in America today, according to the New Republic.
Erickson’s RedState doesn’t have a large audience – Internet traffic measuring site Quantcast puts his last month of traffic at less than a half million people – but the site is definitely influential among conservatives and the Tea Party.
So when Erickson runs a front page story titled “Michael Sam trolls Christians,” of course it’s going to attract attention.
Here’s how its pseudonymous author begins the invective:
“After being cut from any number of professional football teams, Michael Sam, who as far was we can tell is famous for buggery and not making an NFL squad, decided to take up a new career path trolling Christians. He and his [whatever you what to call it] went to the Vatican where Michael Sam proposed that the two of them pretend like they are married. His proposal was accepted.”
In reality, Michael Sam proposed to his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, with the Vatican in the background, and that’s apparently offensive to some people.
Calling Sam “a pathetic, self absorbed creature,” and an “Internet troll,” streiff, the author, says Sam went “to the Vatican to demand his participation trophy.”
“What militant, in-your-face homosexuals like Sam want,” he continues, “is not acceptance but mandatory celebration of their sexual deviance and bizarre lifestyle choice.”
And he concludes, “If Sam wanted to show real courage he and his pencil neck boy toy could have hopped a flight to Nineveh, Iraq, where he could have shown some real courage by standing up to people who really do care about homosexuality” [sic]
As NCRM reported last week, ISIS executed two men accused of being gay by throwing them off the rooftop of a tall building to their death.
Erickson presents himself as a good, God-fearing Christian, but hosting hate speech like this certainly must be beyond acceptable to any good Christian. It seems unlikely that any Christian leader would endorse it.
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