'Values Voters' Laugh About Nazi-Era Persecution Of Gays, Get Bad History Lesson From Glenn Beck

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

You know who else would laugh at that?

Hitler.



Glenn Beck devoted his address at the Values Voter Summit this weekend to the Obama administration’s supposed war on the religious freedom of Christians, a concept he illustrated with a collection of Nazi concentration camp badges. Beck suggested that those attending the summit would have been forced to wear a purple triangle patch.

Conference attendees erupted in laughter after an audience member incorrectly claimed that the purple triangle, rather than the pink triangle, was used by the Nazis to mark gay people

Seeing that Beck was making his remarks at an event sponsored by an organization — the American Family Association — that believes that gay people were behind the Holocaust, it is curious that summit participants found it so funny that the Nazis tried to exterminate gay people.

Beck’s main contention that the Nazis went after people who “knew anything about the Bible” is also incorrect.

The purple triangle Beck held up was actually used to mark Jehovah’s Witnesses.

more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/values-voters-laugh-about-gay-persecution-get-bad-history-lesson-glenn-beck

Also appearing in the speaker lineup with Beck were GOP presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Ayn Rand Paul

[NuclearDem]

1. Lewis Black has never been more right about that turd.

Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette's.

[Erose999]

2. I like his little ear piece microphone. He'll need that motherfucker for taking orders at Arby's

when his time as a useful idiot to the 1% has ran its course.

And no, Glenn, I don't want to upsize my combo, you fucking worthless shitbird.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. He's borrowed a lot of ideas from televangelists

I love how this believer in Planet Kolob tries to pretend to be one of the evangelicals when he talk to them, with all of his talk about "the scriptures," and zero mention of Joseph Smith and his racist church of magic plates

[Erose999]

5. The supported Mitt Romney too. Its crazy that fundies will support people the have deep theological

opposition to on one hand and with the other hand they'll throw poop at people like the Obamas and the rev's Sharpton and Jackson who believe the same basic principles, just not as ehh... fervently.

Racism (conscious or unconscious) has a lot to do with it, as well as rural/urban divide, to a lesser extent.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Yes, the AFA, and their affiliated "science" luminaries like Judith Reisman-

Have promoted this bigoted garbage about gays being responsible for the Holocaust.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Judith_Reisman