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And he isn't trying to BE funny!
Anyone here ever see "Brother Jed" in action?
#1160: George Edward Smock
A.k.a. Brother Jed
Brother Jed is a wingnut Methodist evangelist who travels around the US to evangelize at college campuses. He is most famous for his anti-gay rants including his Its not Ok to be gay song (its here, if you must) racism (The only thing Mexicans contribute to society is burritos and Jewish people are only good at making bagels and running banks), and for being extremely confrontational about it. Jed also denounces the evils of kissing, bikinis, masturbation (a masturbator today is a homosexual tomorrow), sex (I dont know how the whorehouses in this town stay open all of you sorority girls are giving it away for free!), feminism, liberalism, and to make sure he stays up to date with the concerns of youths rock n roll.
In short, Brother Jed stands for and flaunts everything that is objectionable in fundie ideology, which is why he is liked by freethinker communities and disliked by other fundie groups.
http://americanloons.blogspot.ca/2014/09/1160-george-edward-smock.html
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)woodsprite
(11,916 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)He is every bit as caustic as Phelps. I saw him on campus. Cray Zee! He draws a large crowd of hecklers.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Whether they were trained by him or not, they're his disciples in spirit. One of them was my Friday afternoon entertainment one semester as the last class I had got out at 1:30. He was a very strange man who while successful at riling people up was also very easy to piss off as well as opposed to others who tend to lean more toward the smugly unflappable side. Some of the things he claimed included how Clinton was after him (this was the 90s), how he did not sin anymore, and how he could walk on water if it was necessary. He soon stopped making that claim when I started a chant of, "Throw him in the pond!"
TlalocW
shenmue
(38,506 posts)he was a regular in front of the Humanities building. What a clown.
underpants
(182,829 posts)Am I missing something?