Alan Keyes says SC shooting was "gay rights terrorism?"

[Archae]

And Keyes wonders why he lost so badly to Barack Obama...

Alan Keyes Suggests Charleston Massacre Was Gay Rights Terrorism

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 6/24/2015 11:45 am

Many right-wing politicians and pundits are still in denial that the Emmanuel AME church massacre was about racial hatred, despite the statements of witnesses and the shooter’s own manifesto. Take, for example, Alan Keyes, who told Newsmax host Steve Malzberg yesterday that he does not believe that the shooting was racially motivated but was actually an incident of pro-gay, anti-Christian violence. Keyes, a Republican politician and conservative activist, said that he has personally experienced more animosity due to his religious beliefs than to his race, so concluded that the massacre must have been caused by religious hostility and thus is the latest example of the supposed “persecution” of Christians in America. He said that the “storyline” focusing on the racial component of the Charleston shooting was “fabricated without much regard for the facts,” dismissing people who seek to “play the race card” and “play games with race” in wake of the shooting. Keyes then suggested that Dylann Roof, the shooter who left behind an extensive white supremacist manifesto, might actually have been committing a terrorist act on behalf of gay rights.

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[virtualobserver]

1. what kind of a life does a person have to have.......

in order to have that kind of thought pattern in their brain, and then be willing to say that to anyone, much less a "journalist".

[Archae]

3. This will do it...

Hit in the head too many times with a big family Bible.

[0rganism]

2. uncle ruckus strikes again!

[HassleCat]

4. Cartoonish

Keyes does seem like a caricature, one of those black guys they get to dress up for confederate parades and tell people how being a slave to the plantation owner was better than being a slave to the Democrat welfare state... blah blah, blah... I can never tell whether or not such people believe in what they're saying, or if they just need the attention. Do professional wrestlers really hate each other? Does a magician really cut his assistant in half?

[whatthehey]

5. Well that makes "you rape our women" line a bit tough to explain eh?

[underpants]

9. ^^^^Spot on^^^^

[calimary]

6. Well, what does THAT tell you.

Tip-off #1: the ding-dong damn-near irrational statement itself.
Tip-off #2: the ding-dong speaker who uttered this.

"Gay rights terrorism"? Are you freakin' KIDDING me? Ohforcryingoutloud.

[Orsino]

7. Therefore it wasn't.

Easy.

[AgingAmerican]

8. Some Republicans are so far under the bubble

That they are in an alternative universe.

[underpants]

10. So Alan you are, let's say, 1/2 a block away from someone...

The see you and can tell that you are a Christain, right?

They come and harass you, in a country where 70% identify as Christian, not because of your race but because they could tell you are a Christain and that's the sort of thing they do with their day.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Keyes is hallucinating again!