Lieutenant Governor of Texas is on Fox News right now decrying "hatred" of Christians & Christianity

[brettdale]

Hes naming movies where Christians get attacked, hes blaming twitter and social media, he
is saying Christians are being persecuted in America, he is saying there is too much hate for
Christians.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The shooter is reported to have taught Sunday School.

I think we'll find out that religion had nothing to do with this.

[Stallion]

16. Christian on Christian Crime in a Real Problem

hope Fox will cover it

[Ilsa]

20. and kids in Vacation Bible School. nt

[malaise]

2. Because nothing says I hate Christians more than teaching bible studies

They are demented

[Iliyah]

3. So far and from I've read, the shooter is a Christian

Cry victim on fake news. These people are paranoid.

[chowder66]

4. Anything but the guns! nt

[Glorfindel]

5. Ho-hum...it's Texas. What else would you expect the creep to say?

I'd bet dollars to donuts that he's talking about Protestants only. It's perfectly OK to attack Roman and Orthodox Catholics - and Mormons. Those are not "real" Christians.

[nature-lover]

12. His signature issue was the transgender bathroom ban.

[kydo]

6. Well first, the dude is delusional.

Second: Christians in the USA are not in any way shape or form persecuted. They are the fucking majority for Christ's sake. No pun intended.

Third: Sadly far too many Christians these days are hateful. So maybe that's why people tend to not like them much. That and their jokes suck.

[lindysalsagal]

7. Well, if they keep gunz, then, they give us a reason to hate them, don't they?

Oh, yeah: And take health care away, and rip-off schools, and fail to feed the poor....

[milestogo]

8. Lets decry people who commit mass murder instead.

[nature-lover]

9. Doesn't get separation of church and state either

We Texans are used to his sanctimonious outbursts.

[Hoyt]

10. Apparently shooter is a so-called Christian, gun lover, x-military.

That's a violent combination. I suspect we'll find he was right wing as well, but don't know for certain. He's from an area that heavily supports GOPers and Trump. I hope they find why he chose a church.

[Va Lefty]

11. They gotta frame the narrative

"Don't talk about guns. It's hatred of white, christians!"

[hatrack]

13. Dude was (at least per news coverage) a gun-humping Sunday School teacher . . .

But don't let reality intrude in your little persecution fantasy, you precious victim you.

[dbackjon]

14. Fuck off asswipe

I thought we weren't supposed to politicize this crap?

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Right on schedule

Some Christians never EVER lose the opportunity to play the victim. In this case, even Greg Abbott should understand that a guy who taught Bible school is probably a Christian, but it was just too tempting for him to whine about how persecuted Christians are.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

17. god, protect me from your followers.

[anneboleyn]

18. I was scolded for mentioning Fox's insanity the other day -- Fox is trying to link this tragedy

to the Fort Hood shooting as that happened today eight years ago (and Muslims!). I was afraid to post this since I was criticized for bringing up insanity that Fox was trying to argue about a different issue so I was hesitating to bring this up and condemn them for their blatant fuckery.

I am glad that you posted this as this is a terrible tragedy, and Fox is the WORST when it comes to instant politicizing of an incident like this -- the killer is white and ex-military and taught bible school but yeah this about Fort Hood (wtf -- anything to link it to Muslims -- total insanity) and "hatred of Christians." Guy at the Texas news conference just said "media, don't say this shouldn't happen because it does happen" (what does that mean?). He was law enforcement.

[Downtown Hound]

19. I guess this is just like how they tried to blame Vegas on Antifa

When the facts come out, I'm sure the truth will be quite different here too. Not that I expect any of these asshats to apologize.

As for the hate for Christians, they have brought most of it on themselves.

[roamer65]

21. Oh, poor, poor Christians.

STFU, Dan Patrick you asshole.

[JHB]

22. What did he have to say when a Unitarian church was shot up by a RW nutjob back in 2008?

That guy hated liberals, and went to a church to kill them.

Was that about "hating Christians" too?

[Paladin]

23. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is a theocratic psycho and Limbaugh wannabe.

Don't think for a moment that he represents anything close to all Texans.