"New America": Avowed white nationalist, LGBTQ-hater pushes vision to Catholic right

[marmar]

"New America": Avowed white nationalist, LGBTQ-hater pushes vision to Catholic right
Catholic fringe group acclaims "Christian fascist" who led ugly anti-Pride protests as a "saint in the making"

By KATHRYN JOYCE
Investigative Reporter
PUBLISHED AUGUST 24, 2022 6:30AM


(Salon) On Aug. 18, the Catholic-right media outlet Church Militant featured a half-hour interview with John Doyle, a young YouTube streamer who drew national attention this June for helping to lead a uniquely ugly protest against an LGBTQ Pride Month event in downtown Dallas. The 22-year-old Doyle, whose YouTube show "Heck Off, Commie!" has an audience of some 300,000 subscribers, has openly referred to himself as both a "white nationalist" and "Christian fascist." But to his interviewer, Church Militant founder and president Michael Voris, he was a "saint in the making." And as the conversation brought Doyle's message to a new and different audience, the alignment of right-wing Catholicism with some of the most extreme voices on today's far right only grew.

For years, Church Militant has served as an angry gadfly within the world of right-wing Catholicism, objecting not just to moderate and progressive Catholics and Pope Francis, whom the outlet sees as a heretical liberal, but also to more mainstream conservative Catholic outlets it views as insufficiently critical of church hierarchy.

For his part, Doyle is a prominent member of online far-right youth circles aligned with the white nationalist America First/groyper movement and its leader, the gleefully racist and antisemitic livestreamer Nick Fuentes, with whom Doyle led a "Stop the Steal" protest in 2020. On his livestream show, where Doyle promotes an authoritarian form of Christian nationalism, he has attacked figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., claiming that "being assassinated was like the best thing that could happen to him" and said that "the destruction of white racism is ultimately code for the destruction of American society." Last October, Doyle taunted students at the University of North Texas by asking, "What is wrong with Christian fascism?" and warning that "when we and all my friends take power, bad things are going to happen to you."

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During that event, as local activists' and filmmakers' videos document, anti-LGBTQ protesters screamed at parents and their children, followed some families and performers back to their cars, called attendees and counterprotesters "faggots" and "groomers" and even taunted police there to separate the camps by saying, "Your dad probably dragged you to a lot of gay bars."

Doyle also suggested, without evidence, that the parents who had brought their children to the event were all "single mothers" who had "been failed by the men around them and they're taking it out on the children. You know, oftentimes these are little boys who are being brought to these events by their single mothers, and you have to assume that the single mother is basically viewing that boy as like his father, and getting revenge on him by destroying them." ...............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/24/new-america-avowed-nationalist-lgbtq-hater-pushes-vision-to-catholic-right/

[llashram]

1. white Christian

Nationalists are no better than those saluting Hitler. A white nationalist fascist theocrat is Christian in name only. Christ is probably shedding tears at the lie these people are to who Christ is. He preached love, not hate while standing in a crowd screaming at other human beings with venomous hate spewing from their hypocritical mouths. "You who are without sin cast the first stone"...

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2. These types would readily crucify Jesus Christ himself if they ever encountered him

They will manipulate and distort their own religion to support their fascist beliefs

[Ray Bruns]

3. Splitter!

My apologies to “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

4. Does young Doyle realize

that to become a saint, he must first be martyred ? We can help him along with that . . .