This is a textbook example of just how crazy and/or shameless wingnuts are. Here we have gun-loving Larry Pratt prattling on about “sexual perversion” when he’s got a face that just screams “closet queen” (amirite?) and a so-called talk show shouter who says Obama is gay-married to a Muslim. Note the phallic nature of the guns these boys worship — a little psychological displacement, maybe? A little wishful thinking? What a pathetic clown show. Via Right Wing Watch:
In an interview last month, after explaining why politicians should fear getting shot, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt and talk show host Stan Solomon speculated that liberals in the U.S. are teaming up with Muslim radicals in order to destroy America.
Pratt lamented that the “Democrat [sic] party” believes that “everything is to be reduced to race or some sort of sexual perversion,” while Solomon was flummoxed as to why “they can’t help themselves but reach out and hug the Muslims and the Muslims, if they’d ever get into the position, would kill half the Democrats.”
The two then talked about how they have been preparing for the prospect of Sharia law governing America and that unlike defenseless liberals, they will be ready to fight back. Pratt reasoned that “the liberals are so consumed with hatred of our country that when they see somebody like a Muslim who hates America as well, they can’t get it through their head what you just pointed out, that they’re next. If they get those folks in power, if they pull off what they’re trying to do, they’re toast. You and I can probably protect ourselves because we’ve been preparing for that.” Solomon then suggested that President Obama is Muslim who is married to a man:
“A homosexual Muslim married to man, I can’t imagine how Barack Obama would do if he ever ventured into a Muslim country and didn’t have 800,000 armed people around him.”
(We aren’t sure if Solomon is referring to the far-right conspiracy theory that Obama is secretly married to his male Pakistani college roommate or the one that Michelle Obama is a transgender woman.)
All they think about is sex with men! Honestly, you’d think their fans would notice.
No, speaking as a gay man, there is nothing particularly gay about either one of them, and I find it a tired old cliche (used by way too many gays and straights alike) to call out these guys as closet cases. It’s not 1980 anymore, most closet cases don’t feel the need to act homophobic like they used to (and they also probably know saying homophobic things will get them called out as gay by Susie and company, which they don’t want).
My professional opinion, though, is that both of these guys are what is known in gay circles as Princess Tiny Meat. Or as Lanie Kazan and Divine said in Lust in the Dust, “always the little guy has got something to prove”. I hope I’m not being too subtle.
guest, so what you’re saying is that these two fools have real small dicks and so go out and buy fancy haberdashery and flashy cars? Oh, and shoot their ignorant mouths off because the Bible told them so?
I’ve got to side with Susie here – the louder they pontificate against homosexuality, the more it looks like self-loathing or something is going on there. I totally disagree that everyone is comfortable coming out these days – how could anyone stuck in Jesusland USA possibly be comfortable coming out unless they’re willing to run away to the city and start over? And let’s not forget that millions of homosexuals still marry opposite-sex partners for appearances, or join the Catholic church priesthood for the same reason.
Hypocrisy is a standard character trait of a lot of homophobic and “family values” obsessed conservatives. For example look at the dramatic increase in business for prostitutes during Republican conventions. Same principle applies there.
“And let’s not forget that millions of homosexuals still marry opposite-sex partners for appearances, or join the Catholic church priesthood for the same reason.”
Please leave Cardinal “I-just-love-wearing-pastel-colore-gowns-with-30-foot-long-embroidered-silk-trains” Raymond Burke out of this.
First off, labeling all of your icky hetero homophobic freaks as closet gays is very insulting to gays, and very similar to the arguments these two are making (they only pretend to care about gays to the extent that Islamofascists are killing them, and only so they can throw that in the faces of liberals as an example of some sort of hypocrisy). Sorry, these freaks are on team hetero until proven otherwise.
And second of all, I don’t care how homophobic someone sounds, that is no substitute for gaydar. These guys are not the butchest in the world, especially not the older one, and a lot of their bitterness and anger undoubtedly arises from their lack of sexual attractiveness, the older guy’s lack of testosterone (they remind most of the gamergate freaks), and also what I assume must be small penises (I’m not a size queen, but let’s face facts, even if they are so big as to be impractical, almost everyone is impressed by a big one. But I have peeked in enough showers and nudist beaches, and put enough penis sizes and shapes together with enough facial and body types to make an unscientific guess that these guys are not packing much heat below the belt).