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We're going to talk about things gay people have been blamed for.
Low school grades.
In 2013, Sandy Rios, then a host for American Family Radio,
a division of the American Family Association,
stated on air that a reason for low test scores
was schools teaching about homosexuality and radical environmentalism
instead of math and science.
Rios made the comments while reading an email on her show,
Sandy Rios in the Morning.
It's been a while since that happened.
Twelve years.
Just look at the name of the radio.
American Family Radio just screams hey to me anyway.
The American Family Association is on the list
of the most ever-growing gay people in the world.
of hate groups from, what is the name of that group?
Southern Poverty Law Center.
So just full of love and hugs in that organization, right?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, are you surprised?
Not coming from them.
Yeah.
Certainly.
I mean, you could just probably follow them around
and find all kinds of stuff that they say about them.
Yeah.
So, yeah, but that's ridiculous.
In their case,
it's mainly a fundraising thing.
Oh, really?
Every time they want money,
they blame the homosexuals for something.
Well, we're to blame for everything, aren't we?
Mm-hmm.
So, man, there you go.
Yeah, that's, it's silly.
I think most of the stuff on this list is going to be silly,
but it's the way the cookie crumbles.
Mm-hmm.
So, you got anything to say to him about it?
Mm-hmm.
How about earthquakes?
How do we affect earthquakes?
Obviously, this one's true.
Oh, of course.
Every time there's a natural disaster,
someone,
eventually comes out of the woodwork
to blame gay people.
In 2016,
New Zealand pastor Brian Tamaka,
that sounds like an Asian name,
the leader of the Destiny Church,
blamed the country's earthquakes on homosexuality
and other forms of sexual perversion.
He made these comments during a sermon
shortly before a major earthquake struck the country.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
So, he's a fortune you can tell the future to.
Yeah, me too.
It seems to me like if the earthquake happened right before his,
or right after his sermon,
then that should be an answer to his sermon,
not homosexuality.
Yeah.
How bad his sermon is.
If there's a God trying to wipe the earth from humans
because of how bad the sermon was.
Mm-hmm.
That's silly.
Yeah.
That's an outlandish claim by the,
I hate saying just the right,
but it's mostly the right, so.
Yeah.
You don't see a lot of radical left people
blaming homosexuality for anything.
No.
Because it's silly.
It's all silly.
It's just, it's, it's,
none of it makes sense.
Hmm.
And it's just an out.
All right.
I'll mess this person's name up.
Rachel Dolezal?
Dolezal?
I don't know for sure.
Okay.
You may remember hearing about her.
Former Fox News contributor Keith Abelow
explicitly linked the case of Rachel Dolezal,
a white woman who presented herself as black,
to the existence of transgendered people,
claiming that the two were the same.
He framed the public acceptance of transgendered identities
as a generous, slippery slope
that led Dolezal's radical misrepresentation.
Hmm.
Do you remember her?
Mm-mm.
Yeah.
Could you not remember?
I mean, it was a big thing.
I don't know.
A white woman said that she was black.
Oh, this happened a few years back, didn't it?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
Well, you got to take everything
as a grain of salt with her, then.
And obviously, that's all because of transgendered people.
Mm-hmm.
Well, everything's transgendered people's fault right now.
Mm-hmm.
So, I mean, if the sun, you know,
if there's a hurricane,
anything that's gone wrong,
it's transgendered people's fault right now.
Mm-hmm.
So, if you have a bad dinner,
it's a transgendered person's fault.
Mm-hmm.
You know, if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed,
it's a transgendered person's fault.
Kind of like a certain politician.
Everything that's good came from him,
and everything that's bad came from the transgendered him.
Well, he didn't.
Hmm.
But, yeah.
She didn't do, so.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
All right.
Two places I'm gonna have to bleep out now.
Oh, me saying that word twice?
Oh, okay.
Well, I'm sorry, but not sorry.
Hmm.
Huh.
All right.
Floods.
Transgendered people's fault, too?
Early in 2017, right-wing commentators
blamed transgendered people for a dam breach
and flood in California.
Bre Barber writer Kathy Grimes
was one of the most local critics,
vocal critics,
blaming transgendered bathrooms
and sex change operations for the flood.
Wow.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Obviously, they believe that
God is causing these things in retribution.
For transgenders.
So, they do not have a God of love.
They have a vengeful God.
Which I don't understand why people would want to celebrate something like that.
Celebrate?
Yeah, I mean, why would you worship a God like that?
Oh.
That's what I mean.
Well, I don't know.
The people who make up the rules.
I mean, doesn't it seem odd that these people who speak for God,
God always agrees with them?
Mm-hmm.
I want to know how they got his phone number.
You know, I mean, can you just look it up?
Kind of like when the president calls the president in Russia.
It's just you pick up the phone and it rings on the other end.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that always works.
All right.
I remember.
I remember a joke.
I think it was Ronald Reagan visited the Dalai Lama.
Okay.
And saw that there was this phone there that said God on it.
And he said, I'd like to talk to God.
So, he picked up the phone and had a short conversation.
And when it was over, he says, what do I owe for the call?
And he said, oh, it's equivalent to $1,000.
And so then.
Not too long after that, Reagan was visiting the Pope.
And he saw the same phone there that said God.
And he says, I'd like to talk to God again.
So, he got on the phone and he talked to God for a few minutes.
And when he was done, he said, what do I owe you for the phone call?
And the Pope says, oh, it's a local call.
That's funny.
That's cute.
Pardon.
Yeah, it's funny.
The fall of Rome.
Robert de Mattel, a leading but controversial Italian.
The Italian academic resigned from his position as the vice president of the National Research Council of Italy in 2011 after attributing the collapse of the Roman Empire and the subsequent arrival of the barbarians to the spread of homosexuality.
He claimed that Carthage, a Roman colony, was a haven for homosexuals, suggesting that this abnormal presence of deviance had a detrimental effect on Roman society.
I believe Carthage is in Britain, isn't it?
I don't think so.
Is it?
I think it is.
It probably was a Roman colony, though.
Yeah.
The Romans ran everything back then.
Yeah.
That's strange.
This is another silly.
I don't know.
This one comes closer to being true than any of them.
Yeah.
So, I don't, I mean, it's, these are just so funny.
I mean, it's just.
All of it.
I mean, just, it's all.
That's a lie.
Sorry.
Well, and like us, the Roman Empire was a democratic society.
It was a democratic government.
Yeah.
Although you had to be, you know, a wealthy slave owner to participate in that democracy.
Oh, okay.
Oh, to vote, you had to have money for property.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
In fact, they said in Rome, anyone could propose a law.
Really?
And all you had to do.
All you had to do was stand on a pillar with a rope around your neck and recite the law.
And then everyone would vote on it.
Mm-hmm.
And if the law passed, they would remove the rope.
And if the law didn't pass, they would remove the pillar.
Hmm.
Interesting.
So, you would have to really want a law to pass in order to propose something.
Yeah.
That's interesting, though.
I don't know if that's true or not.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Any financial crisis is blamed on us.
Yes.
U.S.
Christian.
And radio host Brian Fitcher made a series of controversial remarks blaming pro-sodomy
Gestapo for a financial crisis, weighing in on academics since retracted remarks about
economist John Maynard Keeney's bisexuality.
Fitcher claimed that it was correct that the original remark pins the full weight of the
financial crisis on the gay community.
Failed presidential nominee Rick.
Rick Santorum has also made similar claims, saying,
when we continue to see a decline in marriage and the redefinition of marriage.
Hmm.
So, Rick Santorum is in good company there.
Mm-hmm.
With the homophobes.
Yeah.
Pro-sodomy Gestapo.
Wow.
Have you paid your dues to the pro-sodomy Gestapos?
Are you still a member?
No, I didn't pay my dues.
They did something I didn't like, so.
So, your membership list lapsed.
Lapsed, yeah.
It's all right.
It's better that way.
I sleep better at night.
Aren't those also the people who are in charge of the gay agenda?
Oh, yeah.
They keep the gay agenda going.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's all these hard, you know, right-wing evangelicals.
You have to laugh because it's so absurd.
It's absurd and it's insulting, but all you can do is laugh about it.
I mean, what else can you do?
And just be incredulous that people actually believe this stuff.
Yeah.
Well, and they look at the people who do, who believe it and all that stuff, too.
That also say every word of the Bible is the absolute truth.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, you just got to laugh at it.
A super mouse infestation.
You remember this, right?
I don't think so.
In 2013, health inspectors discovered a super mouse in Coventry.
Coventry Garden, a branch of Tesco Metro.
Rather than being a new supermarket-based superhero, the mouse had grown far larger than normal due to its diet of chicken and cakes.
However, advocacy group Christian Voice told Pink News that the infestation was due to Tesco's support of gay rights.
So, we're probably, that kind of long.
You're blamed for the bubonic plague then, too.
Yeah.
Any kind of retribution from supernatural forces is because of homosexuality.
Wow.
Gosh, we should just throw in the towel and give up.
Mm-hmm.
So, I mean, we're such evil, rotten people that do all this stuff.
And apparently the people who support us are also subject to retribution.
Mm-hmm.
It's just, you just chuckle.
It's all, you know.
All right.
Oh, here we go.
Hurricanes.
How many hurricanes have we caused?
Any of the ones that have gay names.
Following Hurricane Harvey, that's a gay name if you remember this one, in 2017, a Texas pastor claimed that the disaster was divine punishment for the state's failure to pass an anti-transgender bathroom bill.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter later posted a tweet referencing a similar sentiment.
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