Tell me again that it can't be a hate crime...

[Scooter]

...if the perp is non-binary, when this is the sort of poison they were exposed to from both sides of their MAGAt family.

[BoSoxGal]

I suspect that whole non-binary thing is the perp trolling the LGBTQ+ community and their allies. If evidence comes out to suggest otherwise I’ll consider it, but for now I think it’s just the thing for the monster to do to further twist the knife.

[BoSoxGal]

Apparently the monster and his mommy had a rousing racist interaction while flying Frontier airlines a few months ago:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ngers.html

[Joe Guy]

The father claims that he (himself) was once a meth addict. I suspect he still is a meth addict. The killer was a confused and very dangerous person and, to borrow an often used but appropriate cliche, a time bomb waiting to explode.

[Bicycle Bill]

Dirtbag's old man was a former MMA fighter and adult film star, and is quoted as saying, "You know Mormons don't do gay.  We don't do gay.  There's no gays in the Mormon church.  We don't do gay."

I also didn't think Mormons did porn, either.

And a quick Google search using "Dick Delaware" (the performing name of the dirtbag's old man) and "filmography" as keywords shows over 500 titles/appearances, and I think it's safe to assume that they weren't all guy-on-top/get-it-over-with scenes.  So maybe Mormons DO indeed do gay after all.

-"BB"-

[ex-khobar Andy]

From the Daily Mail piece:

'And then I go on to find out it's a gay bar. I said, 'God, is he gay?' I got scared, 'Sh*t, is he gay?' And he's not gay, so I said, 'Phhhewww'.'

Aldrich's father went on to say that being gay did not align with their religious values.

'You know Mormons don't do gay. We don't do gay. There's no gays in the Mormon church. We don't do gay.'

So being gay does not align with their religious values, but shooting up a bar and killing 5 people and injuring 25 others doesn't get a mention. Got it. I'm glad that's cleared up.

[Burning Petard]

Need to get a report from their local stake president. I doubt this couple had a temple permit Besides, the head prophet of that church has prohibited the use of the name 'mormon'. Lots of ignorant wannabe's in any group of humans.

I am just about as straight a heterosexual as you will find in America. I wear pride t-shirts in April and the pride flag on my cap all year. . It is not a zero sum game.

Check out the culture of Colorado Springs. High proportion of military-industrial complex business employers. It was the location of the actual events for the movie 'BlackkKlansman'. It is the home of the Air Force Academy, where there have been repeated scandals about the influence of right-wing fundamentalist Christians.

"I fear for our country when I think that God is just."

snailgate.

[BoSoxGal]

Colorado Springs is the home of numerous evangelical mega churches as well as the head quarters of Focus on the Family, an organization that hatemongers against the LGBTQ+ community as well as uppity single women and men and anyone else who doesn’t participate in traditional patriarchal marriage and is thus a danger to American values as they determine them to be.

I saw this news story this morning and it gladded my heart:

Focus on the Family responded to this act of civil disobedience by calling for the end of hatemongering. Seriously, those evil fuckers who are nothing but the devil in sheep’s clothing are crying wolf and calling the queer community out for spreading hate. Fuck those motherfuckers! (No offense intended, I realize most of them fuck little children and not their mothers.)