Have you seen Stacy Pritchard talking to Anderson Cooper?
Of course that was taken out of con – I mean yes, he said that, but of course he would never want that to be done. Of course people are going to take it and make it their own way and what they want to. But – ” more cheerfully – “I agree with what the sermon was, and what it was about.”
Orilly, says Anderson: he said the thing about keeping gays behind electric fences until they die out; how do you know he didn’t mean what he said?
She didn’t; it just seemed like the right thing to say to a fancy pants silver foxy smooth-talking hoity toity New York City libbrul tv guy…but not for long; she soon lapsed into frankness and agreed that that was exactly what should happen to gay people, because it is wrong.
Shudder. She scares me.
H/t Mano Singham.
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'Tis Himself
May 27, 2012 at 5:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Interesting how she got annoyed at Cooper for quoting her pastor and her.
footface
May 27, 2012 at 6:02 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Boy, you suggest that a segment of the population be imprisoned behind an electric fence one time, and you’re suddenly a horrible person…
karmakin
May 27, 2012 at 6:18 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
What’s amazing about this, is that it’s perfectly clear that there’s a little voice saying in her head, what you’re saying is WRONG, but in the end her group identity trumps that little voice.
Thus is the danger of religion.
Josh Slocum
May 27, 2012 at 6:28 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Exhibit number 43,999,763,284 why you can’t turn your back on your neighbor.
Arthur
May 27, 2012 at 7:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
There’s a great new video by Peter Hadfield (Potholer54) which discusses Evolution and Homosexuality.
“How to confuse a creationist — Homosexuality, Evolution and the Bible”
Sansha Johnson
May 27, 2012 at 8:20 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Poor woman. I mean I know she is spouting awful awful hatred but she seems just so uneducated and mislead. I agree with Karmakin that she seems to have an inkling that something is wrong with what she is saying but feels so utterly compelled to preach the party line.
Josh Slocum
May 27, 2012 at 8:36 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Poor her? Poor her?
FUCK HER. Her miserable, belligerent ass gets people like me turned out of jobs, shunned, and killed.
The buck has to stop somewhere. You wanna feel pity for someone? Feel some goddamn pity for the people whose lives she’s making a living hell.
Josh Slocum
May 27, 2012 at 8:37 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Also shut up. Before you bleat about how it’s totes unreasonable to think you don’t feel sad for the victims of discrimination just cuz you empathize with this woman’s plight. Just don’t.
Drivebyposter
May 27, 2012 at 9:14 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I feel like we should build one of these camps, and then round up all of the people that want concentration camps for gays, and put them in this camp. Just for…oh I don’t know….a month or two.
Oh how quickly they’d claim to be victims and discriminated against.
Sas
May 27, 2012 at 9:34 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I have zero slack to cut for authoritarian cowards like that.
fredbloggs
May 28, 2012 at 12:26 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I can’t help but envision her in a rocking chair playing the banjo.
But the interviewer is screwed really. He knows she’s trying to defend the indefensible. He knows it can’t be justified. Where can the interview go?
amblebury
May 28, 2012 at 12:47 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
“Just doesn’t know any better” my fragrant French arse.
She is plenty smart. She’s just pissed off that the stoopid libbruls keep insisting on “equal rights” for people she and her bullying cronies get their kicks out of sadistically abusing, and thus spoiling their fun.
She’s the face of horror – don’t cut her even a millimeter of slack.
Cooper gave her plenty of rope – and she strung herself up good and proper.
Tony
May 28, 2012 at 12:58 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Count me in the “she gets no slack” camp. Aside from the fact that I don’t want to be imprisoned for the rest of my life, no one deserves this kind of treatment. Even *if* my being gay was somehow absolutely wrong,
You
Don’t
Treat
People
Like
This!
That woman and her pastor are abominable wretches who need to read the damn bible. This time for comprehension.
Mr.Kosta
May 28, 2012 at 1:18 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
People like this make me sick. If this woman and all her fucking congregation were to drop dead tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
Stacy
May 28, 2012 at 2:21 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The dim, confused look on her face after Cooper asks, “So you believe that gay people are only born of other gay people?” is priceless.
Her smuggitude isn’t shaken for long, though. Dumb as a box of hammers, and proud of it.
Yes, in that respect, the interview was a thing of beauty.
birgerjohansson
May 28, 2012 at 5:19 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Naah, gayness is transferred by Lamarckian evolution. You know, someone has good taste in clothes, his son has even better taste in clothes and suddenly you get offspring that is Teh Gay! (sarcasm)
Or maybe gay behaviour is caused by not getting properly beaten during childhood.
— — —
On the other hand Teh Gay can be prevented by sprinkling holy water. And leave plenty of garlic around.
NanceConfer
May 28, 2012 at 5:22 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Oooh, she was piiiiissed. Good work, Anderson.
Hamilton Jacobi
May 28, 2012 at 6:07 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Even if being gay was hereditary — never mind how that is supposed to work — wouldn’t that mean that it is not an act of free will, and therefore not a sin? Or is this some sort of Calvinist sect?
anne
May 28, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Nooo, they think people become gay by seeing other gay people about. They think it gives young people Ideas. So it’s not just the living gay people they’d have to round up, but all the dead: the sinful books, music, literature, art, way back through all human history… And they’d have to round up the same-sex bonded animals and birds, and even those pesky lesbian fruitflies. A bigot’s work is never done.
Stacy
May 28, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And exorcise them.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/18/former-navy-chaplain-insists-gay-demons-can-infect-animals/
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
May 28, 2012 at 4:02 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Sansha: What Josh said. Save your sympathy for her indirect victims.