Hate in the Mainstream
Remarkable quotes from people who ought to know better.
鈥淸W]e shall not have any coarse [sic] but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November.鈥�
鈥擯ONCH McPHEE, editor of the Greene County, Va., Republican Committee newsletter, who in the same March 19 column described President Obama as 鈥渁 political socialist ideologue 鈥� unlike anything world history has ever witnessed鈥�
鈥淭he so-called 鈥榞ay鈥� movement is rooted in sorcery and it is a child of the devil, and an enemy of everything that is right.鈥�
鈥擬IKE HEATH, co-founder of Maine鈥檚 No Special Rights Super PAC, which opposes 鈥渟odomy based marriage,鈥� in a March 27 blog post
鈥淲e got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. 鈥� They ought to go.鈥�
鈥擬ARION BARRY, Washington, D.C., city councilman and former mayor, who later apologized for his April 3 comment
鈥淚 and my coworkers could rewrite the book on whether our urban youths are victims of racist profiling or products of their failed, shitbag, ignorant, pathetic, welfare dependent excuses for parents.鈥�
鈥擬iami-Dade firefighter BRIAN BECKMANN, in an April 11 Facebook comment about slain black teenager Trayvon Martin that resulted in his demotion
鈥淒ads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch.鈥�
鈥擯astor SEAN HARRIS of Fayetteville, N.C.鈥檚 Berean Baptist Church, who later said his April 29 comment wasn鈥檛 meant to encourage violence against children
鈥淚 think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. 鈥� They鈥檙e voting in people who are 鈥� gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.鈥�
鈥擩ESSE LEE PETERSON, an ultraconservative black preacher who once thanked God for slavery, in a YouTube sermon publicized by RH Reality Check on May 7
鈥淏uild a great, big, large fence ... put all the lesbians in there. 鈥� Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can鈥檛 get out 鈥︹��. [I]n a few years, they鈥檒l die out.鈥�
鈥擯astor CHARLES L. WORLEY, reacting to the president鈥檚 endorsement of same-sex marriage in a May 13 sermon at Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C.
