GOP-linked punk rock ministry says executing gays is ‘moral’
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 6:00 am
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Tom Emmer with YCR's Jake McMillian (right) at the GOP convention, via Facebook
You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit ministry that brings its hard rock gospel into public schools, has been deepening its long-running ties to the Republican Party of Minnesota. Long a cause célèbre for Rep. Michele Bachmann, who has twice lent her name to the group’s fundraising efforts, You Can Run (YCR) had a booth at the GOP convention in April, and the group’s frontman, Bradlee Dean, reports that gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer recently accepted an invitation to visit with him at Dean’s home. But recent controversial statements by Dean — that Muslim countries calling for the execution of gays and lesbians are “more moral than even the American Christians” — have drawn the ire of some both within and outside the party.
“Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America,” Dean said on YCR’s May 15 radio show on AM 1280 the Patriot. “This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.”
“If America won’t enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that,” Dean continued. “That is what you are seeing in America.”
“The bottom line is this… they [homosexuals] play the victim when they are, in fact, the predator,” Dean said, before going on to make a claim that has no basis in fact: “On average, they molest 117 people before they’re found out. How many kids have been destroyed, how many adults have been destroyed because of crimes against nature?”
Mark Knief, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, said Dean’s words were some of the “most outrageous lies I’ve ever heard.”
He added, “This should be a grave concern with any candidate that is supporting them.”
The ministry has become increasingly cozy with Minnesota Republicans. During the past few months, You Can Run has attended two Republican Party of Minnesota events and garnered the support of top Republican officials: The group participated in Bachmann’s campaign kickoff and fundraiser with Sarah Palin on April 7, where it set up a booth. YCR also had a booth at the Republican Party of Minnesota State Convention in late April — using space donated by the party, Dean says — where it greeted the party’s endorsed candidate for governor, Rep. Tom Emmer. Emmer attended the You Can Run fundraiser in late 2009. Dean says Minnesota GOP chair Tony Sutton invited the ministry to attend.
YCR posted a picture of two of its members with Emmer at the GOP convention on the group’s Facebook page following the event.
The day after the GOP convention, Dean and radio co-host Jake McMillian spoke on-air about attending the event and their relationship with Emmer (mp3), stating that party chair Tony Sutton wanted them at the convention to attract a younger demographic to the party.
“We were at the GOP, the GOP saw what we do and they identified with it,” McMillian said. “Even when I was sitting down with Tony Sutton and just going over what we do as a ministry, I said to him, ‘Do you know any other groups that are reaching the demographic we are reaching with the message that we are?’ And, of course, it was blink-blink, ‘No, I don’t, so I want you guys a part of this convention with us.’”
He added, “And then they invited and they gave us a free table. Amen.”
After mentioning that Emmer stopped by the booth, Dean told radio audiences, “Congratulations, Tom Emmer. By the way, he’s been out to my house and I told him, ‘You’ll to do fine as long as you do what you say you are going to do.’ And we are going to hold his feet to the fire on this.”
GOP chair Sutton did not respond to the Minnesota Independent’s request for comment on Dean’s rhetoric about executing gays and lesbians, but Emmer’s press secretary, Chris Van Guilder, passed along this statement from Emmer:
“You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International is a ministry based in Annandale, a few miles north of Tom’s home town Delano. As a representative of the Wright County area, Tom has met with many, perhaps most of the residents of the area, and has doorknocked across the county.
Tom did meet Bradlee Dean while campaigning, and may have doorknocked his house.
Tom has also appeared on AM1280 and KKMS, including on Bradlee Dean’s radio show. Tom has appeared on many other radio stations and shows as well.
Tom is not a donor to the You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministry, and has never appeared as a spokesman at one of their fundraising events. He did attend a meet-and-greet before a fundraising event held by the ministry to mingle with the hundreds of attendees.
Tom’s position on social issues has been very clear and consistent. He is a supporter of traditional marriage, and he strongly opposes any kind of violence or unfair discrimination against any group.
Knief noted a disconnect between that rhetoric and the way Dean and his staff present themselves at GOP events: “They come across as really nice guys, completely different than this language is.”
That language also has LGBT groups concerned. Phil Duran, legal director for OutFront Minnesota, condemned Dean’s statement about executing gays.
“It’s pretty shocking to read people criticizing Christians and Americans because they don’t, as a rule, go out and actually kill gay people,” he said. “There are those who rely on attitudes like this — and attitudes not nearly so extreme — to justify acts of violence, harassment or discrimination, to justify continued exclusion of same-sex couples from the law, to rationalize the imposition of so-called ‘reparative therapy’ to ‘fix’ people, and to oppose safe-schools legislation.”
He added, “The question that concerns me is: how many people out there look at comments like this and agree? Hopefully, very few.”
Despite the concern generated by Dean’s words, nonprofit and church-state experts say the coordination between a nonprofit ministry and a political party don’t raise many concerns.
Nonprofits and ministries are prohibited from getting involved in partisan politics, but experts say that while YCR has come close to crossing the line, they likely haven’t gone far enough to trigger an IRS complaint.
Abby Levine of the Alliance for Justice wouldn’t comment on the specifics of YCR’s involvement in Republican politics, but did offer general guidelines for nonprofit organizations.
“A 501(c)3 can’t support or oppose a candidate. They can’t indicate support for candidates,” said Levine. “If it looks like an organization is supporting a candidate, that would be problematic.”
She added, “There could be legitimate reasons for a nonprofit organization to attend events like you’ve described.”
Donald Tobin, a professor of election law at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law, said, “In light of how blatant some nonprofits have been, this seems like it’s the lesser of the blatant.”
He said the IRS looks at all the facts and circumstances to see if a nonprofit has intervened for or against a candidate for office.
When asked via email whether he or YCR supports Emmer’s candidacy, Dean declined to answer, instead stating, “I would preach the Gospel and set up a booth at any event where we were invited. We are not going to discriminate because you do not like a particular people. I would set a booth with you and preach the Gospel if you would invite me? And if you would tell the truth I would even take a picture with you and post it.”
Dean concluded his email to the Minnesota Independent with a quote from Revelations 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
Update: Emmer’s campaign acknowledges that Emmer’s Minnesota House campaign donated $250 to You Can Run in 2008; the campaign has alerted the Campaign Finance Board because the donation exceeds the legal limit by $150.
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Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 8:13 am
TCR is NOT a ministry! It’s a psych ward for homophobes! Unbelievably irrational… bye, bye, Emmer.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 9:28 am
The whole Emmer Klan loves Bradless Dean’s cult. Drew Emmer was shilling for Dean’s witch-burning in 2008:
http://wrightrepublican.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-can-run-but-you-cannot-hide-event.html
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 9:34 am
Well, if we’ve learned anything it’s that the biggest homophobes are also the biggest closet cases. Could Bradlee Dean have an account on Rentboy.com like George Rekers?
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 9:44 am
You know, I’m actually glad they say stuff like this because then it just becomes easier for everyone to see that they’ve been dropped on the head one too many times when they were babies.
Give them a straight-jacket, not a booth.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 10:04 am
The Republicans will spend a little time distancing themselves from the remarks. It’s not that they disagree with them, mind you, it just that these things are not to be said in public where the liberal media will pick up on them and distort them all to heck.
It’s kind of like the fuss over that immigration “poll.” Instead of being appalled that so many Republicans saw nothing offensive in it, the official word was that it wasn’t appropriate to put it on an official party website.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 10:26 am
Those ‘people’ are mentally ill and delusional. They can take their bronze age desert dogma and shove it, along with their invisible friends.
Mr. Dean, I am not afraid of your voodoo, your stupid dogma or your invisible friends. However, your mental instability should be a concern for every one around you.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 11:21 am
“You can run but you can’t hide”?
Sounds like a death threat to me.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 11:30 am
I have to agree with Randy. I’ve seen so many outrageous things coming from the Republican party in general. Look at Michelle Bachmann and her un-American claims of congress. She still managed to get elected.
Each time something crazy like this comes out in the news I think “This is it! They dug their own grave!”, only to find out a few months down the road their followers disregard it or blame it on the media.
Very sad.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 12:16 pm
Bradlee Dean is a pervert and a predator. Do not let him or anyone in his cult near your children.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 2:19 pm
Where are the resident trolls – Jimmy, Rudy and Raymond?
They must have something to say in this creeps defense.
Maybe Jimmy, Rudy and Raymond are allowed to run and hide.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 4:10 pm
Bradlee – First, get a haircut, you look like left wing hippie scum. Second, get a life. If it’s not too late. Brain function is a terrible thing to misplace.
Comment posted May 25, 2010 @ 8:08 pm
I cannot find the videos on youtube, I guess they are nowhere as big as their egos, but keep this shit out of the schools
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Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 7:45 am
Brix Smith said exactly what I would have. Seems the GOP should be really afraid of these people.
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Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 10:17 am
Carrie, you seem so sure he is not gay. Do you have proof? Like maybe some out of wedlock hanky-panky? lol Not that I care but your defense of this moron opens you up. If we have learned one thing it is that those who protest too much are really hiding in the closet. Come on out Dean and show us who you really want to screw.
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 11:02 am
Thank God that the comments reflect that these folks are INSANE. What usually bugs me is when people agree with the insanity
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Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 1:59 pm
Thomas, the server is having trouble recognizing my bona fides. I’m not sure what Dean’s basis is for claiming a Biblical command to kill homosexuals. I’m curious if there is such a thing in the Bible.
However, if he meant what he appears to be saying, I’m joining the majority here and calling him on it; he’d belong with the Phelps nutjobs IMO and I’ll wager 99.9% of Americans would strongly condemn such violent rhetoric, regardless of party affiliation. Favoring killing homosexuals, like killing babies, is nauseating and outrageous.
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 2:50 pm
Didn’t Tom Emmer have a booth at the May Day parade?
Gadzooks! Tom Emmer is deepening his long-running ties to left wing wackos!
Will Tom Emmer have a booth at the Minneapolis gay pride parade this year?
Gadzooks! Is Tom Emmer deepening his long running ties to sodomites? Wait, deepening and sodomites, no–that’s just wrong isn’t it?
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 3:17 pm
Dear Mr. Dean,
Are you aware of the debate that exists over whether Jesus himself was gay? The evidence for his sexual orientation either way is not strong. Nevertheless, there are some interesting details. For instance:
“The late Morton Smith, of Columbia University reported in 1958 that he had found a fragment of a manuscript which at the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem. It contained the full text of Mark, chapter 10. Apparently the version that is in the Christian Scriptures is an edited version of the original. Additional verses allegedly formed part of the full version of Mark, and were inserted after verse 34. It discusses how a young man, naked but for a linen covering, expressed his love for Jesus and stayed with him at his place all night.”
Or, consider this:
“Mark 14:51-52 describes the incident when Jesus was arrested by the religious police. It describes how one of Jesus’ followers was scantily dressed. The King James Version says he had a linen cloth cast on his naked body; the size and location of the cloth is not defined. The New International Version says that he was “wearing nothing but a linen garment.” When the police tried to seize him, they were able to grab only his cloth; the man ran away naked. Reverend Peter Murphy wrote: “We don’t know from the sources what really was going on, but we do know that something was very peculiar between Jesus and young men.” 11 (Emphasis in the original.)”
Other arguments for and against the gay Jesus thesis can be found at:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jegay.htm
Clearly this debate doesn’t give the appearance of being resolvable unless new evidence appears.
So very little is known about wide stretches of Jesus’ life that we must conclude there’s much more about the man that we don’t know. Could he have been sexually active with other men, or, uh, males? No one knows.
Regards,
Eric
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 4:17 pm
I think it has been established that those who want to kill homosexuals suffer from such an intense fear of their own homosexuality, they hope by killing others they will kill the gayness within them.
Jesus’ great command to love was premised first upon our loving ourselves. Self hate is a terrible thing. I wish them the best in their progress.
antonio
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 4:25 pm
Now the Minnesota Independent says Jesus was gay!
Gadzooks!
I bet the Catholic Church would disagree that there is no link between homos and molesting. What is it now, about $500 mil of payments to victims? Yup, that’s what I call basis in fact.
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 4:31 pm
Does the Minnesota Independent think Jesus had an abortion too? It’s a fair question, and one that needs to be asked.
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 8:21 pm
What in the world?? This guy is nuts! I can’t believe anyone in the GOP would touch Bradlee Dean with a ten foot poll. He is advocating killing gay people. I think the bigger question is why does AM 1280 allow Dean to remain on air. This story deserves a lot more attention and if Emmer did meet Dean we ought to make sure the public knows of Emmer’s link to this nut.
Comment posted May 26, 2010 @ 9:52 pm
I agree with the assertion that people who advocate violence toward homosexuals are almost certainly compensating for guilt based on their own homosexual tendencies.
Ironically, straight opponents of gay marriage are labeled homomphobes, but true gay bashers are at some level gay themselves. Gay on gay violence.
Comment posted May 27, 2010 @ 7:51 am
Jimmy, Rudy and Raymond -
“However, if he meant what he appears to be saying, I’m joining the majority here and calling him on it; he’d belong with the Phelps nutjobs IMO and I’ll wager 99.9% of Americans would strongly condemn such violent rhetoric, regardless of party affiliation. Favoring killing homosexuals, like killing babies, is nauseating and outrageous.”
Be Careful – you are awfully close to being a real human being here.
Good for you.
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Comment posted May 27, 2010 @ 10:41 am
May God Forgive you for being Tyrants in His loving name.
You think you are so smart, I pray that he will open your hearts and minds to His truth. Homosexuals are born with this tendency. Can you change the color of your skin, your eyes or the fact that you are born with a disability?
Your statistics about molestation need to be compared to heterosexual molestation. I’m sure there is no difference. Every race, gender and sexual orientation has both evil people and godly people.
You have twisted God’s word to persecute his children with your hatred. The records in the bible that been interpreted to condemn homosexuality are misinterpreted. These individuals in the bible were raping innocent people and committing whoredoms in the synagogue. Read the whole context, they were evil in many ways and haters of God (Rom 1:30). The bible was not condemning christian homosexuals in a loving relationship. Some of these evil doers weren’t even homosexual, some were heterosexual married men who were raping innocent visitors(Sodom and Gomorrah). Christ himself didn’t say that their sin was a homosexual lifestyle, it was their “inhospitality” or evil treatment of people who came to the city. In fact Christ never mentioned homosexuality at all. It’s people like you who have magnified this issue. His greatest commandments were to LOVE GOD and OTHERS. May you be reminded of HIS LOVE in your quest to be so cruel to innocent people. Some of the sweetest most loving people I know are gay. Thanks to radical “Christians” like you, these sensitive individuals are persecuted tirelessly. Many of the youth are even rejected by their parents. The largest percentage of youth who commit suicide are young gay males who are afraid to come out of the closet; because of the sadness, guilt and self-contempt that teachings and attitudes like yours cause. Many don’t even feel they can turn to GOD FOR COMFORT because you have taught them that God hates them. SHAME ON YOU! I once believed teachings like yours, until someone I loved dearly, confided in me that they were gay. I learned it is NOT A CHOICE. They had prayed and prayed, cried and felt self-disgust. They tried to change their sexual preference but couldn’t. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE WAY YOU WERE BORN. Can you change that you are heterosexual? This person is as much a child of God as any of the rest of us, and walks in God’s love much more than many.
After digging deeper into the word I have learned that YOU are the one’s who are WRONG. And for you to say that homosexuals should be killed is an OUTRAGE. Who made you a judge? God’s word warns us of judging other people’s souls. May God have mercy on your ignorant, judgmental hearts. Many people shy away from conservatism because of extremist like you. You are doing Republicans a disservice with your hatred and right wing radicalism. I would have voted for some of the Republicans you mentioned until I found out that they support you.
Comment posted May 27, 2010 @ 5:08 pm
I really detest the biblical quotation contest that ensues when some wack-job runs around with a bible tucked in his pants.
The point here folks is to push for further investigation of Bradlee Dean and his ministry.
It’s a fact that he is calling for the murder of homosexuals. It’s a fact that he is not a ministry and openly supports candidates. That takes his 501(c)3 status away and opens him up to federal tax investigations and fraud. And lastly, as I have said repeatedly here and on another blog, the man is a predator. It’s a fact that he targets children with his lies. He wants a cult and wants to be a national cult leader.
Wake-up! He broadcast his show from the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC recently! The man and his followers are entering the “mainstream” of major party politics. The sooner people and the media start reporting the facts about this guy, the sooner we can make him stick like krazy glue to Tom Emmer and Michele Bachmann. Normal church-going people, regardless of their feelings about homosexuality will not abide a Bradlee Dean. These are the votes Democrats want.
Comment posted May 27, 2010 @ 10:58 pm
>>>> Be Careful – you are awfully close to being a real human being here.
Don’t go spreading that rumor around!
Conservatives wishing violence or death to homosexuals is so preposterous it shouldn’t have to be denied. If there really are gay people out there that believe otherwise, and aren’t just pretending to believe it for political gain, then I’ll emphatically deny anything resembling such violent intentions for homosexuals by tea bagging conservatives. As noted previously violence toward homosexuals is sadly probably advanced by other homosexuals.
So we don’t want to change the arbitrary definition of marriage from one man and one woman, doesn’t mean we wish ill for people not qualifying for such unions. Live your lives in peace, but please don’t rearrange cultural norms to fit the urges nature has given you.
Comment posted May 28, 2010 @ 1:25 am
The christian right wing – murderers in the name of God. These people belong in a mental institution, period. With a welded shut lock on the gate
there is no end to their hatred. And they are, almost every one of them our American Taliban Republicans.
Sick is their only description. We love our gay friends, and are horrified at what is going on in our country. By exactly the same mind set that hated blacks and jews in the past.
These people, who seem to have forgotten that Jesus second of only two commandments was “love thy neighbor as thyself” deserve to be disgraced.
And no matter what, we will never ever again vote republican. Never
And you should do the same. Because if they get control, you too will become hated, as they get ever and ever more vile.
Comment posted May 28, 2010 @ 2:23 pm
Bradlee Dean taints Emmer and Bachmann and renders them both unfit for public office and unelectable.
Comment posted May 28, 2010 @ 4:07 pm
More hate from haterosexuals, totally expected. Haterosexuals create and perpetuate anti-gay bigotry.
Comment posted May 28, 2010 @ 10:00 pm
Pretending to be a victim is just too seductive apparently. Makes it easier to hate conservatives I guess.
Comment posted May 29, 2010 @ 8:50 am
Wow – Listen up folks – The American Taliban is Alive and well,and spewing thier Hateful rhetoric right here in America….what losers these weirdos are…….they should be putting as much energy into railing ugainst hunger and homelessness in America…….these people are Pathetic. They fail to realize that Gay people ARE peoples brothers,sisters,mothers,fathers,uncles,aunts etc etc…..
Comment posted May 29, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
Bradlee Dean is a total psychopath. To say that homosexual people molest 117 kids on average?! What over the top, slanderous, evil lies.
When did God die and give this moron the right to cast the first stone?
Not to mention that, in context, all the prohibitions claimed to be against homosexuality are — in context — against sexual violence and gang rape; against boy molesting; and against idolatry and same-sex pagan temple prostitution.
At best, this man is a mentally ill liar. At worst he is an opportunist who doesn’t care who he tramples on to get elected.
Comment posted May 29, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
Carrie,
Gay men don’t usually go around carrying enough tangled hair on their heads to stuff a mattress. Bradlee Dean looks like he never had a haircut in his life. He looks like he is rebelling against life in general and retreating into caveman mode. I have yet to meet a gay man looking like a total mess as does Bradlee Dean with all that unkempt “seaweed” trying to pass for hair hanging off his head.
Comment posted May 30, 2010 @ 3:56 pm
Never mind that the bible ranks sleeping in a bed that a woman has been in during her period is an “abomination” listed in the same section as the one they use against homosexuals (which is really about forced homosexuality, not consensual homosexuality)
Also if your dog or cat has ever crawled into your bed to sleep that is also a similar abomination.
Of course, they don’t talk about those…
or how about if a virgin is raped, she should have to marry her rapist. Deuteronomy 22:28
Do we really want Biblical Sharia law, people?
I think we need to send Captain Sensible to take care of this Axl Rose wannabe
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Comment posted June 1, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
But Mr. Dean, what about that Biblical Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
What other sins are capital offenses in your reality, Mr. Dean? Who judges?
Comment posted June 1, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
This site is starting to resemble the goings on in a junior high cafeteria. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Comment posted June 8, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Inc., reported the beliefs of Muslims and Andy Birkey reported it as YCR opinion. When you watch the news and hear of a murder do you report that channel as advocating murder?
Comment posted July 7, 2010 @ 9:45 pm
Can you please not call these guys “punks”? The punk community and the GLBT community(as well as woman’s rights, animal rights, and most importantly individual rights) have supported each other greatly over the last 25 years. It’s insulting. Their “music” is nu-metal, at best.
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Comment posted July 22, 2010 @ 8:40 pm
This ministry isn’t punk rock, he’s in a rap metal band. and they suck LOL they’re like a cheap version of limp bizkit. The lyrics suck too. “Where’s your god at!?!?!?!” idiots.
Comment posted July 27, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
Go Bradlee!!!!!!!!!!
Dont listen to anyone else!!! You’re hair is beautiful!!!!
Comment posted July 27, 2010 @ 7:15 pm
btw. the term “punk” actually came from slang for a homosexual bottom. hilarious. Punk Rock is in effect built on the idea of being an outsider and was originally created by many gay men and women in NYC and London as a reaction to people like you and the GOP…. learn something.
Comment posted July 27, 2010 @ 7:43 pm
People like this and those in the Westboro Baptist Cult are the true terrorists in this world.
Comment posted July 28, 2010 @ 5:42 am
‘You Can Run But You Cannot Hide’ are just following their religion successfully:
” ‘But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’ After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem”.
~ New Testament, Luke 19:27-28
I suggest you ALL watch the following DVDs and Videos:
Imagine If All Atheists Left America – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbef07aQtB8
‘Constantines Sword’ – http://www.ConstantinesSword.com
‘Theologians Under Hitler’ – http://www.vitalvisuals.com/?q=node/19
‘The God Who Wasn’t There’ – http://www.TheGodMovie.com/
Comment posted July 28, 2010 @ 8:58 am
It amazes me how the news media falls into such traps. If they refused to report on this garbage it would go away. “You Can Run But You Cannot Hide” want free publicity for their rants and they were handed that free publicity on a silver platter.
Comment posted July 28, 2010 @ 5:13 pm
For years, I’ve seen that people who have CHOSEN to live a homosexual lifestyle, make their CHOICES based on their FEELINGS and EMOTIONS, not LOGIC and FACTS! That’s surely not the INTELLIGENT way to live!
KNOWLEDGE tells us that homosexuals do have GUILTY CONSCIENCES — that way down deep inside, they know their acts are ABOMINABLE.
The SOLUTION – use your INTELLIGENCE and gain KNOWLEDGE about homosexuality and then you won’t have your EMOTIONS DICTATING your CHOICES of how to live your life.
Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 2:16 am
This is what the Bible says about Gays.
Here Jesus refers to “eunuchs who have been so from birth.” This terminology (“born eunuchs”) was used in the ancient world to refer to homosexual men. Jesus indicates that being a “born eunuch” is a gift from God.
Matthew 19:10-12
Eunuchs had two meanings one parents would castrate there children so they could serve and guard women in high household. The other meaning is what Jesus said and they are born gay and they were not CASTRATED.
Four gay couples in the Bible are:
Ruth and Naomi
David and Jonathan
Daniel and Ashpenaz
A Roman centurion asked Jesus to heal his slave but it was not his slave it was his gay lover
and Jesus healed him. So why is it that God and Jesus love gays but so called Christians don’t.
And I am a retire Baptist Minister and I am gay.
Comment posted July 29, 2010 @ 4:51 pm
As per their Facebook page, YCR should not be so worried about “America running out of uninformed citizens.” There seem to be plenty out there. Including themselves.
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Comment posted July 30, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
How have they kept their 501(c)3 designation. They cannot participate in political activities with that IRS tax exemption. They should lose that exemption, like the Christian Coalition did, and pay taxes.
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Comment posted July 31, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
I hate reading things like this because people are just using the First Amendment as a scape-goat for their hate. If you remember rapper Ice-T put out a record that called for the killing of police officers back in the late 80′s or early 90′s. Everyone was up in arms about that and called for the removal of the song from the album. He meant it as a hate song…just YCR is doing. Unfortunately…YCR would love for you to come to my house and kill me, my partner and all my roommates. Although I’d doubt they’d ever get with in two inches of my gay-borhood.
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[...] distress about a news story in which an American “punk rock ministry” said that “executing gays is ‘moral‘”. “The bottom line is this … they [homosexuals] play the victim when they are, [...]
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[...] her defection from Christianity. More precisely, the statements from the radio broadcast in this news article. Of course, they say the article took their words out of context. Listen to the youtube video [...]
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[...] them. This kind of thing makes me weep. Maybe commitment to Christ means not being a Christian. GOP-linked punk rock ministry says executing gays is ‘moral’ « Minnesota Independent: News. Pol… July [...]
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[...] point in her decision – a post about a “Christian” group who apparently believes killing homosexuals is moral. This shocking link was provided by a poster below. No wonder people despise us, Christians, and [...]
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[...] the straws that broke Rice’s moral back was a statement made by a self-righteous moron named Bradlee Dean, the front man for a politically conservative Fundamentalist Christian group called “You [...]
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
When do you people talk about your own sins? Isn’t the conversation between you and your God, not between the very infallible you & the very infallible me? Or are you somehow divinely inspired? It’s always someone else and who’s wrong with them. I’d love to hear more about yoU.
Comment posted August 2, 2010 @ 6:59 pm
Bradlee Dean gives cadaver-sodomizers a bad name… but he can’t help it – the cadaver-sodomizing gene runs in his family.
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[...] in a radio interview that Muslim countries that call for the execution of gays and lesbians are “more moral than even the American Christians.“ The HRC ad asked the companies to make up for their donation to Emmer’s campaign by [...]
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 1:18 pm
They’re entitled to express and display their opinions on the matter. It’s against the Old Testament and Moslem religeous laws.
And you cannot be subjected to the punishments attached to such behavior within those religeous laws, according to the civil law in our country.
Risky behavior has it’s risks, but it’s all just rhetoric to you anyway, because in this country you are protected by the civil law.
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[...] Target has spent over $150,000 in the Minnesota Governor’s race backing state Rep. Tom Emmer, a far-right Republican who supports Arizona’s immigration law, wants to abolish the minimum wage and even gave money to a fringe group that condoned the execution of gay people. [...]
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
From reading this its completely obvious that Tom Emmer and Dean Bradlee are secretly lovers
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 7:25 pm
He will be a good governorif he passes the same kind of bill-laws as AZ-SB-1070 and tells these 2 punks to grow up.
T
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
He will be a good governorif he passes the same kind of bill-laws as AZ-SB-1070 and tells these 2 punks to grow up.
This is a Christian nation and although a tough punishment is attached to homoism in the Old Testament it is not treated as such in our civil law.
The punk overstates the case to just get a reaction out of the homos. He should make it clear that these punishments are from a time when the religeous law was the civil law too.
When Emmer is governor he should make it public that he has told these 2 punks to grow up and not to overstate the case.
If they agree with those punishments in todays society and want to see them enforced they should move to a country that does that.
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
From what Christians are always saying about this God fella, he seems like the biggest asshole in the universe.
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 9:20 pm
Wait! What is Human Nature? Well,”do onto others as you’d have them do onto you.” Hate is a crime against nature.
And a tool of the devil.
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 11:19 pm
What you are doing is wrong… There are gay pedophiles as well as straight ones.
Only God can judge..
We have to respect people no matter their beleifs or secual orientation ,we should always love our neighbor as thyself.
Comment posted August 4, 2010 @ 1:18 am
Wait, I see the picture at the top of the “punk rock” dude. And, then there’s the video. Please tell me that “gays must die” guy does NOT have hair extensions!
OK. That is just too ludicrious! I know this is supposed to be about the issue, but I keep laughing when looking at either picture of him.
Hair extensions? Really?
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[...] them. This kind of thing makes me weep. Maybe commitment to Christ means not being a Christian. —Link to “GOP-linked punk rock ministry says executing gays is ‘moral’” an article ab… [...]
Comment posted August 4, 2010 @ 2:54 pm
YCR doesn’t have the talent to make it in the world as a band so they have created a niche market in the GOP land of homophopes so they can hype their music. I bet if they were hooked up to a brain scan and shown male same sex porn their lust activity would be off the chart. The only so called heteros who scream about gays, are the closeted ones. And by the way, the overwhelming percentage of pedophiles is heterosexuals. That is an easily checked fact. Bradlee Dean is a twisted piece of work.
Comment posted August 5, 2010 @ 10:05 am
I think Martin Sheen said it best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1-ip47WYWc
Comment posted August 5, 2010 @ 6:47 pm
“This just shows you they themselves [Muslims] are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God…”
Duh. Islam is a Judeo-Christian religion founded on the belief in prophets including Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus and the Bible (Torah and Gospels).
Pingback posted August 7, 2010 @ 1:46 am
[...] Emmer and Bachman have something extremely disturbing in common. On May 25, 2010, Birkey linked both politicians to Bradlee Dean frontman for You Can Run But You Cannot Hide hard rock gospel ministry. Birkey said: You Can Run [...]
Comment posted August 7, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
Christians my foot.( I use foot rather than another anatomical area Didn’t want to excite these latent gays.) So their god says it’s OK to kill. So maybe when they plug in next time they’ll be fried. Heywood
Comment posted August 7, 2010 @ 7:53 pm
Natural law:
This is not a Christian nation. WTF are you talking about? If you think that it is, you have a lot of homework to do.
Comment posted August 9, 2010 @ 10:39 pm
“because these people are livid about enforcing their laws.”
Uhm, they are angry about enforcing their laws? That would mean they don’t want to, dumbass.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 6:26 am
You’d think that the state that produced Garrison Keillor would not harbor such comprehensively ignorant, bigoted racist thugs as Bachmann and her Gestapo.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 9:00 pm
Well This is BS. If every gay person molested 117 people, then pretty much the entire world would be molested. This is a crock of ****
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 9:18 pm
amazing to think that somehow it’s okay to condone murder of someone based on their sexuality and somehow it’s “moral” have they actually READ the bible?! nowhere anywhere does it say that it’s okay to murder someone because they are GAY.
they are using their own personal views and not the bible’s and sure as hell not the religion’s point of view. what people do in their bedrooms is their own problem.
their message is like saying, it’s okay to murder period. because you CANT TELL WHO IS GAY AND WHO ISN’T. seems to me the whole religion is a lie when so many idiots buy this whole kill the gays bullshit.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 9:44 pm
After listening to you speak I no longer believe in evolution. Because evolution would have weeded you neanderthals out centuries ago. Where are on earth do you pull these “facts” from. I guess in Minnesota if you have a pulse they will let you on the airwaves. I think you should fear the fire more than the homosexuals because what you are proposing is a sin. And God will judge you for your hateful ways. So better put on you asbestos panties buddy.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 10:35 pm
So when are these sickos going to have their non-profit status revoked??
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 4:22 am
Are these people on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate speech list? This is blatant violation of the federal hate speech law.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 7:38 pm
They support the Muslims when they want to execute homosexuals. I wonder how they feel about this headline now the muslims want to execute them. Still pro muslim execution are we?
Their arguments are completely unjustified, but being full of love we must complement him for his amazing ability to spew garbage spontaneously. Well done Sir, you can officially lie.
Hang on, are lairs not mentions in 1 Timothy 1:10 just a few words along from homosexuals? I think they are. If homosexuals are betraying God then Sir, you are too.
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Comment posted August 14, 2010 @ 2:38 am
I’m getting a little pissed with everyone calling these people “crazy” and saying they belong in “mental institutions” and “straight jackets.” PLEASE stop confusing legitimate mental illness with downright stupidity and bigotry. It’s offensive to those of us who actually HAVE mental illnesses. I have bipolar disorder and STRONGLY disagree with these people. It’s not fair to stereotype people you disagree with as mentally ill. Show a little compassion for those of us who can’t help our illness in comparison with these asshats.
Comment posted August 17, 2010 @ 7:28 am
And some people still wonder why 21st century Republicans get called fascists. I wonder whether Bachmann and Emmer would like to share with us their feelings about gypsies and the “Jewish problem” and what solutions they propose there.
Pingback posted August 18, 2010 @ 12:54 pm
[...] in the world, including the punk rock ministry group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide stating that Muslims that kill homosexuals are more moral than American Christians, and children of Westboro Baptist Church members firmly believing that all Americans are going to [...]
Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 2:36 pm
1) For those of you who did not understand Carrie’s comment, she was being sarcastic.
2) Bradlee Dean is a punk. He is not punk rock. There is a very big difference.
3) For the record: I have come to the point where I like the WBC. They are so moronic that they create sympathies for the people they protest against. Seriously, who would (in their right mind) protest the funeral of U.S. soldiers? Can you really take those idiots seriously? In many ways, groups like the WBC work against themselves to such an extent that one has to begin to wonder if they aren’t playing a kind of reverse-psychology on the American Public.
4) To the person who defended Bradlee Dean’s argument justifiable under the First Amendment: It is not justifiable. The U.S. Supreme Court has stated, on numerous occasions that “Hate-filled rhetoric is not protected under the Constitution.” Furthermore, Congress has stated in its Anti-Bullying Act that “Hate-filled rhetoric is a hate crime.”
5) The American Psychiatric Association and the National Alert Registry state: “Molesters known by the family or victim are the most common abusers. The Acquaintance Molester accounts for 70-90% of reported cases.” Most of those people are heterosexual.
But, what do I know? I am an “uninformed American,” according to people like Bradlee Dean.
Pingback posted August 19, 2010 @ 4:48 pm
[...] Emmer has some weird views; for example, he has tried to amend the Minnesota state constitution to say that Minnesota doesn’t have to follow federal law unless they want to. (I guess he forgot about the Civil War.) He is famously anti-worker and pro-big business. But he is most famous for his poisonous remarks about gay people and his near-rabid opposition to gay rights. He has donated to—and promoted—a hard rock ministry, and especially a band called You Can Run But You Cannot Hide (YCR). YCR frontman Bradlee Dean commends Islamists for their execution of gays and recentlly said, “On average, they molest 117 people before they’re found out.” (More here.) [...]
Comment posted August 22, 2010 @ 10:34 am
If you know the call sign of the radio station on which Bradley Dean spoke these words, please post it here. We need to write to the FCC and ask them to pursue sanctions against the radio station.
Calls for assassination is considered speech that insights violence. It is not protected speech. The FCC has to keep the airwaves clear of any such speech.
Also, being insighting speech, I think the US attorney needs to have a look into YCR and, perhaps, MN Forward. Is this an organized crime outfit dedicated to hate crimes, to assassinating people? If so, they need to be prosecuted as such. In this country, nobody is allowed to call for another’s murder.
Frankly, the only difference between what Dean said and the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming is these punks haven’t had the guts to kill anybody yet… that we know of.
Comment posted August 22, 2010 @ 11:02 am
You sons of bushes love to judge others and call others sinful. As you are quoting the bible a book that was written by man, edited by man and translated by man, you give no credence to the fact that this book was written 40 years after Jesus Christ apparently walked this earth.
No matter how many times the contradictions are pointed out to these bible thumbers, they remain deaf to facts. Facts disrupt their agenda.
You sons of bushes will no doubt burn in satan’s garden if there is a place……and may you bible thumbers be so filled with fear that your are paralyzed by it.
Comment posted August 22, 2010 @ 2:36 pm
It’s AM 1280 The Patriot. Bradlee’s show is streaming live as I type this.
Comment posted August 22, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
Another on the warpath? When will he make the list? The political circus act gets so tiring.
http://www.republicansexoffenders.com/
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Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 2:28 pm
Strange how these three anti-gay retards would pose for such a gay photo. I think the guy on the right is squeezing the ass of the guy in the middle, but I could be wrong.
Jesus is cringing right now, reading about these hatemongering morons. If there is a hell, these folks are at the front of the line. I hope Satan is gay. The three of these guys could use a hot poker up the ass.
Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 2:29 pm
And when I use the term “retards” I mean no offense to people with actual mental disabilities. I’m just referring to bigoted, hateful, STUPID people like these guys.
Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 4:23 pm
This guy is uninformed and so full of the puss of hatred and judgment. Drain the wound already! I think Ghandi said it best after visiting America the first time. To paraphrase: I very much like your Jesus but I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Jesus. Pretty much says it all.
All this homophobia and hate-mongering is anything but Christ-like.
Oh, and exactly where and when did President Obama proclaim America to be a Muslim nation? Following in the dangerous path of “news” providers like Fox…just say whatever to incite the lunatic fringe; don’t worry about checking facts. Sounds like this douche needs to learn the difference between homosexual and pedophile–duh. If you’re going to flap your yap at least know what you’re talking about.
Sons of Liberty my ass. When did being a patriot become synonymous with jingoistic, self-righteous, homophobic asshole? Just one more thing for ignorant, simple-minded people to hide behind so they don’t have to really think, much less offer solutions for the many incredibly complex issues facing our society.
Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 4:35 pm
I like what Lorraine said about Satan being gay; like in the South Park movie, where Satan made Sadam his gay bitch. Or in Little Nikky where Satan forced Hitler to dress in a French maid’s costume and submit to a pineapple being shoved up his ass every night for eternity (spikey leaves first). A fitting end (pun intended) for a mass-murdering, homophobic despot. Strange how the ones who speak out most forcefully often turn out to be hiding a deep dark secret; Bush’s former campaign manager comes to mind.
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[...] candidate Tom Emmers some money. Emmers, more than simply failing to stand up for gay rights, is closely associated with a homophobic rock ministry that advocates the murder of homosexuals based on the Bible (though [...]
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[...] and execution of Christians — as Christians have been calling for the imprisonment and execution of homosexuals? I think I would have noticed those news stories — I’ve been busy lately, but I haven’t [...]
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[...] and execution of Christians — as Christians have been calling for the imprisonment and execution of homosexuals? I think I would have noticed those news stories — I’ve been busy lately, but I haven’t [...]
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[...] Michelle Bachmann herself is connected to a ministry which has called executing gay people ‘moral‘ — when confronted with a radical Muslim group who wanted to carry out such laws in [...]
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[...] That might seem familiar to those of you who regularly read my posts. Tom Emmer is a friend and supporter of Bradlee Dean, who heads up You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, a group that uses stealth tactics to get into public schools posing as a punk rock band that addresses issues like drugs and suicide, and then evanglizes to their captive audiences of public school students. Earlier this year, Dean said this on his radio show: [...]
Comment posted November 10, 2010 @ 7:30 am
I’m tired of listening to these people. They call the execution of these people a moral act. And they pretend to be Christians? They are nothing more than the lie-profits from the Bible. Because of people like them more and more people today refuses the Christianity. These people are agents of the evil. They are ennemies of Christ, of everything He has given us – the life. Gay people don’t have a choice. They are born like that. So if we follow ministry’s logic tomorrow we can pursue people with black hairs and black eyes, because they look like demons. There was such a man in the past, a man who pursued people only because of their race and thinking – Hitler. What’s the difference between the racism and these people – no difference. Jesus Christ has never condamned people because of their sexuality, He always accepts everybody, who repents for his sins. The people are those, who condamned, no matter who are and what they are doing. If they think killing gay people is moral then let them go to Iran immediately. In the Country of Liberty there is no place for such people in my opinion. They think they serve Lord, indeed, they serve to the lord of the flies. I will pray Jesus for forgiving, because they do not know what they are doing.
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 2:50 am
This Dean person is stupid, and takes quotes out of context in the Bible to harbor his bigotry which is a HUGE sin against the Second greatest commandment of God, Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself. In Leviticus there are several things called an abomination including making love to a woman when she has her menstrual period. Did you know if your neighbor has sex with another man’s wife or husband, they should be put to death. Jesus says we should not divorce unless our spouses cheat. There are tons of laws we have loosed, and you bind a clear sin against your neighbor, because they are born different. God is talking about straight people not practicing it. A true gay is a Eunuch. Jesus said nothing about executing them. Muslims don’t believe in Jesus. They also have a large population of hating Americans. They hate Christians too. Heterosexuality immorality is also on the executions list. Don’t pick and choose your Bible passages to suit your lifestyle of lies and hatred. You’ve sent enough people away from God. You should be ashamed. You’re the one who is going to burn. You have already murdered them in your mind. You should accept them in your church, and understand that Jesus loves them too, and died for them. They can live a Christ centered life with no bias. The ones that have a choice will not go there. For they will be loved by Jesus who can heal them. Take your hatred somewhere else.
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 3:12 am
8bithero No this God fella isn’t an asshole…his translators are. God is no bigot. Man made him a bigot, and He’s not happy, because his Christians kill, cheat on their wives, are promiscuous, drunkards, gamblers, drug addicts, gossipers, liars, greedy, haters, the sins go on what is not going to get them into the kingdom of God. The problem is Christians read the Bible, and then pick and choose. I’m a Christian, and a very devout one, but I don’t hate. I love my Jesus who is God, and I’ve had many years of extensive Bible study, and there are a LOT of sins out there which I have mentioned which won’t get you into the kingdom of God. It”s all in the Bible. But the clergy don’t read that part. They think that as long as they’re not gay, they’ll go to Heaven. WRONG…people read that Bible from cover to cover…the New Living Translation. Even you atheists out there. There’s a God out there alright. Science is still trying to find that God Factor that made this earth. The majority though slim, do believe in God. Our earth is too organized and fabulous not to have a head honcho.
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[...] the current GOP Dean’s views are, from the Minnesota Independent: Dean and his ministry have close ties to the Republican Party and GOP elected officials and candidates including gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, Gov. Tim [...]
Comment posted December 4, 2010 @ 7:31 am
Free speech protects them unfortunately. But protest Target?
I have seen this group outside the Walmart in Elk River and Coon Rapids asking for donations for their so called “ministry”. I will be taking pics and posting them every time I see them.
Walmart won’t allow the local youth groups fundraise outside their stores, but they will allow these whackos to. What is next, the KKK or local gangs?
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[...] fellow “minister” Bradlee Dean played a strong supporting role last year. Dean’s radio approval of kindred spirits in murderous homophobia was a key piece in the “Target supports an anti-gay politician” [...]
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[...] which has advocated killing gay people, saying that societies that do kill them are more ”moral” than the contemporary United States. DeMint very frequently repeats that his stance [...]
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[...] strange name: You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit, which more about is here: http://minnesotaindependent.com/58393/gop-linked-punk-rock-ministry-says-executing-gays-is-moral (he’s a fine fellow who wants to track us down and “execute” us gay folks, for the good [...]
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[...] her distress about a news story in which an American “punk rock ministry” said that “executing gays is ‘moral’”. “The bottom line is this … they [homosexuals] play the victim when they are, in fact, the [...]
Comment posted March 6, 2011 @ 5:07 pm
It’s funny, why anyone would listen to any of these people amazes me. These are the exact same things they said about Native American’s to justify their butchering of them. It is the exact same things they said about women, to justify treating them as inferior human being’s, and not allowing them to vote until 1920. It’s the exact same things they said about African American’s to justify their oppression of them for 400 yrs. It’s the exact same things they’re saying today about Muslims, Hispanic immigrants, and Gays& Lesbians. And if suddenly tomorrow the world looked exactly as they want it to look today, and all of the people they hate were gone, guess what, they would still find something to hate, because that’s what they’re haters. Probably religion, hair & eye color, financial reasons, they would find something, I guarantee it.
Wake up America, the oppressed groups aren’t the problem, it’s the crazy reich wing fanatics that have been, always will be, and rarely are not the ones causing all the problems in this country. America will never grow up until it deals with its haters once and for all. The civilized world looks at us like they do the radicle muslims, that this hate group above talked about. It’s no fluke that they’re on the side with radicle muslims either. If they thought they could get away with it tomorrow, they would gas every gay, muslim, immigrant, black, and liberal female in the world, and then find someone else to go after. Terrorists have no religious boundries, the only difference between them and radicle muslims, is they don’t think they could get away with it, or they would do it tomorrow!
Comment posted March 9, 2011 @ 5:43 pm
Things are getting tough for racists these days.
No matter how hard they fight and how long they work, racists are finding it more and more difficult to acquire the resources necessary to multiple to excess.
So now these racists desire to kill gays so they acquire their resources.
They need to take some responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.
Excessive multiplication, pessimism, loyalty to the mendacity, and the illogic behavior promoted by religion is the true cause of their suffering.
Like other life forms religion itself has been subject to a game of survival and sacrifice.
In the past, those religions that best motivated communities of faithful believers to join in a collective effort to out work, out fight, and out number competition survived.
That is to behave like racist, heterofascist, warmongers.
This race to out work, out fight, and out number competition is the race in racism.
The finish line of this race is Armageddon.
Be it therefore resolved that we should:
Replace propagation of pessimism with propagation of optimism.
Replace loyalty to mendacity with loyalty to the truth.
Replace illogical behavior with logical behavior.
If we do so then we will also replace excessive multiplication with sustainable multiplication and avoid going down a path to our own destruction.
Comment posted March 9, 2011 @ 7:59 pm
What do you think God will accept more….me for loving, or you for hating? I AM A PROUD LESBIAN CHRISTIAN AMERICAN!!!
Comment posted March 9, 2011 @ 8:13 pm
Although I do believe homosexuality is wrong and was not intended by God, I do not believe they should not be hurt in anyway. I don’t hate homosexuals, I just hate their sin. We are all sinners in the eyes of God so the fact that I have told a story or gossiped is no different. Yes it is a lifestyle homosexuals carry and they know they will continue so it does make it a bigger issue as far as asking forgiveness and trying to do better next time. God puts laws in place for a reason. He wants us to obey Him because He loves us and doesn’t to see us get her just as any good father would. I am convinced homosexuality is a deception and can be delivered by God. If you think about sin and the consequences of each type of sin, such as sex before marriage can lead to a broken heart or single parenthood or drinking alcohol can lead to a life of misery, homosexuality can lead to a life of misery because of what it costs to live that life. I obey Him and pray as much as I can because I know who He is and have a relationship with Him. I started out obeying Him because of the fear of going to hell. People go to hell everyday, sad. God knows our hearts and knows when we are trying and He knows when we aren’t. God is a merciful, loving God not a King that expects perfection, but He is also a God that will not force His love on anyone and a just God. He wants to give all homosexuals a chance for redemption, but they have to read the bible number one and know that it is wrong. Number two ask Him for His help and never give up and never cease praying. He will help you as long as you ask and believe. I was delivered from sexual sins. It was a struggle but I prayed everyday, throughout the day and cried many tears but He came through just like a wonderful father does. He craves the relationship not religion, all the sin in your life will be dealt with between you and God. He wants your attention, that’s why we were all created for our love and attention like parents that have a baby. Find a good bible you can understand like a message bible, find a good church that you know is about the relationship not religion and pray when you need to and just thank Him in advance for delivering you from this tangled web. No hole is too deep for Him to pull you out of. He created you, He knows you better than you know yourself.
Comment posted March 9, 2011 @ 8:22 pm
Oh and for those homosexuals that say they aren’t miserable or ashamed of what they do, it’s because the devil knows he has you so why would he bother to make you miserable. It’s a battle between good and evil ladies and gentleman, but we win as long as we choose God to fight that battle. It is much easier to say I love my sin than to confront it. I say it’s better to be safe than sorry. Think about how short this life is compared to eternity. If you choose to not get rid of the sin, you are risking burning in hell for eternity. I pray for those reading this and that they will confront their sin and never give up to be delivered from it. It may be a long road but it is much shorter than eternity in hell and God knows when you are trying and loves for you to ask His help. He never gets tired of it, He’s God, He can handle it.
Comment posted March 10, 2011 @ 1:45 am
Be careful of defamation through libel. Get your information from the source instead of from someone who distorts information due to their own paranoid bias. Do your own research, people. Hatred arises from people believing those with the most attitude because they’re too lazy to trade knowledge for ignorance.
From the site: http://youcanruninternational.com/news/affirming-our-stance-on-homosexuality.html
“Using an excerpt from our radio show, taken out of context, to suggest that I have called for the execution of homosexuals is not accurate, nor is it correct. I was not affirming Islamic law. I was contrasting its excesses with the approach of Christianity which recognizes both the law and grace. I have never said that homosexuals should be subject to any kind of violence. I oppose exercising any kind of violence on them.”
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Comment posted March 10, 2011 @ 8:26 am
Kay Poynter: The YouTube embed features audio from Bradlee Dean’s radio show. It is presented in its own context.
Comment posted March 28, 2011 @ 10:14 am
1. The entire Bachmann wing of the Republican Party will be tarred with the nonsense of these people as surely as the entire Democratic Party was tarred in ’72 by the radical wing. 2. Obama will mop up the floor with these people in ’12.
Comment posted April 19, 2011 @ 8:38 am
don’t forget to execute all those divorced and remarried bible thumpers. after all, jesus himself forbid remarrying after divorce labeling it adultery. adultery is against one of the ten commandments and is also a transgression punishable by death.
Pingback posted May 3, 2011 @ 11:41 pm
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Pingback posted May 18, 2011 @ 1:29 pm
[...] is perhaps best known for his admiring comments concerning Muslim countries that call for the execution of homosexuals (though he says his words were “twisted”, but it’s all on tape for anyone to [...]
Comment posted May 20, 2011 @ 11:06 am
The poor thing must be in the closet himself. So sad. I just can’t imagine a grownup man spending his life “fighting” the issue so proactively and passionately on behalf of others unless he is trying to overcome or justify some insecurities of his own. Maybe he needs to get laid once and be done with it???
Comment posted May 20, 2011 @ 11:43 am
Those two twinks in the picture couldn’t be any gayer if their last name were Gayerson. Guess that’s 234 children in danger of being molested before McMillian and Dean’s first rentboy-splurge is made public.
Pingback posted May 25, 2011 @ 2:58 am
[...] Bradlee Dean… Dean has made many controversial statements as pastor of You Can Run, including advocating the incarceration of gays and lesbians, that the LGBT community is trying to usher in Sharia law in Minnesota, that gay men molest an average of 117 children “before they get caught,” and that Muslim nations that execute gays are more moral than American Christians. [...]
Pingback posted May 26, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
[...] Last week, legislators gave a thumbs-up to an anti-gay Constitutional amendment, just one day after a crazed pastor took the floor of the House to deliver a prayer that was almost as rambling and offensive as the time he said that executing gays is “moral.” [...]
Pingback posted May 26, 2011 @ 1:14 pm
[...] Last week, legislators gave a thumbs-up to an anti-gay Constitutional amendment, just one day after a crazed pastor took the floor of the House to deliver a prayer that was almost as rambling and offensive as the time he said that executing gays is “moral.” [...]
Pingback posted June 28, 2011 @ 4:08 pm
[...] these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.” (http://minnesotaindependent.com/58393/gop-linked-punk-rock-ministry-says-executing-gays-is-moral) It was the same attitude that Bachmann has taken, even speaking out against her own family and her [...]
Pingback posted July 5, 2011 @ 11:01 pm
[...] that President Obama isn’t a Christian, which is apparently worse than saying you should kill gay [...]
Pingback posted July 20, 2011 @ 5:11 pm
[...] the candidate. Dean has repeatedly called for gays and lesbians to be put in prison and has said executing gays is “moral.” He also directs his invective at Muslims and [...]
Pingback posted July 26, 2011 @ 7:04 pm
[...] to Dean’s remarks here and judge for [...]
Pingback posted July 27, 2011 @ 10:05 am
[...] told WND that the original distortion of the comments was made by writer Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent, who headlined a story "GOP-linked punk rock ministry says executing gays is 'moral'." The [...]
Pingback posted July 27, 2011 @ 5:35 pm
[...] to Dean’s remarks here and judge for [...]
Comment posted September 4, 2011 @ 3:00 am
If this was going on in Britain I’d try to get them done for it. I have a gf in America but am starting to feel scared to go there.
Comment posted September 25, 2011 @ 9:49 pm
So, this so called Rev. Dean has tattoos? Isn’t there a mention in the Book about sacrament of the flesh? I am pretty sure His Divine Highness the Almighty wouldn’t approve of tattoos. They are not of His image, the image (I mean first brand) that was ordained under the Cross (the worlds first logo). It’s so boring to hear the righteous bull crap that spews from one idiots mouth. But it gets annoying, insulting and threatening when this one idiots mouth is close to a presidential candidates ears.
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