GOP invites preacher who advocates jailing gays to give House prayer

Here comes the American Taliban, and the GOP is holding the door for them.

Praise Jebus, God hates Democracy, Amen

Here IS the American Taliban.

I’m beginning to wonder if Bradlee was himself abused as a child and is circumventing professional help with religious quackery… purely speculation – but he does seem to be obsessed with misguided hate and anger.

Nice that Bradlee put on his best sweatsuit for the occasion.

Wasn’t that guy the guitar player for Winger?

Is the GOP insinuating that “average” Minnesotans for the amendment are actually insane and crazy ultra-conservative zealots who wish for incarceration of gays? I would like to find this place in our state, maybe St. Cloud is a start…

Enjoy your American taliban and syariah style lychings, America. Enjoy.

For those unfamiliar with Mr. Dean, his organization has mis-represented itself on numerous occasions. About five years ago, hte Buffalo (MN) high school principal stopped a presentation of theirs when the deviated from the original plan of anti-drug healthy self message and fired up the preaching.

But if anyone is looking for a nice home in the country, Dean’s residence in Wright County (French Lake Township) is for sale.

@Criss cross

They don’t have to insinuate anything. If you have anti-gay animus then you’re a hater. Period. There is no negotiation. So the question becomes, if you are against me on *this* then where does it end? Don’t think for a second that there aren’t millions of Christians just like this guy out there. And you can put “Christian” in quotes to pretend like they somehow aren’t “real” but the truth is that they are only following the bible. Believer of Christ = Christian. The parts they ignore don’t matter.

I’m pretty sure his hair is a law against nature.

Who in the blazes invited this hateful man to do the prayer? This is seriously way beyond UFF DA!

Two people with knowledge say GOP Rep. Ernie Leidiger of Mayer invited Bradlee Dean to give the House Prayer

Uganda be kidding me! Dean bleets the discredited Scott Lively and Paul Cameron garbage about LGBTI people. Same folks responsible for the Kill The Gays legislation in Uganda. His type dont want to “jail” gay people, they want them dead!!!!

How many more “prayers” do we need to hear out of the mouths of A-holes before we wise up and stop making prayer a part of government proceedings? As far as I can tell, nobody in the legislature does anything particularly prayerful after the prayer has ended. It’s back to sniping, partisanship, and personal attacks. And Jesus would probably appreciate it if his loudest supporters weren’t so willfully ignorant and offensive.

[...] House this morning was none other than religious extremist and avid homophobe Bradlee Dean. (Dean has, among other things, advocated for jailing gays, but has also appeared alongside many promi….) Once word got out about Dean’s background, a storm of controversy followed. Majority Leader [...]

There is no possible way this is true. Please tell me you are making it up.

@Steve: I wish it weren’t true. Oh how I wish.

Not what Jesus would do. Jeebus, maybe. And this guy is clearly a follower of Jeebus the Redneck Deity.

I give it six months until somebody drags him out of the closet. Nobody can have this big a problem with gays and lesbians without hating who they are themselves.

MPR is reporting that Rep. Ernie Leidiger invited Dean today:

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/members/members.asp?id=15355

Why the hell didn’t anybody have the guts to start pounding their shoe like Nikita Khrushchev? Screw decorum! Ernie Leidiger….you got some ‘splainin’ to do.

Republicans despoil all they touch. It is now the party of the 30% of the body politic consumed by self-loathing and nihilism.

How many of these child molesters with an average of 117 victims were priests?

Religion : morals as Jim Jones : FlavorAid.

And Jesus wept.

This is textbook self loathing. I am willing to bet every single thing that I own that this man is a closet homosexual. “The sky wizard said that having the gay is a sin, so I have to be EXTRA not gay to make up for it.” This guy has some rock solid logic.

Is he wanting to jail gays and lesbians for morality reasons…or is this his own personal prison fantasy?

How long before he’s caught in an airport men’s room tapping his foot?

Yes, this is the Minnesota GOP. Watch and despair.

What an embarassment Dean has caused MN. It’s all over the national news. Time to stop including a prayer – that’s not permitted in city and county goverment, so why is it done in our state capitol?

Can we put a ban on people in ponytails and track suits from marrying? Talk about an abomination!

II happen to know, after being an advocate at a sexual assault center, that most men that molest children are heterosexual. That man just revealed how uneducated he is and full of hate, he should get his facts straight..
Jesus was about love, not hate, how can he claim to be a follower of Jesus and spew
hatred around? It is outrageous that a man so full of hatred would be asked to lead our legislators in prayer to set the tone of the session.

[...] Minnesota Independent noted that Dean has a history of controversial remarks, “including advocating the incarceration of [...]

Tony… just to be clear… are you saying that all Christians are to be neutralized, and the Bible is to be neutralized? I know that’s what a lot of folks believe, but usually they try to avoid saying it directly in order to avoid alienating the Moderates. You came closer to doing so than most folks do. So, while you’re at it, could you please just state it unambiguously, so everyone understands what the culture war is actually about? The reality is, the position of Bible-believers doesn’t necessarily involve any hate. We simply subordinate our own opinions to the absolutes of God’s Word. The folks on the other side either have a different positive belief system which they believe comes from Divine revelation, or more commonly they just oppose the Bible because they oppose ALL absolutes and refuse to let anyone tell them what to do.

Has the GOP lost its mind — inviting a fringe element hate monger to speak in the House? What – was Fred Phelps unavailable??

Bradlee got touched by his uncle

Gaymen!

[...] mixed well… SIGH. I just hope the christians here can speak up to this nonsense: From the Minnesota Independent: GOP invites preacher who advocates jailing gays to give House prayer By Andy Birkey | 05.20.11 [...]

@Don – it’s not anger. He gets paid $3K per appearance at school assemblies and he does hundreds of those per year. He gets to pretend to be a rock star, only have afternoon hours, and get summers off. He gets to be on the radio, which I am sure pays well too.

There’s too much money in being antigay to assume there’s anything else wrong. Occam’s razor and such. I began to realize this when I read that George Rekkers was paid $120K to testify against gay adoptions in FL.

[...] stated that Muslim countries who put gays to death are more moral than American Christians, and who has asserted that gay men molest around 117 kids before they are caught.  He has been supported by the [...]

[...] Minnesota Independent noted that Dean has a history of controversial remarks, “including advocating the incarceration of gays [...]

Oh and “You Can Run but You Can’t Hide?” His ORGANIZATION’S NAME is a threat. The GOP is surprised by Bradlee Dean? Hardly.

Bradley Dean is a sociopath, but all those who are supporting the “marriage amendment” are supporting a sociopathic agenda.

What? There is prayer to start sessions? WTF???? In one form or another it’s hate speech no matter what flavor.

[...] controversial anti-gay preacher questioned President Obama’s Christianity Friday morning, when he delivered the morning prayer on the [...]

Bradlee Dean stood up for his beleifs. He has every right to express his opinion. Anyone who thinks otherwise and verbally assaults him is intolerant. Any yes, in my opinion, Gays are the scum of this earth and should be treated with hormone injections to be normalised, just the way God made us and the way Nature wants us. And yes it is sceintifically proven that Gays are not born Gay, they chose this disgusting path because they’re screwed up in the head :)

Well, I think it’s pretty clear that Bradlee Dean is gay and can’t come to terms with it.

And I thought the right wing lacked a sense of humor. Who knew?

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I don’t believe in your god. I have never heard so much hate before in my life. So, according to your god, all those heterosexuals who get divorced(more than 50%) should be jailed or murdered as well since they disobeyed your god, correct?
Heterosexuals abuse and molest children. Just ask your priests!

Doesn’t your bible have something in it about not judging people, casting the first stone, and to love thy neighbor? There are so many interpretations of your book that you biblical experts can’t even agree on your book’s meaning. You twist it into your biased interpretations. Truly, only your maker knows its meaning. Remember that you will be judged by your maker.

…..christianity at work !!!

So, Bradlee says George W. Bush is a “christian”, although he LIED us into Iraq

and caused the deaths of 6000 US soldiers and a million Iraqis.

And he himself LIES about gays, etc.

He is ONE of those that Jesus will tell: “Depart from me. I NEVER knew you.”

Me thinks he doth protest too much.

Whatever happened to all those pledges that they were going to focus only on the economy?

They continue to show their true colors every day.

Hopefully we can take back the house and senate next year and give Dayton something to work with.

[...] Minnesota Independent noted that Dean has a history of controversial remarks, “including advocating the incarceration of [...]

wayne – ask the Native Americans how much they liked “christianity at work” when the Europeans came here.

Alex-

In a twisted way this IS part of their economic agenda. Religious fundamentalists believe that the current economic recession is the result of God punishing America, and therefore Minnesota, for tolerating GLBT rights (to the meager extent this has occurred), reproductive rights (abortions), teaching evolution rather than creationism, etc. Their goal is to appease God through the oppression of their fellow citizens with an imposition of their religion on all. They are, in fact, the American Taliban.

Google C-Street, read about “The Family” and look to Uganda and Iran for C-Street’s model for a righteous America.

Praise Jebus, God hates freedom of religion, Amen

This jackass calls himself a man of God? He’s an insult to Christians everywhere and should be defrocked. What he teaches is hate. There is no place in any church or political party for someone as loathsome and vile. I wish the Judgement day did come just so Jesus could kick this guy’s ass.

[...] GOP invites preacher who advocates jailing gays to give House prayer [MN Independent] [...]

I REALLY REALLY hoped that the end of the world predictions would come true today, and that this clown and all his radical right Christian ilk would get “raptured” off the earth. But the day has almost ended, and still no apocalypse. My prayer: C’mon, GOD, if you exist, PLEEEEEZE take these A-holes of yours off the earth today! I’ll gayly accept the horrors and chaos and worldwide rule of The Beast if I just don’t have to hear the same anti-gay bigoted lies spewed again for the umpteen-jillionth time!

I hope the people of Minnesota roundly reject this garbage. I have a lot of gay friends and trust me, they didn’t choose to be gay. They just ARE. Some say that their lives would’ve been a heck of lot easier if they were straight.
If it is not a choice, then treat them as equals! If you hear someone giving gays a rough time, just ask them: “When did you choose to be heterosexual??”
It is something to think about.

Oh, someone mentioned sociopathic in these comments. With my experiences, I would say that Bradlee Dean does exhibit a lot sociopathic behavior. Possibly couched in a narcissistic personality disorder. While not in the DSM-IV manual, I’d mention sadistic personality disorder.
If it turns out that he is actually gay, it would change my assessment completely.

Well, if this doesn’t cause a MASSIVE countrywide $#itstorm, then you’ll have your proof that this country is already past repair. I’m really starting to wonder when the apathetic majority is going to get off it’s collective butt and go Wisconsin on the whole GOP. The GOP campaigned on Jobs, Jobs & More Jobs but all they’ve done since is attack abortion rights & access, Planned Parenthood, women’s rights, Medicare, Social Security, art, public infrastructure (FLA train), attack immigrants/Muslims/homosexuals, social programs that assist minorities/poor/disabled/seniors and launched a full-fledged attack on union rights. People actually believed these Teanderthals wanted to do something about jobs??

OMG, the only people who HATE gays like that are ones who are afraid of their sexuality themselves … come on out of the closet, Bradlee Dean!

Nice one..
just noticed that any anti-gay comments get deleted!
freedom of speech??!!!

[...] GOP invites preacher who advocates jailing gays to give House prayer [MN Independent] [...]

[...] http://minnesotaindependent.com/81762/gop-invites-preacher-who-advocates-jailing-gays-to-give-house-... [...]

This man needs to come out of the closet. The louder they scream, the more they are hiding. This one, sounds like homosexual incest to me. Paging NAMBLA.

“Religious fundamentalists believe that the current economic recession is the result of God punishing America, and therefore Minnesota, for tolerating GLBT rights (to the meager extent this has occurred), reproductive rights (abortions), teaching evolution rather than creationism, etc. Their goal is to appease God through the oppression of their fellow citizens with an imposition of their religion on all. They are, in fact, the American Taliban. ”

sounds an awful lot like throwing the virgin into the volcano so that it doesnt erupt, doesn’t it?

Hmm. Maybe he is acting out his anger as a result of being molested as a young boy by someone of the same sex..

[...] Minnesota Independent: Minnesota House Republicans invited anti-gay preacher Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot [...]

I hope everyone from Minnesota understands that the whole nation (at least the sane parts) are starting to think of you all as crazies. Who knew, I always thought the mid-west was somewhat moderate.

Men like him will have Christians like me put into concentration camps and/or shot, since we’re not sufficiently “evanglical” or “born again”.

Isn’t this guy Michelle Bachmann’s ‘best-bud’?

I can understand why Florida is full of nut-cases. It is America’s version of Australia where the morally and criminally challenged are banished.

I can’t figure you all up North out. Is there something in the drinking water up there in Wisconsin and Minnesota that encourages wingnuts like these to prosper?

It’s no wonder Bradlee is afraid of queers.. With hair like that he has probably been passed around like a joint at every biker bar in the mid-west.. What a pretty man..

Why was there a prayer at the beginning of a government meeting anyway? That should not happen. Since when do we begin business with a shot of superstition? Christians need to be put in their place. THIS IS A SECULAR NATION. There is no room for politicians that believe in Santa Claus. Get real…

@ Bob O’Link –

“I can’t figure you all up North out. Is there something in the drinking water up there in Wisconsin and Minnesota that encourages wingnuts like these to prosper?”

They snuck in from Iowa and North Dakota when we weren’t looking.

Lol.. @ Thomas and BobO’ Link.. U guys rock!!

I don’t care about Bradlee Dean being what he is. It’s his choice.

What freaks me out beyond repair is the fact that Michelle Bachmann, Tom Emmer and a busload of other Republican legislators from Minnesota are friends with him and routinely go to his “church”. Corporations like Target and Best Buy have backed Tom Emmer with decent money, so chain of connections here is just plain scary. Target CEO and his wife made personal donations up to allowable maximum to Tom Emmer and Michelle Bachmann. Scary!

It’s time for religious radicals to leave the government. Minnesota is better than this.

NEWS: Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann Lime Jello Wrestle-Off

I heard that to settle just who is the most bitchin’ TeaBagger Babe… the 2 will wrestle in a vat filled with 2000 gallons of Lime Jello set up in the student center at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Jerry Falwell will be the rignside announcer.

Mr. B. Dean be the referee.

Rush Limbaugh will be selling Viaga in the mens room.

A good time will be had by all.

Say what you will but he’s right about gays. We better make sure to vote the Jesus would want next year

@Lamar-

Should you choose to research BD’s position you will find he is not correct in fact nor defensible in faith. Bigotry and ignorance are no replacement for knowledge.

Praise Jebus, God hates antipsychotics, Amen.

The man’s offensive. But if he is really a official religious preacher then he should be treated the same as every other religious official who delivers these prayers. That’s what the Constitution’s 1st Amendment is all about.

kurt zeller has tried to erase all of this from history, it has been stricken from the documents.

rep.kurt.zellers@house.mn

tell him how you feel about that

@egc52556-

Every other religious person that offers up the opening prayer is expected to remain non-partisan and non-denominational. BD violated both rules of the House. And there is no first amendment right to give an opening prayer on the House floor.

Praise Jebus, God hates prayers of hope and grace, Amen.

@Gordon
You posted:
“Gays [...] should be treated with hormone injections to be normalised, just the way God made us and the way Nature wants us.” In addition, you posted (paraphrased) that that “gays were not born gay.”

Can you not see the glaring contradiction you posted there? If they *needed* hormones to be injected to be “normalized”, wouldn’t that tell you by default that they *WERE* born this way? Your post is full of errors and contradictions.

Re: your implication that “Nature ‘wants us’”. I refer you to Nature in all its glory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior

Yes, you are free to express your opinions. But those who express opinions that are based only on “ew ew ew I think they’re icky” and then having the temerity to imply that they are based on unfounded statements are going to be criticized for those opinions.

That’s not being intolerant. That’s being called out.

[...] yes, that Bradlee Dean, recently gave the opening prayer before the Minnesota house.   And, asshole that he is, he pissed people off: “I know this is a [...]

Just come out of the closet and admit you are gay already Brandlee. It is ok. This horse and pony show you call “religion” is just making you look ignorant.

Is Bradlee Dean related to Charles Manson the mass murderer? He sure looks and acts like it.

I would just like to apologize on behalf of christians for this mans behavior it does not in any way reflect the teachings of Jesus Christ nor does it represent a vast majority of believer’s opinions I myself am a christian and believe that this man is insane and he does not have any idea what the jesus teaches in the bible

@nick

IMHO, you have no responsibility to apologize for the behavior of others. But please continue calling out those misguided people that claim bigotry and misinformation as tools of evangelism. Conservative religions will not be changed from outside. And they certainly don’t listen to heathens such as myself.

Praise Jebus, God hates the fallen, Amen.

That is exactly what hitler did in the leadup to the holocaust of gay people. He needed more time re all the Jews so he just imprisoned them in the ghetto

And lets not forget the Slavs and others who perished in the holocaust – total victims of mass organized murder estimated at 11 million. Jews were the single largest ethnic / religious group, 6 million..

GORDON (and any other HATEFUL believers in God)… First, just remember you too will be judged by the same God that will judge me! So Id watch that tongue! Secondly, I don’t know what scientific research you have learned, but you should get your tuition back because they taught you wrong! There have been many scientific studies done that prove that there IS a GAY GENE!!! Lastly I say if you believe in God you probably shouldn’t reference science, because it goes against Christian beliefs!!! IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Bradlee Dean is just as much a man of God as Hitler or Charles Manson…

[...] Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent reports that House Republicans invited ultra-right wing anti-gay, anti-Islam activist Bradlee Dean to deliver the morning prayer … and it went about as well as one would expect: [...]

You Minnesota Independent have again taken Bradlee Deans quotes out of context. He is talking about pederasts here. Men that violate little boys. These people get up to 20 years in prison. Bradlee Dean is protecting the kids from these criminals. As he always has. Put it into context next time Andy.

[...] Minnesota GOP invites moron to give House prayer [...]

Is time wasted time discuss with a person does not live like Christ. The day he or others like travel like Jesus, wearing sandals and modest clothes, sleep in a shelter with poor people and not in hotels and walk, will be the day to talk with them.They don’t like gay people but participate in their life, use clothes, drive cars, live in hotels designed and in their confection are gay people working, receive the service where are gay people, mean they are giving people they don’t like opportunity to work, make money and live, if they don’t like gay suppose don’t give them the chance to live, in the other hand they should give the example of living,traveling and teaching like Jesus without those sophistication of the modern life.
Thousands years ago French monks risk their life to built those hugs Gothic’s cathedrals to honor God, risk and sacrifice their life, are those guys brave and real believers to put their life in the border that way?

Stop talking, Show how deep believe in God and imitate the way Jesus lived, show examples of how can sacrifice their life to honor God and stop helping gay people to live wearing clothes of recognized designers, rich cars producers, etc. business and products where gay people don’t participate at all.