All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Tendrin]

Being anti-trans vs hurting her are 2 different things. Also, actions speak louder than thoughts.

Oh brother.

[numberthirty]

How many times has she been hurt?

0, which is why you couldn't answer

To be polite about it, there's really no way that you can actually know that.

If anything, the odds are on the opposite.

[numberthirty]

Being anti-trans vs hurting her are 2 different things. Also, actions speak louder than thoughts.

You are talking like their is no conceivable scenario where living in an anti-trans world actually hurts trans folks.

Which is just beyond silly.

As for that second part, anti-trans actions happen every single day in this world. Words/thoughts/whatever?

It's just an afterthought.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” we looked at former Tennessee state legislator Stacey Campfield, who once accused the Black caucus of the state legislature for being more racist for the KKK for not letting him join (because he's not African American) also wanted to pass a law requiring death certificates be printed for aborted fetuses, repeatedly tried to pass laws to make it illegal to even say "gay" let alone be gay, blamed the spread of AIDS on a gay flight attendant having sex with an African monkey (which is, of course, not just scientifically incorrect but insane), and compared Democrats touting the number of people signing up for the Affordable Care Act to "Nazis bragging about train rides for Jews". Yes, Campfield was that charming, and people noticed after a long enough stretch of his dumbassery to vote him out of office.


On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" profiled the U.S. House Representative from California's 23rd Congressional District, Kevin McCarthy, who has served for it since 2007, and the man who was supposed to be the heir-apparent to become Speaker of the House after the resignation of John Boehner, until he botched his debut taking the spotlight by boasting about how he had done a great job as one of the Republicans who started the Benghazi hearings which had successfully driven down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers… which gave away the game the GOP were playing for three years with the topic. It also didn’t help that McCarthy is one of the WORST public speakers in all of Congress (highlights here, courtesy of Rachel Maddow), or that he was also rumored to be having an affair with his colleague, Rep. Renee Ellmers. Even prior to his catastrophic attempt at becoming House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy has a long, long history of dumbassery within his legislative career, including co-sponsoring legislation in 2007 to stop the “War on Christmas” by passing a bill to recognize the importance of Christmas and Christianity, and signing onto a letter from the Family Research Council pledging that he agrees with them that gay candidates should be barred from public office, and he will never support any of them. That should come as little surprise, as McCarthy and his wife have been interviewed together and have talked openly about how they feel how people "don't want them to have their right to be a Christian" in America today. Throw in twice voting to defund Planned Parenthood, voting against equal pay for women consistently, and voting against raising the debt ceiling, and you really start to get a big picture of how a box of rocks would get a higher SAT score than Kevin McCarthy. In the build-up to the 2016 election, McCarthy was trying to appease the lunatics in his party by promising publicly to turn a prospective Hillary Clinton administration into a never-ending line of hearings about faux-scandals, and teasing that they might vote on impeachment.

Kevin McCarthy was in the 2016 elections, coming from the most conservative district in California, and has proceeded to continue to shoot his mouth off and embarrass his party, including his admission that he was indifferent about a White Nationalist like Steve Bannon serving as an advisor to the President of the United States, or when audio of him laughing with Congressional colleagues about how he believes both Donald Trump (at the time of the recording, the GOP’s nominee for president), as well as a fellow California Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, were both being paid by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

In May of 2017, McCarthy was egregiously lying and claiming the GOP’s “Trumpcare” plan to replace the ACA wouldn’t cause anyone to lose their Medicaid coverage, in spite of the assessment from the CBO and every medical organization that predicted it would do precisely that. In May of 2018, McCarthy also tried perpetuating the myth that social media platforms were “censoring” the opinions of conservatives, lashing out at Twitter for the fact that he couldn’t read a post from Fox News’ useful idiot Laura Ingraham. This, however, just let House Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi come along to point out McCarthy was a tech-illiterate boob who didn’t know how to adjust his settings to see the post. And when an octogenarian is more tech savvy than you, you’re hopeless.

Lord only knows what McCarthy will do if he starts echoing the Trump White House’s attacks on Elizabeth Warren for proving her Native American heritage when McCarthy’s own in-laws are in legal trouble for signing up for government loans for Native Americans while claiming 1/8 Cherokee heritage (that they apparently don’t have). Meanwhile, as the 2018 election approached and anti-semitic and racist conspiracy theories were spread by several Republican candidates in a Trumpian effort, who else followed up a mass shooting at a synagogue and a serial bomber’s attacks by continuing to demonize George Soros with the same ads? Kevin McCarthy.


Kevin McCarthy remains an awful public speaker, and cracks under almost zero pressure in interviews. Further proof would be his interview with CNN’s Dana Bash from August of 2018 when he froze up when asked about how frequently the Trump White House were caught in lies and we got quite an encore in September of 2019 as Kevin McCarthy’s defense of Trump’s actions in trying to force Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and withhold military aid from them when he did was that Scott Pelley “added a word” into the transcript that changed the context and posited that it proved Trump’s innocence. (Note: Pelley didn’t add a word, he read what the Trump White House released verbatim, and even with an extra word… it did not make the situation any better.)

After spending the better part a year slandering Robert Mueller and the FBI agents who are investigating the same links to Trump and Russia that Kevin McCarthy was caught on audio establishing as a real thing… William Barr came along to try and end the Mueller Investigation, and almost immediately, Trump started doing new crimes openly with Ukraine. McCarthy is stuck in a perpetual loop of being Trump’s b****, because he isn’t smart enough to realize this cycle of Trump being lawless and him having to defend the indefensible will never end.

It’s almost fitting that Kevin McCarthy had to be the one to tell Donald Trump to stop attacking vote-by-mail because Republican’s reliable voters are older, and at-risk, so if in-person voting is supposedly “unsafe” or “unreliable”… the GOP would have its voters afraid of catching Covid-19 and staying home on election day to avoid catching it at the polls. Trump didn’t listen, because of course that f***ing moron didn’t, and McCarthy Trump’s chances just before the 2020 election and declared, “We’re screwed.”

[worstblogever]

McCarthy has gone back to Washington to vote against the interests of his constituents, consistently:

• December 10th, 2020: McCarthy signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The same election that he won re-election in.
• January 7th, 2021: Kevin McCarthy votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message that he wasn’t intimidated or sympathetic to those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
• January 13th, 2021: Rep. McCarthy votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because the Republican Party no longer feels like they should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
• February 4th, 2021: Kevin McCarthy votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
• February 25th, 2021: McCarthy votes against HR 5, the latest version of the Equality Act, that would provide workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.
• March 3rd, 2021: Rep. McCarthy votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
• March 3rd, 2021: Kevin McCarthy votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
• March 10th, 2021: McCarthy votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
• March 17th, 2021: Rep. McCarthy votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
• May 19th, 2021: Rep. McCarthy votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
• May 20th, 2021: McCarthy is one of 63 Republicans who vote against the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act.

Now, we’re not about to forget that during the January 6th attack, Kevin McCarthy was known to have called Donald Trump to ask him to call his dogs off, and was chastised by Donnie Coup Coup Puffs not doing enough to help the mad king just declare himself ruler for life. We only know because Congresswoman Jamie Herrera-Beutler dropped word about it to the press.

For a few days after the January 6th attack, Kevin McCarthy talked about having an investigation and holding those responsible accountable for what they’d done. Once he had time to regroup with members of his caucus to find out… UH OH, looks like they all helped plan this… well, he’s backpedaled by a few weeks later to saying “everyone” was responsible for the attack, in the classic domestic abuser’s mentality that their wife made them hit her.

He met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and immediately was brought to heel like the cowering dog he is, failed to hold a raving madwoman like Marjorie Taylor-Greene in any way accountable for the multiple inflammatory and widely untrue comments she makes, but meanwhile held Liz Cheney accountable for trying to defend American democracy against Republicans’ attempts at placing Trump in power in an election he lost by seven million votes and fell in line with the biggest dunces in this party to try to refuse to wear masks in the House, going as far as trying to claim that there’s no science behind wearing them to prevent the spread of disease.

He dug in to do everything he could to sabotage a non-partisan investigation, and lead House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to go ahead with having just a Special Committee investigation. He’s made threats to telecomm companies that they’ll be punished should they comply with the investigation by turning over phone records or in any way, potentially committing obstruction of justice in the process.

When history looks back on this era of this country, and Republicans faile to have any principles or backbone are mentioned, Kevin McCarthy will be listed as a prime example of who those doormats were.

[Malvolio]

Hypocrisy comes in many forms, just look at our major political parties, but you are talking about causation. Just because people have made an industry of lazy psychologizing does not make correct.

No I was not talking about causation. I was saying that while pastors are themselves molesting children, they would preach against adult homosexuals as if they were the cause of pedophilia. There is no evidence of homosexuality as the cause of pedophilia, but child molesting preachers would say that it is in order to deflect from their own sins.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day posted profiles of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a man the general public finds the most loathsome and revolting personality in American government, with a “Frank Burns” energy he exudes to truly cement himself in that title. Sen. Cruz is one of the most willfully repugnant heels in the GOP these days, who revels in causing outrage among those on the left, as if it’s a form of sustenance he needs to survive day to day. Ted Cruz (a.k.a. Rafael Cruz) has not only inherited an uncanny likeness to legendary “Red Scare” perpetrator Sen. Joe McCarthy, he has also adopted his tactics, making baseless claims to demonize anyone to the left of his far, far right agenda while sneering through media interviews where he plays the victim of a “vast liberal media conspiracy” when he’s called out for being a total douchebag (Cruz actually accused the moderator of the third GOP Primary debate of liberal bias in 2016 for asking him a question he didn't want to answer about the debt ceiling). It’s hard to pick any one single moment as Cruz’s potential lowest point in politics as among his most revolting moments included when he advocated for U.S. surveillance of Muslim communities to "patrol and secure" practitioners of Islam, when he sat down for an interview with the leader of the anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, and spread lies about how transgendered people are sexually assaulting women in public bathrooms, when he blamed Democrats for not caring enough about violence against the LGBTQ community after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, and called a witness to testify in Congress who immediately accused our two Muslim Congressmen, Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, of being secret members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sen. Cruz was the driving force behind the 2013 Government Shutdown, and then was shocked when his GOP colleagues held him accountable for it when it quickly proved a failed endeavor.

Opinion polls have shown that the more people who learn Ted Cruz exists, the more people polled also develop an unfavorable view of him, he decided to make a run for the White House in 2016, only avoiding being the biggest racist, sexist troll of the bunch because Donald Trump was in the mix. Ted Cruz once filibustered for 21 hours straight in Congress (which he ignorantly compared to the Bataan death march), and by “filibuster” I mean “talks ad nauseum while no other Congressional business was scheduled”. The highlight of that speech was perhaps when he misinterpreted the meaning behind the classic children’s book “Green Eggs and Ham” in regards to the Affordable Care Act, and interpreted to be about someone who was justifiably stubborn, rather than a tale of someone who should be open to new things. Without irony, he called himself a "modern day Galileo" for his brave stance in denying climate change AGAINST all science and reason, which is precisely the opposite of what Galileo did back during the Renaissance. Cruz single-handedly held up government aid to fix the lead-contaminated water system in Flint, Michigan for no particular reason except that he’s a d***.

Cruz is such a callous prick that he actually stated joking about Vice President Joe Biden while he was grieving over the loss of his son, Beau, and was not speaking publicly, and when news broke that former President Jimmy Carter was battling brain cancer, Cruz took it as a cue to bash his one term in office at the Iowa State Fair to garner Republican Primary votes. He considers the Supreme Court's rulings on same sex marriage "the very definition of tyranny". He has tried proving his manliness by placing raw bacon on the barrel of a machine gun, firing it repeatedly so it would get hot, and then eat it. Ted Cruz is a man whose honest goal is to see he U.S. Senate filled with himself and 99 other people just like his hero, legendary Senator and unapologetic segregationalist Jesse Helms. He is, in short, the most unlikable bastard in Washington, D.C. at the moment, and we’re talking about a place that features alleged child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz. Even those from his own party has stalwarts like Sen. John McCain referred to him as a “whacko bird”, a term that Cruz takes as a compliment and former House Speaker John Boehner has called Ted Cruz "Lucifer in the Flesh", or alternatively, remarks that we would have to censor.

Seriously, everyone hates Ted Cruz, down to his own family, as evidenced by the above animated gif of his daughter recoiling in horror at the thought of getting a kiss from him, and the unedited, raw footage of his family awkwardly trying to come up with nice things to say about him during his presidential campaign. Before his campaign was over, he was utterly humiliated in moments like when he named a vice-presidential candidate on his ticket to help him get more support with Republican women... Carly Fiorina, who proceeded to fall off the stage when she was introduced at one of his rallies.

The oddest thing about the 2016 GOP Presidential Primary was that somehow, Donald Trump proved himself to be enough of a raging ***hole that we almost... ALMOST felt bad for Ted Cruz. If there was ever a metaphor for Cruz being overshadowed by Trump, it was probably when he was literally speaking out against the sentient rancid tangerine at the RNC, and Trump's plane buzzed his speech. I mean, when he got called "Lyin' Ted", we didn't blink, because Ted Cruz is a prolific liar. But when Trump started outright clowning him and called his wife Heidi ugly, or accused Sen. Cruz's father of being an accomplice in the assassination of JFK... Well, that was brutal. And it made it easy to understand why Ted Cruz went out on the third night of the Republican National Convention, and refused to endorse Trump.

It was a stance most could agree with, not just because of Trump's utter ignorance and unfitness for office... but that he personally had besmirched Cruz's loved ones. Maybe for the first time ever, people nodded in approval for Ted Cruz for being a human being for once. Cruz promised he would not endorse Trump like a "servile puppy". But no, Ted Cruz isn't just a puppy, he's a little b**** of one, and came crawling back to endorse Donald Trump and actually phone bank for him about ten weeks later. He caved, and was broken. He has voted for every horrible member of Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors” as well as the GOP’s Senate attempt to try and repeal the Affordable Care Act that would have left 23 million people without health insurance and gutted funding from Medicaid.

Ted Cruz barely won re-election in 2018 against Beto O’Rourke, spending 2017 trying to stabilize his flagging polling numbers by continuing to pal around with members of Anti-Islamic hate groups, and show up and speak at their conferences. Well, that and he was trying to raise money by, y’know, sending out fundraising letters that lie and claim Planned Parenthood is using government dollars to perform abortions and that “millions of babies are being killed in the womb”. He has championed people with views or backgrounds as revolting as Brett Kavanaugh and Alex Jones, and tried to smarm-splain Star Wars to Mark friggin’ Hamill, of all people, to gain credibility, getting none.

[worstblogever]

That doesn’t seem at all desperate, does it? What could be even more desperate? Well, how about seeing Ted Cruz have to seek out a campaign visit from Donald Trump, a man who still won’t take back accusing Cruz’s father of taking part in the assassination of JFK. We can’t help but laugh, but seriously, Ted Cruz can’t look cool no matter what he tries. He can’t even successfully post a Facebook Live video without f***ing it up. Beto O’Rourke ran circles around him in their 2018 debate, perhaps the saddest moment being when Sen. Cruz was stumped into silence for a full six seconds when asked to discuss something… anything that has nothing to do with politics that would give Texans an insight into who he is as a person. Cruz is pulled out of a town hall debate against him on CNN, effectively giving Beto a full hour of very relatable TV time to himself as a result. Beto O’Rourke was seriously living rent free in Ted Cruz’s head, as evidenced by the photo of Cruz looking pathetic and staring at a photo of O’Rourke while sitting on a plane and then how his attempts to use photos of O’Rourke in a band in college where he wore a dress backfired, as others posted pictures of Ted Cruz in college, dressed up as a mime. Cruz was heckled out of restaurants in Washington, D.C. after voting to put Brett Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court…

In June of 2019, that he came to the defense of a conservative pundit who was under fire for harassing a journalist from Vox with homophobic slurs (interesting battle you picked there, Ted)… In September of 2019, he tried arguing against gun control by blaming violence in Chicago (and getting its new mayor to tell him to cram it in his cramhole), then he tried to take a smarmy cheap shot on Twitter at Beto O’Rourke after his answer on climate change in the Democratic Primary debate, only to get ratio’ed and have most of the public mock him for his cluelessness on climate. when word came that Brett Kavanaugh had ANOTHER accusation of sexual assault leveled against him, Cruz responded that people “need to let the anger go”, as if it’s wrong to be ANGRY ABOUT A SERIAL SEXUAL PREDATOR ON THE SUPREME COURT. But never forget that Ted Cruz is a repugnant, holier-than-thou Evangelical who will try and distract from say, the impeachment of Donald Trump, to be utterly repugnant, and refer to a 7 year old boy receiving hormone blockers to undergo gender conversion therapy as “child abuse”.

In the past year since we’ve updated our profile of Ted Cruz, we’ve watched him He's also tried lying and claiming he never met any of the Proud Boys (he met their leader, Enrique Tarrio, in 2019), screaming at CNN’s Chris Cuomo about mask mandates and shutting down businesses to save lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, asking reporters to investigate the nonexistent “Obamagate” conspiracy theory, trying to taunt Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on science only to be called out for denying the science of evolution, and of course, the moment when he did our Senate proud by trying to arrange a wrestling match between actor Ron Perlman and Jim Jordan (really),

As 2020 approached, Cruz was spreading Russian propaganda about Hunter Biden in the hopes of getting Donald Trump re-elected, and then raging at reporters for calling him out on it. As the election approached and the narrative attacking Hunter Biden never helped Republicans gain traction, Cruz decided to, what else… pretend he never was pushing it, and blamed Donald Trump for its failure to stick.

[worstblogever]

Just… just look at these headlines from the past year:

• January 2nd, 2021: Sen. Cruz affirms that on January 6th, when the electoral vote is being counted, that he will try to subvert American democracy and object to the counting of the votes by claiming nonexistent “election fraud”.
• January 7th, 2021: After the attack on the Capitol, calls grow loud for the resignation of Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. It didn’t help that Cruz’s campaign website was still fundraising over his objection to the electoral votes being counted.
• January 12th, 2021: Cruz’s lack of regret over the Capitol attack and the fallout causes his own communications director to resign, disgusted to be associated with the Senator going forward.
• January 26th, 2021: Less than three weeks since the Capitol attack, Ted Cruz goes on Fox News to declare “it’s time to move on” from investigations or accountability for the insurrection.
• February 11th, 2021: Desperate to talk about anything other than the role he played in inciting an attack on the Capitol, Cruz decides to champion former MMA star-turned-actress Gina Carano, complaining that Disney fired her from the Mandalorian after a series of transphobic and anti-Semitic posts.
• February 17h, 2021: As his home state of Texas is hit with a blizzard that short-circuits its entire power grid and leaves residents without electricity during a furious winter storm, Ted Cruz flees to Cancun with his family and does nothing at all to help them.
• February 18th, 2021: Sen. Cruz blames his trip to Cancun on his daughters.
• February 23rd, 2021: Cruz goes on Sean Hannity to pretend he’s the victim after the news coverage of him taking a vacation to Cancun when his constituents were dying in the cold makes him look like the ***hole he is.
• February 26th, 2021: Ted Cruz gives an incoherent, aimless speech at CPAC that includes him trying to make jokes about fleeing Texas during the pandemic like a coward.
• March 14th, 2021: After Fox News host and white nationalist douchebag Tucker Carlson makes sexist comments about women serving in the U.S. military, Sen. Cruz grossly sides with Carlson, and chastises our own armed services for “bullying” the Fox News personality.
• March 25th, 2021: Cruz posts video of himself sitting in underbrush and claiming it’s from him waiting along the U.S./Mexico border to catch “human traffickers and drug cartels” in the act. He is mocked that he’s the one trying to sneak across their border to get back to Cancun.
• April 15th, 2021: Ted Cruz makes it a point to make a spectacle of himself refusing to wear a mask against CDC recommendations.
• May 2nd, 2021: Sen. Cruz threatens “woke CEOs” who would take steps to support any social justice or LGBTQ awareness by revoking certain tax breaks or antitrust exemptions if they do not support his own political views.
• May 4th, 2021: Ted Cruz goes to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of the man who called his wife ugly.
• May 29th, 2021:Sen. Cruz posts a video of a Russian military propaganda video and then laments that the American military has been “emasculated” in a post on Twitter. (Yes, he did just favor a foreign military over our own.)
• July 23rd, 2021: Ted Cruz claims the Major League Baseball “hates Indians” because the Cleveland franchise was choosing to move on from their racist mascot history and instead be known as the Guardians.
• August 9th, 2021: Cruz files legislation to ban any vaccine mandates or mask mandates throughout the country.
• August 12th, 2021: Sen. Cruz whines that the Biden administration is “persecuting” Capitol rioters for their role in the attack. (It was not a typo of the word “prosecuting”.)
• August 16th, 2021: Ted Cruz attacks CNN journalist Clarissa Ward for her reporting on the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, ignoring that she was risking her life to even be there to file a report.
• October 11th, 2021: Sen. Cruz jokes for a second time about abandoning his constituents in Texas during a winter storm to go to Cancun.
• October 20th, 2021: Cruz turns the confirmation hearing of Judge Holly Thomas into a transphobic hate fest of lies, rambling on about a supposed attack by a “boy in a skirt” at a high school in Virginia upon a female student in a bathroom (from reports, there is no evidence the boy is gender fluid or was wearing any traditionally female clothing).
• October 29th, 2021: Ted Cruz, on the anniversary of one of the worst attacks against Jews in Americana history, decides it’s a great time during a hearing with Merrick Garland to defend the rights of domestic terrorists to give Nazi salutes at school board meetings.

Seriously, the Senate GOP has a full rogues gallery of motherf***ers, but Ted Cruz is somehow still perhaps the most loathsome guy in there (and that’s saying something). His most flattering quality really is that he resembles the Zodiac Killer. And this insufferable prick will be continuing to sabotage American politics and whining about somehow being the victim as long as his theocratic take on the country isn’t reality. He’ll keep that up until he’s no longer office, which right now will probably not be until he faces re-election in 2024.

And we look forward to the election night when he’s rejected, as he should have been his whole life.

[shooshoomanjoe]

Have I called anyone crazy here. Oh that's right minority opinions are always "crazy" and pathologizing views you don't agree with is a healthy way of dealing with them.

It's disturbing that the right have villainized education.

[CSTowle]

It's disturbing that the right have villainized education.

And experts/expertise. And science. And vaccination. And and and. Anything that might pierce the narrative.

[babyblob]

So with today being election day around the US wjo wants to take the over under on how many claims of voter fraud we will hear by the morning?

[Tendrin]

And experts/expertise. And science. And vaccination. And and and. Anything that might pierce the narrative.

People who can make you believe absurdities, etc. They're just gearing up for the latter half of the saying.

[Xheight]

No I was not talking about causation. I was saying that while pastors are themselves molesting children, they would preach against adult homosexuals as if they were the cause of pedophilia. There is no evidence of homosexuality as the cause of pedophilia, but child molesting preachers would say that it is in order to deflect from their own sins.

got it. Then I stand corrected as misunderstanding what you were saying. As you say it is a deflection.

[Xheight]

Having spent a lot of time in both prison and mental institutions you are talking out of your ass pal. They are nothing like schools.

Admitting to such hardly qualifies you to commenting on their social function; in fact you probably the least given your recidivism.