Anti-Christian bigotry and blasphemy were the themes of Monday’s edition of ABC’s The View following a weekend mass shooting at a Colorado Springs, Colorado gay bar. Despite admitting they didn’t know what motivated the shooter, the cast lashed out at Republicans and Christians by suggesting “Jesus would be the grand marshal” of a gay pride parade and hinted that they’re like January 6 rioters and poor human beings.
“No motive has been released, but GLAAD and all the activists are pointing their fingers at the rise in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and the political policies,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg said, back from her second fight with COVID this year.
The sanctimonious host then lectured viewers about how “words matter” and blamed the attack on Colorado Republican Congresswoman “Lauren Boebert, who, you know, has been in the forefront of dissing LGBTQ+ people.”
Racist co-host Sunny Hostin piled blame for the shooting on Republicans both on the national and state levels. Without evidence, she warned there are “over 300 bills to restrict LGBTQ rights have been introduced in 23 states. The nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization The Human Rights Campaign is terrified about that.”
There was no definition given to what qualified a bill to be labeled restrictive of “LGBTQ rights.” It likely includes sensible bills that prohibit irreversible and radical gender transition surgeries and hormone treatments from being used on minors.
Proclaiming she was “raised in the church” like it was a shield, co-host Sara Haines went on an anti-Christian screed and hinted that religious folks were like January 6 rioters; in that they took their “self-righteous flag in the way they live and they have banged it over peoples’ head[s].” She went on to argue they “weaponize religion.”
Haines and Hostin then teamed up to proclaim that there is no place better to be than a gay bar:
HAINES: There is a place for that, but we are here to be inclusive, and you'll never find a more inclusive place than a gay bar. I've spent a lot of time in them. They're super straight-friendly.
HOSTIN: Me too! And super fun.
A self-proclaimed devout Catholic, Hostin then dabbled in a bit of blasphemy, declaring that “Jesus would be the grand marshal at the pride parade.”
Seemingly under the impression that her Sister Act movies qualified her to be a theologian, Goldberg wrapped up the segment by bashing and smearing Christians as poor human beings. She opined about how “the problem” with Christians was that, “You don't want to just have your feelings. You want everybody else to join you.”
“You can scream, you can cuss, you can do all the things that you say, but you know what? Gay people are here. They're not going anywhere,” she chided. “There is nothing else you can do, you know. You can yell and scream, but, you know, as the Lord, as everybody was talking about, you know, made in God's image.”
Sneering: “Keep that in mind when you are trying to figure out where you stand as a human being let alone a Christian. We'll be right back.”
Oh yeah, and faux Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin was there too. Of course, she had her evergreen position that the right was to blame for the tragic event.
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ABC’s The View
November 21, 2022
11:05:02 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: It's breaking my heart that we're starting once again with this kind of topic. The latest mass shooting in America was Saturday night in Colorado at an LGBTQ+ nightclub where five people were killed and at least 25 were injured.
No motive has been released, but GLAAD and all the activists are pointing their fingers at the rise in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and the political policies and other folks are saying, you know, once again an AR-15-style rifle was the weapon of choice.
And I know the thing that I want to say is, you know, this is what rhetoric brings. Words matter. Words matter and people like Lauren Boebert who, you know, has been in the forefront of dissing LGBTQ+ people is now saying her prayers and thoughts go with the families. Well, they don't really need your prayers and thoughts. They needed your votes. That's what they needed.
(…)
11:07:09 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: I tend to think it's the politicians and not so much maybe the rhetoric and that kind of thing, because, yes, it was advanced in the senate. right? The Marriage Equality Act. 37 Republicans voted against it. We had at least 12 that stood up for civil rights. But if you look all over the country this year, over 300 bills to restrict LGBTQ rights have been introduced in 23 states. The nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy organization The Human Rights Campaign is terrified about that.
(…)
11:08:19 a.m. Eastern
SARA HAINES: I think it does go well beyond D.C. and politicians. I think we're living in a time where people have taken a self-righteous flag in the way they live and they have banged it over peoples’ head[s].
As someone who was raised in the church, it breaks my heart that people weaponize religion in the way that they're doing.
[Applause]
Because self-righteousness which might seem kind of evasive when you look at it is the division of people. It is looking at someone else and focusing on their differences and you being better- than them. There are a gazillion quotes in the bible about how wrong that is. I was raised to love thy neighbor and we are not the judge. There is a power that has that power.
There is a place for that, but we are here to be inclusive, and you'll never find a more inclusive place than a gay bar. I've spent a lot of time in them. They're super straight-friendly.
HOSTIN: Me too! And super fun.
HAINES: And the part that really gets me – the reason – gay people have always had – queer people have had stigma. They always have faced it themselves personally in their own lives out in the greater world. It's increasing as time goes on. They were in a safe place when this happened. They were in a place that accepts them for who they were and someone came to that place and did this.
HOSTIN: And that’s what’s so sad. I don't know that they hide behind religion. Because I’ve said this on this show before, Jesus would be the grand marshal at the pride parade.
HAINES: I don’t mean bout gay people, I mean about every argument we have, people weaponize religion.
[Crosstalk]
GOLDBERG: Here’s my question: If you’re so afraid, why are you going over there?
HOSTIN: Yeah!
GOLDBERG: If they scare you so much, leave them alone. When stuff scares me, I leave it alone. If I don't want to be bothered, I don't go there. See? That's the problem. You don't want to just have your feelings. You want everybody else to join you, and you know what? You can -- you can scream, you can cuss, you can do all the things that you say, but you know what? Gay people are here. They're not going anywhere. There is nothing else you can do, you know. You can yell and scream, but, you know, as the Lord as everybody was talking about, you know, made in God's image.
HOSTIN: Yep.
GOLDBERG: Made in God's image. There are no “but,” “except for.” There is none of that.
HOSTIN: No.
GOLDBERG: Keep that in mind when you are trying to figure out where you stand as a human being let alone a Christian. We'll be right back.
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