Extremism In The Mainstream
鈥淚鈥檓 appealing now to the homosexuals out there. Shouldn鈥檛 you treat the Christian couple in Phoenix as if they ought to have religious freedom instead of hiring religious police to metaphorically throw them off a roof? You don鈥檛 like it when it鈥檚 done to you, so why are you doing it to others?鈥
鈥擣ormer Colorado state legislator and Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt on his 鈥淧ray in Jesus Name鈥 TV program Dec. 14, in which he compared a Phoenix couple鈥檚 refusal to print a gay couple鈥檚 wedding invitations in violation of a local nondiscrimination ordinance to ISIS fighters reportedly killing a man accused of being gay by throwing him off a roof.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 walk around looking at little white children seeing future slaves anymore.鈥
鈥Michael Savage on the Dec. 26 edition of his radio program, 鈥淭he Savage Nation,鈥 declaring that Donald Trump鈥檚 election had relieved his concerns about the future of the country.
鈥淲e鈥檝e seen evil come out of our State Department, unfortunately, where financial incentives are withheld from countries unless they advance, for instance, the gay agenda.鈥
鈥擣ormer Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R-Minn.) speaking to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on his 鈥淲ashington Watch鈥 radio show Jan. 5.
鈥淛ohn Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves. It was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant that fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple 鈥榯hank you鈥 would suffice.鈥
鈥擬aine Republican Gov. Paul LePage, suggesting Jan. 17 on WVOM Maine radio鈥檚 George Hale and Ric Tyler Show that civil rights icon, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., should thank Republican presidents for civil rights advances, after Lewis said President Trump wasn鈥檛 a legitimate president.
鈥淚 find that many feminists are too good to clean their houses. They live in filth.鈥
鈥Sandy Rios of the American Family Association on her radio show Jan. 23, mocking those who attended the Women鈥檚 March on Washington.
鈥淭ogether we can defeat the Jewish landlords that are engaged in ethnic cleansing, pushing out black and Latino people out of upper Manhattan. I don鈥檛 take one dollar in contributions from these greedy Jewish landlords, and Mark Levine has taken over $100,000 in campaign contributions from these greedy Jewish landlords.鈥
颅鈥Thomas Lopez-Pierre, running in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary for New York鈥檚 7th District City Council seat against incumbent Mark D. Levine, in a YouTube video posted April 25.