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Hate Group Leader Gordon Klingenschmitt Elected to Colorado House


Gordon Klingenschmitt

Former Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who calls himself 鈥淒r. Chaps鈥 and claims he exorcises demons out of LGBT people, is now a state legislator in Colorado Springs, Colo.鈥攑art of a landslide of Republic wins during last Tuesday鈥檚 election.

Klingenschmitt captured nearly 70 percent of the vote in the heavily Republican District located in El Paso County, on the eastern side of Colorado Springs.

But Klingenschmitt isn鈥檛 your usual conservative.

He heads up the Pray in Jesus Name Project, which is listed by the 澳彩开奖 as an anti-LGBT hate group. Klingenschmitt himself is perhaps best-known for his attempts to exorcise demons out of various people (including President Obama), as well as his numerous false claims and bizarre statements about homosexuality.

They include:

  • Alleging that he performed an exorcism on a lesbian soldier who was a rape victim who had come to him for counseling after the assault. , 鈥溾 looked into her eyes as she began to weep and I said 鈥榶ou foul spirit of lesbianism, this woman has renounced you, come out of her in Jesus' name鈥 and she began to wrestle with that and suddenly her eyes began to bug out and then she began to weep, and weep, and weep as the Holy Spirit forgave her sins.鈥

  • Claiming that LGBT people may sexually abuse their own children and the children of heterosexual people for 鈥渞ecruitment鈥 into homosexuality.

  • Stating that LGBT people 鈥渉ave something inside of them.鈥

  • , saying, 鈥淚 think it should be illegal to recruit minors into homosexual sin.鈥 He went on to say, 鈥淚f you鈥檙e recruiting children into sin, Jesus says you should have the death penalty.鈥

  • should print anti-LGBT scripture verses on the backs of their business cards and, if they photograph a same-sex wedding, the backs of photographs, including Romans 1:32, which he claims says that LGBT people are 鈥渨orthy of death."

  • Sending out an email in which he asserted that 鈥淒emocrats like [openly gay Colorado congressman Jared] Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he鈥檒l join ISIS in beheading Christians, but not just in Syria, right here in America.鈥 He was denounced roundly by both Democratic and Republican leaders, , whose seat Klingenschmitt sought in the election.

  • Claiming that the Obama administration out of the military and is stockpiling armored personnel carriers and ammunition to use against them.

  • 奥谤颈迟颈苍驳听 in which he says President Obama is ruled by at least fifty different evil spirits.

鈥淚n my opinion,鈥 retired Republican state senator Andy McElhany , 鈥淜lingenschmitt has no business in public office because he鈥檚 more than extreme.鈥

The voters of Colorado's House District 15, however, appear to think differently.

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