{"id":506286,"date":"2012-03-05T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T19:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/david-barton\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:56","slug":"david-barton","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/david-barton\/","title":{"rendered":"David Barton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Claimed<\/a> without any evidence: \u201cThe most expensive health care cost in America right now, by far, individually, is for homosexuals. They cost more in the system than any other, hands down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Linked<\/a> the \u201cevils\u201d of LGBTQ rights with the evils of Nazis, arguing: \u201cThe evil that\u2019s there, it still works in the same deceptive means today, it still has that nice smiling face and, you know, a homosexual lifestyle, it\u2019s such a wonderful lifestyle. Yeah? Why don\u2019t you look at the medical stats and see if that\u2019s really true? And so it always disguises itself in different ways, it comes through different means. We see it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Believes<\/a> there will never be an AIDS vaccine because he states AIDS is the body\u2019s God-ordained penalty for engaging in homosexual acts, and will never be cured.<\/p>\n

\u2014Claims HIV\/AIDS is God\u2019s punishment<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s a passage that I love in Romans 1\u2014I don\u2019t love what the topic is\u2014but it talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. And the Bible again, it\u2019s right every time, and studies keep proving that and that\u2019s why AIDS has been something they haven\u2019t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for, because it\u2019s the fastest self-mutating virus known to mankind. Every time they just about get a vaccine discovered for it, it transmutes into something new and they have to start over again. And that goes to what God says, hey you\u2019re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Suggested government should \u201cregulate homosexuality\u201d<\/a> the way it does trans fats or cigarettes: \u201cSo if I go to the Centers for Disease Control and I\u2019m concerned about health, I find some interesting stats there and this should tell me something about health. Homosexual\/bisexual individuals are seven times to contemplate or commit suicide. Oooh, that doesn\u2019t sound very healthy. Homosexuals die decades earlier than heterosexuals. That doesn\u2019t sound healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Of New York\u2019s legalization of marriage forgay couples, said<\/a>: \u201cNo disrespect to our Native American friends, but this is where you hang a bloody scalp over the gallery rail. You hang these four Republican scalps over the Senate rail and every other Republican senator looks up and sees those scalps and says, \u2018my gosh, I\u2019ll be hanging up there beside them if I don\u2019t stay with this pro-family stuff.\u2019 And that\u2019s exactly what has to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014On God\u2019s retribution<\/a>: \u201cSo I\u2019ve got a ballot, I\u2019ve got a vote, I vote for somebody that approves homosexuality, God doesn\u2019t approve me if I approve those who approve homosexuality\u2026. The Bible is so good about helping us know how to vote, because what you said is exactly right. The reason homosexuality will kill the blessing and I\u2019ll tell you why, if I support someone who supports homosexuality, it will kill the blessing on me whether I\u2019m a homosexual or not.\u201d (see first video on webpage).<\/p>\n

\u2014On gay people<\/a>: \u201cIt is not normal in nature\u2026It\u2019s against evolutionary law. It doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says he doesn\u2019t care what the Supreme Court says because God has said gays are like murderers, fornicators, kidnappers, liars, etc. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014On marriage equality<\/a>: \u201cMessing around with marriage will affect economic prosperity of a nation because you\u2019re violating the commands of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says of gays<\/a>: \u201cGay means happy, bright and cheerful and that\u2019s not what homosexuality is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":506287,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635,138637],"class_list":{"0":"post-506286","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-commentator","10":"hashtag-religion"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t