{"id":506305,"date":"2014-05-07T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/david-benham\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:52","slug":"david-benham","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/david-benham\/","title":{"rendered":"David Benham"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Former star of HGTV\u2019s cancelled reality series Flip It Forward.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Cofounder and board member of Coalition of Conscience, an anti-LGBT organization headed up by anti-LGBT activist Michael Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Believes<\/a> \u201cGod is speaking through the wind\u201d and sending hurricanes because of our views on sexuality, gender, and marriage.<\/p>\n

\u2014Believes marriage equality is<\/a> \u201ca mask for Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Bemoaned \u201chomosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claims the Benham brothers\u2019 battle against LGBTQ rights is a battle against a \u201cparallel kingdom run by Satan\u201d that \u201cseeks to rob, kill and destroy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Insists LGBTQ activists have an \u201cagenda\u201d that \u201cseeks to capture the nation\u201d and that it is \u201cevil, and wrong, and needs to be dealt with.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014Suggests his fight against the LGBTQ \u201cagenda\u201d is a battle against Satan<\/a>; \u201cit\u2019s God versus the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says Christians must be \u201cwilling to die\u201d<\/a> in the fight against marriage equality and other LGBTQ rights.<\/p>\n

\u2014Referred to America as having \u201cspiritual AIDS,\u201d citing President Obama\u2019s support for LGBTQ rights as key evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Equated fighting marriage equality with fighting Nazis<\/a>: \u201cIf evil is being accepted and appreciated at the national level, aggressive Christian men must lead the charge against it. In the late 1940s England realized this truth with Neville Chamberlain\u2019s Policy of Appeasement and the Nazi regime. Chamberlain thought he could somehow \u2018appease\u2019 the fuehrer, yet Winston Churchill aggressively stood against this policy and proclaimed that they must kill Hitler and destroy the regime in its entirety. It wasn\u2019t long before Chamberlain\u2019s \u201cpolitically correct\u201d policy fell flat on its face, and Churchill\u2014the more aggressive man\u2014took the reins and joined America in defeating the beast called, Naziism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Equating the openly gay NFL player\u2019s sexuality with heterosexual adultery, advised Michael Sam that \u201cHis sexual expressions and the propagation of them are not healthy for him as a young man.\u201d<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014At City Council meeting in protest of a local Pride parade, David and his twin brother referred to homosexuality as \u201cdestructive\u201d and a \u201ctragedy;\u201d<\/a> asserted that Jesus \u201crefuses to leave [homosexuals] that way\u201d; and Jason concluded by telling the council to \u201cdeny them every permit they ask for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says<\/a>: \u201cIf you want to end [abortion and the homosexual agenda], elect Muslims. Sharia law will surely take care of both of those issues. But we are not here to simply destroy those issues\u2014we are here to bring another kingdom whose king is Jesus Christ. And conversions are what truly change the land.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says marriage equality \u201cerodes the moral fabric of our society\u201d and \u201cthreaten[s] future generations<\/a>,\u201d which he coupled with the claim that \u201cdeath is the punishment for homosexual sin<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Says<\/a>: \u201cThe homosexual agenda is next, tolerance towards radical Islam is next, we\u2019re going to start taking these Goliaths down, we\u2019re not afraid anymore…\u2019Our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the principalities, rulers and authorities of darkness.\u2019 We love these people and so we are not going to allow the demonic forces and agendas behind them to destroy life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Joined colleagues (his father, Coalition of Conscience fellow Michael Brown, etc.) at a local school board meeting where he spoke in opposition to an anti-bullying policy that included sexual orientation and gender-identity protections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Has referred to Muslims as \u201cthe enemy attacking\u201d America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Protested Charlotte, NC, LGBTQ pride parade<\/a>; provided custom water bottles for \u201cGod Has A Better Way\u201d protestors to pass out at pride parades<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":346,"featured_media":506306,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635,138637],"class_list":{"0":"post-506305","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