American Homophobes Blame Train Crash on Homosexuality and Britain’s New Equality Minister Opposes Equality

The stupidity of homophobes never stops delivering. Here are two yummy stories from the past few days.

1.

Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch reports:

Anti-gay pundits such as Charles C. Johnson and the editors of WorldNetDaily are making hay over the news that the engineer of the fatal Amtrak crash in Philadelphia on Tuesday was a supporter of gay rights and may be gay himself.

Today on her radio program, American Family Association governmental affairs director Sandy Rios also mentioned the engineer’s sexual orientation, saying it was likely “a factor” the crash.

“Now I am not saying, I am not inferring to those of you that are gay rights activists and like to monitor this show, I’m not inferring that this accident happened because he was gay, but I do think it’s an interesting part of the story and you can bet it would be edited out,” Rios said. She then suggested that the engineer could have possibly been “going through some confusion that has to do with the very core of who they are,” and mentioned the story of an airline pilot who “put his entire plane at risk because he had an emotional, angry outburst to something that happened,” which she says was related to hormone therapy he was receiving.

Rios added: “I don’t know, but I think it is something to be discussed and I think it’s a factor and I doubt you will hear it anywhere else.”

Rios is partly right. No one else will report it because it’s ludicrous.

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“Caroline Dinenage, the MP for Gosport, was appointed by Prime Minister David Cameron this week as the minister for equalities at the Department for Education,” Nick Duffy of Pink News reports. “The move prompted concern due to her record on LGBT rights, as she told a Pink News reader in 2013 that the state has ‘no right’ to redefine marriage, and that ‘preventing same-sex couples from being allowed to marry takes nothing away from their relationship’.”

Equality is not this Equality Minister’s cup of tea.