Extremism In The Mainstream
âIâm appealing now to the homosexuals out there. Shouldnât 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 donât like it when itâs done to you, so why are you doing it to others?â
âFormer Colorado state legislator and Navy chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt on his âPray in Jesus Nameâ TV program Dec. 14, in which he compared a Phoenix coupleâs refusal to print a gay coupleâs 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.
âI donât walk around looking at little white children seeing future slaves anymore.â
âMichael Savage on the Dec. 26 edition of his radio program, âThe Savage Nation,â declaring that Donald Trumpâs election had relieved his concerns about the future of the country.
âWeâve seen evil come out of our State Department, unfortunately, where financial incentives are withheld from countries unless they advance, for instance, the gay agenda.â
âFormer Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R-Minn.) speaking to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on his âWashington Watchâ radio show Jan. 5.
âJohn 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 âthank youâ would suffice.â
âMaine Republican Gov. Paul LePage, suggesting Jan. 17 on WVOM Maine radioâs 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 wasnât a legitimate president.
âI find that many feminists are too good to clean their houses. They live in filth.â
âSandy Rios of the American Family Association on her radio show Jan. 23, mocking those who attended the Womenâs March on Washington.
âTogether we can defeat the Jewish landlords that are engaged in ethnic cleansing, pushing out black and Latino people out of upper Manhattan. I donât 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.â
ÂâThomas Lopez-Pierre, running in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary for New Yorkâs 7th District City Council seat against incumbent Mark D. Levine, in a YouTube video posted April 25.