Class, Race, and Addicts Who Prefer Eliminating LGBTQ People
In response to the President publicly supporting marriage equality, it’s open season for right-wing pastors to publicly preach violence toward LGBT people. Brown University political scientist Michael Tesler has previously shown , as in a recent issue of The American Journal of Political Science , that President Obama has such an affect on race-conscious voters that they adjust their positions on health care reform, taxes, Supreme Court justices, and even a president’s dog because of him. Tesler’s recent analysis of surveys on marriage equality (“T he Spillover of Racialization into Marriage Equality ”) demonstrates that Obama’s support pulls blacks toward equality, but also pushes white “racial conservatives” away. The most rabid of them feel free to spout the same hatred toward LGBT people as they do toward the not-white president. On May 6 th at Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, Pastor Sean Hayes’ sermon recommended maiming: "Dads, the second you see