Mychal Massie began his Nov. 4 WorldNetDaily column by quoting from “the [Homosexual] (I refuse to use the appellation ‘gay’) Manifesto,” then declared: “There’s no ambiguity in the preceding paragraphs. The words are quoted verbatim from homosexual publications. There’s no denying the motivations of the homosexual agenda. The most skilled compurgator would be unable to argue them innocent of my allegations. This is the motivation behind what is taking place today.”
Except that it’s not a real thing. As writers who do actual research have pointed out, the “Gay Manifesto” actually begins by stating, “”This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor.” In other words, it’s satire.
But then, Massie has never been one to let the facts get in the way of a good rant, and so he goes on to huff that “It’s time to confront the dark objectives driving the homosexual agenda. We must fight to protect and shield our children who are the most vulnerable to this satanic inculcation,” then attacking President Obama, “who if we are to believe the allegations that appear to be highly credible based upon names, dates, locals and scenarios regarding his own sexuality.” Massie provides no evidence that anyone who made that claim is “highly credible”; in fact, the chief peddler of that claim, Larry Sinclair — whom Massie has falsely claimed died in a “very suspicious car accident” in 2011; he’s actually very much alive — has no credibility whatsoever.
Massie served up another anti-LGBT rant in his Dec. 2 column, invoking the usual right-wing tropes:
I will never bow before the altar of Baal. It is time we stand up to the alphabet homosexual offal cabals that think they can force and bully their chosen sexual perversions to be accepted as normal. Their arguments for invasion into every facet of culture are not persuasive; they are an insult to sanity.
[…]It’s time for the overwhelming majority of people who do not support immorality subverting our culture to stand up and be counted.
We have the right to say no to homosexual predators who prey upon young, impressionable minds by pretending to be what they are not and reading books to children in libraries. It is our right to say no to any attempt to have sodomite preachers infiltrate our church.
Christians and those who refuse to approve a behavior that is being forced upon the people cannot be compelled to comply with abnormal and degenerate behavior. We have alternatives to sending our children to schools where a boy claiming to be a girl can shower with your daughter.
Massie also claimed that Google “prominently displays in searches” a number of “false teachers” who offer a brand of Christianity that fails to hate gays as much as Massie does, asserting that it is “motivated to do so by the “prince of liars” because in so doing it supports the lie people like [Pete] Buttigieg espouse about Scripture.”