On Friday, July 27 I appeared on FOX’s O’Reilly Factor with guest host Laura Ingraham. The topic was Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay stance.
After the show, I received my regular barrage of hateful e-mails and phone messages. But, a man from Minnesota really stood out and grabbed my attention for total, unadulterated insanity. He rambled on for 12 minutes into my voicemail, which took 3 calls to do and he hardly took a breath. (You can hear 8 of the minutes below.)
Ever wonder about the nut balls that I have to put up with as part of my job?
Wow! This man is fueled by a well of hatred. What a sad, pathetic life he must lead.
Lack of oxygen to the brain might actually explain a lot.
He sounds like a ticking time bomb. I am going to alert Minnesota’s OutFront tomorrow and tell them to watch out for this lunatic. He is clearly unbalanced and way too angry to be around sane people.
There are actually five more minutes of his rambling. I may post that tomorrow. But, this is not the type of thing that normal people do.
This is nitpicking on my part….BUT…the guy says the rainbow was a covenant between Christ and Moses. If he were the expert on the Bible which he claims to be, he would know it was God and Noah (Genesis 9:9-17).
“I’m 98% of society. You’re 3% of society.”
Wayne, I had an ex-acquaintance (who used to be a casual friend) who left constant, drunken, obnoxious messages on my home answering machine. I got a restraining order (AND a criminal order of protection) against him. I also had him criminally prosecuted(he plead guilty), AND….I sued him and won, and now he sends me a check every month.
This man is clearly an ignorant lunatic! Here’s a fact for him…99% of pedophiles are “STRAIGHT”!!!!!!
This guy has relatives in Oklahoma. I had one woman call and tell me she’s considering taking out a line of credit on her home so she can “properly” support Chick-Fil-A. This was after damning me to hell, telling me about her neighbor’s great grand niece who had “been delivered from the homosexual lifestyle,” and said she was going to have the IRS revoke my organization’s tax-exempt status. The call, of course, was from a blocked phone number. Did this guy leave a number on your caller ID? If so, please post it!
Scott:
This guy called from a blocked number. There were a few more crazies that called. I may also post their messages.
“These are just facts”–I’m sure he got them from some crazy anti gay website.
I always get a kick out of bigots like this saying things like “You’re 3% of the population, that’s just a fact.”. Obviously given that many, if not most gays won’t acknowledge their orientation on a survey one can never honestly claim any survey’s number for the percentage of gays is a fact.
Majority Rules! THEY get to decide what our rights are. Get that straight, you useless fags. Constitution? Whaaa? No way. I can marry a woman so what’s my complaint? You’re not turned on by women? Yeah, what’s your point? This man belongs in Congress. I put a paycheck on the bet that he’s Republican and will vote for Romney.
AND he lost his right to worship because of us? (Someone clue me in. Where did we get that power?)
It’s easy to laugh at this guy, but it might be more beneficial to try to understand what drives his obsession. He clearly isn’t leaving 12-minute voice mails because of a public policy disagreement.
My theory: he says he was abused. Another obsessive, Paul Cameron, has said he was abused. Although I am not completely certain, I think that abuse was part of Scott Lively’s narrative too. Maybe this is a common factor. Not for all anti-gay activists, but for the hardcore obsessives, the ones who can’t seem to focus on anything else in life. If that’s true, maybe the way to engage these people is not to correct their math or their understanding of the Constitution, but to make them understand that we don’t abuse or support abuse.
DJ– can we just pass a law to make them get therapy for their obviously abundant issues?
DJ, you could be correct regarding abuse, but in each of these cases we would need to know specifics. Unless the incidents fell into the category of legally prosecutable abuse, then “abuse” may be an inaccurate characterization. I can easily imagine that these people may have participated willingly or even eagerly, but loathed themselves afterwards for both having such desires and also acting on them, and then later blamed the “abuser” (and by extension, all homosexuals) for making them “this way.”
Richard..you hit the nail on the head! Internal homophobia can make people act very bizarre. My straight buddies most probably would never even click on a gay oriented blog or make homophobic remarks. They are pretty much clueless when it comes to LGBT issues..these issues no not affect their lives. ALWAYS be suspicios when someone is overtly homophobic! (they probably spend a lot of their free time watching gay porn on the net…)
Intimidatory phone calls can be considered as a crime that can be an object of judicial sanction. I think as Wayne, that “crazy man” is a time bomb. He is really dangerous.
“Mr. Benson”, Wayne, when did you change your name? :P