"God Hates Pride"--Colorado Republicans Go Full Westboro Baptist

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by: Colorado Pols

Westboro Baptist Church protesters.

Just under a year ago, as readers may recall, the Colorado Republican Party under chairman Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams released a grotesque and bigotry-suffused attack on Colorado’s LGBTQ+ community to mark the end of Pride Month, which began again this past weekend. Williams in this email blast stated that “these LGBTQ+ reprobates want to groom your children and sexually exploit them so they can normalize pedophilia,” and announced the Colorado GOP would “no longer be silent” about the issue after years spent by previous GOP leadership trying to soften the party’s homophobic image in line with evolving public opinion.

This Pride Month, the Colorado GOP managed to top last year’s anti-LGBTQ+ vitriol with a message that appears to be cribbed directly from the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, who gained infamy years ago with their celebrations at soldier’s funerals of the “Wrath of God” for America tolerating LGBTQ+ people:

Although we’ve blessedly not heard much in Colorado from Topeka’s unrepentant embassy of in-your-face hate in recent years, the Westboro Baptist protesters’ central message is (pardon us) “God Hates F–s” along with the bipartisanly repugnant “Thank God for dead soldiers.” If the Colorado GOP’s intent to appropriate WBC’s hateful language wasn’t obvious from the title of yesterday’s email blast, all you have to do is scroll down:

Running the Colorado Republican Party functionally into the ground while draining the party’s resources to benefit himself and his slate of favored fellow far-right congressional candidates, Dave Williams has tried to distract from the growing discontent within the party over Williams’ pillaging by hiding behind Donald Trump–as well as throwing wild ideological Trump-style haymakers that Williams thinks will attract the supporters he needs. By aping Westboro Baptist’s outrageous hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community, which even most conservatives with any conscience have condemned for years, Williams has dragged the “mainstream” debate on the issue to a new low we weren’t even sure was possible after the party’s widely-lampooned call for parents to pull their kids from Colorado public schools out of “trans panic.”

Could it get even worse before Williams either fails upward to Congress or his audacious parade of misdeeds catches up with him? Probably, but our imagination is hitting its limit.

16 thoughts on ““God Hates Pride”–Colorado Republicans Go Full Westboro Baptist”

unnamed says:

June 4, 2024 at 1:35 pm

Somebody needs to comment on their posts of this: Westboro Baptist Church called. They want their message back.

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joe_burly says:

June 4, 2024 at 1:59 pm

Someone needs to spread the word at the GOP about this flag hatred. They have a bunch of them.

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Chickenheed says:

June 4, 2024 at 2:02 pm

Fucking idiots.

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JohnNorthofDenver says:

June 4, 2024 at 2:29 pm

In criminal law. A menace; a declaration of one’s purpose or intention to work injury to the person, property, or rights of another. A threat has been defined to be any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of the person on whom it operates, and to take away from his acts that free, voluntary action which alone constitutes consent.

Why should I not operate as this is a threat to my property and to the people therein.

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1. Pam Bennett says:
  
  June 5, 2024 at 1:48 pm
  
  As a proud member of the LGBTQA+ family I do take the statements as a threat. I am not the only one. Many people I know avoid several states just because of legislation the the freakin nut cases promote hate and death to us. Even the states that do not have legislated hate but have loud mouth governors, such as Virginia, I consider a problem. I do have to go to my boats which are in VA, but I am careful when traveling and shopping. As great as Colorado is for "live and let live" that is gone now with hate mongers telling people to not let their children go to public school. The idiocy hurts.
  
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bullshit! says:

June 4, 2024 at 2:54 pm

Westboro Baptist is all MAGA deserves to be: a few dozen hateful inbreds.

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1. NOV GOP meltdown says:
  
  June 4, 2024 at 3:06 pm
  
  That is a day I really want to see.
  
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JohnNorthofDenver says:

June 4, 2024 at 4:53 pm

I looked up that pastor and his video. Even dumber than I thought they were. They dont understand rainbows or the elecromatic color spectrum or refraction. Its them mixing colorded water and saying see its not white.

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davebarnes says:

June 4, 2024 at 8:55 pm

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JohnInDenver says:

June 4, 2024 at 9:17 pm

And I continue to be astonished that in the face of this sort of messaging …. there STILL are Log Cabin Republicans

CPR: Colorado GOP’s attack on Pride Month met with disappointment, disgust

Republican Valdamar Archuleta heard about the email before he even saw it.

The head of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans and the party’s candidate for the 1st Congressional District race was getting lots of text messages about an official party email sent out by the Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams titled, “God Hates Pride.”

“I was disappointed in the state GOP, but I wasn’t surprised because last year they kind of did the same thing,” Archuleta told CPR News.

For two years now, the party has sent what Archuleta describes as “hateful” messages targeting LGBTQ Pride Month.

Here's the impact (my emphasis).

Archuleta …added he’s gone to different GOP events across the state and has always been warmly welcomed and felt accepted.

Last June, he had a long conversation with Williams about the anti-LGBT message and how “it was a misrepresentation of us as a party. It wasn’t helping change anyone’s mind. It wasn’t helping start a conversation,” he said. This year, he isn’t going to bother.

Instead, Archuleta declined the state party’s endorsement in the race, saying that while he would still work with the party, run as a Republican and support other Republican candidates, “I want them to recognize that this [email] is going to have consequences.”

I guess I wonder what sort of "consequences" there could be.

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1. Lauren Boebert is a Worthless POS says:
  
  June 5, 2024 at 5:15 am
  
  "For two years now, the party has sent what Archuleta describes as “hateful” messages targeting LGBTQ Pride Month."
  
  HELLO! That hasn't been happening for two years now. It's been that way for the past 45 years.
  
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2. Thorntonite says:
  
  June 5, 2024 at 9:46 am
  
  Given that Republicans are acknowledging that "God Hates Pride" does that mean we will no longer be subjected to that gawdawful "Proud to be an American" song at their events?
  
  And while we are on the subject, they may want to take a look at what God thinks about adultery…
  
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  1. spaceman2021 says:
    
    June 5, 2024 at 11:31 am
    
    That is a truly awful song. Even worse than the actual national anthem, though less pro-slavery than the anthem.
    
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MartinMark says:

June 5, 2024 at 12:29 am

the Colorado GOP would “no longer be silent” about the issue

uh… I don't think that word means what you think it means, Dave.

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joe_burly says:

June 5, 2024 at 8:17 am

Just wanted to make sure everyone knew about this:

https://youtu.be/r3fD5FPQBtI?feature=shared

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MichaelBowman says:

June 5, 2024 at 9:36 am

It's a mystery why Republicans, and Christianity, is in decline in this country! With leaders like Williams, Graham as headliners what could possibly go wrong??

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