June 04, 2024 01:13 PM UTC

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

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• by: Colorado Pols

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.