David Benham Explains His "Love" For Gays By Claiming Gays Are Led By Satan

The anti-gay Benham brothers - who many mistake for looking like a gay couple.

Sometimes anti-gay bigots turn out to unwittingly be the best arguments in favor of LGBT equality.  For example, the late Fred Phelps probably opened more hearts and minds to gay acceptance that he ever contemplated.  And in the process Phelps likewise turned countless members of the Millennial generation against Christianity entirely.  With Phelps dead and gone, the Benham brothers seem to be stepping up to take on at least a part of Phelps' mantle of hate and bigotry.  Instead of shutting their mouths after being cut loose by HGTV, the Benhams seem hell bent on making the case as to why HGTV was smart to drop them and distance itself from these raging bigots as fast as possible.  Right Wing Watch, which first exposed the Benham brothers for the vile bigots that they are reports on their latest case of verbal diarrhea that underscores the correctness of HGTV's action.  Here are excerpts:

It has now been one week since we first wrote a post highlighting the anti-gay and anti-choice activism of David Benham, who was slated to host a reality TV show on HGTV with his twin brother Jason. After HGTV announced that it would not move forward with the brothers' planned reality show, the Benhams hit the conservative media circuit to claim they were the victims of a "smear campaign" filled with "complete lies,"  though neither the Benhams nor anyone else has actually bothered to explain how anything we originally reported about them was in any way false.

The bulk of the defense offered for the last week by David and Jason Benham of their past activism has been that they do not hate gay people but only hate "homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation,"which is pretty much the defense offered by most of the anti-gay bigots we monitor on this blog. David Benham previously alleged that the "homosexual agenda," along with abortion rights and Islam, is controlled by "demonic forces and agendas."

Last night, they took that talking point onto Glenn Beck's television program where they repeatedly asserted that they are not at war with gay people, but are rather engaged in a spiritual war against Satan and demonic forces that are out to silence Christianity.

David added that, as Christians, they are "called to restrain evil so that good may flourish" and that is the role they are trying to play in America by taking a stand against the "demonic agenda to suppress the truth.

As past events have proven, often the loudest homophobes are those who are in reality self-loathing closet cases.  In the case of the Benhams, they doth protest way, way too much in my book