Following his opening segment railing against the firing of Brendan Eich, Glenn Beck spent the second segment of his radio program today warning that conservatives are being treated like pariahs in American society for their beliefs, which is unfair because they really have no choice but to hold such beliefs because that is what God commands.
“Those of us who believe in God,” Beck said, “we don’t feel we have a choice” but to be conservatives.
Just as being gay is not a choice, Beck said, because nobody would intentionally choose to live a life that results in them be discriminated against, likewise, nobody would choose to be conservative for the same reasons.
“Who would choose, in today’s society, who would choose to say ‘yes, I really believe in God,’ and ‘yes, I’m a conservative,’ and ‘yes, I don’t agree with the president”? Beck asked. “Who would choose that?”:
