Last month, we posted a video in which militant anti-gay activist Theodore Shoebat declared that Jesus would have personally beaten gay people to death, which prompted anti-gay activist Michael Brown to fire off a column denouncing Shoebat and calling his views “utter rubbish.”
That, in turn, set off a battle pitting Theodore and his father Walid against Brown and other anti-gay activists who have denounced the Shoebat family’s extremist views.
Yesterday, Theodore and Brown finally faced off in a debate on Brown’s “Line of Fire” radio program and Shoebat posted video of his side of the conversation in which he made clear his support for violent vigilantism against gay activists.
When Brown asked him point blank if he thinks it is a good thing when militant Christian activists go out and physically attack activists marching in gay pride parades in other countries and whether he’d like to see the same thing happen here, Shoebat was unequivocal.
“I’ll give you a short answer,” he said. “To the first question: yes; to the second question: yes, absolutely.”
Shoebat said that physically assaulting gay activists was theologically justified and praised the nations where it takes place, saying that “I wish America had this stuff.”
When Brown asked Shoebat his thoughts on an incident in Israel last year in which six people were stabbed by an anti-gay militant during a gay pride parade and one young woman died, Shoebat said that “it really doesn’t bother me, to be honest with you.”
“They see it as protecting their society from this invasion,” he said, “and it is an invasion.”
Shoebat then proceeded to again praise authorities in Peru for having turned fire hoses on gay rights activists because “you have to have a society that has a cultural hatred for homosexuality, they despise it so much they don’t want to tolerate it.”
