Right-wing pastor and former GOP political candidate E.W. Jackson dedicated his radio program yesterday to complaining about how much “influence the transgender community has in the media” today. During the broadcast, Jackson said that if he saw a LGBTQ activist handing his child pro-gay literature, he “would really need the grace of God not to jump on that person and try to beat them into the ground.”
Jackson recounted an episode several years ago in which he and fellow anti-LGBTQ activists confronted members of GLAAD who were distributing “pro-homosexual pamphlets” to students outside of a middle school. Jackson said that when his group told the GLAAD activists that they had no right to distribute these pamphlets to children, the situation got rather tense as the GLAAD activists insisted that they were going to continue handing out the information because “parents are not going to tell their children the truth about their sexuality.”
Jackson said that he recalled thinking that “what they are doing is really dangerous because if I, as a parent, went to pick up my child and some gay person were bent over talking to my child, handing my child a piece of literature encouraging my child to be gay and to engage in sexual activity period, regardless; man, I would really need the grace of God not to attack that person.”
“I’m serious,” he continued. “I’m just being truthful. I would really need the grace of God not to jump on that person and try to beat them into the ground. I mean, that’s my baby, that’s my child and you’re going to step between me and my child and tell my child something that I object to and act like you have a right to do it? We would have a problem, a very serious problem.”
“If they continue this,” Jackson warned, “at some point, some parent whose child they are approaching is going to walk up and it’s going to get violent.”
