The below comment was written by Jason Christensen, a man currently running for Utah State Senate, in regards to a teenager who committed suicide last week over his sexuality:
Since being posted on Reddit earlier today, it’s drummed up considerable outrage, with hundreds of people demanding that Christensen’s political career come to an abrupt and inauspicious end.
The comment was left on a post linking to the obituary of Braxton David Taylor (pictured, right), a 19-year-old student at Weber State University who committed suicide on Monday.
“Yes, this is sad,” Christensen writes, “and hopefully God will have mercy on both sins that this boy committed. The sins of homosexuality and the sins of murder.”
Later on in the thread, he writes:
“Read the scriptures, stop denying the scriptures. I do feel bad for him and his sins. But one must recognize what’s sins [sic] and what is not sin. One must live the Gospel of Jesus Christ and not the Gospel of the Devil.”
Since the story went public, Christensen has made his social media accounts private due to the overwhelming barrage of hate mail he received over the course of a few hours.
“I actually emailed him and explained how disgusted I was in his comments,” writes Redditor Ulysses Rambo, and Christensen wrote back:
“Terrible,” says Ramses3. “At least most people will be able to see this screenshot and realize the piece of shit he is and hopefully shun him from modern society, where he clearly doesn’t belong.
“Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention,” Meeze writes. “If you run for public office, you must be held accountable. My organization has consolidated and shared this disgusting display on our Facebook page.”
After 499 comments poured in, the discussion was closed. A message from slyder565 explained why:
Christensen calls the notion of LGBTQ rights an “evil communistic agenda” on his floridly insane website.
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Original article appeared at Queerty. Reprinted with permission.
Photo credit: Getty Images
I’m not understanding why are people so emotional about this? Is this where, what we’ve come to? We have a promising young man, dead. And we have a politician (sworn to represent all citizens) besmirching him, his family, and desecrating his death. Those are the facts. So what is the solution? Do we yell at him, rant and rave, allow emotion to rule the day or do we take the rational approach. Our constitution declares that we shall separate church from state. That grants one the right to practice any religion they seek, but what it does not allow is… Read more »
Hmm, equality is a communustic ideal,… but then what is the root of communism, but community.
Perhaps this fool is blind to the very wisdom burried in his words, but I hope others see.
Socialism, communism, equality, democracy… These things are but variation of a theme.
Jesus was said to have spoken to that theme, with wisdom of thought & love in his heart.