Rick Scarborough
Rick Scarborough is the uber-conservative head of something called Vision America and a complete scumbag for opposing Texas Governor Rick Perry's decision to vaccinate sixth grade children against the most dangerous kinds of HPV. His reason? Well, that STDs are God god's punishment for breaking His his moral code about sex! [1] He also once advocated a genuinely strange legal strategy: namely, filing a class-action lawsuit against Teh Ev1L GaY since "homosexuality much more likely leads to AIDS than smoking leads to cancer", which is a leap of logic of truly heroic proportions all by itself.[2]
He has equally delusional poorly reasoned opinions concerning the July 2012 shootings in Aurora, Colorado,[3]the cartoon apocalypse that faces the US if Barack Obama gets re-elected and the utterly serious moral crisis that faces America if you don't buy a chicken sandwich from a certain fast food chain.[4] More recently, he tried (and probably succeeded) in convincing a bunch of Tea Party true believers that if the Supreme Court doesn't uphold Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, fellow halfwits "pastors" of his theological stripe will go to jail for opposing gay marriage.[5]
He joined forces with Glenn Beck (and other evangelistic crazies including the likes of John Hagee and Tony Perkins) in an event scheduled for July 28th, 2012 at Texas Stadium called Restore Love.[6] Whether the name of this event constitutes one of the biggest incidents of unintentional irony in recorded history is left up to the reader.
He's apparently now bosom buddies with the equally loopy Louis Gohmert, if their mutual conference call supporting Scarborough's "40 Days to Save America" is any real indication.[7]
He has also convinced himself that the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was successful not because Islamic fundamentalists successfully targeted it during the uproar over Innocence of Muslims but because "the Church" (and there's apparently just the one, denominational differences be damned) is being persecuted in the US, among other things.[8]
He is also of the belief that an article in Forbes is proof that the Affordable Care Act will eventually cause Tyranny Cooties despite the fact that no other industrialized democracy (most of which have far more government control over health care) has turned into North Korea Mk. II as a result.[9]
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ PR Newswire interview with Rick Scarborough.
- ↑ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-we-need-class-action-lawsuit-against-homosexuality Scarborough: We Need A Class Action Lawsuit Against Homosexuality, Right Wing Watch
- ↑ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/scarborough-colorado-shooting-hand-of-protection-lowered
- ↑ Scarborough: 'America Will Not Survive' if Obama is Re-Elected, Right Wing Watch
- ↑ Scarborough: Christians Will Be Persecuted and Imprisoned if SCOTUS Legalizes Gay Marriage, Right Wing Watch
- ↑ Beck to ‘Restore Love’ With Help of Hateful Liars, Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- ↑ Rep. Gohmert Says America is Worse off Now than During Slavery, Right Wing Watch
- ↑ Scarborough: God Allowed Benghazi Attack Because 'America is Mired in Sin', Right Wing Watch
- ↑ Scarborough: ACA Intentionally Creating Tyranny, Dispatches from the Culture Wars