Mr. Rogers Didn’t Gay-Bash Enough?

Mr. Rogers Didn’t Gay-Bash Enough? November 29, 2019

It’s not too often that I will stray into the more misogynistic white supremacy blogs. But occasionally Lori Alexander, Larry Solomon or one of the other Quiverfull leaders will link to or refer to someone like Wintery Knight. Wintery has something rather vile up right now, a piece bashing the late Mr. Rogers, childrens television pioneer. Why? He didn’t gay bash his coworkers, and they are perceiving him as wimpily effeminate.Β  He claims he did not write it, but someone else anonymously authored the piece.

The crux of the matter seems to be that Rogers was a Presbyterian minister who refused to be nasty to different others. You know, sort of like Jesus himself did.

I’ve always said if Jesus came back right now these guys would be out there with the pitchforks, tar, feathers and another cross the very first time Jesus opened his mouth and ordered them to love their neighbor, or something else they would consider borderline hippy-ish.

This is what they are complaining about.

Fred Rogers offering non-judgemental friendship to Francois Clemmons, the gay man who played a cop on the show. A cop who never hinted or exhibited any hint of sexuality.

Apparently the new film release on the life of Mr. Rogers is the catalyst for this sheer breathtaking homophobic idiocy.

Oh? Why is that? Because he was not busy trying to figure out the sexuality of others? He accepted others just as they are like Christ did? Oh how very β€˜evil’ that is.

How evil telling someone else they are loved! How dare Fred!

That’s because the world can see who really cares for them, and who hates them. Fred Rogers embodied more about what the ministry of Jesus was and who Jesus actually was than any amount of hate coming from Wintery Knight and his cowardly little pals.

No, that means that Fred Rogers fully understood that love is the most powerful force on earth and how to walk in that. I’m not capable of that, a lot of us aren’t, but we have sense enough to look up to those who do and can, like Fred Rogers.

These guys are truly sickening.

For more indigestion and indignation with your leftover turkey you can always go check out Doug Wilson’s ranting about how wonderful it is that the English conquered America and wiped out the Indigenous people.

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Suzanne Titkemeyer went from a childhood in Louisiana to a life lived in the shadow of Washington D.C. For many years she worked in the field of social work, from national licensure to working hands on in a children's residential treatment center. Suzanne has been involved with helping the plights of women and children' in religious bondage. She is a ordained Stephen's Minister with many years of counseling experience. Now she's retired to be a full time beach bum in Tamarindo, Costa Rica with the monkeys and iguanas. She is also a thalassophile. She also left behind years in a Quiverfull church and loves to chronicle the worst abuses of that particular theology. She has been happily married to her best friend for the last 33 years. You can read more about the author here.

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