Anti-gay group president Austin Ruse makes sad attempt to explain away his call to violence against university leaders

Austin Ruse

Yesterday Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute  - one of the newest additions to SPLC's list of anti-gay hate groups -  made the following shocking statement as he raged against a Duke University student who just revealed herself to be a porn actress:

That is the nonsense that they teach in women’s studies at Duke University, this is where she learned this. The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

In a later twitter conversation (initiated by me), Ruse attempted to explain away his comments in between insulting another blogger and myself:

@holybullies Your poor sap. You think you can give me a big audience? Right. You are your two readers. a huh..
— Austin Ruse (@austinruse) March 12, 2014

@austinruse u poor thing. is that the best u got? i'm disappointed. u wanna talk about Russia now?
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) March 12, 2014

@holybullies Poor sad hater....
— Austin Ruse (@austinruse) March 12, 2014

@holybullies @austinruse Watch out, he might demand *you* be shot next. Austin - Didn't you used to claim to be pro-life?
— Tim Peacock (@timsimms) March 12, 2014

@timsimms @holybullies idiots. http://t.co/qZOTzu6J4Y. Learn morons, learn.
— Austin Ruse (@austinruse) March 13, 2014

@austinruse @holybullies I'll accept that as long as you can pt out where in the radio show you made it crystal clear it was a F.o.S.
— Tim Peacock (@timsimms) March 13, 2014

@timsimms @austinruse DON'T EVEN TRY IT, AUSTIN! You're not going to B.S. your way out of this one.
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) March 13, 2014

Strangely enough, Ruse ended the conversation after that (just when it was getting good). Now in all honesty, judge for yourself by listening below. Can what Ruse said be considered as a "figure of speech?"



By the way, my comments about Russia had to do with Ruse's organization expressing support for that country's anti-gay laws as well as expressing regret that the United States wouldn't have such a law:

The World Congress of Families serves as a vessel to bring worldwide hate groups together, as one can see from perusing the sponsors for their international events. The Religious Right has lost the culture war in the United States, and they realized over the past decade that they would have to expand internationally in order to keep their pocketbooks solvent and their ideology relevant. They prey on nations mired in institutional poverty, and they aid foreign governments who find scapegoats that distract their citizens from turning a keen eye on their leaders’ role in their plights quite handy. Both the World Congress of Families and C-Fam have been vocally supportive of Russia’s anti-gay laws, with the WCF expressing support in a press release not long after the Duma’s final vote on the “propaganda” law. The World Congress also held a roundtable in US House of Representatives office space recently in order to teach American “pro-family” activists how to export their hate around the world. Austin Ruse, president of C-Fam, expressed regret that the United States wouldn’t be able to start the sort of pogrom against LGBT people that Russia has, as he praised Russia in their efforts. It’s likely that the international activities of these groups contributed heavily to the SPLC’s decision to label them hate groups.

Hat tip to Tim Peacock of Peacock Panache for "having my back" in last night's twitter conversation.