Anti-Gay Crusader Used to Bugger Livestock

The Southern Poverty Law Center characterizes morality crusader Neal Horsley as

the implacable enemy of homosexuals who promises regularly to "arrest faggots," a man who proposes to use nuclear weapons in a bid for Southern secession.

and adds

[A] Bob Dylan enthusiast who once begged a girlfriend to get an abortion, [he] may be the most important rising figure on the hard Christian right.

Considering that the Law Center is a left-leaning advocacy group that isn't above a bit of white-hot hyperbole when it comes to describing its natural enemies, that take on Horsley is actually relatively sober. While it's a stretch to depict him as an up-and-coming leader, the man does get his share of ink and airtime. That's because or in spite of the fact that he's offered support for the killing of abortion doctors, in part by publishing their names and home addresses on his website. In short, he is the kind of nutjob eccentric who might inspire his detractors to mutter, "Fuck him and the horse he rode in on."

Except you don't want to say that within his earshot — he might take you up on it.

You see, Horsley (Horsey?) used to bugger farm animals. It's no terrible secret, apparently: He's boasted about it on occasion. This is a recent exchange from Alan Colmes' Fox radio show (hat tip: Reason).

Colmes: You had sex with animals?
Horsley: Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule.
C: I'm not so sure that that is so.
H: You didn't grow up on a farm in Georgia, did you?
C: Are you suggesting that everybody who grows up on a farm in Georgia has a mule as a girlfriend?
H: It has historically been the case. You people are so far removed from the reality... Welcome to domestic life on the farm... If it's warm and it's damp and it vibrates, you might in fact have sex with it. 

Just the guy to teach the nation about the finer points of procreation, wouldn't you say?

Comments

[Mark James]

They will do anything to tarnish the religious right, e.g., by saying this guy is influential and a rising star. What's his name again?!

[Arjan]

Thanks Rogier. Just what I needed before breakfast.