Kevin Craig is a perennial candidate for the House of
Representatives from Missouri representing the Libertarian Party (one wonders
what kind of persons he would have to beat in the nomination process). More
precisely, Craig describes himself as a “Christian Libertarian”, which does not
mean Christian and libertarian but that he belongs, in his own eyes, to a
particular brand of libertarianism. In fact, Craig seeks to establish what he
calls a “Christian libertarian Theocracy”, so his brand sounds like a very,
very special brand of libertarianism indeed. He is described here (this one ought to be seen, by the way).
One unusual feature of his “libertarianism” is the view that
homosexuality should be criminalized. Craig believes that “Congress should: i)
Hate homosexuality and homosexuals; ii) Follow God's Commandments with respect
to them,” and his reasoning is that homosexuality is just like embezzlement:
“Homosexuals attempt to embezzle sexual satisfaction from God's business. The
entire creation is God's enterprise. God is the Boss. Homosexuals are
disobedient employees. God hates them.” To emphasize that he is a radical
libertarian, however, Craig does say that he doesn’t think child molestation
should be illegal and punished by the government, because the government has no
business concerning what goes on in people’s bedrooms.
Craig is also a global warming denialist because that seems to fit better with his political position, desperately
claiming that “there is no consensus”.
In fact, his website is a cesspool of New World Order conspiracy theories, creationism (yes, Craig deploys all the silliest arguments), altmed peddling, and HIV denialism – according to Craig “The government-approved orthodox HIV-AIDS theory distracts
attention from the destructive nature of the homosexual lifestyle. There are
many scientists, professors, researchers, even Nobel Prize-winners, who are
skeptics, and see the HIV–AIDS religion as effective political lobbying, not
effective science.” One wonders whether the putatively respectable skeptics are
these.
That would be too bad, for the people on that list, whatever else they are, are
certainly not respectable.
Diagnosis: Virtually a professional Boolean negation operator.
“Craig says p, therefore not-p” seems to be a fairly reliable inference rule
for the rest of us.
I have a candidate for Round 3: Thomas Clough, publisher of Weird Republic. He's a weapon's grade wingnut.
ReplyDeleteSo this nutbar actually thinks that Gays should be jailed and homosexual sexual behaviour be punished criminally, yet adults should be able to sexually assualy children without criminal penalties! Shakes head in amazement!!
ReplyDeleteI'm a Christian, libertarian, and molecular biologist. How you describe him here...this dude sounds like a bowl of contradictions and ideological dissonance.
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