#2857: David Kyle Foster

It’s starting to get old, but David Kyle Foster is still around, so here we go: David Kyle Foster is an anti-gay activist who characterizes himself as “ex-gay” (he insists that he changed his own sexual orientation after “sleeping with 1,000 men”) and a champion of reparative therapy. He even made a movie, Such Were Some Of You, back in 2014 describing his delusions about stuff – in particular the temptations of the “homosexual lifestyle” – with backups from experts like Michael Brown and Anne Paulk, and which was featured e.g. on The 700 Club. In the movie, Foster warns that young people are especially vulnerable to such temptations because “Satan is in their little minds, planting all sorts of doubts and fears,” and that schools are under the sway of dark forces pushing the gay agenda through manipulative messages of LGBT acceptance, which, according to Foster, is “child abuse as far as I’m concerned”. He also has some notably weird views about what is actually being taught in elementary schools around the country.

 

Foster has also warned about the danger of divine punishment for gay rights; according to Foster, “sexual immorality” such as homosexuality amounts to “idolatry” because it involves “worshipping the creature rather than the creator.”

 

Foster must have been ex-gay for a while, insofar as he founded his Mastering Life Ministries back in 1987. He is also producer and co-host (with one Jayson Graves) of “Pure Passion”, a “televised outreach designed to equip the church to redemptively minister to those who are trapped in sexual sin and brokenness”. You can read more about that one if you wish here. DK Foster is however probably not identical to the David Foster who ran as an independent candidate in Virginia’s 2^nd Congressional District in 2022 on the platform “TRAITORS PEDOPHILES TO THE GALLOS...ANY QANON QUESTIONS????”

 

Diagnosis: We’re hopefully mostly done with David Kyle Foster’s brand of dingbat bigotry and delusions, but who knows what the conspiracy and religious fundie fraction of the MAGA cult may end up resurrecting?