Terrorist on Campus

No, not the guy John McCain said he didn't care about but still was the topic of approximately a trillion paranoid letters to the editor of The Exponent.

Yesterday (and maybe today, I can't confirm cause I don't typically go to campus on Fridays)Brother Jed Smock was on campus doing his regular 'gay people are the debil!!' thing. I will soon be doing my regular thing by turning his visit into a reason to donate money to Purdue Queer Student Union

If you're not familiar with Bro. Jed he is an ultra-conservative preacher who travels to universities around the country and preaches what he calls a 'confrontational evangelism'. Translated that means he goes around and calls college kids a bunch of names and tells everyone who listens to rock music or has ever thought of so much as looking at someone who thought about having a gay friend that they are going to go to hell.

Normally I'd throw this guy in with the Fred Phelps' (of 'our soldiers are dying because got hates how tolerant the USA is of gay people' fame) of the world, and that certainly is company he belongs with, but if you listen to him enough, with the right mindset, I can at least understand how some people might get the misconception that he's only a preacher with a conservative message but has his heart in the right place.

Wrong.

Despite the fact that I believe President Carter was right in that much of the conservative extremism lately has much to do with race, I still believe that while conservative Americans may be divided on their thoughts on homosexuality (especially in a religious context), the large majority now consider racism morally reprehensible. I suspect, if they knew the following, that less students would be sympathetic or neutral to this choad.

Thus I present Brother Jed: The Racist

*"The only things Mexicans contribute to society are burritos" -Jed

*"the only things Jews are good at is making bagels and running banks" -Jed

* Brother Jed has also written a book dedicated to the defense of apartheid in South Africa called 'Gold in the Furnace:South Africa on Trial'

Other Fun Jed Facts
- He admits to having done a shitload of acid back in the day (coincidentally right before he had his 'epiphany'... never thought I'd say this but maybe he should have kept doing the acid)
-He claimed to have been on the faculty of the History Department at U of Wisconsin but attempts to confirm this resulted in no records or recollection of Jed ever being there and is absent from all payroll records.
-He is quoted as having said 'God has a vagina for every homosexual'. I'm disappointed I didn't get a chance to ask him if the deal was still good for us bi-folk. Do we just get it for a couple days on a rental basis?
-... And finally, just because I was born and bred to despise IU I have to point out that he went to college in Bloomington. Way to go blockheads, learn to make better acid.