Fox News contributor Erick Erickson endorsed a congressional candidate's assertion that “the homosexual movement” is “destroying America.”
On July 22, Georgia Republican Jody Hice won the Republican primary to succeed Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) in the state's 10th congressional district. In the wake of Hice's victory, BuzzFeed's Andrew Kacynski highlighted 11 examples of Hice's history of inflammatory commentary on LGBT issues.
Erickson, who has endorsed Hice, responded to Kaczynski's post by tweeting that “most every conservatives [sic]” would agree with items “1, 5, 9, and maybe 10”:
The passages Erickson endorsed included Hice's claim that “the homosexual movement is ... destroying America by aggressively seeking to destroy traditional families, religion, and marriages for the purpose of removing all societal moral boundaries”:
The item Erickson thought most conservatives would “maybe” agree with concerned Hice's suggestion that gay people can change their sexual orientation:
Erickson himself has made clear that he endorses harmful and discredited efforts to change gay people's identities, having written on June 20 that gay people must “overcome” the “struggle” of homosexuality.
At Fox, Erickson stands out as one of the network's most rabidly anti-LGBT commentators. He has previously written that gay people are on the "road to hell" and warned businesses that serve gay couples that they are "aiding and abetting" sin.
Moreover, Erickson is a prominent supporter of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a right-wing legal group working internationally to help criminalize homosexuality.