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Related: About this forumFather of accused Colorado club shooter relived that son isn't gay
Aaron Brink, 48, said he praised his son for violent behavior.
...Then, two days ago, Brink got a call from his son's defense attorneys, telling him Aldrich was involved in a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
Brink said he's a Mormon and his first reaction was to question why his son was at a gay bar.
You know Mormons don't do gay. We don't do gay. There's no gays in the Mormon church. We don't do gay, Brink said.
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/im-sorry-i-let-my-son-down-father-of-accused-colorado-club-shooter-speaks-out/509-6c4ad66e-35ef-41a5-9255-bca31cea3a73
"They started telling me about the incident, a shooting... And then I go on to find out it's a gay bar. I got scared, 'Shit, is he gay?' And he's not gay, so I said phew... I am a conservative Republican."
Behind the Aegis
(54,857 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,857 posts)These people are such skidmarks.
AllyCat
(17,104 posts)gab13by13
(25,267 posts)yankee87
(2,343 posts)I thought the same thing. this can't be true. I checked and no. it's not the Onion. I can not believe the hatred. I'm so sorry for my LGBTQI+ friends.
Like I said before, you always have an ally in Cleveland until the day I die.
Always Love and be safe.
FalloutShelter
(12,749 posts)Go to prison for the rest of his life
But at least hes not gay.
Thats my boy.
WTAF
Behind the Aegis
(54,857 posts)....who would rather have a dead child than a gay one.
FalloutShelter
(12,749 posts)These people are so irrevocably broken and the GOP is set on arming ALL of them.
Behind the Aegis
(54,857 posts)It is why many GBLT people, Jews, and immigrants (and likely others), are really starting to worry. Used to be hate crimes were "one and done" types of crimes, now, hate crimes have turned into mass casualty events. Make no mistake, there are still plenty of hate crimes where only one individual is harmed/harassed/murdered, but now, it seems to me and a few others, we will see even more "group" hate crimes in the days to come.
louis-t
(23,720 posts)We're not far out from MTG introducing a bill that would make it legal to kill (gays, Jews, Democrats, anyone else she doesn't like).
Rebl2
(14,707 posts)Had friend in my early twenties that had a father that kicked him out of his house because he was gay. My boyfriends mother, at that time, let him live with them for a while. I am sure his conservative father would have preferred that. I lost track of him when he moved to FL. This was back in the late seventies. I always thought of him as a gentle soul. Must have gotten it from his mother. I havent thought of that in a very long time.
Under The Radar
(3,419 posts)A mass murder is fine and they will tolerate that, but that gay stuff that Jesus never mentioned certainly is justification for banishment or even death.
bucolic_frolic
(46,999 posts)Autumn
(46,332 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Back in the day, they would be made fun of as "ret***s" at school and so forth.
Now, we have social media to hold them up to scrutiny, so it is a lot more convenient.
He obviously has limited mental capacity and what little he has isn't filled with anything worthwhile.
Arkansas Granny
(31,828 posts)patphil
(6,956 posts)This guy is every bit as guilty as his son. Unfortunately he's not going to pay the price for what he turned his son into.
Like monster father, like monster son.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Guy has obvious mental issues and hasn't seen the shooter in nine years.
Why drag him in front of the cameras?
DFW
(56,548 posts)This guy has obviously not been playing with a full deck for many years. This was painful to watch, and I had enough a third of the way in.
doc03
(36,709 posts)a f---d up murderer.
Siwsan
(27,291 posts)The garbled, weird speech cadence and body language just triggers all kinds of red flags.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)A lot of people aren't "normal". He seems to have a disability of some kind.
Siwsan
(27,291 posts)And a disability can be caused by substance abuse.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)He admits it in the video. I could have told you that in the first 10 seconds.
I see it almost daily at work.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,523 posts)And you STILL do gay.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)These are real life goddamn monsters.
magicarpet
(16,518 posts)His mind seems to be intact. If you can get beyond the gibberish gibberish - he is about 75% coherent viewpoint.
The meth seems to have made his gestures kind of spastic and disjointed.
When the father was younger (teens, adolescent, 20s+ 30s) I bet he was a handful.
I wonder if after he was misinformed that his son was dead - if the father dove deeper into the meth cesspool and really started to abuse drugs ?
This family seems inclined to jump from poor life choice to poor life choice as they journey through life. Toxic masculinity seems to be pervasive with the males.
The Aldrich grandfather in California appears to also be heavily inclined to extreme conservatism and toxic masculinity is also a badge of honor and pride there with him too.
Toxic masculinity is so deeply ingrained in American society,.. it is so detrimental to our culture. Then along comes tRump to glorify and normalize toxic masculinity all that much more.
Can we ever turn back from the precipice of societal destruction, or have we gone too far, or is it too late in the game to correct this and chart a different course ?
progressoid
(50,747 posts)There. Somebody had to say it.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)That went on for 20 minutes?! I couldn't stomach past his porn-star-meth crap.
But methinks this puts down the RW'er narrative of the shooting being a gay lover's spat.
There you are MAGA's: He's all yours.