On the latest episode of his "Pray In Jesus Name" program, Religious Right activist Gordon Klingenschmitt said that gay people should never be allowed to serve as school teachers because they "should be disqualified immediately because of their immorality."
Klingenschmitt was commenting on a report about a Minnesota elementary school teacher and his husband who allegedly abused multiple boys over the course of several years and then killed themselves once an investigation was launched. Klingenschmitt said that while these men were obviously possessed by "a demonic spirit of child abuse," the school system and society as a whole also share the blame for allowing gay people to teach in public schools in the first place.
"As a culture now, the demonic spirit of homosexuality has taken over and redefined marriage, particularly in Minnesota, to tell these boys that it is okay," he said. "And the demonic spirit of deception has taken over the school board or whoever decided, maybe the principal, decided to hire these child abusers to teach elementary school. Well, if anything, they should have been disqualified immediately because of their immorality, because the immorality inside of these two men are indicators that they are unfit to be a good example to little children."
"This is evil upon evil and it's not just these two men who are at fault," Klingenschmitt added. "It is our laws as a society that need to be changed to prevent and protect children from this kind of abuse in the future."
