South Carolina Sen. Lee Bright Rants Against Gays During Confederate Flag Debate

Monday’s Confederate flag debate in South Carolina got off to an unnecessarily (yet unsurprisingly) bigoted start when Republican State Sen. Lee Bright went on an anti-LGBT rant. Yes, because when I think about the Confederate flag, the first thing that comes to mind are the tendrils of the “gay mafia.”

Bright, who has campaigned on Facebook and elsewhere to keep the stars and bars flying high in South Carolina, invoked the White House’s rainbow display of colors after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states.

Apparently, Bright had been watching Bill O’Reilly, because he was none too happy with the “abomination colors” being shone all over the executive branch’s chief symbol, according to Jezebel. He went on to say, “We can talk about a flag all we want, but the Devil is taking control of this land.” So instead of focusing on the topic at hand, Bright decided to rage hard against the recent SCOTUS decision and blame the devil for it all. #politics

Check out the clip below, courtesy of C-SPAN:

Meanwhile, the televised debate continues. Check out the livestream here.

[h/t Jezebel]
[Image via screengrab]

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