In a single speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate towards Muslims and in contrast rejecting Islam to “… rejecting Hitler’s or Stalin’s worldviews.” In feedback on her radio present, she mentioned accepting homosexuality would result in the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One publish she wrote known as a transgender particular person “deformed” and “demonic.”
Barnette surged in latest polls within the upcoming Pennsylvania Republican US Senate major, placing her in a lifeless warmth between Donald Trump-endorsed former TV star Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund supervisor David McCormick. The Pennsylvania Senate seat is without doubt one of the probably the greatest pickup alternatives for Democrats this November, and Barnette’s sudden, speedy rise is inflicting fear amongst Trump allies.
Barnette has had a fast and unpredicted rise within the polls forward of subsequent Tuesday’s major. She is finest referred to as an Military Reserves veteran and conservative political commentator who repeatedly appeared on Fox, and beforehand she was the host of a Christian radio present known as “Reality Change,” which additionally had a web site the place she generally blogged. She beforehand ran for Congress in 2020 in Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District however misplaced to Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean.
Anti-gay feedback
In posts, and feedback on her radio present, Barnette often condemned being homosexual and transgender.
“Two males sleeping collectively, two males holding fingers, two males caressing, that’s not regular,” she mentioned on her radio present in July 2015, when a Supreme Courtroom ruling cleared the best way for same-sex marriage.
On the identical present, Barnette argued accepting same-sex marriage would result in a “slippery slope” of accepting incest and pedophilia, in an episode that was deleted from her SoundCloud web page after CNN’s KFile reached out to the Barnette marketing campaign for remark.
“If love is the litmus take a look at, who’re we to say, properly, your love is authentic love, same-sex {couples}, however your love, father and daughter, is just not authentic. Or your love, one man and three girls, is just not authentic, or one older man and a 12-year-old youngster. If love is the litmus take a look at, it turns into a really slippery slope. And that’s the place we, we discover ourselves right this moment.”
In a single 2015 publish, Barnette attacked the transgender former actuality star and Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner as “deformed” and “demonic,” whereas attacking what she known as a “barrage to normalize sexual perversion.” In feedback in the identical publish, Barnette warned of a “take-over” occurring by the “Gay agenda.”
On one other present from the identical time, Barnette hosted “two ex-gays” to indicate “the true story behind all these completely satisfied ‘homosexual’ images we see, & God’s Redemptive story in each of their lives.” One dialog featured the president of “Mother and father and Associates of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX).” In a single publish from 2010, Barnette wrote the “gay AGENDA” seeks “domination.” In a publish in 2013, Barnette mentioned America could not coexist with the “Gay agenda.”
“The aggressive gay agenda is coming quickly to a kitchen desk close to you,” she wrote.
Anti-Muslim views
In
tweets and posts, Barnette often focused Islam and Muslims. In a single publish, on her web site, Barnette shared an clearly doctored picture of a Muslim man holding up an indication in entrance of the rubble of the World Commerce Middle that mentioned, “Vote Democrat! We want your assist to kill you.”
Talking in December 2015, in a speech posted on-line, Barnette argued it was acceptable to discriminate towards Muslims and Islam, evaluating it to rejecting the worldviews of Stalin and Hitler, leaders who systematically discriminated towards and ordered the killing of thousands and thousands of individuals — together with Jews, individuals with disabilities, Slavs and homosexual males.
“You aren’t a racist for those who reject Islam, or for those who reject Muslims, as a result of they don’t seem to be a race of individuals. They’re a specific view. They’re people who have a specific view of the world, and we’ve got a proper to discriminate towards worldviews,” she mentioned. “We discriminated towards Hitler’s Nazi Germany view of the world, proper? That was a worldview. That is how he noticed the world round him. And we discriminated towards it. We rejected it. We rejected Stalin’s view … of the world, proper? As a result of that is a specific view of the world that we do not agree with.”
“We now have the best to discriminate towards worldviews as a result of all views are usually not morally equal,” she added. “All views are usually not equal. So we’ve got the best to reject it. And let me simply say offhand, I reject how Muslims see the world.”
She tweeted in 2015, “There’s nothing rational about Islam.” In one other
she wrote, “Pedophilia is a Cornerstone of Islam.”
In 2019, Barnette attacked Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for feedback she made about Trump, tweeting she was a “MUSLIM” in all capital letters.
“Aren’t you all so glad you voted within the first ‘brazenly’ Palestinian Muslim? (Sarcasm for ya’ll who do not get sarcasm),”
wrote Barnette. Unfold conspiracy theories Obama was a Muslim
Barnette additionally
frequently shared the conspiracy principle that Obama, who’s a Christian, was Muslim.
One tweet derided Obama as a “Muslim or from one other nation.”
On her radio present and in speeches, Barnette often known as Obama by his full identify, Barack Hussein Obama, apparently to suggest he was Muslim.
“We now have a president in workplace proper now, Barack Hussein Obama,” she mentioned in 2015 in a speech. “I attempt to point out his identify as a lot as potential. Considering that in some unspecified time in the future a light-weight bulb goes to go off in somebody’s head.”
“Do not we get it? Obama is a Muslim!”
read one tweet in January 2016.
“Obama is a Muslim. Doing Muslim like THINGS!”
read one 2016 tweet.
One 2015 tweet known as him “Muslim Obama.”
