Meet Riaz Patel, The Gay Liberal Mlim Who Is Glenn Beck’s New BFF

Contents:

• GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE
• 3 GAY NSERVATIV REVEAL WHAT PRI MONTH IS REALLY ABOUT
• WHERE IS GLENN BECK ON GAY MARRIAGE? 5 REASONS HE IS IN FAVOR
• GLENN BECK'S ANTI-GAY ARMY OF GOD
• GLENN BECK’S PCNS ON GAY MARRIAGE, AND LIBERTY AND CANER TURNG A BLD EYE
• GLENN BECK: 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY
• BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?
• GLENN BECK: GAY MARRIAGE NOT THREAT TO AMERI (VIDEO)
• MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFFALLIGLENN BECK, WHO BELIEVED LGBT MARRIAGE EQUALY WOULD LEAD TO SOCIAL STCTN, HAS CHANGED HIS MD—AND HIS NEW GAY BFF SISTS THE TRANSFORMATN IS SCERE.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED MAY 05, 2017 2:32PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE UNLIKELY METAMORPHOSIS OF GLENN BECK OM NUTTY RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY-MONGER TO RATNAL-SEEMG FENR OF AMERIN MOCRACY—AND OPPONENT OF ALL THGS DONALD TMP—HAS CROSSED OVER TO A NEW ONTIER.THE 53-YEAR-OLD MULTIMEDIA FIREBRAND AND SELF-SCRIBED “TASTROPHIST”—WHO SHOCKED AND POSSIBLY ALIENATED HIS DWDLG FAN-BASE THREE MONTHS AGO BY FORMG AN ANTI-TMP ALLIANCE WH LEFTY SATIRIST SAMANTHA BEE—IS THE DAYS SPENDG QUALY TIME WH A PAKISTANI-BORN, POLILLY LIBERAL, GAY, MLIM TELEVISN PRODUCER.RIAZ PATEL—WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE PARENT, WH HIS BRISH-BORN HBAND, OF AN 11-MONTH OLD GIRL NCEIVED BY ARTIFICIAL SEMATN AND RRIED TO TERM BY A MEXIN SURROGATE—IS THE EMMY-NOMATED PRCIPAL OF AXIAL ENTERTAMENT, A SUCCSFUL LOS ANGEL-BASED PRODUCTN PANY RPONSIBLE FOR SUCH REALY TV SHOWS AS LIFETIME’S HOW TO LOOK GOOD NAKED AND VH1’S I HEART NICK CARTER, AMONG MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER PROJECTS.PATEL ED TO FEAR AND LOATHE BECK’S DIVISIVE HYPE. “I DID E THE EXPRSN ‘WHE DEVIL’,” PATEL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “BEE I HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS HATEFUL, ANGRY NEWS PERSONIFIED. I THOUGHT HE IS ABSOLUTELY PARTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THIS CULTURE OF MADNS AND CHAOS AND RAGE ALL THE TIME THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.”BUT THE 43-YEAR-OLD PATEL, A U.S. CIZEN WHO ARRIVED HERE OM KARACHI AS A BABY WH HIS PARENTS AND TWO OLR SISTERS PG POLIL PANMONIUM PAKISTAN, HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AFTER MEETG BECK LAST JULY AND ENGAGG “HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF NVERSATN” WH HIM SCE THEN.THE BIASTAL PATEL—WHO IS NEGOTIATG TO ACCEPT AN EDOR-AT-LARGE ROLE BRASTORMG IAS FOR SHOWS WHILE MAKG FILMS FOR THE BLAZE’S SISTER WEB SE, —VISS BECK’S SUBURBAN DALLAS STUDS NEARLY EVERY WEEK TO DISCS POSSIBLE PROJECTS, HAS MA 15 APPEARANC ON BECK’S RAD AND TELEVISN SHOWS, AND FEBARY TREKKED TO THAILAND WH HIM TO FILM A PIECE ABOUT AN ANIZATN THAT FIGHTS CHILD SEX-SLAVERY.“THE SIMPATI IS SHOCKG,” PATEL SAID ABOUT HIS TERACTNS WH BECK. BUT PATEL, WHO HAS LOST LIBERAL IENDS OVER HIS NEW LLABORATN, ADD: “I’M A BRIDGE, NOT A FECTOR…I’M NOBODY’S PAWN… I’M NOT A STOCKHOLM SYNDROME GUY WHO LOV MY PTOR.”BECK, MEANWHILE, WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MENT. “WE’LL LEAVE THIS TO RIAZ,” SAID HIS NEW YORK PUBLICIST, DAVIDSON GOLD.PATEL, WHO GREW UP THE SUBURBS OF BALTIMORE WH HIS SURGEON-FATHER AND REAL TATE ENTREPRENR-MOTHER, DOUBLE-MAJORED AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA PSYCHOLOGY AND LERATURE AND GRADUATED WH AMIC HONORS WHILE PURSUG A MANDG PRE-MED PROGRAM.PATEL IS NOT UNAWARE OF THE DOUBTS THAT SOME HAVE RAISED ABOUT BECK’S LATT ATTEMPT TO REBRAND HIMSELF AS A REASONABLE MAN.INED, LAST SEPTEMBER, A CERTA GREE OF SKEPTICISM GREETED BECK—WHO HAD PREVLY ACCED “RACIST” PRINT OBAMA OF HARBORG “A EP-SEATED HATRED OF WHE PEOPLE,” AND THE FIRST LADY OF BEG A “MONSTER”—WHEN HE LNCHED A SERI OF REMORSEFUL MASTREAM MEDIA APPEARANC WH AN OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIM URGG EMPATHY FOR THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT.A LONGTIME BECK ASSOCIATE OPED AT THE TIME THAT BECK’S APPARENT TRANSFORMATN “IS ABOUT A PATTERN OF REVENTN AND CYCLE OF APOLOGY AND OFFENSE…I THK HE’S UP TO HIS SIXTH APOLOGY CYCLE NOW, WHERE HE’S ONTO THE MASTREAM MEDIA WHEN THEY’RE SUPPORTG HIM, AND THEN HE REALIZ HE’S GOG TO GET BURNED, AND HE NS AWAY OM THEM. HE’S BASILLY FLAILG.”IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, PATEL WROTE: “GOSH I HOPE DON’T SEEM LIKE I’M JT WILLG TO OVERLOOK ANYTHG DAMAGG FOR A SHOW. I STILL NEED TO LOOK AT MYSELF THE MIRROR EVERY EVENG—AND THAT’S THE BIGGT THG FOR ME.”AS A RULT OF HIS IENDSHIP WH BECK, HOWEVER, “I HAVE UGHT MYSELF RECENTLY A BUNCH OF TIM A DOUBLE-STANDARD WHEN TO THE ‘RIGHT’ VS. THE ‘LEFT,’ ” PATEL WROTE. “I’M SAYG A LOT OF THIS BEE I WAS FORCED TO STEP PLETELY OUT OF MY FORT ZONE—AND BY DOG SO, REALIZED THE OTHER SI ISN’T ALWAYS WHO I THOUGHT THEY WERE…WHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS ‘RIGHT’ OR THE ‘RIGHT TERPRETATN.’ I JT WANT TO SHARE WH YOU MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE—WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND FELT WH MY OWN EY. THAT’S ALL.”IN AN TERVIEW, PATEL SAID: “I BELIEVE HE’S SCERE…WE N MOVE FORWARD BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY WHEN I N TELL HIM, ‘THIS IS WHAT I SEE. THIS IS WHAT I FEAR. THIS IS MY NCERN.’ AND IF HE N ADDRS ALL THAT WHILE MATAG EYE NTACT, WE’RE DONE.”THIS, SPE BECK’S FLAMMATORY ATTACKS ON “PROGRSIV” AND MLIMS, TWO GROUPS TO WHICH PATEL BELONGS AND HISTORILLY TWO OF BECK’S MOST REVILED SPEGOATS.BECK HAS PARED THE FORMER GROUP TO NAZIS BENT ON BRGG TOTALARIANISM TO THE LAND OF THE FREE; AND HE HAS SUGGTED THAT “CLOSER TO TEN PERCENT” OF MLIMS ARE “TERRORISTS” WHILE THORG A 2015 BOOK, IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, THAT SALON LLED “300 PAG OF ISLAMOPHOBIA DRSED UP AS SCHOLARSHIP.”MORE RECENTLY, ON THURSDAY, DURG HIS SYNDITED MORNG RAD SHOW SIMULST ON BECK’S THE BLAZE WEB SE, HE PARED THE ABORTN SERVIC PROVID BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD—UNFAVORABLY—TO THE DIABOLIL EXPERIMENTS THAT JOSEF MENGELE PERFORMED ON JEWISH VICTIMS AT ACHWZ.“MENGELE HAD GOOD TENTNS,” BECK CLARED, NFLATG THE NOTOR SS DOCTOR WH PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PHILALPHIA ABORTNIST KERM GOSNELL, WHO WAS NVICTED OF FIRST-GREE MURR 2013 THE ATHS OF THREE FANTS BORN ALIVE DURG THE PROCR. “MENGELE WOULD S THERE AND TELL YOU ‘WELL, I’M TRYG TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN RACE.’”PATEL, WHO ATTRIBUT SOME OF BECK’S WACKIER AND MORE OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS TO THE PFALLS OF FILLG THREE HOURS OF UNSCRIPTED RAD EVERY MORNG, SAID HE NTU TO DISAGREE WH MUCH OF BECK’S RABBLE-ROG RHETORIC, YET SE HIS SURPRISG NEW IEND AS WILLG TO LISTEN AND MAYBE EVEN REFORMABLE.FOR STANCE, BECK HAS BEEN A FENR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT LEAST SCE DECEMBER 2012, WHEN HE ARGUED ON HIS SHOW, “THE QUTN IS NOT WHETHER GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE MARRIED OR NOT, THE QUTN IS WHY IS THE ERNMENT VOLVED OUR MARRIAGE”; BECK ADD THAT THE LEGAL SOLEMNIZATN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T “PICK MY POCKET OR BREAK MY LEG.”BECK, A MORMON NVERT, WAS NOT ALWAYS SO ENLIGHTENED. IN ONE OF HIS PREV RNATNS, HE SPECULATED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD STROY SENTIAL SOCIAL AND RELIG STUTNS AND EVABLY LEAD TO LEGALIZED POLYGAMY.HE ALSO ZIED UP TO A ROGU’ GALLERY OF POLICIANS AND PASTORS WHO PROMOTED ANTI-LBGTQ POLICI AND RHETORIC, CLUDG JAM DOBSON, JOHN HAGEE, MICHELE BACHMANN AND SARAH PAL.BUT BY DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS PUBLICLY SUPPORTG MPAIGN GROUP GLAAD THEIR OPPOSN TO RSIA’S OFFICIAL ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY. “I WILL STAND WH GLAAD AGAST RSIA’S HETERO-FASCISM,” HE CLARED ON CNN.“I AM NOW REALIZG THAT I WAS SENTIALLY UNRMED WHEN I SAY I HATED GLENN BECK FOR WHO HE WAS,” PATEL SAID. “IF I WAS REALLY BEG HONT, I DON’T THK I EVER WATCHED ONE OF HIS SHOWS. A LOT OF WAS G OM THIS PERCEPTN OF HIM AND MY SENSE OF WHAT ARE THE THGS HE DON’T LIKE ABOUT ME. I WAS PRETTY OBNOX MY OPNS. THAT BEG SAID, THERE ARE THGS HE SHOULD BE HELD ACUNTABLE FOR, AND I DO BELIEVE HAS DONE WRONG.”PATEL SAID HE READ IT IS ABOUT ISLAM AT BECK’S URGG, AND ME AWAY BOTH IMPRSED AND TROUBLED.“HIS OPNS ABOUT ISLAM ARE VERY RMED, BUT I THK THE AMG IS A B OFF, AND WHEN WE’RE LOOKG AT , HE’S LEARNG MY POT OF VIEW,” PATEL SAID. “THE TONE, I FELT, WAS A LTLE ALARMIST, NOT AN ATTACK. BUT GLENN LLS HIMSELF A ‘TASTROPHIST.’”IRONILLY, WAS ISLAM AND TASTROPHE THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PATEL, WEARG TRADNAL PAKISTANI GARB, WAS ATTENDG A WEDDG ORLANDO, FLA., THE WEEKEND LAST JUNE WHEN ISIS-SPIRED TERRORIST OMAR MATEEN, THE AMERIN-BORN SON OF MLIM AFGHAN PARENTS, SHOT MORE THAN 100 REVELERS AND KILLED 49 AT THE GAY ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB PULSE.WORRYG THAT THE MASSACRE WOULD PROVOKE A NATNWI WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, PATEL—A SECULAR MLIM—REACHED OUT TO VAR TELEVISN NEWS OUTLETS TO EXPLA THAT MATEEN’S ATROCY HAD NOTHG TO DO WH THE TES OF ISLAM, AND TO REPRENT MLIMS AND THEIR FAH A POSIVE, NON-THREATENG LIGHT.HE MANAGED TO GET BOOKGS ON CNN—APPEARG ON DON LEMON AND BROOKE BALDW’S SHOWS—AND ON BLOND BOMB-THROWER TOMI LAHREN’S RANTFT ON THE BLAZE.ON LAHREN'S SHOW, PATEL CHALLENGED THE BOMBASTIC HOST: “I ULD GO OUT AND DO A HORRIBLE ACT OF VLENCE THE NAME OF TOMI, AND THEN SUDNLY YOU ARE LEFT TO FEND . IF PEOPLE GO AND DO THE KDS OF HORRIBLE, HEO THGS THE NAME OF MY RELIGN—AND I HAVE LERALLY NOTHG TO DO WH —IS MY RPONSIBILY NOW?”PATEL WAS SO IMPASSNED, ELOQUENT AND POSED THAT A MEMBER OF LAHREN’S PRODUCTN STAFF REMEND HIM AS THE PERFECT GUT FOR BECK’S EVENG TELEVISN PROGRAM. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, HE WAS BECK’S SOLE GUT FOR AN HOUR.“WOULDN’T BE CRAZY IF THE SOLUTN TO ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WAS AS SIMPLE AS HUMBLG YOURSELF AND SAYG, ‘OK, LET ME LISTEN’?” BECK TOLD PATEL AS THE TWO SAT OPPOSE EACH OTHER OVERSTUFFED CHAIRS AND TENTATIVELY FELT EACH OTHER OUT.“I THK YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,” PATEL SAID. “I BELIEVE YOU N CREATE A BETTER AMERI WH FOUR CHAIRS. LERALLY. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. THREE PEOPLE HAVG A NVERSATN. NOT TWO. AT SOME POT YOU’LL DISAGREE AND SOMEONE WILL WALK AWAY. YOU NEED THREE FOR A DYNAMIC. AND A FOURTH PERSON HAS TO LISTEN.”TH, WH PATEL SHREWDLY ENGAGG BECK CIDLY BECK-LIKE LANGUAGE, WAS THE BEGNG, APPARENTLY, OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP.BUT WHAT IF BECK BACKSLIS AND REVERTS TO FORM HIS LONGTIME ROLE AS A DIVISIVE MAGOGUE?“SOME DAYS HE’S HAPPY, SOME DAYS HE’S SAD, SOME DAYS HE’S ANGRY, AND PEOPLE ARE TUNG TO WATCH THAT PERSON,” PATEL SAID. “MAYBE HE HAD A ROUGH NIGHT AND HE’S MORE EDGY. SOME DAYS HE IS MORE ANGRY. I DON’T THK HE’LL EVER WALK THE WALK EVERY DAY. BUT TO ME, THAT’S WHERE HIS HEART IS.” LLOYD GROVE

GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Essentially, if the argument for gay marriage is equal rights for nsentg adults - are they gog to stand up and fight for the rights of three thirty year old women to marry a sixty-five year old guy?

Schwartz / ContributorLet's start wh Dave Rub, host of The Rub Report, who is well known for many thgs, the least of which is beg a gay nservative (much to the dismay and nfn of the "Rabow Mafia"). Here's what he said:They've separated human begs based on iology havg nothg to do wh who they tly Left has prented simply "beg gay" as an iologil stance that is patible wh and even spised by other (typilly right-leang) iologi. Klavan brought up an important pot:The loust and the crazit voic are [the most] Rabow Mafia typ are ma out to be the majory—the unanimo voice of anyone the LGBTQIA+ muny—which nveniently means they n weaponize cricism towards them by labelg crics as homophob.

3 GAY NSERVATIV REVEAL WHAT PRI MONTH IS REALLY ABOUT

"Wall Street is lookg for ESG sr, extremists are like 'you don't say gay, enough you don't celebrate transgenr, well we're gog to have to give you a low sre. The re of his argument is for the simple prervatn of rights, rather than a ph to create new laws that affect both heterosexual and homosexual married prefers the Constutn to the Book of Mormon. While he is normally alignment wh GOP valu — which typilly are of the nservative Christian flavor — should be no surprise that his stance on gay marriage will be more of a rult of polil science than church philosophy.

While the Mormon fah do not ndone homosexualy nor perform homosexual marriage ceremoni, certaly don’t hold s polil members acuntable the same way that, say, the Catholic Church do.

While the Catholic Church has taken a notably vol stance over the years on many social issu the public square — gay marriage and abortn gag the most steam recent months — the Mormon church is not as proment of a polil player for Beck’s ments to be supremely disarmg, given his church many may expect om polil mentators like Bill O’Reilly a distctive outlook on certa social issu by virtue of his beg Roman Catholic, that expectatn don’t necsarily translate for a polil Mormon like Beck. ”When O'Reilly asked aga whether gay marriage was a harm to the untry, Beck replied:“I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: ‘If neher breaks my leg nor picks my pocket what difference is to me?

WHERE IS GLENN BECK ON GAY MARRIAGE? 5 REASONS HE IS IN FAVOR

Author and advote Jeremy Hooper was quick to pot out that one of Beck’s equent guts is fellow talk show host David Barton, who once suggted that homosexualy should be regulated by the ernment and that, his Fox News chalkboard-poundg heyday, he’d llected an “anti-gay army of God. ” Barton wrote that “General Washgton held a clear unrstandg of the l for orr and disciple, and as the origal Commanr--Chief, he was the first not only to forbid, but even to punish, homosexuals the ary. ” He further stated that “Based on the statut, legal mentari, and the wrgs of proment ary lears, is clear that any ia of homosexuals servg the ary was nsired wh repugnance; this is ntrovertible, wh no room for differg terpretatns.

David Barton of the Texas-based group Wallbuilrs said the Bible nmns not only homosexualy but also pal-gas tax, progrsive e tax, tate tax and mimum-wage laws. Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, the Legislature's chief proponent of the proposed amendment, led one ssn on s uncerta stat Mnota, while her hband, Christian therapist Marc Bachmann, led another on “the tth of the homosexual liftyle.

On the November 22, 2006, edn of CNN's Larry Kg Live, Dobson offered the followg explanatn for what homosexualy: "[I]t has to do wh an inty crisis that occurs too early to remember , where a boy is born wh an attachment to his mother and she is everythg to him for about 18 months, and between 18 months and five years, he needs to tach om her and to reattach to his father. Durg the December 11, 2006, edn of Dobson's rad show, gut Michael Medved claimed that the children's film Happy Feet, an animated film about pengus livg Antarcti, ntas a “subtext, as there so often is, about homosexualy. ” In his September 2003 newsletter headled “Marriage on the Rop, ” which is still available on Foc on the Fay's South Ain webse, (PDF versn) Dobson wrote that “The homosexual activist movement, which has achieved virtually every goal and objective set out to acplish more than 50 years ago, is poised to admister a vastatg and potentially fatal blow to the tradnal fay.

GLENN BECK'S ANTI-GAY ARMY OF GOD

The history of the gay and lbian movement is that s adherents quickly move the goal le as soon as one has been breached, revealg even more shockg and outrageo objectiv. ” A recent study nducted the Netherlands - a “progrsive” natn which gay marriage has been legal for several years - found that the average homosexual relatnship lasts only 1. ” In a November 8, 2007, Washgton Tim article (accsed via Nexis) on the Hoe passg the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act, which would prohib discrimatn agast employe on the basis of sexual orientatn, the paper reported that "[s]ome nservative lawmakers also say extendg special rights to homosexuals uld harm protectns granted to married upl.

Gallagher: Polygamy is “better” than same-sex marriage, “wng the gay-marriage bate” parable to the fall of Communism, losg that bate “means losg Amerin civilizatn. ” In a July 14, 2003, Natnal Review lumn, Gallagher claimed that "[p]olygamy is not worse than gay marriage, is better, " bee "[a]t least polygamy, for all s ugly fects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father fai for children.

GLENN BECK’S PCNS ON GAY MARRIAGE, AND LIBERTY AND CANER TURNG A BLD EYE

" Gallagher went on to argue that there has not been a “culture that has survived whout a reasonably functnal marriage system” and that losg the bate over gay marriage “means losg Amerin civilizatn.

” She also likened the battle over gay marriage to the battle agast munism, statg that "[w]ng the gay-marriage bate may be hard, but to those of who wnsed the fall of Communism, spair is excable and irrponsible. In her March 3, 2004, ttimony before the Senate's Submtee on the Constutn, Civil Rights, and Property Rights, Gallagher exprsed her support for an amendment to the Constutn that would ban gay marriage. ” Back the '90s, when Andrew Sullivan first suggted gay upl had a thg or two to teach oppose-sex upl about our rigid sistence on sexual fily, public reactn was so negative that he rented (and to this day he gets mad if you even mentn he said !

GLENN BECK: 'GAYS AGAST GROOMERS' ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY

But om the new-won nfince of his legally regnized gay marriage Massachetts, Eric Erbeldg is que fortable explag to The New York Tim: “Our le is you n play around bee, you know, you have to be practil. ” In another June 17, 2008, article, this time for Natnal Review Onle, Gallagher claimed that “many gay married upl reject 'heteronormative' assumptns about marriage. ” She aga ced Andrew Sullivan and Eric Erbeldg's ments about fily and monogamy and also ced those of David Benkof, “a gay lumnist who gave up sex wh men when he adopted a Torah-observant liftyle” who cricized the "[p]roblematic kds of relatnships that are 'monly found the LGBT muny but virtually unheard of among oppose-sex upl.

BILL O'REILLY AND GLENN BECK: CHAMPNS OF GAY RIGHTS?

Pastors will be forced to perform gay marriag, or their church will lose their 501(c)3 stat, and nsequently, many s, they'll lose their church buildgs.

They suffer om a severe se of polil amnia, fettg that there was a day -- not so long ago -- when the radil homosexual agenda was satisfied wh “civil unns” and “domtic partnership” sayg, “we will never ask for the word 'marriage. ” On March 16, 2003, Hagee reportedly gave a sermon which he warned of the g Antichrist, which he scribed as a sctive figure wh “fierce featur, ” as well as “a blasphemer and a homosexual.

” Acrdg to a March 7, 2008, report The New York Sun, a gui of nservative Catholic schools lists Francisn Universy as one of several Catholic lleg that “often require several urs Catholic theology and ban -tnal hog, as well as groups that promote homosexualy. ” Francisn Universy's 2010-2011 unrgraduate urse talog lists urs tled “Deviant Behavr” and “Human Life Studi II: Life Issu and the Fay” that clu the study of homosexualy as a “viant behavr” and a “social force” bettg the fay:. HUMAN LIFE STUDIES II: LIFE ISSUES AND THE FAMILY explor the social, historil, polil, and ethil dimensns of the fay and the alienable rights and duti of parents, which are bet today by such social forc as divorce, homosexualy, radil femism, populatn ntrol, genics, and State ntrol of the fay.

GLENN BECK: GAY MARRIAGE NOT THREAT TO AMERI (VIDEO)

” On Augt 27, Salon reported of Alveda Kg: “In 1994, she released a letter nmng Coretta Stt Kg's support for abortn and gay rights, sayg would brg 'curs on your hoe and your people... Obama's unprecented support for homosexual rights and anti-procreative marriage legislatn, which clus his promise to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and which would unleash a storm of sexual immoraly such as Ameri has never seen: then we n see which way the wd is blowg.

” In a Augt 15, 2008, Townhall lumn, Floyd and Mary Beth Brown quoted Kg as sayg, “Senator Obama's answer to the ills of society, of higher ernment spendg, weaker natnal fense, ntued tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, and support of gay marriage, are diametrilly opposed to everythg Ain Amerins tly believe and an anathema to the dream of Dr. “The nfsn of fah of the Southern Baptist Conventn, which stat what the Bible says about the fay and about marriage - those are not the products of centuri of hate or anim toward homosexuals.

” They further stated that "[b]y the time the perils of homosexual marriage bee obv, might well be too late" bee "[i]t is hard, if not impossible, to thk of a society for which rampant homosexualy was not a symptom of impendg extctn. To hold the march Jesalem, which is certaly the center of biblil civilizatn -- and this is the same Bible that tells that homosexualy is immoral -- is a provotn. ” Lap suggted to “those who ignore the public bate on homosexual marriage and to those who feel is irrelevant their liv and to those who advertise their tolerance by sgg 'live-and-let-live, ' ” that “the time has e to choose ntuy over change.

MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFFALLIGLENN BECK, WHO BELIEVED LGBT MARRIAGE EQUALY WOULD LEAD TO SOCIAL STCTN, HAS CHANGED HIS MD—AND HIS NEW GAY BFF SISTS THE TRANSFORMATN IS SCERE.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED MAY 05, 2017 2:32PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE UNLIKELY METAMORPHOSIS OF GLENN BECK OM NUTTY RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY-MONGER TO RATNAL-SEEMG FENR OF AMERIN MOCRACY—AND OPPONENT OF ALL THGS DONALD TMP—HAS CROSSED OVER TO A NEW ONTIER.THE 53-YEAR-OLD MULTIMEDIA FIREBRAND AND SELF-SCRIBED “TASTROPHIST”—WHO SHOCKED AND POSSIBLY ALIENATED HIS DWDLG FAN-BASE THREE MONTHS AGO BY FORMG AN ANTI-TMP ALLIANCE WH LEFTY SATIRIST SAMANTHA BEE—IS THE DAYS SPENDG QUALY TIME WH A PAKISTANI-BORN, POLILLY LIBERAL, GAY, MLIM TELEVISN PRODUCER.RIAZ PATEL—WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE PARENT, WH HIS BRISH-BORN HBAND, OF AN 11-MONTH OLD GIRL NCEIVED BY ARTIFICIAL SEMATN AND RRIED TO TERM BY A MEXIN SURROGATE—IS THE EMMY-NOMATED PRCIPAL OF AXIAL ENTERTAMENT, A SUCCSFUL LOS ANGEL-BASED PRODUCTN PANY RPONSIBLE FOR SUCH REALY TV SHOWS AS LIFETIME’S HOW TO LOOK GOOD NAKED AND VH1’S I HEART NICK CARTER, AMONG MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER PROJECTS.PATEL ED TO FEAR AND LOATHE BECK’S DIVISIVE HYPE. “I DID E THE EXPRSN ‘WHE DEVIL’,” PATEL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “BEE I HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS HATEFUL, ANGRY NEWS PERSONIFIED. I THOUGHT HE IS ABSOLUTELY PARTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THIS CULTURE OF MADNS AND CHAOS AND RAGE ALL THE TIME THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.”BUT THE 43-YEAR-OLD PATEL, A U.S. CIZEN WHO ARRIVED HERE OM KARACHI AS A BABY WH HIS PARENTS AND TWO OLR SISTERS PG POLIL PANMONIUM PAKISTAN, HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AFTER MEETG BECK LAST JULY AND ENGAGG “HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF NVERSATN” WH HIM SCE THEN.THE BIASTAL PATEL—WHO IS NEGOTIATG TO ACCEPT AN EDOR-AT-LARGE ROLE BRASTORMG IAS FOR SHOWS WHILE MAKG FILMS FOR THE BLAZE’S SISTER WEB SE, —VISS BECK’S SUBURBAN DALLAS STUDS NEARLY EVERY WEEK TO DISCS POSSIBLE PROJECTS, HAS MA 15 APPEARANC ON BECK’S RAD AND TELEVISN SHOWS, AND FEBARY TREKKED TO THAILAND WH HIM TO FILM A PIECE ABOUT AN ANIZATN THAT FIGHTS CHILD SEX-SLAVERY.“THE SIMPATI IS SHOCKG,” PATEL SAID ABOUT HIS TERACTNS WH BECK. BUT PATEL, WHO HAS LOST LIBERAL IENDS OVER HIS NEW LLABORATN, ADD: “I’M A BRIDGE, NOT A FECTOR…I’M NOBODY’S PAWN… I’M NOT A STOCKHOLM SYNDROME GUY WHO LOV MY PTOR.”BECK, MEANWHILE, WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MENT. “WE’LL LEAVE THIS TO RIAZ,” SAID HIS NEW YORK PUBLICIST, DAVIDSON GOLD.PATEL, WHO GREW UP THE SUBURBS OF BALTIMORE WH HIS SURGEON-FATHER AND REAL TATE ENTREPRENR-MOTHER, DOUBLE-MAJORED AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA PSYCHOLOGY AND LERATURE AND GRADUATED WH AMIC HONORS WHILE PURSUG A MANDG PRE-MED PROGRAM.PATEL IS NOT UNAWARE OF THE DOUBTS THAT SOME HAVE RAISED ABOUT BECK’S LATT ATTEMPT TO REBRAND HIMSELF AS A REASONABLE MAN.INED, LAST SEPTEMBER, A CERTA GREE OF SKEPTICISM GREETED BECK—WHO HAD PREVLY ACCED “RACIST” PRINT OBAMA OF HARBORG “A EP-SEATED HATRED OF WHE PEOPLE,” AND THE FIRST LADY OF BEG A “MONSTER”—WHEN HE LNCHED A SERI OF REMORSEFUL MASTREAM MEDIA APPEARANC WH AN OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIM URGG EMPATHY FOR THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT.A LONGTIME BECK ASSOCIATE OPED AT THE TIME THAT BECK’S APPARENT TRANSFORMATN “IS ABOUT A PATTERN OF REVENTN AND CYCLE OF APOLOGY AND OFFENSE…I THK HE’S UP TO HIS SIXTH APOLOGY CYCLE NOW, WHERE HE’S ONTO THE MASTREAM MEDIA WHEN THEY’RE SUPPORTG HIM, AND THEN HE REALIZ HE’S GOG TO GET BURNED, AND HE NS AWAY OM THEM. HE’S BASILLY FLAILG.”IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, PATEL WROTE: “GOSH I HOPE DON’T SEEM LIKE I’M JT WILLG TO OVERLOOK ANYTHG DAMAGG FOR A SHOW. I STILL NEED TO LOOK AT MYSELF THE MIRROR EVERY EVENG—AND THAT’S THE BIGGT THG FOR ME.”AS A RULT OF HIS IENDSHIP WH BECK, HOWEVER, “I HAVE UGHT MYSELF RECENTLY A BUNCH OF TIM A DOUBLE-STANDARD WHEN TO THE ‘RIGHT’ VS. THE ‘LEFT,’ ” PATEL WROTE. “I’M SAYG A LOT OF THIS BEE I WAS FORCED TO STEP PLETELY OUT OF MY FORT ZONE—AND BY DOG SO, REALIZED THE OTHER SI ISN’T ALWAYS WHO I THOUGHT THEY WERE…WHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS ‘RIGHT’ OR THE ‘RIGHT TERPRETATN.’ I JT WANT TO SHARE WH YOU MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE—WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND FELT WH MY OWN EY. THAT’S ALL.”IN AN TERVIEW, PATEL SAID: “I BELIEVE HE’S SCERE…WE N MOVE FORWARD BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY WHEN I N TELL HIM, ‘THIS IS WHAT I SEE. THIS IS WHAT I FEAR. THIS IS MY NCERN.’ AND IF HE N ADDRS ALL THAT WHILE MATAG EYE NTACT, WE’RE DONE.”THIS, SPE BECK’S FLAMMATORY ATTACKS ON “PROGRSIV” AND MLIMS, TWO GROUPS TO WHICH PATEL BELONGS AND HISTORILLY TWO OF BECK’S MOST REVILED SPEGOATS.BECK HAS PARED THE FORMER GROUP TO NAZIS BENT ON BRGG TOTALARIANISM TO THE LAND OF THE FREE; AND HE HAS SUGGTED THAT “CLOSER TO TEN PERCENT” OF MLIMS ARE “TERRORISTS” WHILE THORG A 2015 BOOK, IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, THAT SALON LLED “300 PAG OF ISLAMOPHOBIA DRSED UP AS SCHOLARSHIP.”MORE RECENTLY, ON THURSDAY, DURG HIS SYNDITED MORNG RAD SHOW SIMULST ON BECK’S THE BLAZE WEB SE, HE PARED THE ABORTN SERVIC PROVID BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD—UNFAVORABLY—TO THE DIABOLIL EXPERIMENTS THAT JOSEF MENGELE PERFORMED ON JEWISH VICTIMS AT ACHWZ.“MENGELE HAD GOOD TENTNS,” BECK CLARED, NFLATG THE NOTOR SS DOCTOR WH PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PHILALPHIA ABORTNIST KERM GOSNELL, WHO WAS NVICTED OF FIRST-GREE MURR 2013 THE ATHS OF THREE FANTS BORN ALIVE DURG THE PROCR. “MENGELE WOULD S THERE AND TELL YOU ‘WELL, I’M TRYG TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN RACE.’”PATEL, WHO ATTRIBUT SOME OF BECK’S WACKIER AND MORE OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS TO THE PFALLS OF FILLG THREE HOURS OF UNSCRIPTED RAD EVERY MORNG, SAID HE NTU TO DISAGREE WH MUCH OF BECK’S RABBLE-ROG RHETORIC, YET SE HIS SURPRISG NEW IEND AS WILLG TO LISTEN AND MAYBE EVEN REFORMABLE.FOR STANCE, BECK HAS BEEN A FENR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT LEAST SCE DECEMBER 2012, WHEN HE ARGUED ON HIS SHOW, “THE QUTN IS NOT WHETHER GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE MARRIED OR NOT, THE QUTN IS WHY IS THE ERNMENT VOLVED OUR MARRIAGE”; BECK ADD THAT THE LEGAL SOLEMNIZATN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T “PICK MY POCKET OR BREAK MY LEG.”BECK, A MORMON NVERT, WAS NOT ALWAYS SO ENLIGHTENED. IN ONE OF HIS PREV RNATNS, HE SPECULATED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD STROY SENTIAL SOCIAL AND RELIG STUTNS AND EVABLY LEAD TO LEGALIZED POLYGAMY.HE ALSO ZIED UP TO A ROGU’ GALLERY OF POLICIANS AND PASTORS WHO PROMOTED ANTI-LBGTQ POLICI AND RHETORIC, CLUDG JAM DOBSON, JOHN HAGEE, MICHELE BACHMANN AND SARAH PAL.BUT BY DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS PUBLICLY SUPPORTG MPAIGN GROUP GLAAD THEIR OPPOSN TO RSIA’S OFFICIAL ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY. “I WILL STAND WH GLAAD AGAST RSIA’S HETERO-FASCISM,” HE CLARED ON CNN.“I AM NOW REALIZG THAT I WAS SENTIALLY UNRMED WHEN I SAY I HATED GLENN BECK FOR WHO HE WAS,” PATEL SAID. “IF I WAS REALLY BEG HONT, I DON’T THK I EVER WATCHED ONE OF HIS SHOWS. A LOT OF WAS G OM THIS PERCEPTN OF HIM AND MY SENSE OF WHAT ARE THE THGS HE DON’T LIKE ABOUT ME. I WAS PRETTY OBNOX MY OPNS. THAT BEG SAID, THERE ARE THGS HE SHOULD BE HELD ACUNTABLE FOR, AND I DO BELIEVE HAS DONE WRONG.”PATEL SAID HE READ IT IS ABOUT ISLAM AT BECK’S URGG, AND ME AWAY BOTH IMPRSED AND TROUBLED.“HIS OPNS ABOUT ISLAM ARE VERY RMED, BUT I THK THE AMG IS A B OFF, AND WHEN WE’RE LOOKG AT , HE’S LEARNG MY POT OF VIEW,” PATEL SAID. “THE TONE, I FELT, WAS A LTLE ALARMIST, NOT AN ATTACK. BUT GLENN LLS HIMSELF A ‘TASTROPHIST.’”IRONILLY, WAS ISLAM AND TASTROPHE THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PATEL, WEARG TRADNAL PAKISTANI GARB, WAS ATTENDG A WEDDG ORLANDO, FLA., THE WEEKEND LAST JUNE WHEN ISIS-SPIRED TERRORIST OMAR MATEEN, THE AMERIN-BORN SON OF MLIM AFGHAN PARENTS, SHOT MORE THAN 100 REVELERS AND KILLED 49 AT THE GAY ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB PULSE.WORRYG THAT THE MASSACRE WOULD PROVOKE A NATNWI WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, PATEL—A SECULAR MLIM—REACHED OUT TO VAR TELEVISN NEWS OUTLETS TO EXPLA THAT MATEEN’S ATROCY HAD NOTHG TO DO WH THE TES OF ISLAM, AND TO REPRENT MLIMS AND THEIR FAH A POSIVE, NON-THREATENG LIGHT.HE MANAGED TO GET BOOKGS ON CNN—APPEARG ON DON LEMON AND BROOKE BALDW’S SHOWS—AND ON BLOND BOMB-THROWER TOMI LAHREN’S RANTFT ON THE BLAZE.ON LAHREN'S SHOW, PATEL CHALLENGED THE BOMBASTIC HOST: “I ULD GO OUT AND DO A HORRIBLE ACT OF VLENCE THE NAME OF TOMI, AND THEN SUDNLY YOU ARE LEFT TO FEND . IF PEOPLE GO AND DO THE KDS OF HORRIBLE, HEO THGS THE NAME OF MY RELIGN—AND I HAVE LERALLY NOTHG TO DO WH —IS MY RPONSIBILY NOW?”PATEL WAS SO IMPASSNED, ELOQUENT AND POSED THAT A MEMBER OF LAHREN’S PRODUCTN STAFF REMEND HIM AS THE PERFECT GUT FOR BECK’S EVENG TELEVISN PROGRAM. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, HE WAS BECK’S SOLE GUT FOR AN HOUR.“WOULDN’T BE CRAZY IF THE SOLUTN TO ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WAS AS SIMPLE AS HUMBLG YOURSELF AND SAYG, ‘OK, LET ME LISTEN’?” BECK TOLD PATEL AS THE TWO SAT OPPOSE EACH OTHER OVERSTUFFED CHAIRS AND TENTATIVELY FELT EACH OTHER OUT.“I THK YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,” PATEL SAID. “I BELIEVE YOU N CREATE A BETTER AMERI WH FOUR CHAIRS. LERALLY. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. THREE PEOPLE HAVG A NVERSATN. NOT TWO. AT SOME POT YOU’LL DISAGREE AND SOMEONE WILL WALK AWAY. YOU NEED THREE FOR A DYNAMIC. AND A FOURTH PERSON HAS TO LISTEN.”TH, WH PATEL SHREWDLY ENGAGG BECK CIDLY BECK-LIKE LANGUAGE, WAS THE BEGNG, APPARENTLY, OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP.BUT WHAT IF BECK BACKSLIS AND REVERTS TO FORM HIS LONGTIME ROLE AS A DIVISIVE MAGOGUE?“SOME DAYS HE’S HAPPY, SOME DAYS HE’S SAD, SOME DAYS HE’S ANGRY, AND PEOPLE ARE TUNG TO WATCH THAT PERSON,” PATEL SAID. “MAYBE HE HAD A ROUGH NIGHT AND HE’S MORE EDGY. SOME DAYS HE IS MORE ANGRY. I DON’T THK HE’LL EVER WALK THE WALK EVERY DAY. BUT TO ME, THAT’S WHERE HIS HEART IS.” LLOYD GROVE

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