US: The attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic is an assault on LGBTQ rights, too

By John Gallagher 

The teen accused of firebombing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Delaware, Samuel Gulick, clearly was an anti-abortion extremist. “When will we start shooting?” Gulick mused in one social media post. “Its about time we kill these genocidal demons.”

Gulick also posted anti-LGBTQ content online as well. “If a woman had a piece of bread for every gender there is, she would have exactly one sandwich,” he wrote at one point.

Another teen, Justin Olsen, was arrested last year for similarly planning to target and attack a Planned Parenthood clinic. Like Gulick, Olsen’s online rants included anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. Olsen also had his sights set on a gay bar. When he was arrested, Olsen had in his possession 25 guns and rifles and about 100,000 rounds of ammo in his possession.

Similarly, Eric Rudolph is known as the Olympic Park bomber (the topic of the recent Clint Eastwood movie), but Rudolph also attacked a lesbian bar with a bomb filled with nails and bombed an abortion clinic.

These cases serve as a good reminder that hatred isn’t specialized. The media may be inclined to think of bigots as operating in specific lanes: there are white supremacists, anti-Semites, anti-abortion extremists. Read more via LGBTQ Nation