Christian Bigots Condemn Depiction of Christian Bigots in New Taylor Swift Video
By Hemant Mehta, June 19, 2019

Taylor Swift‘s latest song, “You Need To Calm Down,” is the most popular video on YouTube right now with roughly 30 million views since its premiere on Monday. The song is an homage to LGBTQ people and their culture — not without controversy — with a call for viewers to support the Equality Act at the very end of it.

It also features shots of Christian bigots who can’t handle the sight of a same-sex marriage, angrily holding up signs like “Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve,” “Get a Brain Morans!,” and “Homasekualty is sin!”

The haters are almost cartoonishly evil, with their lack of education and hygiene on full display, but the attitudes behind the characters are hardly a stretch. Those signs are far less hateful than what prominent Republicans advocate, and unlike the new rash of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preachers, they don’t even call for the execution of LGBTQ people.

Still, Charisma‘s Jessilyn Lancaster is appalled by the mockery of Christians:

The video, while claiming to be inclusive, openly mocks Christians who protest homosexuality. Christians in the video are presented as country hicks with bad style and rotting teeth. They also misspell “homosexuality” on their protest signs.

Oh please. The video is far kinder to Christians than Charisma articles are regarding LGBTQ people. (Hell, at least the video suggests conservative Christians exist. Many evangelicals won’t even go that far when it comes to trans people.)