Pretty
obscure, perhaps, but anyways: Bob Frey was a 2014 candidate for District 47A
of the Minnesota House of Representatives (he didn’t advance beyond the
primaries) and possibly the looniest conspiracy theorist on the ballot in that
state that year. His platform was a rather typically (for that time) wingnut
one, including “Common Core
must be stopped in Minnesota because of it’s political agenda to indoctrinate
instead of educate” and “
ObamaCare should be repealed at the Federal
level”, but he nevertheless managed to make a bit of a name for himself for
his views on
the gay agenda– though as
Frey felt it important to emphasize:
“
it’snot about the gay
agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more
about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.” Now, when someone like
Bob Frey invokes “
science”, you know you’re in for some deranged
nonsense, and Frey delivers: “
When you have egg and sperm that meet in
conception, there's an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The
enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited
anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That's why the
term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.” It should be
unnecessary to point out that this is not how anything works, but we can’t help
entertaining a little bit of curiosity about what goes on in those parts of
Frey’s deranged imaginations he
doesn’t feel willing to share in public.
Whatever source he thinks he is using for his claims, at least his son Mike
used the same when he made the same claim before the Minnesota legislature the
previous year.
When Frey talks about ‘science’, you should of course also keep
in mind that he is talking about ‘real science’. Frey’s background includes
running a group called ‘Creation Science
Seminars’, which would claim that
teaching creationism in public schools would reduce the rate of violence that
teaching the theory of evolution had, according to Frey, brought upon
communities. And in a 2004 appearance before the Minnesota State Senate
Education Committee, he asserted that
the fossil record proves that “dinosaurs have always lived with man”
and that such “real science” should be taught in public schools rather
than the scientists’ science they are teaching these days.
Diagnosis: Obscure, perhaps, but the fact that local village
idiots like Bob Frey can get as far as he did indicates that there’s a lot
people in Minnesota whose critical thinking skills and basic comprehension of
their surroundings are so unfathomably low that they really shouldn’t be
allowed to handle doorknobs without assistance. And they are the real horrors
lurking in the wake and shadow of people like Bob Frey.
