Fox News host celebrates his gay lifestyle, slams conservative Christians

LifeSite News ^ | May 11, 2017 | Peter LaBarbera

[ebb tide]

Fox News’ Shepard Smith may have entered a new phase in his life in which he is open about his homosexuality, but longtime viewers of the daytime anchor are familiar with a “Shep” who reveals his pro-homosexual bias through snarky, on-air putdowns of social conservatives.

Smith went public in October about his long-suspected homosexuality, in an interview with Huffington Post. But he was long suspected of being homosexual, and even was listed prominently year after year in the LGBT magazine OUT as one of its “Top 50” most powerful homosexuals.

On April 21, in a speech at his alma mater, the University of Mississippi, Smith said his homosexuality “is both important and a non-issue,” the Jackson, Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger reported.

“I don’t think about it,” Smith said. “It’s not a thing. I go to work. I manage a lot of people. I cover the news. I deal with holy hell around me. I go home to the man I’m in love with.”

The Clarion-Ledger reports that Smith described his homosexuality as “my truth,” and said he began living it eight or nine years ago.

Smith described Fox News as “the craziest conservative network on Earth,” WND reported. Though more conservative than most media, Fox News has nevertheless funded the advocacy-oriented National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association with grants year after year.

Speaking against the Confederate flag, Smith told students at Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism, “You can’t be much of an activist when your job is to report the news … but you can remind people what happened under that flag.”

On-air jabs target socialcons

However, critics point out that Smith has indeed spoken blatantly like an activist, rather than a newsman, occasionally during his long tenure at Fox News. The following are some examples of liberal activist jabs and cheap shots that Smith has made on air while covering cultural events, ostensibly as a reporter:

• In 2015, Smith went out of his way – on air – to show his contempt for people like Christian Kim Davis, when he quipped about the Christian Kentucky clerk who famously refused to sign a marriage certificate for two homosexual men: “Haters are gonna hate.” Oddly, in his talk to the college journalism students, Smith spoke against “stereotypes.”
• Accuracy in Media reported: “In other controversial comments about a pro-Davis rally being broadcast during his show, Smith ripped conservative Christians for “a religious play again,” saying, “This is the same crowd that says, ‘We don’t want Sharia law, don’t let them tell us what to do, keep their religion out of our lives and out of our government.’ Well, here we go again.” Wrote AIM’s Cliff Kincaid: “Smith seems not to understand the difference between Christianity, a foundation of the American system that protects religious rights and liberty, and Islam, an authoritarian religion which wants to impose its values on others.”
• In 2012, Smith took a cheap shot at the hundreds of thousands of Americans taking part in Mike Huckabee’s 2012 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” to show support for the fast-food restaurant’s Dan Cathy, who enthusiastically defended natural marriage. Smith derided it as the “National Day of Intolerance,” a deep insult to Fox’s conservative audience base, and especially galling because many conservatives (and some liberals) regarded the pro-LGBT Left’s hostility toward Cathy over merely publicly defending traditional marriage as the epitome of “intolerance.”
• When President Obama flip-flopped (for the second time in his political career) in 2012 by embracing homosexuality-based “marriage,” Smith said the “president of the United States [was] now in the 21st Century.” The liberal Huffington Post applauded Smith’s pro-homosexual remark, but Rush Limbaugh took him to task for his comment implying that socially conservative marriage defenders hold antiquated and extreme beliefs.

An in-depth 2013 report on Fox News’ and the larger media’s ongoing pro-homosexual and pro-transgender bias for the conservative group America’s Survival is available here.

[Ann Archy]

The only reason that FOX keeps the slut is BECAUSE he's GAY and the LBGTQWEIRD "community" would boycott them!!

Hey FOX...CNN has TWO HOMOSEXUALS on...you better catch up or they're got SUE you!

[HLPhat]

The new poster boy of fiscal “conservativism” and Faux News — The voice of the NeoCon Military Industrialists.

What a surprise. Not.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Maybe he is bragging about being the only FOX reporter not being “hit on” by some of the former FOX management and BO.

[PGR88]

"I go home to the man I’m in love with.”

Depending on which day of the week it is....

[Lurkinanloomin]

I quit watching this queer after his histrionics during Katrina.

And he wears too much mascara.

[Williams]

Gay issues are the least of it. He’s a totally intolerant and ignorant leftist who lies about conservatives all the time.

[publius911]

Five to ten years ago, Fox News was on most of the day at my house. Not the last couple of years, and the number of segments is dwindling and is no longer more than 2 or 3 a day.
Don't miss the rest.

If O'Reilly pops up in a new conservative Channel I hope it will not be exclusively on cable.

[TADSLOS]

Fag News Channel. Confirmed.

[Dr. Ursus]

There’s three.

[ConsCA]

He should man up, and go to conversion therapy.

[ealgeone]

One America News is slowly replacing Fox.

[Hugin]

Shep, we all knew you suck, now it’s confirmed.

[ealgeone]

Shep was part of the overhype of the coverage of Katrina.

[PA Engineer]

He should man up, and go to conversion therapy.

Too late. His condition is terminal.

[FreeAtlanta]

Fire chimp smith!

[WhatNot]

Shep is not “gay” He’s mentally ill.

[odawg]

Okay, Shep is homosexual, a man that dislikes the charms of a woman in favor of .... And, he wants all of us to know that he is homosexual, that to know that he disdains the charms of a woman, and that his perversion elevates him to a superior state of being above the rest of us, the vast majority.

His is not an alternate life style, his is a filthy life style.

[Salvation]

Catechism of the Catholic Church

2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

[Moorings]

He did not push the perversion under the old Fox News management. Shame on Fox News.