{"id":1626097,"date":"2022-08-29T18:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626097"},"modified":"2022-08-29T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T22:49:21","slug":"supreme-court-clarence-thomas-slammed-as-homophobes-at-vmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-slammed-as-homophobes-at-vmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas Slammed as \u2018Homophobes\u2019 at VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-clarence-thomas-slammed-as-homophobes-at-vmas-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Gay actor Billy Eichner angrily attacked the Supreme Court and conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-justice-clarence-thomas\">Justice Clarence Thomas<\/a> as \u201chomophobes\u201d who are stuck in the past, during an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>Eichner made the comments at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., as he promoted \u201cBros,\u201d a movie slated for release at the end of September. Eichner stars in and co-wrote the film, which is centered on a romantic relationship between two men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Bros\u2019 is making history as the first gay rom-com [romantic comedy] ever made by a major studio and the first where every role is played by an openly LGBTQ actor,\u201d he said. \u201cI need you all there on Sept. 30, because we need to show all the homophobes like Clarence Thomas and all the homophobes on the Supreme Court that we want gay love stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor didn\u2019t offer any evidence that the justices are hostile to gays or their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we support LGBTQ people, and we are not letting them drag us into the last century, because they are in the past and \u2018Bros\u2019 is in the future,\u201d Eichner said.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t explain why he thought Thomas and the justices were homophobic, but left-wing activists have lashed out at Thomas for what he wrote in the recent Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization ruling that overturned abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. In a concurring opinion, Thomas reiterated his long-held view that the court should revisit all \u201cdemonstrably erroneous\u201d court rulings.<\/p>\n<p>After the Dobbs ruling was handed down on June 24, Eichner took to Twitter to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billyeichner\/status\/1540344557421879298\">lash out<\/a> at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet your fictional hateful Bible stories and your fake fictional religious [expletive] out of our [expletive] lives,\u201d\u00a0he wrote in all capital letters.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Thomas wrote that the justices \u201cshould<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay actor Billy Eichner angrily attacked the Supreme Court and conservative Justice Clarence Thomas as \u201chomophobes\u201d who are stuck in the past, during an appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Aug. 28. Eichner made the comments at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., as he promoted \u201cBros,\u201d a movie slated for release [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}