A small-town Alabama pastor and mayor killed himself Friday, days after a local conservative news website published a story that included photos of him wearing women’s clothing and makeup.
F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, who was the mayor of Smiths Station and the pastor at First Baptist Church in Phenix City, shot himself in front of police during a welfare check, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said.
Copeland’s private life was exposed Wednesday by the conservative blog 1819 News, which was once owned by the right-wing Alabama Policy Institute and whose top editor is a former Breitbart News contributor.
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What a bunch of retarded mother fuckers. They have so much fear of being who they are around the people they align themselves with, that they will literally anhero themselves the second anything comes out about them that they and the rest of the party isn’t doing themselves; or have built such a strong vindictive campaign against a community against, that they take their own lives out of guilt. Crossdressing? Dead. Outed gay? Dead. Dating someone who’s friends with gays, needs baptism by fire. Not Christian?Avoided. Fucking kids? God forgives. Beating kids? God forgives. Killing kids? The jury is out. Hears out the other side? Crucified. Dissagrees with problems within their own party? Needs to die. Supporting the businesses of murdering/abandoning children? Political points. Hate speech and dillusional manipulation of the angry and mentally unstable base that follows them? BIG political boost. Be revealed as the person you really are, after you’ve sold your soul to a hateful political party you know will crucify you for being the thing they target for sensational political favor? Fucking anhero quick.
Why? What’s the point? What is the point, the ultimate goal, of building a pyre of political beliefs that will scorch the entirety of everything around you and the weell-being of the future of those and many more to come? Especially when you know it goes against who you really are deep down, and how it may affect you if/when the tides turn…
I hate this party so much. I understand the reasons why they do the things they do. I understand why they believe in the things they believe. But, I just can’t tolerate it anymore. I have empathy for these people in these situations, but I also have an understanding.
If two of your friends were in a relationship, that was symbolically the most dearest thing to your heart, and over time you noticed one of them becoming more cynical/violent/abusive/hateful/radical/corrupt/etc. While the other was hernestly trying to fix and build the relationship they know they were stuck in to male things better; not only for themselves but better for everyone around them… would you stand there, silent, absent of action and rationality?
I hate the fact that our system, our country, is in the volatile condition that it’s in. I know you do too.
Vote, protest, listen, communicate, have patience, fight. Those are your options. Just choose wisely and try to follow that order I guess.
“Copeland” more like “Donecopingland”
charge the owners of the blog with 3rd degree murder.
As a republican, he was part of the problem
It’s people saying shit like this that is part of the problem. While the left is generally much more accepting than the right our community needs to be better about accepting people who don’t share all our beliefs. Maybe that way when they start to become more progressive and can help bring other people over that have some fledgling left wing values in them.
yeah we’re pretty intolerant of intolerance here on the left, but we know you “live in a society”
The cognitive dissonance from being a transitioning person and a Republican politician at the same time must be agonizing.
I wish more people understood this. Seems like so many are simply incapable of accepting any nuance anymore. Everything is binary. This or That. With me or against me.
You mean I could wear clothing ostensibly for women and I wouldn’t need to immediately identify as a woman and become gay? Well fuck. Wasted my whole life on all this man stuff.
Also religious in the deep south AND a pastor. He must’ve been seeing Green-Goblin hallucinations but with Kenneth Copeland instead of Willem Dafoe.
