Newsmax guest says fellow conservatives ‘need to be more homophobic’

A right-wing commentator is urging fellow conservatives to be “more homophobic” and take their anti-LGBTQ rhetoric “up a notch.”

Christian rapper Shemeka Michelle was one of the guests on Wednesday night’s broadcast of “Eric Bolling: The Balance” on conservative television channel Newsmax.

Bolling — a former Fox News personality ousted by the Murdoch-owned network in 2017 over an alleged sexting scandal — invited Michelle and Common Sense executive editor Chris Bedford to discuss recent comments made by Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine about a gender-identity clinic in Alaska.

Levine, one of the nation’s first openly transgender officials, was recently targeted by conservative outlets for supporting Identity Alaska, which uses gender-neutral terms such as “birth parent” or “egg producer” to replace the word “mother.”

Bolling started the four-minute segment by asking Michelle what she thought of Levine’s comments.

“I guess if we’re identifying as ‘egg producers,’ I should just identify as a chicken from now on,” she started. “What we have done is we have put in place people that 20 years ago would have been locked in an insane asylum. We’ve put them in prominent positions to completely confuse our children.”

Later in the segment, Bedford added to the conversation, saying the ultimate goal of some in the LGBTQ community is to indoctrinate children.

“Right now, it’s really a thing that says ‘if you don’t accept this predatory mental illness, then you’re a bigot.’ And it is actually coming for your kids,” he said.

Bolling agreed, arguing the more conservatives talk about it, the more they are called “bigoted and homophobic” by the left.

“I actually think, if that’s the case, we need to be more homophobic,” Michelle replied. “We need to take it up a notch because these people have continued to do this because we failed to shame them. We failed to put our feet down and stand tall and say what we believe without the fear of being canceled.”

“Now is not the time to worry about having friends,” she added. “It is about linking up with people who have the same values as you and realizing this is a war between good and evil.”