On his radio broadcast today, Bryan Fischer seized upon a news report that Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot who is believed to have deliberately crashed a German flight last week, killing everyone on board, had “trawled gay porn websites and sites relating to suicide” to raise the possibility that Lubitz’s alleged homosexuality may have played a role in the crash.

As Fischer explained, “it’s striking that one of the health risks that’s associated with homosexual behavior is an increased risk of suicidal ideation … Now we are discovering that, perhaps, [Lubitz] was involved in homosexuality, was taking drugs for depression, and perhaps that would explain his suicidal crash of that plane”:

Lubitz had a girlfriend at the time of the crash, a fact that seemed to be lost on Fischer, who has suggested in the past that homosexuality is a chosen behavior rather than an innate orientation.