A rather lame attempt to protest General Mills support of gay rights goes wrong …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxpF7DaeC1A&feature=player_embedded

(Via Dangerous Minds. Favorite joke from the comments: “Now who’s flaming?”)

In 1654, when a mentally ill man named Thomas Tany set fire to a Bible and attacked the door of Parliment with an old rusted sword, people assumed that Tany was a Quaker. That tells you a lot about how Quakers were viewed in the 17th century Britain.

Well, as Fred Clark points out, everyone is assuming that this man is an Evangelical. Why?

Because he’s anti-gay. More specifically, because he’s disproportionately concerned with being anti-gay and he’s choosing to express that concern in a goofy, obnoxious and destructive way. […] Please let that sink in. Please contemplate what that means for the witness of evangelical Christians in America in 2012. Please consider what that means for the reputation of the church.

As it happens, according to The Smoking Gun, this gentleman is Michael Leisner, a real estate agent and occasional Bible teacher and preacher. He’s posted several videos against Barney Frank and President Obama, now all removed from youtube.