Christian Right activist Dave Daubenmire said on his “Pass the Salt Live” webcast yesterday that masturbation was wrong in part because it was a form of homosexuality.

You’re touching yourself, therefore you’re touching someone of the same sex, therefore it’s totally gay. #ChristianLogic

Dave Daubenmire says that "masturbation is a form of homo sex." pic.twitter.com/0Wn5rkXbYi — Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 12, 2019

… Masturbation is a form of homo sex. You’re having sex with yourself. That’s homo sex, folks. It’s a male having sex with a male. That’s homo sex. If a woman masturbates, that’s a woman having sex with a woman. That is a form of lesbianism. I mean, what else would you call it?

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Dave Daubenmire proved once and for all that straight people have gone extinct. Everyone’s gay now. It’s just a fact.

I’m curious how far his slippery slope goes. Are teenagers guilty of pedophilia? Is it a gay orgy if there’s a mirror in your bedroom? Will Jesus be pleased with us if we use a Fleshlight?

As tempting as it is to write off Daubenmire as some fringe Christian with wacky views, remember that he’s not alone in this claim. Pastor Mark Driscoll said the same thing several years ago in an e-book he wrote to warn people against watching X-rated content online.

… Masturbation can be a form of homosexuality because it is a sexual act that does not involve a woman. If a man were to masturbate while engaged in other forms of sexual intimacy with his wife then he would not be doing so in a homosexual way. However, any man who does so without his wife in the room is bordering on homosexuality activity, particularly if he’s watching himself in a mirror and being turned on by his own male body.

I didn’t know anyone did that. But now I know way too much about Mark Driscoll’s private life.

(via Right Wing Watch. Large portions of this article were published earlier because these fools say this all the time.)

