Kristina Karamo: Not converting LGBTQ peers is like ‘watching a friend about to get hit by a train’

Editor’s note: This article contains anti-LGBTQ quotations that may be upsetting for some readers.

Kristina Karamo, the presumptive GOP nominee for Michigan’s secretary of state, equated not haranguing your gay friends about their lifestyle with letting them get run over by a train during a 2020 podcast episode.

In a September 2020 episode of her podcast “It’s Solid Food,” Karamo focuses largely on “exactly how Satan orchestrated the sexual revolution to pull people away from God,” with special emphasis on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.

Half an hour into the episode, directly after blaming the poverty rate of single mothers on “sexual sin” and declaring it part of Satan’s scheme, Karamo, inevitably, has a go at the LGBTQ community.

“If you look, in today’s society, especially within the LGBT movement, I mean, if you criticize or disagree with that movement, you’re instantly labeled a bigot and you’re evil and homophobic. That is so dumb.”

Karamo did note that she isn’t scared of anybody; in her view, God placed “parameters” on human sexual conduct. Parameters which LGBTQ people live outside of.

“I liken it to if I’m watching a friend about to get hit by a train,” Karamo said. “And I don’t say anything because I don’t want to upset them because they’re having a good time. You would say, ‘Wow, that’s terrible. Standing over there having a good time, they’re about to get ran over by a train, you don’t think you should say something?’ How is this any different? It’s no different. In fact, it’s worse.”

She goes on to say it’s all part of “Satan’s war against humans,” which involves destroying the institution of marriage and “inciting humans to rebel against God’s plan for the human family.”

Karamo said in an earlier episode of her podcast that people not skeptical of LGBTQ rights meant she and people like here are being forced to “bow to the Rainbow God.”

She didn’t elaborate on whether the Rainbow God is a direct agent of Satan or how, exactly, the Rainbow God fits into Satan’s plan.

Karamo, like many Republicans endorsed by former President Donald Trump this election cycle, is running largely on false claims of election fraud.

Ironically, ballot issues overshadowed the Michigan GOP nominating convention last month, leading multiple delegates to spoil their ballots and revote, MLive reported. Delegate John Lauve called the situation “unconscionable.”

Karamo received 67% of the vote, and the party’s endorsement, in the first round.